| ; { Chap. IT. | God, for ſach are ſometimes called Argels, which ſignifies onely Meſſengers of God; and then the following wordsare ſpoken by him in the Wo of Ged, as may eafily be underſtood. Or, Thirdly, Chriſt the Angel of the Covenant, who is off called :he Angel of the Lord, as we have formerly ſeen, ro whom the condu@ of Iſrael out of Egypt, and through the Wilderneſs, and into Canaan, here ſpoken of, 1s tre- quently aſcrived, as Exod. 14+ 19» and 23+ 20. and 33. 14. Joſh. 5. 13, 14+ Judges 6. 12. and i3 3- Who alcneof all the Angels could ſpeak the following words in his own name and Perſon; whereas created Angels and prophets do univerſzily uſher in their Divine Mcſſages with,Thus ſa:th the Lord, or ſome equivalent Exprefſion. And this Angel haviog aſſumed the outward thape of a Man, 1t 15 nor rrange | hat he imitates the Jocal motion of aman, & comes as1it Were from Gilgal to the plzce where now they were : by which motion he ſignified, that he was the perſon that brought them to Gilgal, the firſt plzce where they reſted in Canaan, and there renewed Covenant with them, and prote&ed rhem rhere ſo long, and from thence went our with them to Battel and gave them ſucceſs. b A place ſo called here by Anticipation, for the reaſon exprefſ-d here, v. 5. Andit ſeems t6 be no other than Shiloh, where it ſeems probable, that the people were met togerherupon ſome ſolemn Feſtival. And this was the proper and uſval place offacrificing. v. 5. c (4, e. ) 1 promiſed, upon condition of your ke-ping Covenant with mes .
2 And * ye ſhall make noleague with the inhabitants
of this land, * you ſhall throw down their altars: but ye
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Deut. have not obeyed my voice: Why have ye done this 4? a d (5. e.) Diſobeyed theſe expreſs Commands of mine ? 2 Wherefore I alſo ſaid e, I will not drive them out from before you : but they ſhall be as horns im your * Fxog. ſides f, and their gocs ſhall be a * ſnare unto you. 23: 33- e With my ſelf Ihavz now taken up this peremtory reſvJution.
& 34: I2, f Sec on Numb. 33. 55+ Jof. 23. 13+ | Andit came to paſs, when the angel of the LORD ſpake theſe words unto all the children of Iſrael, thar the people lift up their voice, and wept'g :
g Some of them from a true ſenſe oftheir ſins ; but moſt of them from a juft apprehenſion of their danger and app-oaching nifery from the Canaanites growing power, and (xods {orſaking of them ;
_ as the following Hiltory makes moſt probable. [| Thatis < And they called the name of thar place || Bochim: WEePerS and they ſacrificed þ there unto the LORD.
þ For the expiation of their fins, by which rhey had provcked GoJ ro this reſolution ; and for the regaining of Gods favour,
6 © And when * Jofhua had ler the people go z, the children of Iſrael went every man unto his inheritance to poſleſsthe land.
; When he had diſtributed their Inheritances, and dimiſſed th-m ſeverally to take Poſſeſſion of them. This was done before this time, whilſt Joſhus lived ; but it is now repeated in orcer to the diſcovery ofthe time, and cauſe, or occaſion of the peoples acteQi- on from God, and of Gods deſertion of them.
7 And the people ſerved the LORD al! the days of +£.pro- Joſhua, and all the days of the elders that F out-lived longed Joſhua, who had ſeen all the great works of the LORD days after that he did for Ifrael.
| * Toſh. 24- 28.
* Joſh. 8 And * Joſbua the ſon of Nun, the ſervant of the = "LORD died, being an hundred and tea yeats old.
9 And they buried him in the border of his inheri- tance in Timnath-heres.&, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north- ſide of the hill Gaaſh.
k Called Timnath-Sera, Jojb. 19, 50. and 24+ JO»
xo And alſo all rat generation were gathered unto their fathers : and there arcſe another generation after them; which knew not / the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for 1fſrae).
{ Which had no experimental, nor ferious and affeRionate know- ledge. of God, nor of his works. : = :
+11 And the children of Iſrael did evilin the ſight of the LORD m,, and ſerved Baalim ».
1m Whiclr nores the haineuineſs and the impudence of their ſins, above other peoples fins ; becauſe Gods preſence was with them, and hiseye upon them in a peculiar manner, and he did narrowly obſerve all their aQions, which alſo they were not 1gnorant of, and therefore were guilty cf more contempt of God than other people. n ( i.e. ) Falſe gods. He uſcth the Plural number, becauſe the gods of the Canaanites, and adjoining Nations, which I/rae! Worſhipped, were givers, and moſt of them called by the name of Bazl.
12 And they forſook the Lord GOD of their fathers, which brought them our of the land of Egypt, and fol- lowed other gods, of the gods of the people that ere round about them, and bowed themſelves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
13 And they forſook the LORD, and ſerved Baal and Aſhcaroth ».
» (i.e. ) The Sun and the Moon, whom many Heathens Wor- ſhiped tho' under divers names ; and ſo they ran 1nio that Error which God had ſo expreſly warned rhem againſt. Deur. 4.19.
14 { And the anger ofthe LORD was hot againſt Iſrael, and he delivered them into the hand of ſpoilers, that ſpoiled them, and Þ fold them o into the hand of their enemies round about, ſo that they could not any
longer ſtand before their Enemies. | o (7. 6. ) Deliver-d them up, as the ſeller doth his Commodities, unto the buyer. Thus the 1ame Pbrale is uſed, Judges 3- 8. and 4. 9 Compare with wv. 14- Pſal. 44+ 13+ 15 Whitherſoever chey went our p, the hand of the LORD was againſt them for eyil ; as the LORD had
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ſaid, and F as the LORD had {worn unto them : and t Lev. 2; they were preatly diſtreſſed. Deut. ag
p(#.e. ) Whatſoever expedition or buſineſs they undertook ; which 1s uſually ſignified by going out, and coming in.
16 Nevertheleſs, the LORD raiſed up 9 judges r, which + delivered them out of the hand of thoſe that + x. {poiled them. faved.