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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Judges 10:16

Verse Judges 10:16. And his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.] What a proof of the philanthropy of God! Here his compassions moved on a small scale; but it was the same principle that led him to give his Son Jesus Christ to be a sacrifice for the sins of the WHOLE world. God grieves for the miseries to which his creatures are reduced by their own sins. Be astonished, ye heavens, at this; and shout for joy, all ye inhabitants of the earth! for, through the love whence this compassion flowed, God has visited and redeemed a lost world!

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See also Judges 10:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STRANGE GODS. gods of strangers or foreigners. HIS SOUL. He (emph.) Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13). Attributed by Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_ to God (App-6)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The first half of the verse resembles Genesis 35:2 E, Joshua 24:20-23 E, 1 Samuel 7:3. _strange gods_ i.e. _foreign_gods, E's expression: J

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HIS SOUL WAS GRIEVED FOR THE MISERY OF ISRAEL— This is a figurative expression, setting forth, in a very emphatical manner, the effect of the divine compassion. If the Israelites, hardened by idolatry...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THEY PUT AWAY THE STRANGE GODS FROM AMONG THEM, AND SERVED THE LORD: AND HIS SOUL WAS GRIEVED FOR THE MISERY OF ISRAEL._ His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. On their abandonment of id...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE AMMONITE OPPRESSION 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY PUT AWAY THE STRANGE GODS. — The moment the sincerity of their repentance was proved, God hears them (Genesis 35:1; 1 Samuel 7:3; 2 Chronicles 15:8). HIS SOUL WAS GRIEVED. — Literally, _was short...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּסִ֜ירוּ אֶת ־אֱלֹהֵ֤י הַ נֵּכָר֙ מִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And they put away the strange gods from among them, and (f) served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. (f) This is true repentance, to put away evil, and serve God aright....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Touched. Literally, "grieved." Hebrew, "his soul was straitened," as in joy it is said to be enlarged. He speaks of God in a human manner. (Calmet) (Genesis vi. 6.) (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The expression here made use of, that the Lord's soul was grieved for the misery of Israel, is so very striking, that I would wish the Reader to pause over the perusal of it. There is a similar one in...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY PUT AWAY THE STRANGE GODS FROM AMONG THEM,.... Which was an evidence of the truth of their repentance, and showed their confessions and humiliations to be genuine: AND SERVED THE LORD; and h...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. Ver. 16. _And they put away the strange gods from among them._] This was it...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They put away the strange gods_ As an evidence of the sincerity of their sorrow, and that they did not only confess their sins, but also forsake them. And it is probable that, for the present, a thor...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they put away the strange gods, introduced among them by the strange, the heathen nations, FROM AMONG THEM AND SERVED THE LORD, thus giving evidence of their sincere repentance; AND HIS SOUL WAS G...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE OPPRESSION OF THE PHILISTINES AND AMORITES...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    STRANGE GODS: _ Heb._ gods of strangers WAS GRIEVED: _ Heb._ was shortened...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 thei...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 10:16 away H5493 (H8686) foreign H5236 gods H430 among H7130 served H5647 (H8799) LORD H3068 soul...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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 i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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)....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 10:16 HE BECAME IMPATIENT OVER THE MISERY OF ISRAEL. This phrase may be saying that God was moved to mercy by Israel’s misery and repentance (see Judges 2:18

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 15:8; 2 Chronicles 33:15; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Ephesians 4:32;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    They put away — This was an evidence of the sincerity of their sorrow, that they did not only confess their sins, but also forsake them. His soul, &c. — He acted towards them, like one that felt their...

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