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A Narrative Reset
Commentators explain that this verse is not a direct continuation from the previous one. Instead, it's a deliberate flashback, repeating a passage from the end of the book of Joshua. The author is resetting the scene to the time of Joshua's leadership to provide context for the decline that follows.
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Charles Ellicott
On Judges 2:6
19th Century
Bishop
When Joshua had let the people go. —Rather, And Joshua let the people go. This passage strongly tends to support…
John Gill
On Judges 2:6
17th Century
Pastor
And when Joshua had let the people go
This is not to be connected with what goes before, as if that was done in Josh…
Matthew Henry
On Judges 2:6–23
17th Century
Minister
We have a general idea of the course of events in Israel during the time of the Judges. The nation made themselves as wretched and miserable by for…