Judges 10:1-8

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.

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Judges 10:1-8 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 6

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

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"