Judges 10:13
in Judges 10But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
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ASV
Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will save you no more.
KJV
Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
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This verse in Judges 10
Commentary
3 notes on this verseYe have forsaken me, and served other gods,.... Since they had been so remarkably saved, time after time, and delivered from so many powerful enemies, which was dreadful ingratitude: wherefore I will deliver you no more; which is not to be understood absolutely, since after this he did deliver them, but conditionally, unless they repented of their idolatries, and forsook them. This is said to bring them to a sense of their sin and danger.
This site's exposition
so I will no longer save you
on Judges 10:13-14
"I will no longer save you" stands against every earlier round, where rescue follows the cry. Gill reads it as conditional, since rescue comes, and Henry as what would stand if they kept their idols. "Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen" turns the Song of Moses back on them, where at Deuteronomy 32:38 the LORD says of such gods, "Let them rise up and help you".
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
This he tells them, not only as what he might do, but as what he would do if they rested in a confession of what they had done amiss, and did not put away their idols and amend for the future. A humble submission which Israel hereupon made to God's justice, with a humble application to his mercy,
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And Maon. The name of a nation. 7 But not, as generally translated, “a dwelling place.”
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַתֶּם֙ | veatem | and you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| עֲזַבְתֶּ֣ם | ʾazavtem | you have forsaken | H5800 → | 215 times |
| אוֹתִ֔י | ʾoti | <obj.> me | H853 → | 10935 times |
| וַתַּעַבְד֖וּ | vataavdu | and you have served | H5647 → | 288 times |
| אֱלֹהִ֣ים | ʾelohim | gods | H430 → | 2601 times |
| אֲחֵרִ֑ים | ʾacherim | other | H312 → | 166 times |
| לָכֵ֥ן | lakhen | <to> therefore | H3651 → | 771 times |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אוֹסִ֖יף | ʾosif | I will repeat | H3254 → | 212 times |
| לְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַ | lehoshia' | to deliver | H3467 → | 206 times |
| אֶתְכֶֽם׃ | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
וְאַתֶּם֙and you
veatemH859 →1094 times
עֲזַבְתֶּ֣םyou have forsaken
ʾazavtemH5800 →215 times
אוֹתִ֔י<obj.> me
ʾotiH853 →10935 times
וַתַּעַבְד֖וּand you have served
vataavduH5647 →288 times
אֱלֹהִ֣יםgods
ʾelohimH430 →2601 times
אֲחֵרִ֑יםother
ʾacherimH312 →166 times
לָכֵ֥ן<to> therefore
lakhenH3651 →771 times
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
אוֹסִ֖יףI will repeat
ʾosifH3254 →212 times
לְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַto deliver
lehoshia'H3467 →206 times
אֶתְכֶֽם׃<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Chronicles 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought.…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 29:13
You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
- James 4:8–11
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- Matthew 7:7–8
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
- Isaiah 55:6–7
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Jeremiah 24:7
I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their…
- Jeremiah 29:13
Through
Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
it leads to
- John 4:14
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Jeremiah 17:13
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of…
- John 4:14
About Judges
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.