Judecătorii 2:3

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Am zis atunci: ,Nu -i voi izgoni dinaintea voastră; ci vă vor sta în coaste, şi dumnezeii lor vă vor fi o cursă.``

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I also said: Judges 2:21, Numbers 33:55, Joshua 23:13

their gods: Judges 3:6, Exodus 23:33, Exodus 34:12, Deuteronomy 7:16, 1 Kings 11:1-7, Psalms 106:36

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:30 - that thou Deuteronomy 20:18 - General Deuteronomy 28:43 - General 1 Samuel 8:8 - General Psalms 106:35 - But Ezekiel 28:24 - a pricking Romans 6:12 - Let not 2 Corinthians 12:7 - a thorn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore I also said,.... Supposing, or on condition of their being guilty of the above things, which was foreseen they would:

I will not drive them out from before you; the seven nations of the Canaanites entirely, and which accounts for the various instances related in the preceding chapter; where it is observed, that they could not, or did not, drive the old inhabitants out of such and such places, because they sinned against the Lord, and he forsook them, and would not assist them in their enterprises, or them to their sloth and indolence:

but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides: very troublesome and afflicting, see Numbers 33:55; or for straits, as the Septuagint, or be such as would bring them into tribulation, and distress them, as the Targum; so they often did:

and their gods shall be a snare unto you; which they suffered to continue, and did not destroy them, as they ought to have done; they would be, as they proved, ensnaring to them, and whereby they were drawn to forsake the worship of the true God, and bow down to them, as we read in some following verses.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“Wherefore I also said” - Rather because ye have done the things mentioned in Judges 2:2, “I have now said (i. e. I now protest and declare) that I will not drive them out from before you” (compare Judges 19:29). And it was the annonncement of this resolution by the Angel that caused the people to weep.

The word thorns in this verse is supplied by the King James Version from the similar passage in Joshua (see the marginal reference). Other versions adopt a different reading of the original text, and prefer the sense “they shall be to you for adversaries” (compare the last words of Numbers 33:55).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 2:3. I will not drive them out from before you — Their transgressions, and breach of the covenant, were the reasons why they were not put in entire possession of the promised land. See note at the end of this chapter. Clarke "Judges 2:23".