Judges 2:12 meaning and explanation
Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,
Judges 2:12, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator is describing the generation after Joshua, settled in Canaan, who abandoned the God who had rescued their parents from Egypt. The Hebrew word for forsake carries the sense of letting go of a commitment, and here it is deliberate: they turned to the gods of the surrounding peoples, the Baals and Ashtoreths, and bowed to them.
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