Judges 2:1

“And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, etc.] The Targum calls him a prophet f23; and the Jewish commentators in general interpret it of Phinehas f24; and that a man is meant is given into by others, because he is said to come from a certain place in Canaan, and not from heaven, and spoke in a public congregation, and is not said to disappear; but neither a man nor a created angel is meant, or otherwise he would have spoken in the name of the Lord, and have said, “thus saith the Lord”, and not in his own name; ascribing to himself the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and swearing to them, and making a covenant with them, and threatening what he would do to…”

“AN ANGEL SENT TO REBUKE THE PEOPLE AT BOCHIM. (Jdg 2:1-10) an angel . . . came from Gilgal to Bochim--We are inclined to think, from the authoritative tone of his language, that he was the Angel of the Covenant (Exo 23:20; Jos 5:14); the same who appeared in human form and announced himself captain of the Lord's host. His coming from Gilgal had a peculiar significance, for there the Israelites made a solemn dedication of themselves to God on their entrance into the promised land [Jos 4:1-9]; and the memory of that religious engagement, which the angel's arrival from Gilgal awakened, gave emphatic force to his rebuke of their apostasy. Bochim--"the weepers," was a name bestowed evidently in…”

“The angel of the Lord (not an angel). - The phrase is used nearly 60 times to designate the Angel of God’s presence. See Genesis 12:7 note. In all cases where “the angel of the Lord” delivers a message, he does it as if God Himself were speaking, without the intervening words “Thus saith the Lord,” which are used in the case of prophets. (Compare Judges 6:8; Joshua 24:2.) When the host of Israel came up from Gilgal in the plain of Jericho, near the Jordan Joshua 4:19 to Shiloh and Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim, the Angel who had been with them at Gilgal Exodus 23:20-23; Exodus 33:1-4; Joshua 5:10-15 accompanied them. The mention of Gilgal thus fixes the transaction to the period…”

“The angel - Christ the angel of the covenant, often called the angel of the Lord, to whom the conduct of Israel out of Egypt into Canaan, is frequently ascribed. He alone could speak the following words in his own name and person; whereas created angels and prophets universally usher in their message with, Thus saith the Lord, or some equivalent expression. And this angel having assumed the shape of a man, it is not strange that he imitates the motion of a man, and comes as it were from Gilgal to the place where now they were: by which motion he signified, that he was the person that brought them to Gilgal, the first place where they rested in Canaan, and there protected them so long, and…”

“And an angel: or messenger, Jdg 6:12, Jdg 13:3; Gen 16:7-10, Gen 16:13, Gen 22:11, Gen 22:12, Gen 48:16; Exo 3:2-6, Exo 14:19, Exo 23:20; Exo 33:14; Jos 5:13, Jos 5:14; Isa 63:9; Hos 12:3-5; Zac 3:1, Zac 3:2; Mal 3:1; Act 7:30-33 Bochim: Jdg 2:5 I made: Exo 3:7, Exo 3:8, Exo 14:14, Exo 20:2; Deu 4:34; Psa 78:51-53, Psa 105:36-38 have brought: Gen 12:7, Gen 22:16, Gen 22:17, Gen 26:3, Gen 26:4; Jos 3:10; Psa 105:44, Psa 105:45 I will never: Gen 17:7, Gen 17:8; Lev 26:42; Num 14:34; Psa 89:34; Jer 14:21, Jer 33:20, Jer 33:21; Zac 11:10 Judges 2:2”

“The Angel of the Lord at Bochim. - To the cursory survey of the attitude which the tribes of Israel assumed towards the Canaanites who still remained in their inheritances, there is appended an account of the appearance of the angel of the Lord, who announced to the people the punishment of God for their breach of the covenant, of which they had been guilty through their failure to exterminate the Canaanites. This theophany is most intimately connected with the facts grouped together in Judg 1, since the design and significance of the historical survey given there are only to be learned from the reproof of the angel; and since both of them have the same aphoristic character, being restricted…”