1 Samuel 12:9

When they forgat Jehovah their God. The theocracy, as we have seen ( 1 Samuel 10:18 ), was a moral government, under which idolatry and the immorality attendant upon it, as being rebellion, were punished by Jehovah's withdrawing his protection, and the consequent subjection of the nation to foreign rule. It was the repeated sin, therefore, of the people which made Israel's history so checquered. Sisera ( 4:2 ), the Philistines ( 3:31 ), and Eaton, king of Moab. ( 3:12 ), are mentioned as three of the earlier oppressors of Israel, but are given here in the reverse order to that found in the Book of Judges.