What does Judges 10:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And that year they vexed and oppressedc the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead."
THAT YEAR - Perhaps the closing year of the oppression, when the Ammonites passed over the Jordan. For it was this crowning oppression which brought the Israelites to repentance Judges 10:10, Judges 1...
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...
VEXED AND OPPRESSED. brake and crushed. See note on Judges 10:3, above....
_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...
AND THAT YEAR THEY VEXED, &C.— Houbigant renders this, _therefore at that time the children of Ammon afflicted and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years,_ namely, all those who dwelt on the...
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 THAT YEAR THEY VEXED AND OPPRESSED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: EIGHTEEN YEARS, ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE JORDAN IN THE LAND OF THE AMORITES, WHICH IS IN GILEAD._ No JFB...
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 liv...
THAT YEAR. — The narrative is evidently imperfect, as no year is specified. VEXED AND OPPRESSED. — This again is a _paronomasia,_ or assonance, like “broke to yoke” in English, THE LAND OF THE AMORI...
וַֽ יִּרְעֲצ֤וּ וַ יְרֹֽצְצוּ֙ אֶת ־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בַּ † שָּׁנָ֖ה הַ הִ֑יא שְׁמֹנֶ֨ה עֶשְׂרֵ֜ה...
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 Hebr...
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 acquire...
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...
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, (b) all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead. ...
_Years by the Ammonites, whose dominion was suppressed by the victory of Jephte. When the servitude commenced is uncertain, ver. 4. Hebrew, "and that year they vexed," &c. (Calmet) --- Roman Septuagin...
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 Israe...
AND THAT YEAR THEY VEXED AND OPPRESSED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... The Philistines on one side, and the children of Ammon on the other; meaning either that year in which Jair died, as Jarchi; or the f...
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead. Ver....
_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...
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 sa...
OPPRESSED: _ Heb._ crushed...
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...
Or, _that year they had vexed and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years_. Or, _they vexed_ them _in that year_, that was the eighteenth year, to wit, of that vexation. This was the eighteent...
Judges 10:8 year H8141 harassed H7492 (H8799) oppressed H7533 (H8779) children H1121 Israel H3478 eighteen H8083 H6240 children H1121 Israel H3478 side H5676 Jordan H3383 land H776 Amorites H567 Gilea...
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...
_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 caree...
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 Ephrai...
1 Thessalonians 5:3; Isaiah 30:13; Judges 10:5...
That year — Or, that year they had vexed and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years — This was the eighteenth year from the beginning of that oppression. And these eighteen years are not to b...