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Commentaries on Judges 10:5

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Judges 10 This chapter gives an account of two judges of Israel, in whose days they enjoyed peace, Judges 10:1, after which they sinning against God, came into trouble, and were oppressed by their enemies eighteen years, and were also invaded by an army of the Ammonites, Judges 10:6, when they cried unto the Lord for deliverance, confessing their sin; but he had first refused to...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And Jair died, and was buried in Camon. A city of Gilead, as Josephus (u) calls it; Jerom (w), under this word Camon, makes mention of a village in his times, called Cimana, in the large plain six miles from Legion to the north, as you go to Ptolemais; but, as Reland (x) observes, this seems not to be the same place, but rather this is the Camon Polybius (y) speaks of among other cities of...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In this chapter we have, I. The peaceable times Israel enjoyed under the government of two judges, Tola and Jair, ver. 1-5. II. The troublesome times that ensued. 1. Israel's sin that brought them into trouble, ver. 6. 2. The trouble itself they were in, ver. 7-9. III. Their repentance and humiliation for sin, their prayers and reformation, and the mercy they found with God thereupon, ver. 10-16....