Judices 2:19

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Postquam autem mortuus esset judex, revertebantur, et multo faciebant pejora quam fecerant patres eorum, sequentes deos alienos, servientes eis, et adorantes illos. Non dimiserunt adinventiones suas, et viam durissimam per quam ambulare consueverunt.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Qui ostium domus tu� egressus fuerit, sanguis ipsius erit in caput ejus, et nos erimus alieni. Cunctorum autem sanguis, qui tecum in domo fuerint, redundabit in caput nostrum, si eos aliquis tetigerit.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Postquam autem mortuus esset iudex, revertebantur et multo faciebant peiora quam fecerant patres sui, sequentes deos alienos, servientes eis et adorantes illos: non dimiserunt opera sua et viam durissimam, per quam ambulare consueverant.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when the: Judges 2:7, Judges 3:11, Judges 3:12, Judges 4:1, Judges 8:33, Joshua 24:31, 2 Chronicles 24:17, 2 Chronicles 24:18

corrupted: or, were corrupt

more: Jeremiah 16:12, Matthew 23:32

ceased not from: Heb. let nothing fall of

stubborn: 1 Samuel 15:23, Psalms 78:8, Jeremiah 3:17, Jeremiah 23:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:5 - bow down Exodus 32:7 - corrupted Deuteronomy 31:29 - corrupt yourselves Deuteronomy 32:5 - They have corrupted themselves Judges 6:1 - did evil Psalms 106:36 - And Isaiah 44:15 - he maketh a god Jeremiah 11:10 - iniquities Ezekiel 20:30 - Are ye Hosea 6:4 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when the judge was dead,.... Any one of them, the first and so all succeeding ones:

[that] they returned; to their evil ways and idolatrous practices, from which they reformed, and for which they showed outward repentance during the life of the judge; but he dying, they returned again to them:

and corrupted [themselves] more than their fathers; in Egypt and in the wilderness; or rather than their fathers that lived in the generation after the death of Joshua; and so in every generation that lived before a judge was raised up to deliver them out of the evils brought upon them; the children of those in every age successively grew worse than their fathers:

in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; not content with the idols their fathers served, they sought after and found out others, and were more constant and frequent in their worship and service of them, and increased their sacrifices and acts of devotion to them:

they ceased not from their own doings; or, "did not let them fall" b; but retained them, and continued in the practice of them, being what they were naturally inclined unto and delighted in:

nor from their stubborn way; which they were bent upon, and determined to continue in: or "their hard way" c; which their hard hearts had chosen, and they obstinately persisted in, being obdurate and stiffnecked; and which, in the issue, they would find hard, troublesome, and distressing to them, though at present soft and agreeable, and in which they went on smoothly; but in time would find it rough and rugged, offensive, stumbling, and ruinous; or it may signify a hard beaten path, a broad road which multitudes trod in, as is the way of sin.

b לא הפילו "non Cadere faciebant", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius. c מדרכם הקשה "de via sua dura", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Drusius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 2:19. When the judge was dead — It appears that in general the office of the judge was for life.

Their stubborn way. — Their hard or difficult way. Most sinners go through great tribulation, in order to get to eternal perdition; they would have had less pain in their way to heaven.