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Jair the Gileadite was probably the same person as is named in Numbers
32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14, as having given the name of “Havoth-jair”
to certain villages in Bashan....
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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...
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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...
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TWENTY, &C. See note on Judges 9:22....
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_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...
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_AND HE JUDGED ISRAEL TWENTY AND THREE YEARS, AND DIED, AND WAS BURIED
IN SHAMIR._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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HE JUDGED ISRAEL. — The recurrence of the normal verb (to judge)
shows that Tola was an honour able “Suffes,” not a despot, like
Abimelech. Nothing further is known about Tola....
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וַ יִּשְׁפֹּט֙ אֶת ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְ...
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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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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....
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_Years. S. Severus says 22, making the reign of Jair of equal length.
Cum æque viginti & duos annos principatum obtinuisset. But this is
contrary to all the best chronologers. The fidelity of the Isra...
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There is somewhat significant in the name of Tola; it signifies in the
original, a worm. Perhaps it was descriptive of the humility of this
man's mind, for, though he governed Israel twenty-three year...
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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 HE JUDGED ISRAEL TWENTY THREE YEARS, AND DIED,.... He did not take
upon him to be king, as Abimelech did, but acted as a judge, in which
office he continued twenty three years, and faithfully disc...
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And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried
in Shamir.
Ver. 2. _And he judged Israel twenty and three years._] Appeasing the
tumults at the end of Abimelech's reign, restori...
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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 he judged Israel twenty and three years, his work consisting
chiefly in deciding difficult cases and in opposing every tendency of
the people toward idolatry, whereby he also saved them from oppre...
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The Judgeship of Tola and Jair....
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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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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 10:2 judged H8199 (H8799) Israel H3478 twenty-three H6242 H7969
years H8141 died H4191 (H8799) buried...
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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...
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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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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 10:1__ TOLA was the sixth judge, the second
“minor” judge. Little is recorded about him. He judged 23 years.
He AROSE TO SAVE Israel after Abimelech’s damaging rule....
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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 10:1
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...
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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...