Teks -- Judges 10:1 (NET)

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10:1 After Abimelech’s death, Tola son of Puah, grandson of Dodo, from the tribe of Issachar, rose up to deliver Israel. He lived in Shamir in the Ephraimite hill country.

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Wesley: Jdg 10:1 - There arose

Not of himself, but raised by God, as the other judges were.

Wesley: Jdg 10:1 - To defend

Or, to save, which he did not by fighting against, and overthrowing their enemies, but by a prudent and pious government of them, whereby he kept them from sedition, oppression, and idolatry.

Wesley: Jdg 10:1 - In Shamir

Which was in the very midst of the land.

JFB: Jdg 10:1 - after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel, Tola

That is, "to save." Deliverance was necessary as well from intestine usurpation as from foreign aggression.

JFB: Jdg 10:1 - the son of Puah

He was uncle to Abimelech by the father's side, and consequently brother of Gideon; yet the former was of the tribe of Issachar, while the latter was of Manasseh. They were, most probably, uterine brothers.

JFB: Jdg 10:1 - dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim

As a central place, he made it the seat of government.

Clarke: Jdg 10:1 - Tola the son of Puah

Tola the son of Puah - As this Tola continued twenty-three years a judge of Israel after the troubles of Abimelech’ s reign, it is likely that the land had rest, and that the enemies of the Israelites had made no hostile incursions into the land during his presidency and that of Jair; which, together continued forty-five years.

TSK: Jdg 10:1 - arose // defend // Shamir

am 2772, bc 1232, An, Ex, Is, 259

arose : Jdg 2:16, Jdg 3:9

defend : or, deliver, Heb. save

Shamir : Jos 15:48

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Poole: Jdg 10:1 - There arose // In Shamir in Mount Ephraim

There arose not of himself, but either chosen by the people; or rather, raised by God, as the other judges were. To defend Israel or, to save , which he did not by fighting against and overthrowing their enemies, but by a prudent and pious government of them, whereby he kept them from sedition, and oppression, and tyranny, as also from idolatry, as may be gathered from Jud 10:6 , which if not restrained and purged out, would have brought certain ruin upon them.

In Shamir in Mount Ephraim

which was in the very heart and midst of the land.

Haydock: Jdg 10:1 - Uncle of Abimelech // Samir

Uncle of Abimelech, i.e., Half-brother to Gedeon, as being born of the same mother, but by a different father, and of a different tribe. (Challoner) ---

The wife of Joas might have been married to a person of the tribe of Issachar, by whom she had Phua, who was half-brother of Gedeon. (Haydock) ---

Thola was cousin-german of Abimelech. (St. Augustine, q. xlvii., &c.) The Israelites elected Thola for their judge, (Abulensis) out of respect to Gedeon, (Cornelius a Lapide) that he might put an end to the commotions which had been excited by the tyrant. (Menochius) -- Joatham might be passed over on account of his youth. The Septuagint and Chaldean have "Thola, the son of Phua, the son of his uncle by the father's side," which may be true, if the brother of Gedeon adopted him; or this uncle might refer to Abimelech. The uncertainty arises from the Hebrew Dodo, which may be taken as a proper name. "Phua, the son of Dodo;" (Pagnin; Protestants, &c.; Haydock) or as denoting a relation, the paternal uncle of Abimelech, or of Thola, (Bonfrere, &c.; Calmet) or simply "his kinsman." The Hebrew, Septuagint, &c., assert that Thola "arose to defend or to save Israel." He seems to have kept all quiet during the 23 years of his administration. ---

Samir. Septuagint (Alexandrian) reads "Samaria;" but the city was not built till the reign of Amri. There was a city on a mountain, (Haydock) called Samir, in the tribe of Juda, (Josue xv. 48,) different from this. (Menochius) ---

People were at liberty to dwell where they pleased, out of their own tribe. (Calmet) ---

This judge was buried among the Ephraimites. (Haydock) ---

But we know not the exact place where Samir stood. (Calmet) ---

There seems, however, to be no inconvenience in allowing that there was a town in the vicinity of Sichem, long before Amri made Samaria the capital of his kingdom; (see 3 Kings xiii. 22., and xvi. 24,) and here Thola might reside. He was probably the eldest, or of the second branch, of Issachar, (Numbers xxvi. 23, ) of great nobility and virtue, and the 10th judge of Israel.

Gill: Jdg 10:1 - 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

And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel,.... To save, deliver, and protect Israel; which does not necessarily imply that Abimelech did; for he was no judge of God's raising up, or the people's choosing, but usurped a kingly power over them; and was so far from saving and defending them, that he involved them in trouble and distress, and ruled over them in a tyrannical manner, and left them in the practice of idolatry: it only signifies that after his death arose a person next described to which this may well be attributed, that he was raised up as a judge by the Lord; and though we read of no enemies particularly, that he delivered the people from in his days, yet it is not impossible nor unlikely that there might be such, though not made mention of; besides, he might be said to save them, as the word signifies, in that he was an happy instrument of composing those differences and dissensions, which Abimelech had occasioned, and of recovering them from the idolatry they had fallen into in his times, and of protecting them in their liberties, civil and religious: and this was

Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; he was of the tribe of Issachar, and bore the same name as the eldest son of Issachar did, as his father Puah had the name of the second son of Issachar, 1Ch 7:1 and as for Dodo his grandfather, this is elsewhere mentioned as the name of a man, as it doubtless is here, 2Sa 23:9 though some copies of the Targum, the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, render it, the son of his uncle, or father's brother; meaning that his father Puah was the son of Abimelech's uncle, or father's brother, and so was one of the family which was raised up to be a judge after his death; but it is not likely that Gideon, the father of Abimelech, and Puah, the father of this man, should be brethren, when the one was of the tribe of Manasseh, and the other of the tribe of Issachar:

and he dwelt in Shamir in Mount Ephraim: that is, when he became judge in Israel he removed to this place, as being in the midst of the tribes, and near the tabernacle of Shiloh, and so fit for a judge to reside in, to whom the people might apply from all parts to have justice and judgment administered to them. It is called Shamir in Mount Ephraim, to distinguish it from another of the same name in the mountain of Judah, Jos 15:48 it seems to have its name from the thorns which grew about it.