士師記 10:1-5 JCB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 10:1-5

Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, are the worst to write of, as yielding least variety of matter for the historian to entertain his reader with; such were the reigns of these two judges, Tola and Jair, who make but a small figure and take up but a very little room in this history. But no doubt they were both raised up of God to serve their country in the quality of judges, not pretending, as Abimelech had done, to the grandeur of kings, nor, like him, taking the honour... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:1

And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel ,.... To save, deliver, and protect Israel; which does not necessarily imply that Abimelech did; for he was no judge of God's raising up, or the people's choosing, but usurped a kingly power over them; and was so far from saving and defending them, that he involved them in trouble and distress, and ruled over them in a tyrannical manner, and left them in the practice of idolatry: it only signifies that after his death arose a person next... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:2

And he judged Israel twenty three years, and died ,.... He did not take upon him to be king, as Abimelech did, but acted as a judge, in which office he continued twenty three years, and faithfully discharged it, and died in honour: and was buried in Shamir ; the place where he executed his office. It is said F20 Juchasin, fol. 136. 1. , that in the first year of Tola, the son of Puah, Priamus reigned in Troy. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:3

And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite ,.... Who was of the half tribe of Manasseh, on the other side Jordan, which inhabited the land of Gilead, and who is the first of the judges that was on that side Jordan; it pleased God, before the government was settled in a particular tribe, to remove it from one to another, and to honour them all, and to show that though the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, were separated from their brethren by the river Jordan, they were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:4

And he had thirty sons that rode upon thirty ass colts ,.... Which to ride on in those times was reckoned honourable, and on which judges rode in their circuit, Judges 5:10 and such might be these sons of Jair, who were appointed under him to ride about, and do justice in the several parts of the country, as Samuel's sons were judges under him, 1 Samuel 8:1 , and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead ; or the villages of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:5

And Jair died, and was buried in Camon. A city of Gilead, as Josephus F21 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 6. calls it; Jerom F23 De loc. Heb. fol. 90. B. , under this word Camon, makes mention of a village in his times, called Cimana, in the large plain six miles from Legion to the north, as you go to Ptolemais; but, as Reland F24 Palestina Illustr. tom. 2. p. 679. observes, this seems not to be the same place, but rather this is the Camon Polybius F25 Hist. l. 5. speaks of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:1

Tola the son of Puah - As this Tola continued twenty-three years a judge of Israel after the troubles of Abimelech's reign, it is likely that the land had rest, and that the enemies of the Israelites had made no hostile incursions into the land during his presidency and that of Jair; which, together continued forty-five years. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:4

He had thirty sons , etc. - It appears that there was both peace and prosperity during the time that Jair governed Israel; he had, it seems, provided for his family, and given a village to each of his thirty sons; which were, in consequence, called Havoth Jair or the villages of Jair. Their riding on thirty ass colts seems to intimate that they were persons of consideration, and kept up a certain dignity in their different departments. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 10:1

Defend - The marginal reading “to deliver,” is far preferable. The word is the same as in Judges 2:16, Judges 2:18; Judges 3:9, Judges 3:15, Judges 3:31, etc., and is the technical word applied to the judges. Compare Nehemiah 9:27 (“saviours who saved them,” the King James Version).The term “there arose,” also marks Tola as one of the Judges, properly so called, raised by divine providence.Tola and Puah - Both names of heads of houses in the tribe of Issachar 1 Chronicles 7:1; Genesis... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 10:2

Jair the Gileadite was probably the same person as is named in Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14, as having given the name of “Havoth-jair” to certain villages in Bashan. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 10:1-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 10:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 10:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 10:2

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