Judges 10:5 NIV

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 10:5

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

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Judges 10:1-18

Jephthah and five other judges (10:1-12:15)Little is known of the political or military activities of the judges Tola and Jair. They both exercised power for lengthy periods, and Jair’s family certainly enjoyed considerable power and prestige among the East Jordan tribes (10:1-5).Again the Israelites turned away from Yahweh and worshipped false gods, and again they were punished. The Ammonites conquered the eastern tribes, crossed Jordan, and seized large portions of Israelite territory in... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 10:1-5

4. The judgeships of Tola and Jair 10:1-5No great military feats marked the judgeships of these two men. Their ministries appear to have consisted primarily in administering civil duties."The passages on the ’minor judges’ do not conform to the editorial plan of the stories of the ’great judges’, or to that of Jg. as a whole. Hence it would seem that they have been included, perhaps selectively, simply to supplement the number of the judges to the conventional number of twelve, thus possibly to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 10:3-5

Jair’s judgeship 10:3-5The only unusual feature of Jair’s life, other than that he came from Transjordan, was that he maintained a network of 30 cities over which his 30 sons ruled in Gilead. His name means "may [God] enlighten." An ancestor named Jair appears to have settled the same area shortly after the Israelites defeated Sihon and Og (Numbers 32:41). The fact that his sons each rode on a donkey marked them as having distinguished rank in times when the Israelites had no horses. [Note:... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:1-18

The Ammonite Oppression1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair.1. Defend] RV ’save.’ Tola] see on Genesis 46:13; Numbers 26:23; 1 Chronicles 7:1. Shamir] unknown. Issachar appears at this time to have had no territory’ of its own. 3. Jair] see Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14; 1 Kings 4:13. Gilead is the country E. of the Jordan to which Jephthah also belongs, and which was specially open to attack.4. Havoth-jair] i.e. tent-villages of Jair: cp. 1 Chronicles 2:22. 5. Camon] unknown.6-18. The... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Judges 10:5

(5) In Camon.—There seems to have been a Kamon six miles from Megiddo (Euseb. Jer.), but it is far more probable that this town was in Gilead, as Josephus says (Antt. v. 6, § 6), and there is a Kamon mentioned as near Pella by Polybius (Hist. v. 70, § 12). read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Judges 10:1-18

Judges 10:6 ; Judges 10:10 The dark and the bright sides of the history shift with a rapidity unknown in the latter times of the story 'The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord,' and 'The children of Israel cried unto the Lord'. Never was there a better instance than in these two alternate sentences, ten times repeated, that we need not pronounce any age entirely bad or entirely good. Stanley. Judges 10:15 It is possibly to this passage that Luther was alluding loosely in the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Judges 10:1-18

GILEAD AND ITS CHIEFJudges 10:1-18; Judges 11:1-11THE scene of the history shifts now to the east of Jordan, and we learn first of the influence which the region called Gilead was coming to have in Hebrew development from the brief notice of a chief named Jair, who held the position of judge for twenty-two years. Tola, a man of Issachar, succeeded Abimelech, and Jair followed Tola. In the Book of Numbers we are informed that the children of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Judges 10:1-5

CHAPTER 10:1-5 Tola and Jair 1. Tola judging twenty-three years (Judges 10:1-2 ) 2. Jair judging twenty-two years (Judges 10:3-5 ) These are but brief records but not without meaning. Tola means, translated, “a worm.” What a contrast with the proud, wicked, domineering Abimelech! Here is one, who takes the place in self-abasement. It reminds us of Him, whose voice we hear in the great Atonement Psalm “I am a worm and no man.” Tola, no doubt, typifies our Lord in His humiliation. When... read more

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

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

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Judges 10:1-18

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 10:1-5

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 10:3-5

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 10:1-18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Judges 10:5

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Judges 10:1-18

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Judges 10:1-18

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Judges 10:1-5

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