"Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed."
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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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_was sore distressed_ Cf. Judges 2:15....
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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 THAT YEAR THEY VEXED AND OPPRESSED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL:
EIGHTEEN YEARS, ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE
JORDAN IN THE LAND OF THE AMORITES, WHICH IS IN GILEAD._
No JFB...
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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 liv...
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MOREOVER. — Rather, _and._ Eighteen years’ oppression of the
Trans-jordanic tribes emboldened them to attack the others.
WAS SORE DISTRESSED. — The same expression is used in Judges 2:19....
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וַ יַּעַבְר֤וּ בְנֵֽי ־עַמֹּון֙ אֶת
־הַ יַּרְדֵּ֔ן לְ הִלָּחֵ֛ם גַּם ־בִּ
יהוּדָ֥ה וּ בְ...
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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 Hebr...
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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 acquire...
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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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_Exceedingly. Not only those who lived in Galaad, but also three
tribes on the west of the Jordan, were treated as the half tribe of
Manasses had been, (Calmet) when Gedeon delivered them. (Haydock)_...
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How close upon the heels of sin is the Lord's chastisement. But
Reader, do not overlook God's love in all his judgments. Sweet is the
confession of the Psalmist upon this subject, considered in his
pe...
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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
Israe...
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MOREOVER, THE CHILDREN OF AMMON PASSED OVER JORDAN,.... Not content
with the oppression of the tribes on the other side Jordan, which had
continued eighteen years, they came over Jordan into the land...
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Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also
against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim;
so that Israel was sore distressed.
Ver. 9. _Moreover the childr...
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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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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 sa...
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6-9 Now the threatening was fulfilled, that the Israelites should have
no power to stand before their enemies, Leviticus 26:17; Leviticus
26:37. By their evil ways and their evil doings they procured...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 10:9 people H1121 Ammon H5983 over H5674 (H8799) Jordan H3383
fight H3898 (H8736) Judah H3063 Benjamin H1144 house H1004 Ephraim
H669 Israel H3478 severely H3966 distressed H3334 (H8799)
passe...
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‘ And the children of Ammon passed over Jordan, to fight also
against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim,
so that Israel was sore distressed.'
This indicates the power of t...
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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 caree...
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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 Ephrai...
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1 Samuel 28:15; 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 15:5; 2 Chronicles
20:1; 2 Chronicles 20:2; Deuteronomy 28:65; Judges 3:12; Judges 3:13;
Judges 6:3...