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Judges 2:4

Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   God;   Israel;   Repentance;   Weeping;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Angel of the Lord;   Bochim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Angels;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Theophany;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judges, the Book of;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Bochim;   Conquest of Canaan;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Judges (1);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bochim ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mourning;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Angel;   God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deborah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When the angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
Hebrew Names Version
It happened, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the children of Yisra'el, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
King James Version
And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Lexham English Bible
And as the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people wept bitterly.
English Standard Version
As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
New Century Version
After the angel gave Israel this message from the Lord , they cried loudly.
New English Translation
When the Lord 's messenger finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
Amplified Bible
When the Angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people raised their voices and wept.
New American Standard Bible
Now when the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people raised their voices and wept.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when the Angel of the Lorde spake these wordes vnto all the children of Israel, the people lift vp their voyce, and wept.
Legacy Standard Bible
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Contemporary English Version
The Israelites started crying loudly,
Complete Jewish Bible
When the angel of Adonai spoke these words to all the people of Isra'el, they began crying and wailing at the top of their voices.
Darby Translation
And it came to pass, when the Angel of Jehovah spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and wept.
Easy-to-Read Version
After the angel gave the Israelites this message from the Lord , the people cried loudly.
George Lamsa Translation
And when the angel of the LORD spoke these words to the children of Israel, all the people lifted up their voices and wept.
Good News Translation
When the angel had said this, all the people of Israel began to cry,
Literal Translation
And it happened when the Angel of Jehovah spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan ye messaunger of the LORDE had spoken these wordes vnto all the children of Israel, the people lefte vp their voyce, & wepte,
American Standard Version
And it came to pass, when the angel of Jehovah spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the angel of the Lord spake these wordes vnto all the children of Israel, the people cryed out and wept:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
King James Version (1611)
And it came to passe when the Angel of the Lord spake these words vnto all the children of Israel, that the people lift vp their voice, and wept.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
English Revised Version
And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Berean Standard Bible
When the Angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne the `aungel of the Lord spak these wordis to alle the sones of Israel, thei reisiden her vois, and wepten; and the name of that place was clepid,
Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, when the messenger of Jehovah speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep,
Update Bible Version
And it came to pass, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
World English Bible
It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
New King James Version
So it was, when the Angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voices and wept.
New Living Translation
When the angel of the Lord finished speaking to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
New Life Bible
When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people cried in a loud voice.
New Revised Standard
When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it came to pass, when the messenger of Yahweh had spoken these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel: they lifted up their voice, and wept.
Revised Standard Version
When the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
THE MESSAGE
When God 's angel had spoken these words to all the People of Israel, they cried out—oh! how they wept! They named the place Bokim (Weepers). And there they sacrificed to God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

Contextual Overview

1 Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** Three astrics are used as a sign that one or more Hebrew words, necessary to the sense, have been taken out at some time or other. I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me: 2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done? 3 And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you. 4 Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping. 5 And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the people: 1 Samuel 7:6, Ezra 10:1, Proverbs 17:10, Jeremiah 31:9, Zechariah 12:10, Luke 6:21, Luke 7:38, 2 Corinthians 7:10, James 4:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:16 - lift Numbers 25:6 - weeping Joshua 7:12 - the children Judges 21:2 - lifted 1 Samuel 7:2 - lamented 1 Samuel 11:4 - lifted up 1 Samuel 30:4 - lifted up 2 Kings 22:19 - wept Job 2:12 - their voice 2 Corinthians 7:7 - mourning

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
Genesis 1:28
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
Genesis 1:31
And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.
Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
Genesis 11:10
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
Genesis 25:12
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel,.... This being either one of the three solemn feasts, when all the males appeared at the tabernacle of the Lord; or else here was now a solemn convention of all the tribes to inquire of the Lord the reason why they were not able to drive out the Canaanites in some places, and why they prevailed over them in many:

that the people lift up their voice, and wept; being affected with what the angel said, and convicted in their consciences of their sins, and so fearing the bad consequences thereof, they wept because of the sins they had been guilty of, and because of the evils that were like to befall them on account of them.


 
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