Together, as people sure of victory. --- Galaad, the capital of the country of the same name. It belonged to Gad. --- Maspha, near the springs of the Jaboc, Josue xi. 3., and xiii. 26. (Calmet) --- It signifies "a watch-tower." (Menochius)
Verse Judges 10:17. _THE CHILDREN OF AMMON WERE GATHERED TOGETHER_] Literally, _they cried against Israel_-they sent out criers in different directions to stir up all the enemies of Israel; and when t...
The historian, having related the preliminary incidents, now comes to the final issue which forms the subject matter of his narrative. On a certain occasion, as on many previous ones, the Ammonites we...
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...
GATHERED. gathered by proclamation. Note the extended alternation in this verse "children, gathered, encamped"....
On this and the following verse see above. The Ammonites occupied the district which lay to the N.E. of Moab, bordered by the eastern desert. Their chief city was Rabbath-ammon, in Greek Philadelphia,...
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...
_THEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND ENCAMPED IN GILEAD. AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ASSEMBLED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, AND ENCAMPED IN MIZPEH._ The children of Ammon were gathered toge...
THE AMMONITE OPPRESSION 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair....
MIZPEH] of Gilead, the scene of the compact between Jacob and Laban (Genesis 31:49). The name means 'watch-tower.'...
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...
THEN. — Rather, _and,_ a general note of time. WERE GATHERED TOGETHER. — Literally, _were cried together. Conclamati sunt._ IN MIZPEH. — A very common name, since it means “watch-tower.” This is doub...
וַ יִּצָּֽעֲקוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י עַמֹּ֔ון וַֽ יַּחֲנ֖וּ...
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...
TURNING TO A REJECTED LEADER Judges 10:17; Judges 11:1 The life of Jephthah is a great consolation to those whose birth has been irregular. The sin of his parents was not allowed permanently to injur...
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...
When the Lord is about to appear for the deliverance of his people, he soon raiseth instruments for the purpose. That is a blessed scripture, for the encouragement of God's afflicted ones in all ages,...
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...
THEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON WERE GATHERED TOGETHER,.... By a crier, as Jarchi; they had passed over Jordan, as in Judges 10:9 and had been distressing three of the tribes of Israel on that side; but no...
_Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh._ Ver. 17. _Then the children of Ammon wer...
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...
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead, in the part of Gilead occupied by them. AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, at least the tribes concerned in the present oppression, i...
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...
GATHERED TOGETHER: _ Heb._ cried together...
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...
That MIZPEH which was beyond Jordan in Gad or Manasseh; of which see Genesis 31:49 Joshua 18:26 Judges 10:17, Judges 11:11,29,34
Judges 10:17 people H1121 Ammon H5983 together H6817 (H8735) encamped H2583 (H8799) Gilead H1568 children H1121 Isra
THE CONFLICT WITH AMMON AND THE RISE AND VICTORY OF JEPHTHAH (JUDGES 10:17 TO JUDGES 11:40). Judges 10:17 a ‘Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead.' It may well...
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 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...
Genesis 31:49; Judges 11:11; Judges 11:29...
Mizpeh — That Mizpeh which was beyond Jordan....