Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 10:12

"The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried unto me, and I saved you out of their hand." — Judges 10:12 (ASV)

The Sidonians. —Judges 3:3; Judges 18:7–28. Nothing very definite is recorded of deliverance from the Sidonians; but (as we have seen) the narrative of the book is typical rather than exhaustive. .

The Amalekites. —Exodus 17:8;Exodus 6:33; Exodus 3:13.

The Maonites. — As the Septuagint here read Madian (and in some MSS. Canaan; Vulgate, Chanaan), it seems probable that there has been an early corruption of the text. In the Arabic version we have “Moabites.”

There was a town Maon in the desert of Judah (Joshua 15:55; 1 Samuel 23:24; 1 Samuel 25:2), but this cannot be meant. There is also a Beth Meon in the tribe of Reuben (Numbers 22:38; Baal Meon, Jeremiah 48:23), and a Meon in Arabia Petræa.

Mehunims are also mentioned in 2 Chronicles 26:7, and Meonim in 1 Chronicles 4:41. If this is an allusion to some disaster of which we have no record given, we must suppose that Meon was once the capital of some tribe which subsequently dwindled into insignificance.