1. Judges 10:8 (ESV)
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What does the language of "crushing" recall?

Judges 10:8 (ESV)

8 and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

Israel’s enemies “crushed and oppressed” Israel for eighteen years. This was predicted in Deuteronomy 28:33.

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