Judges 2:13

1 Corinthians 10:20-22; 1 Corinthians 8:5; 1 Kings 11:33; 1 Kings 11:5; 1 Samuel 31:10; 2 Kings 23:13; Judges 10:6; Judges 2:11; Judges 3:7; Psalms 106:36

Related Commentaries of Judges 2:13

Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and (f) Ashtaroth. (f) These were idols, which had the form of a ewe or sheep among the Sidonians.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 2:6 to Judges 3:6 . The Deuteronomist's Introduction to the Book of Judges proper ( Judges 3:5 to Judges 16:31 ). In the view of this i...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ashtaroth. The special evil of Canaanite nations. Name derived from the Asherah (see App-42). The Asherah was idolatry of the most revolting fo...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. Served Baal and Ashtaroth - In a general way, probably, Baal and Ashtaroth mean the sun and...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. Ashtaroth - also a plural word, denoting all the female divinities, especially Asta...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Introductory ( Judges 1:1 to Judges 3:4 ) Division 1, Judges 1:1 to Judges 2:5 . This section of the book contains a brief recapitulation of...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ashtaroth] RV 'the Ashtaroth,' properly the feminine counterpart of 'the Baalim.' In Babylon, the goddess Ashtoreth appears as Ishtar (with attribu...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Baal and Ashtaroth. — Literally, “the Baals and the Ashtareths.” Ashtaroth. — The plural of the feminine word Ash-tareth, or Astarte, “the godde...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

AMONG THE ROCKS OF PAGANISM Judges 2:7-23 "AND Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old. And the...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Generation that Knew not Jehovah Judges 2:6-15 What a thrilling experience it must have been to hear Joshua and Caleb talk of Egypt, the Red...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fact of Israel's failure is still further revealed in this chapter. In the first five verses we have the account of the coming of a messenger fro...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here begins the sad account which the Holy Ghost hath caused to be recorded, of Israel's whoredom and idolatry, and which runs through all the future...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they forsook the Lord ,.... The worship of the Lord, as the Targum; this is repeated to observe the heinous sin they were guilty of, and how dis...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. Ver. 13. And served Baal and Ashtaroth, ] i.e., He-gods and she-gods of all sorts, cl...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They served Baal and Ashtaroth By Baal or lord here, it is probable, we are to understand the sun, and by Ashtaroth , the same, it seems, with...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE REPROOF OF THE ANGEL OF THE LORD (vv. 1-6) Israel's failure called for strong reproof. The angel of the Lord, who is the Lord Himself, no...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Idolatry of the Israelites. B. C. 1425....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. The sun and the moon, whom many heathens worshipped, though under divers names; and so they ran into that error which God had so expressly warne...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And they forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.' The repetitiveness is deliberate so that the words will be burned into the hearer'...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 2:11 . And served Baalim.] The pl . form indicates the different Baalim, or the different characters and modifications u...
Scofield Reference Notes

Ashtaroth Ashtaroth, plural of Ashtoreth ( 1 Kings 11:5 ) were figures of Ashtoreth the Phoenician goddess (the Astarte of the Greeks), which...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Judges 1 and 2 The character of Joshua is, like that of many soldiers, simple and easily understood. He was strong and of a good courage, a man, f...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 2:1 . An Angel of the Lord. Jewish writers in succession speak of this as a created angel: but no mere angel would dare to speak as Jehovah...
The Biblical Illustrator

They forsook the Lord God of their fathers. Israel’s obstinacy and God’s patience This passage sums up the Book of Judges, and also the history...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 2:7 And the people served , etc. This verse is the epitome of the religious history of Israel from the time of the expos...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Corruption of the People and its Punishment
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And they forsook the Lord, the repetition of this statement serving to emphasize the heinousness of the transgression, and served Baal and Ashtaroth...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Baal and Ashtaroth — That is, the sun and moon, whom many Heathens worshipped, tho' under divers names; and so they ran into that error which God h...

¹³ And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

Related Commentaries of Judges 2:13

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Judges 2:13