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Judges 10:9 KJV
Judges · chapter 10 · verse 9
Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.Judges 10:9 · King James Version
Judges 10:9 in context
7And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
8And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
9Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
10And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
11And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- BenjaminBinyâmîynBinjamin, youngest son of JacobH1144 →
- EphraimʼEphrayimEphrajim, a son of JosephH669 →
- JordanYardênJarden, the principal river of PalestineH3383 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- AmmonʻAmmôwnAmmon, a son of LotH5983 →
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While those two judges, Tola and Jair, presided in the affairs of Israel, things went well, but afterwards, I. Israel returned to their idolatry, that sin which did most easily beset them (Jdg 10:6): They did evil again in the sight of the Lord, from whom they were unaccountably bent to backslide, as a foolish people…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-9