John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 12:10

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they cried unto the Lord, etc.] When in the hands of their enemies, and in bondage to them, and cruelly oppressed by them: and said, we have sinned; the word for “said” is in the Cetib, or written text, singular, and in the Keri, or marginal reading, plural; and may signify, that everyone of them had a sense of their sin, and made acknowledgment of it; their confession was universal, as their sin was: because we have forsaken the Lord; the Word of the Lord, as the Targum: and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth; (see Gill on “<070211>Judges 2:11”), (see Gill on “<070213>Judges 2:13”). but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee; they did not ask for a king to go before them, and fight their battles, as they did now, but applied to the Lord for deliverance, promising to serve him as their King and their God.

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