Passage Research
Judges 2 — Sermon Preparation
The angel of the LORD rebukes Israel for making alliances with Canaanites, and the chapter establishes the recurring cycle of apostasy, oppression, and deliverance that defines the book. Below is a research summary for Judges 2, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 23
- verses
- 363 / 140
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 9
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Judges 2 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁפַט | shâphaṭ | H8199 | 6 | judge, sentence |
| יְהוֹשׁוּעַ | Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ | H3091 | 6 | Jehoshua |
| אָב | ʼâb | H1 | 7 | father |
| יָד | yâd | H3027 | 6 | hand, open |
| אַחֵר | ʼachêr | H312 | 4 | hinder, next |
| עָבַד | ʻâbad | H5647 | 4 | work, serve |
| בֹּכִים | Bôkîym | H1066 | 2 | Bo-kim |
How preachers through history handled this text
9 public-domain excerpts on Judges 2, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“We have a general idea of the course of things in Israel, during the time of the Judges. The nation made themselves as mean and miserable by forsaking God, as they would have been great and happy if they had continued faithful to him. Their punishment answered to the evil they had done. They served the gods of the nations round about them, even the meanest, and God made them serve the princes of the nations round about them, even the meanest. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Judges 2:6–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Bochim— Judg 2:1
- Egypt— Judg 2:1
- Gilgal 1— Judg 2:1
- Gaash— Judg 2:9
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