Judges 10:6-16 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 10:6-9

While those two judges, Tola and Jair, presided in the affairs of Israel, things went well, but afterwards, I. Israel returned to their idolatry, that sin which did most easily beset them (Jdg. 10:6): They did evil again in the sight of the Lord, from whom they were unaccountably bent to backslide, as a foolish people and unwise. 1. They worshipped many gods; not only their old demons Baalim and Ashtaroth, which the Canaanites had worshipped, but, as if they would proclaim their folly to all... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 10:10-18

Here is, I. A humble confession which Israel make to God in their distress, Jdg. 10:10. Now they own themselves guilty, like a malefactor upon the rack, and promise reformation, like a child under the rod. They not only complain of the distress, but acknowledge it is their own sin that has brought them into the distress; therefore God is righteous, and they have no reason to repine. They confess their omissions, for in them their sin began??We have forsaken our God,? and their commissions??We... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:6

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord ,.... After the death of the above judges they fell into idolatry again, as the following instances show: and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth ; as they had before; see Gill on Judges 2:11 , Judges 2:13 and, besides these: also the gods of Syria ; their gods and goddesses, Belus and Saturn, Astarte and the Dea Syria, Lucian writes of: and the gods of Zidon ; the goddess of the Zidonians was Ashtaroth, 1 Kings... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:7

And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel ,.... His anger burned like fire, he was exceedingly incensed against them, nothing being more provoking to him than idolatry, as after mentioned: and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon ; that is, delivered them into their hands, and they became subject and were in bondage to them, as such are that are sold for "slaves"; part of them, that lay to the west of the land of Israel, fell... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:8

And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel ,.... 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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:9

Moreover, the children of Ammon passed over Jordan ,.... Not content with the oppression of the tribes on the other side Jordan, which had continued eighteen years, they came over Jordan into the land of Canaan to ravage that, and bring other of the tribes into subjection to them, particularly the three next mentioned, which lay readiest for them, when they were come over Jordan: to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim who lay to the south and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:10

And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord ,.... In this their distress, seeing nothing but ruin and destruction before their eyes, their land being invaded by such powerful enemies in different quarters; this opened their eyes to a sense of their sins, the cause of it, and brought them to a confession of them: saying, we have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim ; had been guilty not only of sins of omission, neglecting the pure of God,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:11

And the Lord said unto the children of Israel ,.... By a prophet he sent unto them, as Kimchi and Abarbinel, see Judges 6:8 , whom Ben Gersom takes to be Phinehas, but he could not be living at this time; or by an angel, a created one, sent on this occasion; or the uncreated one, the Son and Word of God, who might appear in an human form, and to whom all that is here said is applicable: did not I deliver you from the Egyptians ; by bringing them out of subjection and bondage to them,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:12

The Zidonians also ,.... Who were left in the land to distress them, though there is no particular mention of them, and of the distress they gave them, and of their deliverance from it, which yet is not at all to be questioned: and the Amalekites ; both quickly after they came out of Egypt, Exodus 17:13 and when they were come into the land of Canaan, joining the Moabites and the Midianites against them, Judges 3:13 . and the Maonites did oppress you ; meaning either the old... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:13

Ye have forsaken me, and served other gods ,.... Since they had been so remarkably saved, time after time, and delivered from so many powerful enemies, which was dreadful ingratitude: wherefore I will deliver you no more ; which is not to be understood absolutely, since after this he did deliver them, but conditionally, unless they repented of their idolatries, and forsook them. This is said to bring them to a sense of their sin and danger. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 10:6-9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 10:10-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:13

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