Judges 10:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And that year they vexed and oppressedc the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. ”

Judges 10:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That year - Perhaps the closing year of the oppression, when the Ammonites passed over the Jordan. For it was this crowning oppression which brought the Israelites to repentance Judges 10:10 ,...
Judges 10:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, (b) all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead....
Judges 10:8 - 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 10:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

vexed and oppressed . brake and crushed. See note on Judges 10:3 , above.
Judges 10:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Judges 10:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And that year they vexed, &c.— Houbigant renders this, therefore at that time the children of Ammon afflicted and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years, namely, all those who dwelt...
Judges 10:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. N...
Judges 10:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Ammonite Oppression 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair.
Judges 10:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That year. — The narrative is evidently imperfect, as no year is specified. Vexed and oppressed. — This again is a paronomasia, or assonance, like “broke to yoke” in English, The land of the...
Judges 10:8 - 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 10:8 - 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 10:8 - 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 10:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How close upon the heels of sin is the Lord's chastisement. But Reader, do not overlook God's love in all his judgments. Sweet is the confession of the Psalmist upon this subject, considered in his p...
Judges 10:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel ,.... The Philistines on one side, and the children of Ammon on the other; meaning either that year in which Jair died, as Jarchi; or th...
Judges 10:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead. Ver...
Judges 10:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He sold them into the hand of the Philistines , &c. The one on the west, the other on the east, so that they were molested on both sides. That year they vexed , &c. Or, that year they had...
Judges 10:8 - 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 10:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Israel Oppressed by the Ammonites. B. C. 1161. 6 And the children of Israel did evil a...
Judges 10:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Or, that year they had vexed and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years . Or, they vexed them in that year , that was the eighteenth year, to wit, of that vexation. This was the eighteen...
Judges 10:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:7-8 a. ‘And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon, and that year they vexed and...
Judges 10:8 - 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 10:8 - 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 10:8 - 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 10:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Oppression of the Philistines and Amorites
Judges 10:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; Isaiah 30:13 ; Judges 10:5
Judges 10:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

That year — Or, that year they had vexed and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years — This was the eighteenth year from the beginning of that oppression. And these eighteen years are not t...

Judges 10:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judges 10:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Judges 10:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 10:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 10:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 10:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 10:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 10:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 10:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 10:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 10:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 10:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 10:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 10:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 10:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 10:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 10:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 10:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 10:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 10:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 10:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 10:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 10:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes