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Judges 10:1 KJV
Judges · chapter 10 · verse 1
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.Judges 10:1 · King James Version
Judges 10:1 in context
1And 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.
2And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
3And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- AbimelechʼĂbîymelekAbimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two IsraelitesH40 →
- IssacharYissâˢkârJissaskar, a son of JacobH3485 →
- defendyâshaʻproperly, to be open, wide or freeH3467 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- afterʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
- aroseqûwmto riseH6965 →
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Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, are the worst to write of, as yielding least variety of matter for the historian to entertain his reader with; such were the reigns of these two judges, Tola and Jair, who make but a small figure and take up but a very little room in this history.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5