The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.
"Did I not deliver you, ..."  (Judges 10:11).  Reference is here made to no less than seven nations from whose power the Lord had delivered Israel.  These are: (1) The Egyptians; (2) the Amorites; (3) the Ammonites; (4) the Philistines; (5) the Sidonians; (6) the Amalekites; and (7) "The Maonites who are otherwise unknown to this period."[16]  It is surprising that the Midianites were not included here, but it may be, as suggested by Dalglish, that, "`Maonites' is here a reference to the Midianites."[17] Indeed, the Septuagint (LXX) version here has `Midianites.'