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Judges 10
18 verses with commentary
Tola and Jair
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. defend: or, deliver: Heb. save
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<strong>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.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begin...
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(1) **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 episode of his rebellions, he may have kept foreign enemies in check.
**To defend Israel.**—Rather, *to deliver, *as in the margin and elsewhere (Judges 2:16; Judges 2:18; Judges 3:9, &c).
**There arose.**—The phrase implies a less direct call and a le...
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**21-26. Ehud put forth his left hand--**The whole circumstance of this daring act--the death of Eglon without a shriek, or noise--the locking of the doors--the carrying off the key--the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehud--show the strength of his confidence that he was doing God service.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 10
Chapter Outline
Tola and Jair judge Israel.(1-5)
The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel.(6-9)
Israel's repentance.(10-18)
**Verses 1-5**
Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, yield least variety of matter to be spoken of. Such were the days of Tola and Jair. They were humble, active, and useful men, rulers appointed of God.
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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<strong>And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begins with Israel doing evil (usually Baal worship), followed by God's ...
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(2) **He judged Israel.**—The recurrence of the normal verb (to judge) shows that Tola was an honour able “Suffes,” not a despot, like Abimelech. Nothing further is known about Tola.
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**21-26. Ehud put forth his left hand--**The whole circumstance of this daring act--the death of Eglon without a shriek, or noise--the locking of the doors--the carrying off the key--the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehud--show the strength of his confidence that he was doing God service.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 10
Chapter Outline
Tola and Jair judge Israel.(1-5)
The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel.(6-9)
Israel's repentance.(10-18)
**Verses 1-5**
Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, yield least variety of matter to be spoken of. Such were the days of Tola and Jair. They were humble, active, and useful men, rulers appointed of God.
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
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<strong>And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begins with Israel doing evil (usually Baal worship), followed by God's ju...
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(3) **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 splendid part in Jewish legend, which is only alluded to in Scripture (see Deuteronomy 3:14). In what relation the Jair of these verses stood to him we cannot, in the uncertain data of the chronology, decid...
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**21-26. Ehud put forth his left hand--**The whole circumstance of this daring act--the death of Eglon without a shriek, or noise--the locking of the doors--the carrying off the key--the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehud--show the strength of his confidence that he was doing God service.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 10
Chapter Outline
Tola and Jair judge Israel.(1-5)
The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel.(6-9)
Israel's repentance.(10-18)
**Verses 1-5**
Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, yield least variety of matter to be spoken of. Such were the days of Tola and Jair. They were humble, active, and useful men, rulers appointed of God.
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. Havothjair: or, the villages of Jair
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<strong>And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each ...
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(4) **Had thirty sons.**—An indication of his rank and position, which assumed an ostentatious polygamy. (Comp. Judges 8:30.)
**That rode on thirty ass colts.**—Comp. Judges 5:10; see on Judges 12:14. Implying that Jair was able to bring up his numerous household in wealth. The horse was little used in Palestine—for which, indeed, it is little suited—till the days of Solomon (1Kings 4:26), and its...
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**21-26. Ehud put forth his left hand--**The whole circumstance of this daring act--the death of Eglon without a shriek, or noise--the locking of the doors--the carrying off the key--the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehud--show the strength of his confidence that he was doing God service.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 10
Chapter Outline
Tola and Jair judge Israel.(1-5)
The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel.(6-9)
Israel's repentance.(10-18)
**Verses 1-5**
Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, yield least variety of matter to be spoken of. Such were the days of Tola and Jair. They were humble, active, and useful men, rulers appointed of God.
And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
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<strong>And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begins with Israel doing evil (usually Baal worship), followed by God's judgment through foreign oppression, Isra...
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(5) **In Camon.**—There seems to have been a Kamon six miles from Megiddo (Euseb. Jer.), but it is far more probable that this town was in Gilead, as Josephus says (*Antt. v.* 6, § 6), and there is a Kamon mentioned as near Pella by Polybius (*Hist. v.* 70, § 12).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**21-26. Ehud put forth his left hand--**The whole circumstance of this daring act--the death of Eglon without a shriek, or noise--the locking of the doors--the carrying off the key--the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehud--show the strength of his confidence that he was doing God service.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 10
Chapter Outline
Tola and Jair judge Israel.(1-5)
The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel.(6-9)
Israel's repentance.(10-18)
**Verses 1-5**
Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, yield least variety of matter to be spoken of. Such were the days of Tola and Jair. They were humble, active, and useful men, rulers appointed of God.
