16Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
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And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. …
And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-23)The beginning of this paragraph is only a repetition of what account we had before of the people’s good character during the government of Joshua, and of his death and burial ( Josh. 24:29 , 30 ), which comes in here again only to make way for the following account, which this chapter gives, of their degeneracy and apostasy. The angel had foretold that the Canaanites and their idols would be a sna…
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