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Originally Posted by Trouvere
wrong prove it with history and bible
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Note the entry in John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible for
Judges 2:16, "
Nevertheless, the Lord raised up judges…
Who are particularly mentioned by name, and their exploits recorded, in some following chapters, and from whom the book in general has its name: these were men that God raised up in an extraordinary manner, and spirited and qualified for the work he had to do by them; which was to deliver the people of Israel out of the hands of their oppressors, and restore them to their privileges and liberties, and protect them in them, and administer justice to them; which was a wonderful instance of the goodness of God to them, notwithstanding their many provoking sins and transgressions."
Note the following from David Guzik's Commentary:
3. (16-19) The pattern of sin and bondage, deliverance, blessing, followed by sin and bondage again in the days of the Judges
a. God, because of His great love for His people, would raise up a judge - a hero - to rescue them from their calamity. God did this
nevertheless - not because Israel got to a place where they deserved such a deliverer from God, but in spite of the fact that they were undeserving
Here's what the Jamieson, Faussett and Brown Commentary says:
The judges who governed Israel were strictly God's vicegerents in the government of the people, He being the supreme ruler. Those who were thus elevated retained the dignity as long as they lived; but there was no regular, unbroken succession of judges. Individuals, prompted by the inward, irresistible impulse of God's Spirit when they witnessed the depressed state of their country, were roused to achieve its deliverance. It was usually accompanied by a special call, and the people seeing them endowed with extraordinary courage or strength, accepted them as delegates of Heaven, and submitted to their sway. Frequently they were appointed only for a particular district, and their authority extended no farther than over the people whose interests they were commissioned to protect. They were without pomp, equipage, or emoluments attached to the office.
They had no power to make laws; for these were given by God;
nor to explain them, for that was the province of the priests--but they were officially upholders of the law, defenders of religion, avengers of all crimes, particularly of idolatry and its attendant vices.
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