Oppression by the Ammonites
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
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<strong>And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of J...
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(6) **Did evil again.**—Literally, *added to do evil: *“joining new sins to their old ones,” as the Vulg. paraphrases it (Judges 2:11; Judges 3:7, &c).
**Served Baalim, and Ashtaroth.**—Judges 2:19. Seven kinds of idols are mentioned, in obvious symmetry with the seven retributive oppressions in Judges 10:11-12.
**The gods of Syria.**—Heb. *Aram. *(See Genesis 35:2; Genesis 35:4.) Manasseh seems t...
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**21-26. Ehud put forth his left hand--**The whole circumstance of this daring act--the death of Eglon without a shriek, or noise--the locking of the doors--the carrying off the key--the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehud--show the strength of his confidence that he was doing God service.
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**Verses 6-9**
Now the threatening was fulfilled, that the Israelites should have no power to stand before their enemies, Le 26:17, 37. By their evil ways and their evil doings they procured this to themselves.
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
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<strong>And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begins...
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(7*)* **The anger of the Lord.**—For the phrases in this verse see Judges 2:14-20; Judges 3:8; comp. 1Samuel 12:9.
**Of the Philistines.**—Judges 3:31.
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**27. he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim--**summoned to arms the people of that mountainous region, which, adjoining the territory of Benjamin, had probably suffered most from the grievous oppression of the Moabites.
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**Verses 6-9**
Now the threatening was fulfilled, that the Israelites should have no power to stand before their enemies, Le 26:17, 37. By their evil ways and their evil doings they procured this to themselves.
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. oppressed: Heb. crushed
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<strong>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.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human de...
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(8) **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 Amorites.**—The kingdoms of Og and Sihon.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**28. they went down after him, and took the fords--**(See on Jos 2:7). With the view of preventing all escape to the Moabite coast, and by the slaughter of ten thousand men [Jud 3:29], Ehud rescued his country from a state of ignominious vassalage.
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**Verses 6-9**
Now the threatening was fulfilled, that the Israelites should have no power to stand before their enemies, Le 26:17, 37. By their evil ways and their evil doings they procured this to themselves.
Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
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<strong>Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine ...
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(9) **Moreover.**—Rather, *and. *Eighteen years’ oppression of the Trans-jordanic tribes emboldened them to attack the others.
**Was sore distressed.**—The same expression is used in Judges 2:19.
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**Verses 6-9**
Now the threatening was fulfilled, that the Israelites should have no power to stand before their enemies, Le 26:17, 37. By their evil ways and their evil doings they procured this to themselves.
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
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<strong>And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begin...
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(10) **Cried unto the Lord.**—Judges 6:6; 1Samuel 12:10.
**And the Lord said.**—The method of the Divine communication is not specified. A stern experience might have spoken to the national conviction with prophetic voice.
**From the Egyptians.—**Exodus 1-14
**From the Amorites.—**Numbers 21:3-21; Joshua 10
**From the children of Ammon.—**Judges 3:13.
**From the Philistines.—**Judges 3:31; 1Samuel...
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**Verses 10-18**
God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowle...
Read full commentary →And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
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<strong>And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy...
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**31. after him was Shamgar--**No notice is given of the tribe or family of this judge; and from the Philistines being the enemy that roused him into public service, the suffering seems to have been local--confined to some of the western tribes.
**slew ... six hundred men with an oxgoad--**This instrument is eight feet long and about six inches in circumference. It is armed at the lesser end wit...
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**Verses 10-18**
God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowle...
Read full commentary →The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
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<strong>The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begins with Israel ...
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(12) **The Sidonians.**—Judges 3:3; Judges 18:7-28. Nothing very definite is recorded of deliverance from the Sidonians; but (as we have seen) the narrative of the book is typical rather than exhaustive. (Comp. Psalm 106:42-43.)
**The Amalekites.**—Exodus 17:8, Exod. 6:33, Exodus 3:13.
**The Maonites.**—As the LXX. here read *Madian *(and in some MSS. *Canaan; *Vulg., *Chanaan*)*, *it seems probab...
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**Verses 10-18**
God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowle...
