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Judges 2 — Sermon Preparation

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.

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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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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.

Alexander MacLaren 4 Matthew Henry 3 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“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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