And he judged Judges 10:3; see Judges 3:10 n.
and was buried, in Shamir -We are probably to infer that the tomb of the eponymous ancestor of the clan was in later times shewn at Shamir" (Moore). This applies, with different names, to similar notices of the other Minor Judges.
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....
CHAPTER 10:1-5 TOLA AND JAIR _ 1. Tola judging twenty-three years (Judges 10:1)_ 2. Jair judging twenty-two years (Judges 10:3) These are but brief records but not without meaning. Tola means, trans...
TOLA AND JAIR. These are the first of five minor Judges, the other three being named in Judges 12:8. Of the exploits of these Judges we know nothing. Only a few bare facts regarding their parentage, p...
TWENTY, &C. See note on Judges 9:22....
_Tola and Jair Judge Israel Judges 10:1-5_ And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of, Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. 2 And he...
_AND HE JUDGED ISRAEL TWENTY AND THREE YEARS, AND DIED, AND WAS BURIED IN SHAMIR._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
THE AMMONITE OPPRESSION 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair....
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...
HE JUDGED ISRAEL. — The recurrence of the normal verb (to judge) shows that Tola was an honour able “Suffes,” not a despot, like Abimelech. Nothing further is known about Tola....
וַ יִּשְׁפֹּט֙ אֶת ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְ...
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...
Next, Tola judged Israel for twenty-three years and lived in Shamir, which is in the mountains of Ephraim. Jair next ruled over Israel for twenty-two years....
_Years. S. Severus says 22, making the reign of Jair of equal length. Cum æque viginti & duos annos principatum obtinuisset. But this is contrary to all the best chronologers. The fidelity of the Isra...
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 year...
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 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 disc...
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. Ver. 2. _And he judged Israel twenty and three years._] Appeasing the tumults at the end of Abimelech's reign, restori...
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 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 oppre...
The Judgeship of Tola and Jair....
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...
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 appoint...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 10:2 judged H8199 (H8799) Israel H3478 twenty-three H6242 H7969 years H8141 died H4191 (H8799) buried...
Judges 10 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 trou...
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 10:1__ TOLA was the sixth judge, the second “minor” judge. Little is recorded about him. He judged 23 years. He AROSE TO SAVE Israel after Abimelech’s damaging rule....
_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 10:1 TOLA THE SON OF PUAH, THE SON OF DODO. Nothing more is known of Tola than what is here told us, viz; his name, his parentage, his dwelling-place, his office, the length of time...
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...