they vexed The subject is -the children of Ammon" (see on Judges 10:17).

that year: eighteen years cannot be right; either that year(marking the beginning of the oppression, Judges 11:4) has slipped in from some other place, or eighteen yearsbelonged originally to the end of Judges 10:7, cf. Judges 3:14. The extension of the oppression to all the children of I. on both sides of the Jordan is probably due to the latest editor.

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