2A Israel’s inquiring of Jehovah in Judges 1:1-20 describes the beautiful scene of Israel’s trusting in God; this marvelous picture of oneness with the Lord, prefiguring the organic union of God with His people, is a continuation of the oneness in the book of Joshua when the people of Israel first entered into the good land as described in Joshua 6—Num. 27:21; 1 Sam. 22:10; 23:9-10; 2 Sam. 2:1.
41 In His concept and desire, God wanted to be a Husband to Israel, and He wanted Israel to be a wife to Him, living in the most intimate contact with Him in this marvelous marriage union.
52 撒母耳在写历史书时,将士师记放在约书亚记之后,给我们看见以色列对她的丈夫是过怎样的生活。
52 In writing the books of history, Samuel put Judges after Joshua to show us the kind of life Israel lived toward her Husband.
63 As unveiled in Judges, Israel did not have a heart to be the wife of Jehovah; rather, she forsook God as her Husband and went about as a harlot after other gods and worshipped them—2:11-13, 17; 3:7; 8:33; 10:6; cf. Jer. 11:13; Ezek. 16:25-26; Hosea 1:2; 2:2.
7三 在士师记一章一至二十节犹大和迦勒的记事之后,本书所记载以色列的历史,满了淫妇的腐烂败坏:
7C After the account of Judah and Caleb in Judges 1:1-20, Israel’s history as recorded in this book is full of the rottenness and corruption of a harlot:
81 Whereas Joshua is the book of Israel’s history full of marvelous victories over the inhabitants of Canaan in the presence of Jehovah, Judges is the book of Israel’s history full of miserable defeats under their enemies in the forsaking of Jehovah.
92 这就是士师记的内在意义。
92 This is the intrinsic significance of the book of Judges.
10D The content of Judges consists of the children of Israel trusting in God, forsaking God, being defeated by their enemies, repenting to God in their misery, being delivered through the judges, and again becoming corrupted; this became a cycle repeated seven times in Judges—1:1-2; 2:11—3:11.