And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
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Gill's Exposition
And when they forgat the Lord their God,.... The worship of the Lord their God, as the Targum; that is, they fell into idolatry, which is a plain instance and proof of forgetfulness of God; for such…
Barnes' Notes
According to the present arrangement of the Book of Judges, and the common chronology, the oppression of Sisera must have occurred about 200 years after the entrance into Canaan. But Samuel here…
Adam Clarke
The hand of Sisera - See these transactions in the book of Judges, Jdg 4:2 (note).
Samuel, having sufficiently secured his own reputation, instead of upbraiding the people upon it with their unkindness to him, sets himself to instruct them, and keep them in the way of their duty,…
Cambridge Bible
he sold them God's abandonment of His people to their enemies is described under the figure of sale, just as the deliverance of them is called redemptionor buying back. Cp. Jdg 2:14; Jdg 3:8; Psa…
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