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<strong>Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begins with Israel doing evil (usually Baal worship), followed by G...
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(13) **I will deliver you no more.**—A threat which, as the sequel proves, was (as in other passages of Scripture) to be understood *conditionally *(Jeremiah 18:7-8).
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CHAPTER 4 Jud 4:1-17. Deborah and Barak Deliver Israel from Jabin and Sisera.
**1. The children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead--**The removal of the zealous judge Ehud again left his infatuated countrymen without the restraint of religion.
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**Verses 10-18**
God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowle...
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<strong>Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begins with Israel doing evil (usually Baal worship)...
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(14)* **Go **and cry unto the gods.*—With this bitter reproach comp. Deuteronomy 32:37-38; 2Kings 3:13; Jeremiah 2:28.
**In the time of your tribulation.**—Comp. 1Kings 18:27; Proverbs 1:26.
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**2-3. Jabin king of Canaan--**"Jabin," a royal title (see on Jos 11:1). The second Jabin built a new capital on the ruins of the old (Jos 11:10, 11). The northern Canaanites had recovered from the effect of their disastrous overthrow in the time of Joshua, and now triumphed in their turn over Israel. This was the severest oppression to which Israel had been subjected. But it fell heaviest on the ...
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**Verses 10-18**
God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowle...
Read full commentary →And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. seemeth: Heb. is good in thine eyes
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<strong>And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycl...
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(15) **Deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.**—The invariable cry of the soul in trouble. With the former half of the verse comp. 1Samuel 3:18; 1Samuel 15:26.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**2-3. Jabin king of Canaan--**"Jabin," a royal title (see on Jos 11:1). The second Jabin built a new capital on the ruins of the old (Jos 11:10, 11). The northern Canaanites had recovered from the effect of their disastrous overthrow in the time of Joshua, and now triumphed in their turn over Israel. This was the severest oppression to which Israel had been subjected. But it fell heaviest on the ...
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**Verses 10-18**
God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowle...
Read full commentary →And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. strange: Heb. gods of strangers grieved: Heb. shortened
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<strong>And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cycle begins with Israel doing evil...
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(16) **They put away the strange gods.**—The moment the sincerity of their repentance was proved, God hears them (Genesis 35:1; 1Samuel 7:3; 2Chronicles 15:8).
**His soul was grieved.**—Literally, *was shortened. *(Comp. Zechariah 11:8.)
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**4. And Deborah, a prophetess--**A woman of extraordinary knowledge, wisdom, and piety, instructed in divine knowledge by the Spirit and accustomed to interpret His will; who acquired an extensive influence, and was held in universal respect, insomuch that she became the animating spirit of the government and discharged all the special duties of a judge, except that of military leader.
**the wi...
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**Verses 10-18**
God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowle...
Read full commentary →Israel Gathers at Mizpah
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. gathered: Heb. cried
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<strong>Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity and divine mercy. Each cy...
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(17) **Then.**—Rather, *and, *a general note of time.
**Were gathered together.**—Literally, *were cried together. Conclamati sunt.*
**In Mizpeh.**—A very common name, since it means “watch-tower.” This is doubtless the Mizpeh in Gilead (Judges 11:29; Joshua 11:3), also called Ramoth-Mizpeh, or Ramoth-Gilead (Joshua 13:26; Joshua 20:8). (Comp. Genesis 31:49).
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**5. she dwelt under the palm tree--**or, collectively, "palm-grove." It is common still in the East to administer justice in the open air, or under the canopy of an umbrageous tree.
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**Verses 10-18**
God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowle...
Read full commentary →And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
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<strong>And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Tola, Jair, and renewed oppression. The Book of Judges documents Israel's cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance, revealing both human depravity ...
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(18) **The people and princes.**—There is no “and” in the original; but it cannot be a case of apposition, because the term “people” is never applied to “princes.”
**Head.**—Comp. Judges 11:11.
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**6. she sent and called Barak--**by virtue of her official authority as judge.
**Kedesh-naphtali--**situated on an eminence, little north of the Sea of Galilee, and so called to distinguish it from another Kedesh in Issachar.
**Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded?--**a Hebrew form of making an emphatic communication.
**Go and draw toward mount Tabor--**an isolated mountain of Galilee,...
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**Verses 10-18**
God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowle...
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