Judges 10:1

CHAPTER X

Tola judges Israel twenty-three years, 1, 2.

Jair is judge twenty-two years, 3-5.

After him the Israelites rebel against God, and are delivered

into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites eighteen

years, 6-9.

They humble themselves, and God reproves them, 10-14.

They put away their strange gods, and gather together against

the Ammonites, 15-17.

The chiefs of Gilead inquire concerning a captain to head them

against the Ammonites, 18.

NOTES ON CHAP. X

Verse Judges 10:1. Tola the son of Puah] As this Tola continued twenty-three years a judge of Israel after the troubles of Abimelech's reign, it is likely that the land had rest, and that the enemies of the Israelites had made no hostile incursions into the land during his presidency and that of Jair; which, together continued forty-five years.