Judges 10:2

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

Judges 10:2 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 10:2

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 discharged it, and died in honour:

and was buried in Shamir;
the place where he executed his office. It is said ^F20, that in the first year of Tola, the son of Puah, Priamus reigned in Troy.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Juchasin, fol. 136. 1.

Judges 10:2 In-Context

1 After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, who lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim, rose to deliver Israel.

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

3 After him came Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

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

5 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.