Judges 10:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. ”

Judges 10:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jair the Gileadite was probably the same person as is named in Numbers 32:41 ; Deuteronomy 3:14 , as having given the name of “Havoth-jair” to certain villages in Bashan.
Judges 10:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Tola and Jair. These are the first of five minor Judges, the other three being named in Judges 12:8-15 . Of the exploits of these Judges we know nothing. Only a few bare facts regarding their pare...
Judges 10:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

twenty, &c. See note on Judges 9:22 .
Judges 10:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
Judges 10:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Judges 10:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Ammonite Oppression 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair.
Judges 10:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He judged Israel. — The recurrence of the normal verb (to judge) shows that Tola was an honour able “Suffes,” not a despot, like Abimelech. Nothing further is known about Tola.
Judges 10:2 - 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 10:2 - 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 10:2 - 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 10:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is somewhat significant in the name of Tola; it signifies in the original, a worm. Perhaps it was descriptive of the humility of this man's mind, for, though he governed Israel twenty-three yea...
Judges 10:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 d...
Judges 10:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. Ver. 2. And he judged Israel twenty and three years. ] Appeasing the tumults at the end of Abimelech's reign, resto...
Judges 10:2 - 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 10:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Government of Tola and Jair. B. C. 1183. 1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Isr...
Judges 10:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Judges 10:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10 The Rise of Ammon. This chapter gives an account of two judges of Israel, in whose days their parts of Israel enjoyed peace, after which, by sinning against God Israel came into furthe...
Judges 10:2 - 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 10:2 - 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 10:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 10:1 Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo . Nothing more is known of Tola than what is here told us, viz; his name, his parentage, his dwelling-place, his office, the le...
Judges 10:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Judgeship of Tola and Jair.

Judges 10:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judges 10:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 10:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 10:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 10:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 10:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 10:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 10:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 10:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 10:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 10:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 10:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 10:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 10:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 10:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 10:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 10:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann