Judges 2:16
Lord <03068> [A.M. 2591-2909. B.C. 1413-1095. the Lord.]
leaders <08199> [judges.]
The {shophetim} were not judges in the usual sense of the term; but were heads or chiefs of the Israelites, raised up on extraordinary occasions, who directed and ruled the nation with sovereign power, administered justice, made peace or war, and led the armies over whom they presided. Officers with the same power, and nearly the same name, were established in New Tyre, after the termination of the regal state; and the Carthaginian Suffetes, the Athenian Archons, and the Roman Dictators, appear to have been nearly the same.
delivered <03467> [delivered. Heb. saved.]
Judges 2:23
permitted <03240> [left. or, suffered.]
Judges 9:17
fought <03898> [fought.]
risked ... life <05315 07993> [adventured his life. Heb. cast his life.]
Judges 10:12
Sidonians <06722> [Zidonians.]
Amalek <06002> [Amalekites.]
Midian <04584> [the Maonites.]
The LXX. have "the Midianites," which Dr. Wall thinks the true reading. But the Maonites might be a tribe of Arabs, inhabitants of Maon. (Jos 15:55. 1Sa 23:24, 25; 25:2,) which assisted Moab.
