Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 8:34

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Judges 8:34

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Judges 8:34

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"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).