Gen 35:2-4, Exo 20:23, Jos 24:14, Judg 10:15-16, 1Sa 7:3-4, Hos 14:2-3, 8 | TSK | STEP

Genesis 35:2-4

unto his.

18:19; Jos 24:15; Ps 101:2-7

strange.

31:19,34; Ex 20:3,4; 23:13; De 5:7; 6:14; 7:25; 11:28; 32:16; Jos 23:7

Jos 24:2,20,23; Jud 10:16; Ru 1:15; 1Sa 7:3; 2Sa 7:23; 2Ki 17:29

1Ch 16:26; Jer 5:7; 16:20; Da 5:4; Ac 19:26; 1Co 10:7; 2Co 6:15-17

Ga 4:8

clean.

22; 34:2,24,25; Ex 19:10,14; Le 15:5; 17:16; Nu 31:24; 2Ki 5:10,12,13

Job 1:5; Ps 51:2,7; Ec 5:1; Isa 1:16; 52:11; Jer 13:27; Eze 18:31

Eze 20:7; 36:25; Joh 13:10,11; 2Co 7:1; Heb 10:22; Jas 4:8

1Pe 2:1,2; Jude 1:23

who answered.

28:12,13; 32:7,24; Ps 46:1; 50:15; 66:13,14; 91:15; 103:1-5; 107:6,8

Ps 116:1,2,16-18; 118:19-22; Isa 30:19

was with.

28:20; 31:3,42; Pr 3:6; Isa 43:2

ear-rings.These rings were not worn as mere ornaments, but for superstitious purposes; perhaps as amulets or charms, first consecrated to some false god, or formed under some constellation, and stamped with magical characters. Maimonides mentions rings and jewels of this kind, with the image of the sun, moon, etc., impressed upon them; and Augustine describes them (Epist. 73,) as used for this execrable purpose.

Ex 32:2-4; Jud 8:24-27; Ho 2:13

hid them.

Ex 32:20; De 7:5,25; Isa 2:20; 30:22

the oak.

Jos 24:25,26; Jud 9:6

Exodus 20:23

3-5; 32:1-4; 1Sa 5:4,5; 2Ki 17:33,41; Eze 20:39; 43:8; Da 5:4,23

Zep 1:5; 1Co 10:21,22; 2Co 6:14-16; Col 2:18,19; 1Jo 5:20,21

Re 22:15

Joshua 24:14

fear.

De 10:12; 1Sa 12:24; Job 1:1; 28:28; Ps 111:10; 130:4; Ho 3:5

Ac 9:31

serve.

23; Ge 17:1; 20:5,6; De 18:13; 2Ki 20:3; Ps 119:1,80; Lu 8:15

Joh 4:23,24; 2Co 1:12; Eph 6:24; Php 1:10

put.From this exhortation of Joshua, we not only learn that the Israelites still retained some relics of idolatry, but to what gods they were attached. 1. Those whom their fathers worshipped on the other side of the food, or the river Euphrates, i.e., the gods of the Chaldeans, fire, light, the sun, etc. 2. Those of the Egyptians, Apis, Anubis, serpents, vegetables, etc. 3. Those of the Amorites, Moabites, Canaanites, etc., Baal-peor, Astarte, etc. How astonishing is it, that after all that God had done for them, and all the miracles they had seen, there should still be found among them both idols and idolaters!

2,23; Ge 35:2; Ex 20:3,4; Le 17:7; Ezr 9:11; Eze 20:18; Am 5:25,26

in Egypt.

Eze 20:7,8; 23:3

Judges 10:15-16

We have sinned.

2Sa 12:13; 24:10; Job 33:27; Pr 28:13; 1Jo 1:8-10

do thou.

Jos 9:25; 1Sa 3:18; 2Sa 10:12; 15:26; Jon 2:4; 3:9

seemeth, etc. Heb. is good in thine eyes. deliver.

2Sa 24:14; Job 34:31,32

they put.

2Ch 7:14; 15:8; 33:15; Jer 18:7,8; Eze 18:30-32; Ho 14:1-3,8

strange gods. Heb. gods of strangers. his soul.

Ge 6:6; Ps 106:44,45; Isa 63:9; Jer 31:20; Ho 11:8; Lu 15:20; 19:41

Joh 11:34; Eph 4:32; Heb 3:10; 4:15

grieved. Heb. shortened.Not that there is any grief in God; he has infinite joy and happiness in himself, which cannot be broken in upon by either the sins or the miseries of his creatures. Not that there is any change in God; for he is of one mind, and who can turn him? But his goodness is his glory; by it he proclaims his name, and magnifies it; and as he is pleased to put himself into the relation of a father to his people, so he is pleased to represent his goodness to them by the compassion of a father to his children; for as he is the Father of lights, so is he the Father of mercies.