Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Joy. A few days ago the Hebrews were dismayed, now they shout for joy, as they did at the taking of Jericho. Hebrew and Septuagint “it was not so heretofore.” Bible.—Gods. Hebrew may be rendered in the singular, with the Chal. and Arab. But the Septuagint and most commentators, explain it in the sense of the Vulg. The title of high, (adirim) or magnificent, was given by the Philistines to Dagon, whom they styled Atergatis. Calmet.—Septuagint στερεων, means, “stable, perfect,” and so forth Bible.—Plagues, till they were overwhelmed in the Red Sea, which is surrounded with deserts. Some supply, “and (his people) in the desert.” Septuagint Syr. and so forth Calmet.