Judges 10:6

“And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, etc.] After the death of the above judges they fell into idolatry again, as the following instances show: and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth; as they had before, (see Gill on “<070211>Judges 2:11, 13”) and, besides these, also the gods of Syria; their gods and goddesses, Belus and Saturn, Astarte and the Dea Syria, Lucian writes of: and the gods of Zidon; the goddess of the Zidonians was Ashtaroth, (<111105>1 Kings 11:5) and it seems they had other deities: and the gods of Moab; the chief of which were Baalpeor and Chemosh, (<042503>Numbers 25:3 <111107>1 Kings 11:7) and the gods of the children of Ammon, as Milcom or Molech,…”

“ISRAEL OPPRESSED BY THE PHILISTINES AND AMMONITES. (Jdg 10:6-9) the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord--This apostasy seems to have exceeded every former one in the grossness and universality of the idolatry practised.”

“The gods of Syria - Or “Aram.” In the times of the Judges the various tribes of Aramites, or Syrians, were not compacted into one state, nor were they until after the time of Solomon. The national gods of these various Aramean tribes were probably the same; and their worship would be likely to be introduced into the trans-Jordanic tribes. It has been remarked that the Hebrew words for “to divine,” “to practice magic,” “idolatrous priests,” and other like words, are of Syrian origin. The Syriac ritual proved very attractive to king Ahaz 2 Kings 16:10-12. For the national gods of the Zidonians, Moabites, Ammonites, and Philistines, see 1 Kings 11:5, 1 Kings 11:7,1 Kings 11:33; 1 Samuel 5:2-5.…”

“Forsook the Lord - They grew worse and worse, and so ripened themselves for ruin. Before they worshipped God and idols together, now they forsake God, and wholly cleave to idols. Judges 10:7”

“am 2817, bc 1187, An, Ex, Is, 304 did evil: Jdg 4:1, Jdg 6:1, Jdg 13:1, am 2799, bc 1205, An, Ex, Is, 286 Baalim: Jdg 2:11-14, Jdg 3:7; Ch2 28:23; Psa 106:36 the gods of Zidon: Kg1 11:5, Kg1 11:7, Kg1 11:33, Kg1 16:31; Kg2 17:16, Kg2 17:29-31, Kg2 23:13 the gods of the Philistines: Jdg 16:23; Sa1 5:2; Kg2 1:2, Kg2 1:3; Jer 2:13; Eze 16:25, Eze 16:26 Judges 10:7”

“The third stage in the period of the judges, which extended from the death of Jair to the rise of Samuel as a prophet, was a time of deep humiliation for Israel, since the Lord gave up His people into the hands of two hostile nations at the same time, on account of their repeated return to idolatry; so that the Ammonites invaded the land from the east, and oppressed the Israelites severely for eighteen years, especially the tribes to the east of the Jordan; whilst the Philistines came from the west, and extended their dominion over the tribes on this side, and brought them more and more firmly under their yoke. It is true that Jephthah delivered his people from the oppression of the…”