God's Benefits Aggravate Our Disobedience When Broken

The Angel of Yahweh reappears in Judges 2:1 at the same place where He had commissioned Joshua—Gilgal—but now with a terrible question: 'What is this ye have done?' His reiterated I's declare Him as one in whom the divine name dwells, the Word made flesh. He does not merely condemn; He first enumerates the favours which He had shown Israel, recalling the conditions of the covenant: no entangling alliances with the inhabitants, no tolerance for their idolatry.…