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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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OUR GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_ (App-4). Some codices, with Aramaean,
Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "Jehovah our God"....
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The oppression is followed by the cry for help; cf. Judges 3:9; Judges
3:15; Judges 4:3; Judges 6:6-7. For the confession cf....
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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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_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD, SAYING, WE HAVE
SINNED AGAINST THEE, BOTH BECAUSE WE HAVE FORSAKEN OUR GOD, AND ALSO
SERVED BAALIM._
We have sinned against thee. The first step of re...
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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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CRIED UNTO THE LORD. — Judges 6:6; 1 Samuel 12:10.
AND THE LORD SAID. — The method of the Divine communication is not
specified. A stern experience might have spoken to the national
conviction with p...
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וַֽ יִּזְעֲקוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
אֶל ־יְהוָ֖ה...
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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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And the children of Israel (c) cried unto the LORD, saying, We have
sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also
served Baalim.
(c) They prayed to the Lord, and confessed thei...
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It was a gracious promise of God, that if his people under his
judgments, accepted the punishment of their iniquity, God would
remember his everlasting covenant. See Leviticus 26:40. Reader! do not
ov...
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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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AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD,.... In this their
distress, seeing nothing but ruin and destruction before their eyes,
their land being invaded by such powerful enemies in different
qu...
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And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned
against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served
Baalim.
Ver. 10. _And the children of Israel cried._] Cried...
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_We have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim_ Not contented to
add idols to thee, we have preferred them before thee. All the rest of
the pagan gods, mentioned Judges 10:6, are here comprehended...
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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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And the children of Israel, brought to their senses at last, CRIED
UNTO THE LORD, SAYING, WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE, BOTH BECAUSE WE
HAVE FORSAKEN OUR GOD, whose worship naturally had fallen into de...
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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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Because, not contented to add idols to thee, we have preferred them
before thee, and rejected thee to receive and worship them....
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Judges 10:10 children H1121 Israel H3478 cried H2199 (H8799) LORD
H3068 saying H559 (H8800) sinned H2398 ...
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‘ And the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have
sinned against you, both because we have forsaken our God, and have
served the Baalim.”
Once again oppression brought the children of Isr...
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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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_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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And served also — Because not contented to add idols to thee, we
have preferred them before thee....