Judges 10:1

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 dwelt in Shamir in Mount Ephraim, in its northern ranges.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
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 n...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

defend . save or deliver. mount . hill country.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

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...
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 infl...
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 vicini...
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 the...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
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 min...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel ,.... To save, deliver, and protect Israel; which does not necessarily imply that Abimelech did; fo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
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, "aro...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Government of Tola and Jair. B. C. 1183. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
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 whi...
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 b...
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 nouri...
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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 15:48 ; Judges 2:16 ; Judges 3:9
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Judges 10:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Judges 10:1