Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Judges 10:7
The one on the west, the other on the east; so they were molested on both sides.
The one on the west, the other on the east; so they were molested on both sides.
Verse Judges 10:7. _THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT_] This Divine displeasure was manifested in delivering them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites. The former dwelt on the _western_ sid...
The previous mention of the Philistines as oppressors of Israel Judges 3:31 seems to be restricted to the south of Judah, when they cooperated with Moab. They appear to have gradually increased in pow...
5. FIFTH DECLENSION: UNDER THE PHILISTINES AND AMMON. JEPHTHAH, IBZAN, ELON, AND ABDON CHAPTER 10:6-18 _ 1. The great declension (Judges 10:6)_ 2. Their cry and the Lord's answer (Judges 10:10) 3....
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...
_Introduction to the story of Jephthah_ Apostasy followed by oppression, the cry for help by deliverance: such is the religious interpretation of the succeeding period given by the Dtc. editor in his...
_sold them … Philistines_ As the history stands, this did not happen till after the Ammonite oppression, Judges 13:1. The reference to the Philistines may be due to the editorial process which aimed a...
Jephthah of Gilead Judges 10:6 to Judges 12:7 _Israel Humiliated Judges 10:6-18_ 6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods o...
_AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL, AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES, AND INTO THE HANDS OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON._ Philistines and ... the children of Ammon. The pre...
THE AMMONITE OPPRESSION 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair....
THE CHILDREN OF AMMON] see Genesis 19:38, where they are said to be akin to the Hebrews. They claimed the land between the Arnon and the Jabbok, E. of Jordan, which the tribes of Reuben and Gad had pa...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 After the time when Abimelech had lived, Puah’s son Tola came to rescue *Israel. (Puah was Dodo’s son.) Tola was from Issachar’s *tribe. He li...
_(_7_)_ THE ANGER OF THE LORD. — For the phrases in this verse see Judges 2:14; Judges 3:8; comp. 1 Samuel 12:9. OF THE PHILISTINES. — Judg
וַ יִּֽחַר ־אַ֥ף יְהוָ֖ה בְּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽ
GILEAD AND ITS CHIEF Judges 10:1; Judges 11:1 THE 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 Hebre...
INVETERATE IDOLATRY Judges 10:1 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...
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 characterize...
Israel then began to serve the Baals and Ashtoreths of the nations around them. God allowed the Philistines and Ammonites to conquer his disobedient children and oppress them for eighteen years. When...
_Ammon. While these infested the eastern parts, the Philistines made incursions into the territories of their neighbours. (Haydock) --- This servitude resembled that of Madian. Jephte attacked the Amm...
How close upon the heels of sin is the Lord's chastisement. But Reader, do not overlook God's love in all his judgments. Sweet is the confession of the Psalmist upon this subject, considered in his pe...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, 11, AND 12. After Gideon's death we see the results of this distance from God in the internal struggles which took place between the children of Israel...
AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL,.... His anger burned like fire, he was exceedingly incensed against them, nothing being more provoking to him than idolatry, as after mentioned: AND...
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon. Ver. 7. _He sold them into the hands of the Philisti...
_He sold them into the hand of the Philistines_, &c. The one on the west, the other on the east, so that they were molested on both sides. _That year they vexed_, &c. Or, _that year they had vexed and...
1 Tola iudgeth Israel in Shamir. 3 Iair, whose thirtie sonnes had thirtie cities. 6 The Philistines and Ammonites oppresse Israel. 10 In their miserie, God sendeth them to their false gods. 15 Vpo...
And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, kindled to a consuming flame, AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES, who oppressed them from the west, AND INTO THE HANDS OF THE CHILDREN...
THE OPPRESSION OF THE PHILISTINES AND AMORITES...
TOLA'S 23 YEARS AS JUDGE (vv. 1-2) Abimelech had been no help to Israel in his three years of authority, now another man, Tola of Issachar, "arose to save Israel" (v. 1). We are not told what he sav...
6-9 Now the threatening was fulfilled, that the Israelites should have no power to stand before their enemies, Leviticus 26:17; Leviticus 26:37. By their evil ways and their evil doings they procured...
Judges 10:7 anger H639 LORD H3068 hot H2734 (H8799) Israel H3478 sold H4376 (H8799) hands H3027 Philistines...
Judges 10:7 a. ‘And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon, and that year they vexed and oppre...
CONTENTS: Further apostasy; servitude to Philistines and Amorites. CHARACTERS: God, Tola, Jair. CONCLUSION: The pleasures of sense, the gods of this world, cannot be our satisfaction (Judges 10:14)....
Judges 10:1. _Tola, son of Puah;_ therefore he was the grandson of Othniel's brother. God called him from the treasures of his providence, to nourish his people for twenty three years after evil times...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 10:6__ Jephthah was the eighth judge and, like Jair, was from Gilead. He is the third judge (after Deborah and Gideon) whose story is told in great detail. ⇐
_FORTY-FIVE YEARS PASSED OVER IN SILENCE_ (Judges 10:1.) CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 10:1. AFTER ABIMELECH.] This man is recognised as having been a ruler in Israel, notwithstanding his scandalous career...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 10:6 DID EVIL AGAIN. We may conclude that Tola and Jair had used their influence to maintain the worship of Jehovah; but at their death idolatry broke out with more virulence than e...
Now 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...
1 Samuel 12:10; 1 Samuel 12:9; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 31:16;...
Philistines, &c. — The one on the west, the other on the east; so they were molested on both sides....