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After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

7 notes on this verse
Defend - The marginal reading “to deliver,” is far preferable. The word is the same as in Jdg 2:16, Jdg 2:18; Jdg 3:9, Jdg 3:15, Jdg 3:31, etc., and is the technical word applied to the judges. Compare Neh 9:27 (“saviours who saved them,” the King James Version). The term “there arose,” also marks Tola as one of the Judges, properly so called, raised by divine providence. Tola and Puah - Both names of heads of houses in the tribe of Issachar 1Ch 7:1; Gen 46:

This site's exposition

there arose to defend Israel

on Judges 10:1-2

Tola comes after Abimelech, who took a crown and is never called a judge, so this sentence picks the line back up where chapter 9 broke it. The verb rendered defend is the one used of the judges at 2:16, 3:9 and 3:15, and the margin gives it as deliver. His own name and his father's are the names of Issachar's clans at Genesis 46:13 and 1 Chronicles 7:1, and he is a man of Issachar who settles in mount Ephraim, near the middle of the country. No enemy, no oppression and no battle is named in his twenty-three years, and the text gives no reason for the silence.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It signifies a worm, yet, being the name of his ancestor, he was not ashamed of it. Though he was of Issachar, yet, when he was raised up to the government, he came and dwelt in Mount Ephraim, which was more in the heart of the country, that the people might the more conveniently resort to him for judgment.

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

There arose - Not of himself, but raised by God, as the other Judges were. 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. In Shamir - Which was in the very midst of the land.
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel, Tola--that is, "to save." Deliverance was necessary as well from intestine usurpation as from foreign aggression. 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.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

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.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּקָם֩and he arose

    vaiyakamH6965 →628 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֨יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • אֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְAbimelech

    ʾavimelekhH40 →66 times

  • לְהוֹשִׁ֣יעַto deliver

    lehoshia'H3467 →206 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • תּוֹלָ֧עTola

    tola'H8439 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • פּוּאָ֛הPuah

    puahH6312 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • דּוֹד֖וֹDodo

    dodoH1734 →

  • אִ֣ישׁ<the> man of

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • יִשָּׂשכָ֑רIssachar

    yisoshkharH3485 →43 times

  • וְהֽוּא־and he

    vehu'-H1931 →1879 times

  • יֹשֵׁ֥ב[was] dwelling

    yoshevH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּשָׁמִ֖ירin Shamir

    beshamirH8069 →

  • בְּהַ֥רin [the] hill country of

    beharH2022 →546 times

  • אֶפְרָֽיִם׃Ephraim

    ʾefrayimH669 →180 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Judges 3:9

    But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

    it leads to

    • Judges 3:15

      And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Judges 1:13

      So Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

    • Psalms 22:5

      They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.

    • Judges 6:7

      Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,

    • Judges 10:10

      Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”

  • Through

    Judges 2:16

    Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.

    it leads to

    • Acts 13:20

      All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

    • 1 Samuel 12:11

      So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.

    • Psalms 106:43–45

      Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

About Judges

The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 10 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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