JUDGES CHAPTER 10 Tola judgeth Israel; and Jair, whose thirty sons had thirty cities, JUDGES 10:1. The people's idolatry, JUDGES 10:6. The Philistines and Ammonites oppress them, JUDGES 10:7. They cry to God, who sendeth them to their false gods; but upon their repentance pitieth them, JUDGES 10:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
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A GILEADITE; of Gilead beyond Jordan... [ Continue Reading ]
RODE ON ASS COLTS, because horses were scarce there, and were not to be multiplied by the king himself, DEUTERONOMY 17:16. Hence their kings and kings children used to ride upon mules, 2 SAMUEL 13:29, 2 SAMUEL 18:9 1 KINGS 1:33,38,39. Compare JUDGES 5:10, JUDGES 12:14. HAVOTH-JAIR. OBJECT. These vil... [ Continue Reading ]
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He shows how they grew worse and worse, and so ripened themselves for the ruin which afterward came upon them. Before they worshipped God and idols together; now they utterly forsake God, and wholly cleave to idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
The one on the west, the other on the east; so they were molested on both sides.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 eighteenth year from the beginning of that oppression. And these eighteen years are not to be reckoned from J... [ Continue Reading ]
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Because, not contented to add idols to thee, we have preferred them before thee, and rejected thee to receive and worship them.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SAID; either by himself, the Son of God appearing in a visible shape, which then was usual; or by some prophet whom he raised and sent to this purpose; or by the high priest, who was consulted in the case. THE AMORITES; both Sihon and Og, and their people, NUM 21, and other kings of the Amo... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ZIDONIANS ALSO; for though we do not read of any oppression of Israel, particularly, by the Zidonians, yet there might be such a thing; as many things were said and done, both in the Old and New Testament, which are not recorded there; or they might join their forces with the king of Mesopotamia... [ Continue Reading ]
To wit, except you repent in another manner than you yet have done; which when they performed, God suspends the execution of this threatening. Compare JEREMIAH 18:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
You have not been forced to worship those gods by your oppressors and tyrants; but you have freely chosen these gods before me.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 been.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 SOUL WAS GRIEVED; not properly, or as to inward affection; for God being infinitely happy, is not ca... [ Continue Reading ]
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. There were other cities of that name in Scripture.... [ Continue Reading ]
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