a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
Puah
פּוּאָ֛הpu.'Ah
H6312
Puah or Puvvah · proper noun, a man's name
son
בֶּןben-
H1121
a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
Dodo
דּוֹד֖וֹdo.Do
H1734
Dodo · proper noun, a man's name
man
אִ֣ישׁ'ish
H376
a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular construct
Issachar
יִשָּׂשכָ֑רyi.so.sh.Khar
H3485
Jissaskar · proper noun, a man's name
dwelt
יֹשֵׁ֥בyo.Shev
H3427
properly · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
Shamir
בְּשָׁמִ֖ירbe.sha.Mir
H8069
Shamir · preposition + proper noun, a place name
mount
בְּהַ֥רbe.Har
H2022
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figurative… · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
Ephraim
אֶפְרָֽיִם'ef.Ra.yim
H669
Ephrajim · proper noun, a man's name
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Judges 2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Joshua 15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
Judges 3:9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othn…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Judges 10:1-5
Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, are the worst to write of, as yielding least variety of matter for the historian to entertain his reader with; such were the reigns of these two judges, Tola and Jair, who make but a small figure and take up but a very little room in this history. But no doubt they were both raised up of God to serve their country in the quality of judges, not pretending, as Abimelech had done, to the grandeur of kings, nor, like him, taking the honour they had to themselves, but being called of God to it. 1. Concerning Tola it is said that he arose after Abimelech to defend Israel, Jdg 10:1. After Abimelech had debauched Israel by his wickedness, disqu…
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 impossib…
Of these two judges no particular deeds are mentioned, no doubt because they performed none.
Jdg 10:1-2
Tola arose after Abimelech's death to deliver Israel, and judged Israel twenty-three years until his death, though certainly not all the Israelites of the twelve tribes, but only the northern and possibly also the eastern tribes, to the exclusion of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, as these southern tribes neither took part in Gideon's war of freedom nor stood under Abimelech's rule. To explain the clause "there arose to defend (or save) Israel," when nothing had been said about any fresh oppression on the part of the foe, we need not assume, as Rosenmller does, "that the Israelites had been c…
The Church Fathers
And after Abimelech arose to save Israel, Tolá, son of Puá, son of his brother's father, a man of Issachar. The son of his paternal uncle is called son of his brother's father, when it was said in a more orderly, usual and clear son of his father's brother. He was, therefore, the son of his paternal uncle, as is most clearly found in the translation made on Hebrew. Therefore, the expression of the father of the brother (patris fratris) does not come from the fact that the term pater is in the nominative: "father of the brother" (pater fratris), but that frater is in the nominative: "brother of the father" (patris frater) ) and this is what is called paternal uncle. Because, whether it is put in nominative: «the father of the brother», or if it is put in genitive »« the brother of the father »(patris frater), in both cases they would be two genitive:« (son) of the father's brother »(Patris fratris). In addition, another question arises. Abiméleq, paternal uncle, was a man from Issachar, that is, a man from the tribe of Issachar, since Abimelech had Gideon as his father, and Gideon was from the tribe of Manasseh. For that reason, how Puá and Gideon were brothers so that Puá could be paternal uncle of Abiméleq, whose son of his uncle, Tola, happened to the own Abiméleq, according to this story? Thus, Gideon and Puá could have the same mother, of whom they would have been born of different fathers, and these brothers would be children of the same mother and not of the same father. Because the women of some tribes used to marry men from other tribes. Therefore Saul, who was of the tribe of Benjamin, gave his daughter to David, a man from the tribe of Judah. And the priest Yóyada, a man of the tribe of Levi, married the daughter of King Yoram, a man of the tribe of Judah. From this it follows that Elizabeth and Mary, according to the Gospel, were relatives (Cf Lc 1,36), although Elizabeth was of the daughters of Aaron. From this it follows that some woman of the tribe of Levi and the daughters of Aaron married some man of the tribe of Judah, so that there would be kinship between them, and thus the Lord's flesh would not only be propagated from the royal lineage, but also of the priestly lineage.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Dodo — Amatory; loving. (1.) A descendant of Issachar (Judg. 10:1). (2.) An Ahohite, father of Eleazar, who was one of David’s three heroes (2 Sam. 23:9; 1 Chr. 11:12). He was the same with Dodai mentioned…
Judge — (Heb. shophet, pl. shophetim), properly a magistrate or ruler, rather than one who judges in the sense of trying a cause. This is the name given to those rulers who presided over the affairs of the…
Puah — Splendid. (1.) One of the two midwives who feared God, and refused to kill the Hebrew male children at their birth (Ex. 1:15-21). (2.) A descendant of Issachar (Judg. 10:1).
Shamir — A sharp thorn. (1.) One of the sons of Michah (1 Chr. 24:24). (2.) A town among the mountains of Judah (Josh. 15:48); probably Somerah, 2 1/2 miles north-west of Debir. (3.) The residence of Tola,…
Tola — A scarlet worm. (1.) Eldest son of Issachar (Gen. 46:13). (2.) A judge of the tribe of Issachar who “judged” Israel twenty-three years (Judg. 10:1, 2), when he died, and was buried in Shamir. He was…
Dodo · 1. A — 1. A
Issachar, The Tribe Of · Remarkable persons of — Remarkable persons of
Judges, Extraordinary · Names of: Tola — Names of: Tola
Puah · 2. Father of Tola — 2. Father of Tola
Shamir · .The home and burial place of Tola, one of Israel’ s — .The home and burial place of Tola, one of Israel’ s
Tola · 2. A — 2. A
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
