What Does Judges 10:15 Mean in the King James?
And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse holds confession and rescue together: admitting the miss does not cancel the plea to be pulled out today.
THE MEANING
The reader can name what has gone wrong and still ask for help. The words hold surrender to the LORD’s judgment alongside an urgent plea for deliverance now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Failure does not make a plea for deliverance incoherent; naming it and asking for help can stand together.
THE ROOT
הַצִּילֵנוּ
hatsilenu
GROWS FROM
נצל
נצל (natsal) means to rescue or snatch away; it can also mean to remove or strip off.
“deliver” in this verse is hatsilenu. Here, הַצִּילֵנוּ (hatsilenu) asks to be taken out of danger. The root gives the plea a concrete force: naming the failure does not close the path to rescue.
ALSO GROWS
hitsil: he rescued or delivered
הִצִּיל
This form from the same root shows deliverance as an act of taking someone out of danger.
wayyatsilem: and he delivered them
וַיַּצִּילֵם
Psalm 107:6 uses this form for the LORD’s response to a cry from distress, echoing the plea here.
חָטָאנוּ
chatanu
GROWS FROM
חטא
חטא (chata) means to miss, fail, or go wrong.
“sinned” in this verse is chatanu. The admission names a miss, not an identity. The same word family names both the missing and an offering associated with it, holding failure and its response in one root-family.
ALSO GROWS
chet: a missing, failure, or offense
חֵטְא
This noun makes clear that the confession names something gone wrong.
chattat: a missing; also an offering for the missing in sacrificial contexts
חַטָּאת
The word-family carries both the failure and a response associated with it.
THE PATTERN
A cry to the LORD can name distress plainly and appeal directly for deliverance.
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.THE THREAD
Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.Jacob’s plea uses the same root, נצל (natsal), in הַצִּילֵנִי (hatsileni), “deliver me.” In both verses, deliverance means being pulled out of a danger the speaker cannot overcome alone.
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