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Judges 10:1 open_in_new
defend. save or deliver.
mount. hill country.
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Judges 10:2 open_in_new
twenty, &c. See note on Judges 9:22.
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Judges 10:3 open_in_new
twenty. See note, App-50.
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. Ashtaroth, plural. the Ashtoreths. Compare Judges 2:11-13.
gods of Syria. Genesis 35:3-6.
gods of Zidon. 1 Kings 11:5 (Baal, Astarte).
gods of Moab. Judges 11:24 (Chemosh). 1 Kings 11:33 (Milcom or Molech).
gods of the Philistines: e.g. Dagon (Judges 16:23).
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Judges 10:8 open_in_new
vexed and oppressed. brake and crushed. See note on Judges 10:3, above.
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Judges 10:10 open_in_new
our God. Hebrew. Elohim (App-4). Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "Jehovah our God".
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Judges 10:12 open_in_new
Maonites. Compare 2 Chronicles 26:7; 2 Chronicles 26:8. A mixture of Moabites and Ammonites. the two words combined.
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Judges 10:13 open_in_new
Yet. Compare Deuteronomy 32:16; Jeremiah 2:13.
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Judges 10:14 open_in_new
Go. Figure of speech Eironeia (Divine Irony). App-6.
ye have chosen. Compare Deuteronomy 32:37; Deuteronomy 32:38; Jeremiah 2:28.
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Judges 10:16 open_in_new
strange gods. gods of strangers or foreigners.
His soul. He (emph.) Hebrew. nephesh (App-13). Attributed by Figure of speech Anthropopatheia to God (App-6).
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Judges 10:17 open_in_new
gathered. gathered by proclamation. Note the extended alternation in this verse "children, gathered, encamped".