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Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 10:12

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Judges10:12

12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites , and Maonites did oppress you, and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

For though we do not read of any oppression of Israel, particularly, by the Sidonians; yet there might be such a thing: as many things were said and done, both in the Old and New Testament, which are not Recorded there: Or, they might ioyn their Forces with the King of Mesopotamia, Judg. 3. 8. Or with some other of their Oppressors: for it is certain, these were left among others to prove Israel, Judg. 3. 1, 2, 3.

Of whom, see Iudg. 3. 13. and 6. 3.

Either First, those who lived in, or near the Wilderness of Maon in the South of Iudah, 1 Sam. 23. 25. and 25. 2. whether Edomites or others. Or, Secondly, the Mehunims, a People living near the Arabians, of whom, 2 Chron. 26. 7. For in the Hebrew, the Letters of both Names are the same, onely the one is the Singular, the other the Plural Number. Or, Thirdly, The Midianites, whose Oppression he would not omit; it being usual for one and the same Person or Persons to have two Names: although the Midianites may be comprehended under the Amalekites, with whom they were joyned, Iudg. 6. 3, 33. Or Fourthly, Some other people now unknown, and not expressed elsewhere in Scripture.

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