And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Ver. 3. Jair, a Gileadite.] Of whom we may say as one doth of Jesse, the father of David, that he was Vir bonus et probus, sed minus clarus, a good honest man, but there is not much said of him.
CHAPTER 10:1-5 TOLA AND JAIR _ 1. Tola judging twenty-three years (Judges 10:1)_ 2. Jair judging twenty-two years (Judges 10:3) These are but brief records but not without meaning. Tola means, trans...
TOLA AND JAIR. These are the first of five minor Judges, the other three being named in Judges 12:8. Of the exploits of these Judges we know nothing. Only a few bare facts regarding their parentage, p...
TWENTY. See note, App-50. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. Ashtaroth, plural. the Ashtoreths. Compare Judges 2:11. GODS OF SYRIA. Genesis 35:3. GODS OF ZIDON. 1 Kings 11:5 (Baal, Astarte)
_Jair, the Gileadite_ Called -the son of Manasseh" in Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14, cf. Joshua 13:30; in 1 Chronicles 2:21 ff. he
Judges 10:1-5. _The Minor Judges: Tola and Jair_ The five Minor Judges, Tola, Jair, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon (Judges 12:8-15), are so called because, unlike the other Judges, they fill but a small place in...
_Tola and Jair Judge Israel Judges 10:1-5_ And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of, Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. 2 And he...
_AND AFTER HIM AROSE JAIR, A GILEADITE, AND JUDGED ISRAEL TWENTY AND TWO YEARS._ Jair, a Gileadite. This judge was a different person from the conqueror of that northeastern territory, and founder of...
THE AMMONITE OPPRESSION 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair....
JAIR] see Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14; 1 Kings 4:13. Gilead is the country E. of the Jordan to which Jephthah also belongs, and which was specially open to attack....
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...
JAIR, A GILEADITE. — In Numbers 32:41 we are told of a Jair, the son of Manasseh, who “took the small towns” of Gilead, and called them Havoth-jair. This earlier Jair, with Nobah, plays a splendid par...
וַ יָּ֣קָם אַחֲרָ֔יו יָאִ֖יר הַ גִּלְעָדִ֑י ו
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...
Next, Tola judged Israel for twenty-three years and lived in Shamir, which is in the mountains of Ephraim. Jair next ruled over Israel for twenty-two years....
There was an illustrious Jair before this man. Numbers 32:41. Though Jair reigned twenty-two years, and was eminently distinguished as a father, with a numerous progeny, and provided for them nobly, y...
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 AFTER HIM AROSE JAIR, A GILEADITE,.... Who was of the half tribe of Manasseh, on the other side Jordan, which inhabited the land of Gilead, and who is the first of the judges that was on that side...
_Jair, a Gileadite_ Of Gilead, beyond Jordan. _He had thirty sons_ Who, it seems, were itinerant judges, and went from place to place, as their father's deputies, to administer justice. _That rode on...
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...
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, a man whose home was in Gilead, on the east side of Jordan, AND JUDGED ISRAEL TWENTY AND TWO YEARS....
The Judgeship of Tola and Jair....
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...
1-5 Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, yield least variety of matter to be spoken of. Such were the days of Tola and Jair. They were humble, active, and useful men, rulers appoint...
A GILEADITE; of Gilead beyond Jordan...
Judges 10:3 After H310 arose H6965 (H8799) Jair H2971 Gileadite H1569 judged H8199 (H8799) Israel H3478 twenty-two...
Judges 10 THE RISE OF AMMON. This chapter gives an account of two judges of Israel, in whose days their parts of Israel enjoyed peace, after which, by sinning against God Israel came into further trou...
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...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 10:3__ JAIR, the seventh judge and third minor judge, judged 22 years. He was rather wealthy (v. Judges 10:4) and lived in...
_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 10:1 TOLA THE SON OF PUAH, THE SON OF DODO. Nothing more is known of Tola than what is here told us, viz; his name, his parentage, his dwelling-place, his office, the length of time...
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 31:48; Numbers 32:29...
A Gileadite — Of Gilead beyond Jordan....