defend. save or deliver.
mount. hill country.
Defend - The marginal reading “to deliver,” is far preferable. The word is the same as in Judges 2:16 , Judges 2:18 ; Judges 3:9 , Judges 3:1...
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 n...
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. T...
Tola judgeth Israel, and after him Jair: the Israelite, are oppressed by the Philistines and the Ammonites: they cry unto the Lord, and encamp in M...
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephrai...
Defend] RV 'save.' Tola ] see on Genesis 46:13 ; Numbers 26:23 ; 1 Chronicles 7:1 . Shamir ] unknown. Issachar appears at this time to have ha...
The Ammonite Oppression 1-5. The Minor Judges, Tola and Jair.
After Abimelech. — his is merely a note of time. Abimelech is not counted among the judges, though it is not improbable that, evil as was the episo...
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 infl...
Inveterate Idolatry Judges 10:1-16 The scene is now removed to the tribes across the Jordan, especially those settled, in Gilead and its vicini...
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 the...
CONTENTS This chapter relates a pleasant, but short interval to the wars of Israel, under the peaceable government of two of its Judges; Tola, the s...
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 min...
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel ,.... To save, deliver, and protect Israel; which does not necessarily imply that Abimelech did; fo...
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim....
There arose Not of himself, but raised by God, as the other judges were. To defend Or, to save , which he did, not by fighting against and overt...
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, "aro...
Government of Tola and Jair. B. C. 1183. ...
JUDGES CHAPTER 10 Tola judgeth Israel; and Jair, whose thirty sons had thirty cities, Judges 10:1-5 . The people's idolatry, Judges 10:6 . Th...
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 whi...
FORTY-FIVE YEARS PASSED OVER IN SILENCE ( Judges 10:1-5 .) CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 10:1 . After Abimelech. ] This man is recognised as having b...
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 nouri...
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...
And after Abimelech there arose to defend, that is, to save, to deliver, Israel Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he...
The Judgeship of Tola and Jair.
Joshua 15:48 ; Judges 2:16 ; Judges 3:9
There arose — Not of himself, but raised by God, as the other judges were. To defend — Or, to save, which he did not by fighting against, and overt...
1 And after Abimelech there arose to defenda Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.