Judges 10:16 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 10:16

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

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ASV

And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

WEB

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

YLT

And they turn aside the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and serve Jehovah, and His soul is grieved with the misery of Israel.

DBT

And they put away the strangegods from among them, and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Psalms 12:5
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Lamentations 3:32
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Psalms 106:44–45
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

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They knew it was to no purpose to go to the gods whom they had served, and therefore returned to the God whom they had slighted. This is true repentance not only for sin, but from sin. God's gracious return in mercy to them, which is expressed here very tenderly (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. Not that there is any grief in God (he has infinite joy and happiness in himself, which cannot be broken in upon by either the sins or the miseries of his creatures), nor that there is any change in God: he is in one mind, and who can turn him? But his goodness is his glory.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Their settled aim was to wrest the whole of the trans-jordanic territory from its actual occupiers. In this great crisis, a general meeting of the Israelitish tribes was held at Mizpeh. This Mizpeh was in eastern Manasseh (Jos 11:3).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

They put away - This was an evidence of the sincerity of their sorrow, that they did not only confess their sins, but also forsake them. His soul, &c. - He acted towards them, like one that felt their sufferings; he had pity upon them, quite changed his carriage towards them, and punished their enemies as sorely as if they had grieved and injured his own person.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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