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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....
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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...
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GO. Figure of speech _Eironeia_ (Divine _Irony)._ App-6.
YE HAVE CHOSEN. Compare Deuteronomy 32:37; Deuteronomy 32:38; Jeremiah
2:28....
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For the thought cf. Deuteronomy 32:37-38; Jeremiah 2:28....
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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...
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_YET YE HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND SERVED OTHER GODS: WHEREFORE I WILL
DELIVER YOU NO MORE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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THE AMMONITE OPPRESSION
1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair....
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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...
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_GO_ AND CRY UNTO THE GODS. — With this bitter reproach comp.
Deuteronomy 32:37; 2 Kings 3:13; Jeremiah 2:28.
IN THE TIME OF YOUR TRIBULATION. — Comp....
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לְכ֗וּ וְ זַֽעֲקוּ֙ אֶל ־הָ֣
אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Go. This is not a command, but an ironical expression, as Deuteronomy
xxxii. 38._...
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These strong, but gracious expostulations, are all leading to
repentance. They all convey, what would be justice indeed, but by
grace accompanying them, they prepare for mercy. Oh! how precious is
tha...
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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...
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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...
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GO AND CRY UNTO THE GODS WHICH YE HAVE CHOSEN,.... For they were their
choice, and not what they were obliged to serve through persecution,
and by compulsion of others, and whom they needed not, havin...
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Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in
the time of your tribulation.
Ver. 14. _Go and cry unto the gods, &c._] He commandeth them not
idolatry, but upbraideth them wit...
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_I will deliver you no more_ Except you repent in another manner than
you yet have done: which when they performed, God suspended the
execution of this threatening: _Cry unto the gods you have chosen_...
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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...
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Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in
the time of your tribulation. If a person has repeatedly experienced
God's help and yet has time and again turned back to sin, Go...
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THE OPPRESSION OF THE PHILISTINES AND AMORITES...
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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...
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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...
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Judges 10:14 Go H3212 (H8798) cry H2199 (H8798) gods H430 chosen H977
(H8804) them H1992 deliver...
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“ Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods, and for this
reason I will save you no more. Go and cry to the gods whom you have
chosen, let them save you in the time of your distress. ”
As they...
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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)....
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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...
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_Cry unto the gods which ye have chosen._
MAN IN TROUBLE CRYING TO HIS GOD
I. Every sinner is destined to meet with trouble. Personal
afflictions; social bereavements; death.
II. in great trouble h...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 10:14 GODS WHOM YOU HAVE CHOSEN. See v. Judges
10:6. The Israelites had also “chosen” new gods in Deborah’s
time ...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 18:27; 1 Kings 18:28; 2 Kings 3:13; Deuteronomy 32:26;...
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Chosen — You have not been forced to worship those gods by your
oppressors; but you have freely chosen them before me....