Jueces 10:8

8 quienes comenzaron a oprimirlos ese mismo año. Durante dieciocho años oprimieron a los israelitas que vivían al oriente del río Jordán, en la tierra de los amorreos (es decir, Galaad).

Jueces 10:8 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 10:8

And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel,
&c.] The Philistines on one side, and the children of Ammon on the other; meaning either that year in which Jair died, as Jarchi; or the first year they began to bring them into bondage, as R. Isaiah: "and from that year", as Kimchi and Ben Melech, that they vexed and distressed them, they continued to vex and distress them

eighteen years;
or, as Abarbinel interprets it, "with that year", they vexed and oppressed them eighteen years, that is, so many more, or reckoning that into the number of them; and these eighteen years of their oppression are not to be reckoned into the years of Jair's government, and as commencing from the fourth of it, as Bishop Usher, Lightfoot, and others; for it does not appear that there was any oppression in his days, but from the time of his death to the raising up of Jephthah a new judge: and the people oppressed by the children of Ammon during that time

were all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan, in
the land of the Ammonites, which is in Gilead;
even the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

Jueces 10:8 In-Context

6 Los amonitas oprimen a Israel
Una vez más, los israelitas hicieron lo malo a los ojos del Señor
. Sirvieron a las imágenes de Baal y de Astoret, y a los dioses de Aram, de Sidón, de Moab, de Amón y de Filistea. Abandonaron al Señor
y dejaron de servirle por completo.

7 Entonces el Señor
ardió de enojo contra los israelitas y los entregó en manos de los filisteos y los amonitas,

8 quienes comenzaron a oprimirlos ese mismo año. Durante dieciocho años oprimieron a los israelitas que vivían al oriente del río Jordán, en la tierra de los amorreos (es decir, Galaad).

9 Los amonitas también cruzaron al lado occidental del Jordán y atacaron a Judá, a Benjamín y a Efraín.
Los israelitas estaban muy angustiados.

10 Finalmente clamaron al Señor
por ayuda y dijeron:
—Hemos pecado contra ti, porque te hemos abandonado como nuestro Dios para servir a las imágenes de Baal.