“ The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites did oppress you, and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hands.”
The Zidonian oppression is not mentioned elsewhere but would have been exerted against the northern tribes. The Amalekites were continual enemies right from the beginning (Exodus 17:13; Judges 3:13). The Maonites, possibly the Meunim, were people connected with Ma‘an, south east of Petra, who regularly associated with the Moabites and the Ammonites (1 Chronicles 4:41; 2 Chronicles 20:1 NIV; RSV; RV margin) and Arabians (2 Chronicles 26:7). The LXX has ‘Midianites' instead of Maonites, but that was probably due to the fact that the Maonites were obscure, although there may have been close links between the two.
Seven oppressors are mentioned, the number of divine perfection. This summarises therefore all who had oppressed them at any time. When these people had oppressed them in one way or another they had cried to Yahweh and He had delivered them.