Judges 10

Judges 10:1 And, Tola son of Puah son of Dodo stood up after Abimelech and began to rescue Israel. He was from Issachar and stayed in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

Judges 10:2 He judged Israel for twenty-three years and, when he died, was buried in Shamir.

Judges 10:3 After him came Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel for twenty-two years.

Judges 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. They had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are still called Jair’s Tent Villages today.

Judges 10:5 When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.

Judges 10:6 Then the Israelites did what was evil again in Yahveh’s eyes. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They abandoned Yahveh and did not worship him.

Judges 10:7 So Yahveh’s nose burned angrily against Israel, and he sold them to the Philistines and the Ammonites.

Judges 10:8 They shattered and crushed the Israelites that year, and for eighteen years they kept doing it to all the Israelites who were on the other side of the Jordan in the land of the Amorites in Gilead.

Judges 10:9 The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim. Israel was greatly oppressed,

Judges 10:10, so they cried out to Yahveh, saying, “We have failed you. We have abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”

Judges 10:11 Yahveh said to the Israelites, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,

Judges 10:12 Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, did I not rescue you from them?

Judges 10:13 But you have abandoned me and worshiped other gods. So I will not rescue you again.

Judges 10:14 Go and cry out to the gods you have been trying out. Let them rescue you whenever you are oppressed.”

Judges 10:15 But the Israelites said, “We have failed. Deal with us as you see fit; only rescue us today!”

Judges 10:16 So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped Yahveh, and his throat became impatient with Israel’s trouble.

Judges 10:17 The Ammonites were called together, and they camped in Gilead. So, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

Judges 10:18 The rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Which man will begin the fight against the Ammonites? He will be the leader of all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

Judges 10 quotes:

“Judges 10 is an interesting and transitional chapter that begins with brief notices about two judges, Tola and Jair, and ends with a segue to the career of Jephthah. Between the opening and closing is a richly Deuteronomic-style rendition of the conventional pattern of apostasy and rehabilitation within the literary form of the lawsuit. Israel again acts in an evil way by worshiping foreign deities; God’s anger follows with Israel’s oppression as punishment. The people complain to God and repent. Rescue is anticipated in the role of a deliverer.”

Niditch Susan. Judges : A Commentary. 1st ed. Westminster John Knox Press 2008. p. 121.

Judges 10 links:

by popular demand
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, July 4, 2019
Tola and Jair’s legacy

The JUDGES shelf in Jeff’s library