Verse 8
8. Vexed and oppressed Literally, broken and crushed. Henry forcibly suggests that with the Philistines on one side and the Ammonites on the other, Israel was miserably crushed as between two millstones.
That year… eighteen years The oppression commenced that very year in which they were sold into the hands of their enemies, and continued eighteen years; not, as some say, that year completed eighteen years of oppression. The bitterness of the oppression was enhanced by the fact that it came not on gradually, but a breaking and crushing tyranny over them began with the very first year of their subjection.
Israel… on the other side Jordan So this oppression distressed especially the tribes east of the Jordan.
Land of the Amorites Which Israel had formerly taken from their king, Sihon. See at Numbers 21:21-32. “ Gilead, being a more precise epithet for the land of the Amorites, is here used in a wider sense to denote the whole of the country east of the Jordan, so far as it had been taken from the Amorites and occupied by the Israelites, as in Numbers 32:29; Joshua 22:9.” Keil.
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