John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 7. And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, because of the Midianites .] Because of their oppressions and ill usage of them, and not because of their sins, which had brought those evils on them, of which, at present, they seemed not to be sensible; and yet such was the goodness and compassion of God to them, that having a mind to deliver them, he immediately, on their crying to him, sends them a messenger to bring them to a sense of their sins, and prepare them for the deliverance he designed to work for them, as follows.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-10 - They cried to God for a deliverer, and he sent them a prophet to teac them. When God furnishes a land with faithful ministers, it is a toke that he has mercy in store for it. He charges them with rebellio against the Lord; he intends to bring them to repentance. Repentance is real when the sinfulness of sin, as disobedience to God, is chiefl lamented.
Original Hebrew ויהי1961 כי3588 זעקו2199 בני1121 ישׂראל3478 אל413 יהוה3068 על5921 אדות182 מדין׃4080
