Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 10:6

"And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Jehovah, and served him not." — Judges 10:6 (ASV)

Did evil again. — Literally, added to do evil: “joining new sins to their old ones,” as the Vulgate paraphrases it (Judges 2:11; Judges 3:7, and other similar passages).

Served Baalim, and Ashtaroth. —Judges 2:19. Seven kinds of idols are mentioned, in obvious symmetry with the seven retributive oppressions in Judges 10:11-12.

The gods of Syria. — Hebrew Aram. (Genesis 35:4.) Manasseh seems to have had an Aramean concubine (1 Chronicles 7:14), who was mother of Machir. Of Syrian idolatry we hear nothing definite until the days of Ahaz (2 Kings 16:10; 2 Kings 16:12):—

“Thammuz came next behind,
Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured
The Syrian damsels to lament his fate
In amorous ditties all a summer’s day.” — Paradise Lost, Book 1

The gods of Sidon. — 1 Kings 11:5. As Milton borrowed his details from the learned Syntagma de Diis Syris of Selden, we cannot find better illustration of these allusions than in his stately verse:—

“Ashtoreth, whom the Phoenicians call
Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns,
To whose bright image nightly by the hour
Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs.” — Ibid.

The gods of Moab. — 1 Kings 11:7.

“Chemosh, the obscene dread of Moab’s sons,
From Aroer to Nebo, and the wild
Of southernmost Abarim...
Peor his other name.” — Ibid.

The gods of the children of Ammon. —Leviticus 18:21; 1 Kings 11:7.

“First Moloch, horrid king... Him the Ammonite
Worshipped in Rabba and his watery plain,
In Argob and in Basan, to the stream
Of furthest Arnon.” — Ibid.

The gods of the Philistines. — 1 Samuel 5:2; 1 Samuel 16:23.

“One
Who mourned in earnest when the captive ark
Maimed his brute image; head and hands lopped off
In his own temple on the threshold,
Where he fell flat and shamed his worshippers.
Dagon his name—sea-monster—upwards man
And downwards fish.” — Ibid.