Judges 10:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they put away the strangee gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. ”

Judges 10:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and (f) served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. (f) This is true repentance, to put away evil, and serve God aright.
Judges 10:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 Phil...
Judges 10:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

strange gods . gods of strangers or foreigners. His soul . He (emph.) Hebrew. nephesh (App-13). Attributed by Figure of speech Anthropopatheia to God (App-6).
Judges 10:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. And his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel - What a proof of the phi...
Judges 10:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel— This is a figurative expression, setting forth, in a very emphatical manner, the effect of the divine compassion. If the Israelites, hardened by idola...
Judges 10:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. On their abandonment...
Judges 10:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Ammonite Oppression 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair.
Judges 10:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They put away the strange gods. — The moment the sincerity of their repentance was proved, God hears them ( Genesis 35:1 ; 1 Samuel 7:3 ; 2 Chronicles 15:8 ). His soul was grieved. — Literally...
Judges 10:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

GILEAD AND ITS CHIEF Judges 10:1-18 ; Judges 11:1-11 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...
Judges 10:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Inveterate Idolatry Judges 10:1-16 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...
Judges 10:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 characteriz...
Judges 10:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The expression here made use of, that the Lord's soul was grieved for the misery of Israel, is so very striking, that I would wish the Reader to pause over the perusal of it. There is a similar one i...
Judges 10:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they put away the strange gods from among them ,.... Which was an evidence of the truth of their repentance, and showed their confessions and humiliations to be genuine: and served the Lord ;...
Judges 10:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. Ver. 16. And they put away the strange gods from among them. ] This was...
Judges 10:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They put away the strange gods As an evidence of the sincerity of their sorrow, and that they did not only confess their sins, but also forsake them. And it is probable that, for the present, a tho...
Judges 10:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Judges 10:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Repentance and Reformation of Israel. B. C. 1161. 10 And the children of Israel cr...
Judges 10:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They put away the strange gods: this was an evidence of the sincerity of their sorrow, that they did not only confess and bewail their sins, but also forsake them, and loathe themselves for them....
Judges 10:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:16 a ‘And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Yahweh.' His words had hit them hard. There was a wholesale cleansing and reformation, although we do not know how...
Judges 10:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

FORTY-FIVE YEARS PASSED OVER IN SILENCE ( Judges 10:1-5 .) CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 10:1 . After Abimelech. ] This man is recognised as having been a ruler in Israel, notwithstanding his scandal...
Judges 10:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 ti...
Judges 10:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 viru...
Judges 10:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Oppression of the Philistines and Amorites
Judges 10:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 15:8 ; 2 Chronicles 33:15 ; 2 Chronicles 7:14 ; Ephesians 4:32 ; Ezekiel 18:30-32 ; Genesis 6:6 ; Hebrews 3:10 ; Hebrews 4:15 ; Hosea 11:8 ; Hosea 14:1-3 ; Hosea 14:8 ; Isaia...
Judges 10:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They put away — This was an evidence of the sincerity of their sorrow, that they did not only confess their sins, but also forsake them. His soul, &c. — He acted towards them, like one that fel...

Judges 10:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Judges 10:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 10:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 10:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 10:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 10:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 10:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 10:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 10:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 10:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 10:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 10:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 10:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 10:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 10:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 10:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 10:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 10:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 10:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 10:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 10:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes