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But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.
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Forgetting God Has Consequences
Commentators explain that when Israel 'forgat Jehovah their God,' it was an act of rebellion, primarily through idolatry. In response, God 'sold them' to their enemies. This wasn't a passive allowance but an active judgment, demonstrating the principle that rejecting God's loving rule inevitably leads to facing His righteous justice.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
According to the present arrangement of the Book of Judges and the common chronology, the oppression of Sisera must have occurred about 200 years a…
19th Century
Anglican
And when they forgot the Lord their God.—Israel's idolatry, along with the immorality and shameless wickedness that always attended it, wa…
Baptist
They often transgressed and were as often afflicted; but whenever they returned to the Lord with their confession of sin and again sought His mercy…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when they forgat the Lord their God The worship of the Lord their God, as the Targum; that is, they fell into id…
The work of ministers is to reason with people: not only to exhort and direct, but also to persuade, to convince their judgments, and so to gain th…
