Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 8:34
And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
Verse 34. Remembered not the Lord their God] They attributed their deliverance to some other cause, and did not give him the glory of their salvation.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God,…. Or, as the Targum, the worship of the Lord their God; they forgot him, and forsook him, which showed base ingratitude:
who had delivered them out of the hands of their enemies on every side; not only out of the hands of Midian, but all other nations round about them, as Edom, Moab, Ammon, &c. not one attempting to oppress them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(34) Remembered not the Lord their God.According to Jdg. 9:46, they looked on Baal as their Elohim, and forgot that Jehovah was the one God. There was always this tendency to syncretism, as a half-way step towards idolatry. Zephaniah (Jdg. 1:5) mentions them that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham (i.e., Moloch), and the Samaritans feared the Lord and served their own gods (2Ki. 17:33).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
‘ And the children of Israel did not remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side, nor did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed to Israel.’
Once again the children of Israel proved faithless, forgetting how God had delivered them from numerous enemies and forgetting all that Gideon had done for them. They ‘did not remember Yahweh’, that is they ceased worshipping Him except in a very perfunctory manner. ‘They did not show kindness to the household of — Gideon’, that is they allowed his sons to be slaughtered and did nothing about it. Perhaps this was when they began to use the ephod as an oracle giver (Jdg 8:27).
Note again the use of Jerubbaal, significant in a context where there was again hostility against Gideon in a Baal context, for Jerubbaal was the striver with Baal.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Observe how they forgot God, and how should they be grateful to man! How beautifully doth the Psalmist introduce to view, the wonderful goodness of God, when from the very sins of his people, the Lord takes occasion to display the riches of his grace. Psa 106 throughout, but particularly from Psa 106:34 , to the end.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Jdg 8:34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
Ver. 34. Remembered not the Lord. ] Their idolamania had obliterated the memory of the true God, whom it is as necessary to remember, as to draw breath.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
remembered: Psa 78:11, Psa 78:42, Psa 106:18, Psa 106:21, Ecc 12:1, Jer 2:32
Reciprocal: Jer 23:27 – as