Judges 10:12
in Judges 10Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried unto me, and I saved you out of their hand.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Judges 10
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The Zidonians - An allusion to the time of Barak, when the Zidonians doubtless formed part of the great confederacy of Canaanites under Jabin king of Hazor. See Jos 11:8. The Amalekites - In the time of Gideon (marginal reference). The Maonites - Probably one of the tribes of the “children of the East,” who came with the Midianites and Amalekites in the time of Gideon, and may have been conspicuous for their hostility to Israel, and for the greatness of their discomfiture, though the record has not been preserved. The name is “Mehununs” in 2Ch 26:7.
This site's exposition
The LORD replied
on Judges 10:11-12
The answer sets seven rescues against the seven gods of verse 6. Barnes matches four to the record: the Exodus, Sihon and Og, Ehud against Moab and Ammon, and Shamgar against the Philistines. Barnes takes the Maonites for one of the eastern peoples who came with Midian in Gideon's day.
This site's exposition
Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites
John Wesley places the Maonites either in the wilderness of Maon south of Judah, as at 1 Samuel 23:25, or among the Mehunim. The Hebrew letters of the two names are the same. Albert Barnes ties the Amalekites to the time of Gideon; each name recalls a rescue.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The Maonites - Either first, those who lived in, or near the wilderness of Maon, in the south of Judah, 1 Sam. xxiii, 25; xxv, 2, whether Edomites or others. Or, secondly, the Mehunims, a people living near the Arabians, of whom, 2 Chron. xxvi, 7. For in the Hebrew, the letters of both names are the same, only the one is the singular, the other the plural number.
The Zidonians also,....
Of their being oppressed by the Zidonians and the Maonites we read not elsewhere. God had in justice corrected them, and in mercy delivered them, and therefore might reasonably expect that either through fear or through love they would adhere to him and his service.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And Maon. The name of a nation. 7 But not, as generally translated, “a dwelling place.”
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Was it not from Mitzrayim. There are seven salvations here, corresponding with the seven pagan gods they worshiped. 6 V. See Rashi there.
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
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְצִידוֹנִ֤ים | vetzidonim | and [the] Sidonians | H6722 → | 16 times |
| וַֽעֲמָלֵק֙ | vaamalek | and Amalek | H6002 → | 39 times |
| וּמָע֔וֹן | umaon | and Maon | H4584 → | |
| לָחֲצ֖וּ | lachatzu | they oppressed | H3905 → | 19 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֑ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| וַתִּצְעֲק֣וּ | vatitzaku | and you cried out | H6817 → | 55 times |
| אֵלַ֔י | ʾelai | to me | H413 → | 5510 times |
| וָאוֹשִׁ֥יעָה | vaoshiah | and I delivered ! | H3467 → | 206 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֖ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִיָּדָֽם׃ | miyadam | from hand their | H3027 → | 1618 times |
וְצִידוֹנִ֤יםand [the] Sidonians
vetzidonimH6722 →16 times
וַֽעֲמָלֵק֙and Amalek
vaamalekH6002 →39 times
וּמָע֔וֹןand Maon
umaonH4584 →
לָחֲצ֖וּthey oppressed
lachatzuH3905 →19 times
אֶתְכֶ֑ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
וַתִּצְעֲק֣וּand you cried out
vatitzakuH6817 →55 times
אֵלַ֔יto me
ʾelaiH413 →5510 times
וָאוֹשִׁ֥יעָהand I delivered !
vaoshiahH3467 →206 times
אֶתְכֶ֖ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
מִיָּדָֽם׃from hand their
miyadamH3027 →1618 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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
Judges 6:3Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
it leads to
- Judges 7:12
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
- Judges 6:33
Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
- Judges 3:13
After enlisting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join forces with him, Eglon attacked and defeated Israel, taking possession of the City of Palms.
- Job 1:3
and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
- Isaiah 65:21–22
They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Judges 7:12
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About Judges
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.