Judges 10:16

Translations

Modern

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

Traditional

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Literal

And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and they served YHWH, and His soul was shortened in the misery of Israel.

Latin

Quæ dicentes, omnia de finibus suis alienorum deorum idola projecerunt, et servierunt Domino Deo: qui doluit super miseriis eorum.

Original

Hebrew

English

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

Notes

Judges 10:6–16

The Lord responded to his people's complete abandonment by allowing severe oppression (Judges 10:8). As usual, Israel called out to the Lord for help (Judges 10:10) only after facing great hardship (10:9). Normally, Israel's cry led to divine help, but God's choice to leave them to their chosen gods marks a change in the cycle described in Judges 2:10–19. Only when the Israelites put aside their foreign gods and served the Lord did he act to save them again (Judges 10:17–11:33).

Theme notes and profiles

Moab and Ammon God’s Grief over Apostasy

Events

Oppression by Ammon and Philistia

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Isaiah 63:9
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Jeremiah 31:20
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Luke 19:41
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Hosea 11:8
How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
2 Chronicles 7:14
…and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
Deuteronomy 32:36
For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
Jeremiah 18:7–8
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
Luke 15:20
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2 Chronicles 15:8
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
Genesis 6:6
And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Hebrews 3:10
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Gilead (Place) Grief Judges, Book of Mizpah

Topics

Ammonites: Defeated by the Israelites Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Grieved God: Mercy of Israel: The People Backslide, and are Given Over to the Philistines for Chastisement for Eighteen Years National Sins: Punishment For, Averted on Repentance Polytheism: General Scriptures Concerning Prayer: Answered: Ammon Repentance of Their Idolatry, when Afflicted by the Philistines Repentance: True: Israelites The Ammonites: Jephthah Raised up to Deliver Israel From

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