Judges 10:9

And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

8And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.

10Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.

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Cross References

Judges 2:15Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

Judges 3:13And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.

Judges 6:3And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

1 Samuel 28:15And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you made me come up, troubling my rest? And Saul in answer said, I am in great danger; for the Philistines are making war on me, and God has gone away from me and will no longer give me any answer, by the prophets or by dreams: so I have sent for you to make clear to me what I am to do.

2 Chronicles 15:5In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

Matthew Henry on Judges 10:7-10

Israel Oppressed by the Ammonites. ( b. c. 1161.) 6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord , and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord , and served not him. 7 And 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. 8 And that year they vexed and… Read the whole commentary →

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