1. Judges 10:7 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does the beginning of this verse literally say?

Judges 10:7 (ESV)

7 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,

The first part of verse 7 literally reads, The Lord’s nose become hot against Israel. This is the first time since Judges 3:8 that the narrative mentions God’s anger as the emotion behind his selling the Israelites into the hands of the enemies. This description “conveys in a typically concrete and vivid way the fact that Yahweh is a passionate God.”1