Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"And the children of Israel remembered not Jehovah their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;" — Judges 8:34 (ASV)
They did not remember the Lord their God. —According to Judges 9:46, they looked on Baal as their Elohim, and forgot that Jehovah was the one God. There was always this tendency to syncretism, as a half-way step towards idolatry. Zephaniah (Judges 1:5) mentions them that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham (i.e., Moloch), and the Samaritans feared the Lord and served their own gods (2 Kings 17:33).