Chapter Two. The Sin of the Nation.
This chapter gives an account of the sudden appearance of the angel of Yahweh and the rebuking of the children of Israel for their present misconduct, followed by an account of their previous good behaviour under Joshua, and the elders that outlived him, and of their subsequent idolatries, which greatly provoked the Lord to anger. Then it describes the goodness of God to them nevertheless, in raising up judges to deliver them out of the hands of their enemies, of which there are many instances in the following Chapter s, and about how, on the demise of such persons, they relapsed back into idolatry which caused the anger of God to be hot against them once more, so that He determined not to drive out the Canaanites utterly from them, but to leave them among them to try them.