Judges 10:12-14

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Judges 10:6-16

SEVENTH SECTIONthe oppression of the midianites. jephthah, the judge of the vow__________________Renewed apostasy and punishment. Awakening and repentance.Judges 10:6-166And the children [sons] of Israel did evil again [continued to do evil] in the sight of the Lord [Jehovah], and served [the] Baalim, and [the] Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria [Aram], and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children [sons] of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Judges 10:1-16

Inveterate Idolatry Judges 10:1-16 The scene is now removed to the tribes across the Jordan, especially those settled, in Gilead and its vicinity. The children of Ammon were the aggressors, and acquired such boldness as even to cross the Jordan and fight against Judah and Ephraim. “Israel was sore distressed.” Almost spontaneously we say, “Surely it served them right.” It seems incredible that, after all they had suffered on account of their idolatry, they should again relapse to Baal, and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Judges 10:1-18

Following the death of Abimelech there seems to have been a period of forty years' quietness under the dictatorship of Tola and Jair. After this there appears to have broken out a period characterized by an almost utter abandonment of the people to idolatry. The list of the forms which this idolatry took is appalling. Judgment came this time through the Philistines and the men of Ammon and continued for eighteen years. At last, sore distressed, they cried to God, and for the first time in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:12

“ The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites did oppress you, and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hands.” The Zidonian oppression is not mentioned elsewhere but would have been exerted against the northern tribes. The Amalekites were continual enemies right from the beginning (Exodus 17:13; Judges 3:13). The Maonites, possibly the Meunim, were people connected with Ma‘an, south east of Petra, who regularly associated with the Moabites and the Ammonites (1 Chronicles... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:13-14

“ Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods, and for this reason I will save you no more. Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen, let them save you in the time of your distress. ” As they have, once they were delivered, continually turned their back on Yahweh to serve other gods, let them now go to those gods to deliver them. Yahweh was finished with them. Let them look to the other gods to save them, and see what the result would be. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:6-18

Judges 10:6-Job : . Introduction to the Story of Jephthah.— In this section we see the hand of D, and hear the recurrent notes of sin, suffering, repentance, and deliverance. Judges 10:7 . The reference to the Philistines seems to be out of place, unless the section is meant to serve as an introduction to Samson’ s as well as Jephthah’ s exploits. Judges 10:8 . Text faulty: “ eighteen years” should probably stand at the end of Judges 10:7, and Judges 10:8 should perhaps read “ and they vexed... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 10:12

The Zidonians also; for though we do not read of any oppression of Israel, particularly, by the Zidonians, yet there might be such a thing; as many things were said and done, both in the Old and New Testament, which are not recorded there; or they might join their forces with the king of Mesopotamia, Judges 3:8, or with some other of their oppressors; for it is certain these were left among others to prove Israel, Judges 3:1-3. Of the Amalekites, see Judges 3:13; Judges 6:3. Maonites; either,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 10:13

To wit, except you repent in another manner than you yet have done; which when they performed, God suspends the execution of this threatening. Compare Jeremiah 18:7. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 10:14

You have not been forced to worship those gods by your oppressors and tyrants; but you have freely chosen these gods before me. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 10:1-18

FORTY-FIVE YEARS PASSED OVER IN SILENCE(Judges 10:1-5.)CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 10:1. After Abimelech.] This man is recognised as having been a ruler in Israel, notwithstanding his scandalous career. Probably he was permitted to occupy this position for a time, as a new method of chastising the people for their extreme tendency to choose another king than Jehovah, and to show that “their sorrows should be multiplied that hasten after another god.” The rigorous rule of the bramble-bush sovereign... read more

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