Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon. — It is doubtful whether we should not join the two names (Jerubbaal-Gideon), as in the Vulgate. Both names may be here allusive. He had been the “hewer” of their enemies and a “pleader against Baal,” yet they were ungrateful to him, and apostatised to Baal-worship.
According to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel. — See Judges 9:17-18.