Judges 10
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Therefore, God refused to help the Israelites (verse 13). He had sent them warnings before (Judges 2:2–3; 6:7–10). Now He told them that if they wanted help they’d have to cry out to their new gods and see what they could do! (verse 14).
15–16 Then the Israelites truly repented;47 they got rid of their foreign gods (their idols) and served the LORD. And then the writer adds an important sentence: And [God] could bear Israel’s misery no longer (verse 16).
God is a Father to His children, and He has a father’s heart. His love is always there, ready to be poured out upon us. But as long as we remain unrepentant we block God’s love from reaching us, and all we experience is His severity and justice (see Exodus 34:4–7 and comment).
17–18 These verses set the stage for the story of Jephthah, Israel’s next judge. The Ammonite army had camped in Gilead, but the Israelites in Gilead (the Gileadites) had no one to lead them against the Ammonites. So the Gileadites made an offer: anyone who would lead an attack against the Ammonites would be made head over all Gilead (verse 18).