Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 2:19

19 And it came to pass when the judge was dead, that they returned , and corrupted themselves more than their fathers , in following other gods, to serve them, and to bow down unto them, they ceased not from their own doings , nor from their stubborn way .

To their former, and usual, and natural, though interrupted course.

In Egypt, or in the Wilderness.

i. e. From their evil practises, which he calls their own, partly because they were agreeable to their own natures, which in all mankind are deeply and universally corrupted, Gen. 6. 5. and 8. 21. and partly, because they were familiar and customary to them. Compare Isa. 58. 13. and 66. 3. Ezek. 36. 32. Act. 14. 16. Iude, v. 16.

Heb. hard way: so he calls their way of wickedness, either because it proceeded from an hard heart, and was managed with an hard and stiff neck: or to signifie, that although it seemed at first very soft, and easie, and pleasant, yet they would certainly, and did constantly find, that it was hard, and difficult, and troublesome to them, as an hard way is to the Traveller.

Marginal references: Chap. 3. 12.; Or, were corrupt.; H[illegible: 1+ letters]b. they let [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1+ letters]all of [illegible: 1 word].