Judges 2: 3, 10
...And their gods shall be a snare to you.
This means that their ways will be very attractive and enticing, to trap them into doing things that are not right.
Our enemy knows our weaknesses, and always presents his alternate way as reasonable and beneficial and good for us. But he lies to us and entices us with what seems to be good for the moment; and he uses these silver-tongued tactics to deceive us into believing that bad is good, and twists what is right.
And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.
Oh-oh, they didn't talk about these things with their kids when they got up and went to bed, when they walked the roads and sat in their houses (Deuteronomy 6:7). The children grew up not knowing the stories.
Judges 2:16-19 gives us the cycle of what was going on in those days in Israel: Abundance then Forget then they do evil then they suffer then they cry out to God then He delivers them then they have abundance again; over and over and over again throughout this whole book.
It's just so easy to slide away into sin when I'm not paying attention!
O my Father, keep me aware of Your Presence with me every moment of every day, so that I will focus on Your ways, Your thoughts, Your attitudes and Your view of things. Let me learn more of You fresh every day, as Your mercies are new every morning. Take pleasure in what I do each day, as I seek Your face.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
