They returned to their former, and usual, and natural, though interrupted course. More than their fathers, in Egypt or in the wilderness. From their own doings, i.e. from their evil practices, which he calls their own partly because they were agreeable to their own natures, which in all mankind are deeply and universally corrupted, Genesis 6:5, Genesis 8:21; and partly because they were familiar and customary to them. Compare Isaiah 58:13, Isaiah 66:3 Ezekiel 36:32 Acts 14:16 Judges 1:16. Their stubborn way, Heb. hard way; so he calls their way of wickedness, either because it proceeded from a hard heart, and was managed with a hard and stiff neck; or to signify, that although it seemed at first very soft, and easy, and pleasant, yet they would certainly, and did constantly, find that it was hard, and difficult, and troublesome to them, as a hard way is to the traveller.
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Judges 2:19
19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corruptede themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.