Judges 10:1-11

Oppression of Philistines and Ammonites

1 Now after Abimelech died, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, ¹arose to save Israel; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

2 He judged Israel twenty-three * years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.

3 After him, Jair the Gileadite arose and judged Israel twenty-two * years.

4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities in the land of Gilead ²that are called Havvoth-jair to this day.

5 And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.

6 Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, ³served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, ⁴the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; thus ⁵they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.

7 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He ⁶sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon.

8 They afflicted and crushed the sons of Israel that year; for eighteen * years they afflicted all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in Gilead in the land of the Amorites.

9 The sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.

10 Then the ⁷sons of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against You, for indeed, we have forsaken our God and served the Baals."

11 The LORD said to the sons of Israel, "Did I not deliver you ⁸from the Egyptians, ⁹the Amorites, ¹⁰the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines?

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Judges 10:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 10

This chapter gives an account of two judges of Israel, in whose days they enjoyed peace, Jud 10:1-5, after which they sinning against God, came into trouble, and were oppressed by their enemies eighteen years, and were also invaded by an army of the Ammonites, Jud 10:6-9, when they cried unto the Lord for deliverance, confessing their sin; but he had first refused to grant them any, though upon their importunity and reformation he had compassion on them, Jud 10:10-16 and the chapter is concluded with the preparation made by both armies for a battle, Jud 10:17,18.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. Judges 2:16
2. Numbers 32:41
3. Judges 2:13
4. Judges 11:24
5. Deuteronomy 31:16, 17; Deuteronomy 32:15
6. 1 Samuel 12:9
7. 1 Samuel 12:10
8. Judges 2:12
9. Numbers 21:21-25
10. Judges 3:13

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "which are in"
[b]. I.e. the towns of Jair
[c]. Lit "shattered"
[d]. Lit "in that"
[e]. Lit "which is in"