And the children of Israel, truly repentant and fully conscious of their utter helplessness, said unto the Lord, We have sinned; do Thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto Thee, anything in the line of a direct punishment; deliver us only, we pray Thee, this day.
Verse Judges 10:15. _WE HAVE SINNED_] The reprehension of this people was kind, pointed, and solemn; and their repentance deep. And they gave proofs that their repentance was genuine, by putting away...
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...
For the submission to Jehovah's will cf. 1 Samuel 3:18; 2 Samuel 15:26....
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...
_YET YE HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND SERVED OTHER GODS: WHEREFORE I WILL DELIVER YOU NO MORE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
DELIVER US ONLY, WE PRAY THEE, THIS DAY. — The invariable cry of the soul in trouble. With the former half of the verse comp. 1 Samuel 3:18; 1 Samuel 15:26....
וַ יֹּאמְר֨וּ בְנֵי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל אֶל ־יְהוָה֙...
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...
And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, (e) this day. (e) That is, from this present danger....
_Time. They are willing to suffer from the hand of God, (2 Kings xxiv. 14,) if they prove inconstant any more. (Menochius)_...
Reader, do not overlook, in this acknowledgment of Israel, the characters of true repentance. They lie low in the dust, acknowledging God's sovereign right to do as he pleased; and while they supplica...
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 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAID UNTO THE LORD, WE HAVE SINNED,.... By serving other gods particularly; and they seemed to have a true sense of their sin, and their confessions of it to be ingenuous, b...
And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. Ver. 15. We have sinned: do thou unto us.] T...
_Do thou unto us_, &c. Do not give us up into the hands of these cruel men, but do thou chastise us with thine own hand as much as thou pleasest, if we be not more faithful and constant to thee than w...
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...
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...
SEEMETH GOOD UNTO THEE: _ Heb._ is good in thine eyes...
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...
Do not give us up into the hands of these cruel men, but do thou chastise us with thine own hand as much as thou pleasest, to wit, if we be not more faithful and constant to thee than we have hitherto...
Judges 10:15 children H1121 Israel H3478 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 sinned H2398 (H8804) Do H6213 ...
‘ And the children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned, you do to us whatever seems good to you, only deliver us, we pray you, this day.” ' The children of Israel remembered Yahweh's promises to...
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...
1 John 1:8; 1 Samuel 3:18; 2 Samuel 10:12; 2 Samuel 12:13; 2 S
Do thou unto us — Do not give us up into the hands of these cruel men, but do thou chastise us with thine own hand as much as thou pleasest; if we be not more faithful and constant to thee, than we ha...