Judges 10:1-11:33 KJV

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 10:1-2

There is somewhat significant in the name of Tola; it signifies in the original, a worm. Perhaps it was descriptive of the humility of this man's mind, for, though he governed Israel twenty-three years, yet we hear nothing ostentatious of him. Reader! doth it not serve, in the view of this man ' s name, to remind thee of him, who in the unequalled humility of his soul, called himself the worm. Psalms 22:6 . And was it not to him, as our great surety and representative, Jehovah spake, in that... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 10:1

Uncle of Abimelech, i.e., Half-brother to Gedeon, as being born of the same mother, but by a different father, and of a different tribe. (Challoner) --- The wife of Joas might have been married to a person of the tribe of Issachar, by whom she had Phua, who was half-brother of Gedeon. (Haydock) --- Thola was cousin-german of Abimelech. (St. Augustine, q. xlvii., &c.) The Israelites elected Thola for their judge, (Abulensis) out of respect to Gedeon, (Cornelius a Lapide) that he might put an... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:1-5

1-5 Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, yield least variety of matter to be spoken of. Such were the days of Tola and Jair. They were humble, active, and useful men, rulers appointed of God. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Judges 10:1-5

The Judgeship of Tola and Jair. v. l. And after Abimelech there arose to defend, that is, to save, to deliver, Israel Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in Mount Ephraim, in its northern ranges. v. 2. And he judged Israel twenty and three years, his work consisting chiefly in deciding difficult cases and in opposing every tendency of the people toward idolatry, whereby he also saved them from oppression by hostile nations; and died, and was... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Judges 10:1-5

SIXTH SECTIONTwo Judges In Quiet, Peaceful Times: Tola Of Issachar And Jair The Gileadite__________________The Judgeships of Tola and JairJudges 10:1-51And after Abimelech there arose to defend [deliver] Israel, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. 2And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. 3And after him arose Jair, a [the] Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years. 4And he had thirty... 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 10:1-5

Judges 10:0 The Rise of Ammon. This chapter gives an account of two judges of Israel, in whose days their parts of Israel enjoyed peace, after which, by sinning against God Israel came into further trouble, and were oppressed by their enemies eighteen years, and were invaded by an army of the Ammonites. When they cried to Yahweh for deliverance, confessing their sins, He at first refused to grant it, although on their continuing and reforming He had compassion on them, and the chapter... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:1-5

Judges 10:1-Deuteronomy : . Tola and Jair.— These are the first of five minor Judges, the other three being named in Judges 12:8-Ezra :. Of the exploits of these Judges we know nothing. Only a few bare facts regarding their parentage, place of abode, years of rule, number of sons, and place of burial, are set down. Three of the five are elsewhere spoken of not as individuals but as clans, and the other two are naturally to be regarded in the same light. Probably they were not introduced by D,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 10:1

There arose; not of himself, but either chosen by the people; or rather, raised by God, as the other judges were. To defend Israel, or, to save, which he did not by fighting against and overthrowing their enemies, but by a prudent and pious government of them, whereby he kept them from sedition, and oppression, and tyranny, as also from idolatry, as may be gathered from Judges 10:6, which if not restrained and purged out, would have brought certain ruin upon them. In Shamir in Mount Ephraim; ... read more