士師記 10:16 JC

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:10-18

10-18 God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowledged what they deserved, yet prayed to God not to deal with them according to their deserts. We must submit to... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Judges 10:6-18

The Oppression of the Philistines and Amorites v. 6. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, this being some fifty years after the death of Gideon, and served Baalim and Ashtaroth, the male and female deities of the Canaanites, whose service Gideon had overthrown, and the gods of Syria, or Aram, whose king had been defeated by Othniel, and the gods of Zidon, or Phenicia, and the gods of Moab, whom Ehud had smitten, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Judges 10:6-16

SEVENTH SECTIONthe oppression of the midianites. jephthah, the judge of the vow__________________Renewed apostasy and punishment. Awakening and repentance.Judges 10:6-166And the children [sons] of Israel did evil again [continued to do evil] in the sight of the Lord [Jehovah], and served [the] Baalim, and [the] Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria [Aram], and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children [sons] of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Judges 10:1-16

Inveterate Idolatry Judges 10:1-16 The scene is now removed to the tribes across the Jordan, especially those settled, in Gilead and its vicinity. The children of Ammon were the aggressors, and acquired such boldness as even to cross the Jordan and fight against Judah and Ephraim. “Israel was sore distressed.” Almost spontaneously we say, “Surely it served them right.” It seems incredible that, after all they had suffered on account of their idolatry, they should again relapse to Baal, and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Judges 10:1-18

Following the death of Abimelech there seems to have been a period of forty years' quietness under the dictatorship of Tola and Jair. After this there appears to have broken out a period characterized by an almost utter abandonment of the people to idolatry. The list of the forms which this idolatry took is appalling. Judgment came this time through the Philistines and the men of Ammon and continued for eighteen years. At last, sore distressed, they cried to God, and for the first time in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:16

Judges 10:16 a ‘And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Yahweh.’ His words had hit them hard. There was a wholesale cleansing and reformation, although we do not know how far it reached. Perhaps it was mainly limited to east of Jordan. So great was the distress that they removed all traces of Baalim from their houses, and all the household idols, and destroyed the altars of their other gods. They recognised that if Yahweh was to accept them again they must be thorough.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:6-18

Judges 10:6-Job : . Introduction to the Story of Jephthah.— In this section we see the hand of D, and hear the recurrent notes of sin, suffering, repentance, and deliverance. Judges 10:7 . The reference to the Philistines seems to be out of place, unless the section is meant to serve as an introduction to Samson’ s as well as Jephthah’ s exploits. Judges 10:8 . Text faulty: “ eighteen years” should probably stand at the end of Judges 10:7, and Judges 10:8 should perhaps read “ and they vexed... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 10:16

They put away the strange gods: this was an evidence of the sincerity of their sorrow, that they did not only confess and bewail their sins, but also forsake them, and loathe themselves for them. His soul was grieved; not properly, or as to inward affection; for God being infinitely happy, is not capable of grieving; but figuratively, and as to outward expression. He acted towards them like one that felt their sufferings; he had pity upon them, repented of his severe proceedings against them,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 10:1-18

FORTY-FIVE YEARS PASSED OVER IN SILENCE(Judges 10:1-5.)CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 10:1. After Abimelech.] This man is recognised as having been a ruler in Israel, notwithstanding his scandalous career. Probably he was permitted to occupy this position for a time, as a new method of chastising the people for their extreme tendency to choose another king than Jehovah, and to show that “their sorrows should be multiplied that hasten after another god.” The rigorous rule of the bramble-bush sovereign... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 10:1-18

Chapter 10Now in chapter ten we go through a series of judges quite rapidly.After Abimelech there rose to defend Israel Tola, a man of Issachar; [from the tribe of Issachar] he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. He judged Israel for twenty-three years, he was buried in Shamir. And after him there arose Jair, a Gileadite, and he judged Israel for twenty-two years. Now he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are... read more