The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him.
While those two judges, Tola and Jair, presided in the affairs of Israel, things went well, but afterwards, I. Israel returned to their idolatry, that sin which did most easily beset them (Jdg 10:6): They did evil again in the sight of the Lord, from whom they were unaccountably bent to backslide, as a foolish people and unwise. 1.
Commenting on Judges 10:6-9
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord,.... 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 Jdg 2:11, Jdg 2:13 and, besides these: also the gods of Syria; their gods and goddesses, Belus and Saturn, Astarte and the...
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.
Commenting on Judges 10:6-9