Judges 10 Summaries

*“Now after Abimelech died, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim”* (v.1). The mention of Abimelech’s de...

The text of Judges 10:2 highlights the leadership of Tola over Israel for a significant period: *“He judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.”* (v.2). Tola, who was fro...

*After him, Jair the Gileadite arose and judged Israel twenty-two years.* (v.3) The text begins with the words “After him,” referring to the judge Tola, described just prior in the Book of Judges. Jai...

*He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities in the land of Gilead that are called Havvoth-jair to this day* (v.4). This verse describes the legacy and wealth of Jair, wh...

*“And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.”* (v.5) This verse describes the conclusion of Jair’s time as a judge over Israel, highlighting both his death and his final resting place. Jair was one of the...

In this passage, we read: *“Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the ...

*“The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon.”* (v.7) In this brief but weighty verse, the book of Judges s...

*“They afflicted and crushed the sons of Israel that year; for eighteen years they afflicted all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in Gilead in the land of the Amorites.”* (v.8) The verse ...

In the book of Judges, we encounter a tense period when *“the sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed”* ...

In the era of repeated disobedience described in the Book of Judges (ca. 1380–1050 BC), Israel frequently found themselves under foreign oppression because they abandoned the covenant with their Suzer...

In this passage, the writer sets the scene by describing the Lord addressing the Israelites with a pointed question: *“Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the sons of Ammon, and th...

The verse declares God’s faithful intervention on behalf of His people, saying, *“Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from ...

*“Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer deliver you.”* (v.13) In this verse, the LORD confronts His people for breaking their covenant with Him, reminding them tha...

The Lord delivers a stark challenge to the Israelites when He says, *“Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”* (v.14). This verse shows Go...

In the cycle of sin and deliverance that marks the era of the judges, the Israelites repeatedly turned away from God, faced oppression, and then sought His help in their distress. By this point in Jud...

*“So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.”* (Judges 10:16). In this moment, the nation of Israel, dwelling in the land ...

In this part of Scripture, we see the unfolding tensions between Israel and their longtime relatives to the east. *Then the sons of Ammon were summoned and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israe...

In this verse, we read that *“The people, the leaders of Gilead, said to one another, ‘Who is the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall become head over all the inhabitants o...