Bible Strands
Judges 10:12
Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord addresses the Israelites in Judges 10 after listing their historical oppressors and immediately before declaring He will cease delivering them due to their idolatry.
The words — לָחֲצוּ (la.cha.Tzu) translates to "they oppressed," and וָאושיעה (va.'o.Shi.a/h) translates to "and I delivered."
The thread — These nations reappear in Judges 6:3 as part of a recurring eastern invasion pattern, while Judges 5:19 documents a separate Canaanite battle at Taanach where combatants took no plunder.
Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to acknowledge documented past rescue as the factual basis for God's current conditional stance toward covenant-breaking Israel.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Judges 6:3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- Judges 5:19 Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.
- 2 Chronicles 26:6 Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines, and he tore down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. Then he built cities near Ashdod and among the Philistines.
- Psalms 106:42 Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.