8 They afflicted and crushed the sons of Israel that year ; for eighteen e years they afflicted all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in Gilead in the land of the Amorites .

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 10:8

Commentary on Judges 10:6-9

(Read Judges 10:6-9)

Now the threatening was fulfilled, that the Israelites should have no power to stand before their enemies, Leviticus 26:17,37. By their evil ways and their evil doings they procured this to themselves.