And the anger of the Lord was hot against
Israel
For the idolatries they were guilty of; it burned within him, it
broke forth, and was poured out like fire on them, and consumed
them; see ( Nahum 1:6 ) ;
and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that
spoiled them;
that rifled their houses, and plundered them of their goods and
substance:
and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round
about;
the is, delivered them into their hands, who carried them
captive, where they were as men sold for slaves; see ( Psalms 44:12
) ; and this was in just retaliation, that as they had said
themselves to work wickedness, the Lord sold them into the hands
of their enemies for their wickedness; and, as they had followed
the gods of the people round about them, so he delivered them up,
into the hands of their enemies round about them, as the
Mesopotamians, Moabites, Midianites, Philistines, and Ammonites:
so that they could not any longer stand before their
enemies;
but turned their backs on them, and fled whenever engaged in war
with them.