Verse 6
PHILISTINE AND AMMONITE OPPRESSION, Judges 10:6-9.
6. Did evil again This apostasy, as appears from what follows respecting the number of false gods they worshipped, was of a most aggravating character.
Baalim, and Ashtaroth See note on chap. Judges 2:13.
Gods of Syria These are nowhere in Scripture mentioned by name.
Gods of Zidon The peculiar forms of the Baal and Asherah worship as practiced among the Phenicians. Compare 1 Kings 11:33. This worship was, in its principles, common among several of the surrounding nations, but each nation seems to have given it some peculiar modification of its own.
Gods of Moab Among whom Chemosh was the principal deity. Numbers 21:29; 1 Kings 11:33.
Gods of… Ammon Particularly the abominable Moloch, the fire-god, to whom human sacrifices were offered. 1 Kings 11:7.
Gods of the Philistines Dagon, the fish-god. Compare chap. Judges 16:23. Here we have the mention of seven classes of gods to whose worship Israel had turned, thus filling up the measure of a sevenfold idolatry. This seems more execrable still when we compare with it the seven deliverances of Jehovah mentioned in Judges 10:11-12. They had seemed to choose a new idol for every deliverance.
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