Judges 10:1-9 ▼

1 After the time of Abimelech (my father is king), a man of Issachar (there is recompense), Tola (worm) son of Puah (splendid), the son of Dodo (his beloved), rose up to save Israel (he wrestles with God). He lived in Shamir (a point), in the hill country of Ephraim (doubly fruitful).

2 Tola judged (governed) Israel (he wrestles with God) twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir (a point).

3 Tola was followed by Jair (he enlightens) the Gileadite (rocky region), who judged Israel (he wrestles with God) twenty-two years.

4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead (rocky region), which to this day are called Havvoth-jair (villages of Jair).

5 When Jair (he enlightens) died, he was buried in Kamon (raised).

6 And again the Israelites (God prevails) did evil in the sight of the LORD {YHWH}. They served the Baals (lord), the Ashtoreths (star), the gods of Aram (exalted), Sidon (hunting), and Moab (of his father), and the gods of the Ammonites (tribal) and Philistines (immigrants). Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.

7 So the anger of the LORD {YHWH} burned against Israel (he wrestles with God), and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines (immigrants) and Ammonites (tribal),

8 who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, (God prevails) and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan (flowing down) in Gilead (rocky region), the land of the Amorites (sayers).

9 The Ammonites (tribal) also crossed the Jordan (flowing down) to fight against Judah (praised), Benjamin (son of the right hand), and the house of Ephraim (doubly fruitful), and Israel (he wrestles with God) was in deep distress.