The Meaning of Judges 10:14 Explained

Judges 10:14

KJV: Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

YLT: Go and cry unto the gods on which ye have fixed; they -- they save you in the time of your adversity.'

Darby: Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress."

ASV: Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Go  and cry  unto the gods  which ye have chosen;  let them  deliver  you in the time  of your tribulation. 

What does Judges 10:14 Mean?

Context Summary

Judges 10:1-16 - Inveterate Idolatry
The scene is now removed to the tribes across the Jordan, especially those settled, in Gilead and its vicinity. The children of Ammon were the aggressors, and acquired such boldness as even to cross the Jordan and fight against Judah and Ephraim. "Israel was sore distressed." Almost spontaneously we say, "Surely it served them right." It seems incredible that, after all they had suffered on account of their idolatry, they should again relapse to Baal, and add further the gods of Zidon, of Moab, of Ammon and of Philistia. If Jehovah had finally cast them off, could they have complained? But as the psalmist puts it in his touching words, "God regarded their distress and heard their cry." See Psalms 106:3, etc.
All these things were written for our example and instruction. Israel did not forsake God more often than we have done. Life has been full of fits and starts, of backsliding and recommencement, of sin and repentance. We have nothing to say against Israel; let us look at home, and search our hearts, and thank the Lord that His mercy endureth forever, Psalms 136:1-26. [source]

Chapter Summary: Judges 10

1  Tola judges Israel in Shamir
3  Jair, whose thirty sons had thirty cities
6  The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel
10  In their misery God sends them to their false gods
15  Upon their repentance he pities them

What do the individual words in Judges 10:14 mean?

Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen them them let deliver you in time of your distress
לְכ֗וּ וְזַֽעֲקוּ֙ אֶל־ הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם בָּ֑ם הֵ֛מָּה יוֹשִׁ֥יעוּ לָכֶ֖ם בְּעֵ֥ת צָרַתְכֶֽם

לְכ֗וּ  Go 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine plural
Root: הָלַךְ  
Sense: to go, walk, come.
וְזַֽעֲקוּ֙  and  cry  out 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine plural
Root: זָעַק  
Sense: to cry, cry out, call, call for help.
הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים  the  gods 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: אֱלֹהִים  
Sense: (plural).
בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם  you  have  chosen 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, second person masculine plural
Root: בָּחוּר 
Sense: to choose, elect, decide for.
יוֹשִׁ֥יעוּ  let  deliver 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: יָשַׁע 
Sense: to save, be saved, be delivered.
בְּעֵ֥ת  in  time 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, common singular construct
Root: עֵת  
Sense: time.
צָרַתְכֶֽם  of  your  distress 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, second person masculine plural
Root: צָרָה 
Sense: straits, distress, trouble.