“ And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years. ”
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...
twenty. See note, App-50. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. Ashtaroth, plural. the Ashtoreths. Compare Judges 2:11-13 . gods of Syria. Genesis 35:3-6 . gods of Zidon. 1 Kings 11:5 (B...
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years. Jair, a Gileadite. This judge was a different person from the conqueror of that northeastern territory, and foun...
The Ammonite Oppression 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair.
Jair, a Gileadite. — In Numbers 32:41 we are told of a Jair, the son of Manasseh, who “took the small towns” of Gilead, and called them Havoth-jair. This earlier Jair, with Nobah, plays a splendi...
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...
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...
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...
There was an illustrious Jair before this man. Numbers 32:41 . Though Jair reigned twenty-two years, and was eminently distinguished as a father, with a numerous progeny, and provided for them nobly...
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite ,.... Who was of the half tribe of Manasseh, on the other side Jordan, which inhabited the land of Gilead, and who is the first of the judges that was on that s...
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years. Ver. 3. Jair, a Gileadite. ] Of whom we may say as one doth of Jesse, the father of David, that he was Vir bonus et...
Jair, a Gileadite Of Gilead, beyond Jordan. He had thirty sons Who, it seems, were itinerant judges, and went from place to place, as their father's deputies, to administer justice. That rode on...
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...
Government of Tola and Jair. B. C. 1183. 1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Isr...
A Gileadite; of Gilead beyond Jordan
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...
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 10:1 . 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...
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...
The Judgeship of Tola and Jair.
Genesis 31:48 ; Numbers 32:29
A Gileadite — Of Gilead beyond Jordan.