This taking for granted that the yoke of a
foreign rule was laid on them as a punishment for their sins is
characteristic. A further example occurs in the speech of Samuel
(1Samuel. xii.), which, as the introduction to the time of the
kings, may be compared with Judges ii., the introduction to the
time of the judges. "Stand still that I may reason with you before
Jehovah of all the righteous acts of Jehovah with which He did
right to you and to your fathers! When Jacob was come into
Egypt, your fathers cried to Jehovah, and He sent Moses and Aaron
and brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this
land. And when they forget Jehovah their God, He sold them into
the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the
hand of the Philistines, and the Moabites, and they fought
against them. And they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We have
sinned, because we have forsaken Jehovah and have served Baal and
Astarte, but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies and we
will serve Thee. And Jehovah sent Jerubbaal, and Barak, and
Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your
enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
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