SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:10
Y ellos clamaron al SEÑOR, y dijeron: Pecamos, que hemos dejado al SEÑOR, y hemos servido a los baales y a Astarot; líbranos, pues, ahora de la mano de nuestros enemigos, y te serviremos.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. 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 “ Judges 2:11”), (see Gill on “ 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-15 - The work of ministers is to reason with people; not only to exhort an direct, but to persuade, to convince men's judgments, and so to gai their wills and affections. Samuel reasons of the righteous acts of the Lord. Those who follow God faithfully, he will enable to continu following him. Disobedience would certainly be the ruin of Israel. We mistake if we think that we can escape God's justice, by trying to shake off his dominion. If we resolve that God shall not rule us, ye he will judge us.
Original Hebrew
ויזעקו 2199 אל 413 יהוה 3068 ויאמר 559 חטאנו 2398 כי 3588 עזבנו 5800 את 853 יהוה 3068 ונעבד 5647 את 853 הבעלים 1168 ואת 853 העשׁתרות 6252 ועתה 6258 הצילנו 5337 מיד 3027 איבינו 341 ונעבדך׃ 5647
