Judges 10:6-18

Further Disobedience and Oppression

6 ¹The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD ²and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, ³the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they ⁴forsook the LORD and did not serve him.

7 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and ⁵he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,

8 and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

9 And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

10 And the people of Israel ⁶cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you, because ⁷we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals."

11 And the LORD said to the people of Israel, "Did I not save you ⁸from the Egyptians and ⁹from the Amorites, ¹⁰from the Ammonites and ¹¹from the Philistines?

12 The Sidonians also, and ¹²the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I ¹³saved you out of their hand.

13 Yet you have ¹⁴forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.

14 Go and cry out ¹⁵to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress."

15 And the people of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day."

16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and ¹⁶he became impatient over the misery of Israel.

17 Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at ¹⁷Mizpah.

18 And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? ¹⁸He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

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Judges 10:6-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 10

This chapter gives an account of two judges of Israel, in whose days they enjoyed peace, Jud 10:1-5, after which they sinning against God, came into trouble, and were oppressed by their enemies eighteen years, and were also invaded by an army of the Ammonites, Jud 10:6-9, when they cried unto the Lord for deliverance, confessing their sin; but he had first refused to grant them any, though upon their importunity and reformation he had compassion on them, Jud 10:10-16 and the chapter is concluded with the preparation made by both armies for a battle, Jud 10:17,18.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 18

1. See Judges 2:11
2. See Judges 2:13
3. 1 Kgs. 11:5, 7, 33; 2 Kings 23:13
4. ver. 10, 13; Deuteronomy 31:16
5. See Judges 2:14
6. See Judges 3:9
7. ver. 6, 13
8. Exodus 14:30
9. See Numbers 21:21-32
10. [Judges 3:13]
11. Judges 3:31
12. [Judges 3:13; Judges 6:3]
13. See Judges 2:16
14. ver. 6, 10; [Deuteronomy 32:15; Jeremiah 2:13]
15. Deuteronomy 32:37, 38
16. Judges 2:18; Isaiah 63:9
17. Judges 11:11, 29
18. [Judges 11:5, 6, 8, 11]

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