2A After the children of Israel possessed the land as their inheritance, they did not obey God’s command to utterly drive out and destroy the seven tribes inhabiting Canaan—1:27-36.
4C The children of Israel forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed the gods of the people that were around them; they bowed themselves down to them and provoked Jehovah to anger—10:6-7.
5D God delivered them into the hands of spoilers, and He sold them into the hands of their enemies so that they could no longer stand; whenever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil—2:11-15.
6五 士师时期可以说是以色列历史中最黑暗的一段,也是一段惨痛的时期。
6E The age of the judges may be considered the darkest period in the history of Israel; it was also a period of tragedy.
7F At that time, among the children of Israel there were rebellions against God, idolatry (chs. 17—18), infighting (ch. 9), hostility and controversy among the tribes (chs. 20—21), fornication (ch. 19), filthiness, brutal killings, and all manner of evil doing.
9A When the people of Israel said that there was no king among them, this meant that they had annulled God and His status and did not recognize God’s kingship—17:6; 18:1; 19:1.
10B Although God’s tabernacle was at Shiloh and the high priest had the Urim and Thummim, there was no government, no administration, in Israel because Israel had annulled God and His status as their King, and thus, there was no expression of God in Judges—18:31; Exo. 28:30, footnote 1.