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Judges 10:12

King James Version (KJV)

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Judges 10:12

Verse 12 of 18

Scripture focus

The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

Judges 10:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Judges 10:12

Theological / Devotional

Zidonians. See pp. 67-71.

Amalekites. They were allies of Moab (ch. 3:12, 13) and of Midian (ch. 6:3).

Maonites. There is no record of a deliverance from these people, just as the record is brief concerning an earlier deliverance from the Ammonites, Philistines, and Sidonians mentioned previously. Perhaps they were the same people as the Mehunims of 2 Chron. 26:7 and the Meunites of 2 Chron. 20:1, RSV, and 1 Chron. 4:41, RSV. If so, they lived in the area south of the Dead Sea. The brevity of information concerning some of these incidents shows that the book of Judges does not give an exhaustive history of the times, but that it relates episodes of the period as illustrative and typical of the behavior of the Israelites and of God’s efforts to help them.

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