✝
← Bible
ARCBLIVREKJVVBL

Juízes 10

BLIVRE · Chapter 10/21

1E Depois de Abimeleque levantou-se para livrar a Israel, Tolá filho de Puá, filho de Dodô, homem de Issacar, o qual habitava em Samir, no monte de Efraim.

2E julgou a Israel vinte e três anos, e morreu, e foi sepultado em Samir.

3Depois dele se levantou Jair, gileadita, o qual julgou a Israel vinte e dois anos.

4Este teve trinta filhos que cavalgavam sobre trinta asnos, e tinham trinta vilas, que se chamaram as vilas de Jair até hoje, as quais estão na terra de Gileade.

5E morreu Jair, e foi sepultado em Camom.

6Mas os filhos de Israel voltaram a fazer o mal aos olhos do SENHOR, e serviram aos baalins e a Astarote, e aos deuses da Síria, e aos deuses de Sidom, e aos deuses de Moabe, e aos deuses dos filhos de Amom, e aos deuses dos filisteus:

7E o SENHOR se irou contra Israel, e vendeu-os por mão dos filisteus, e por mão dos filhos de Amom:

8Os quais moeram e quebrantaram aos filhos de Israel naquele tempo dezoito anos, a todos os filhos de Israel que estavam da outra parte do Jordão na terra dos amorreus, que é em Gileade.

9E os filhos de Amom passaram o Jordão para fazer também guerra contra Judá, e contra Benjamim, e a casa de Efraim: e foi Israel em grande maneira afligido.

10E os filhos de Israel clamaram ao SENHOR, dizendo: Nós pecamos contra ti; porque deixamos a nosso Deus, e servido aos baalins.

11E o SENHOR respondeu aos filhos de Israel: Não fostes oprimidos pelo Egito, pelos amorreus, pelos amonitas, dos filisteus,

12Dos de Sidom, de Amaleque, e de Maom, e clamando a mim vos livrei de suas mãos?

13Mas vós me deixastes, e servistes a deuses alheios: portanto, eu não vos livrarei mais.

14Andai, e clamai aos deuses que escolhestes para vós, que vos livrem no tempo de vossa aflição.

15E os filhos de Israel responderam ao SENHOR: Pecamos; faze tu conosco como bem te parecer: somente que agora nos livres neste dia.

16E tiraram dentre si os deuses alheios, e serviram ao SENHOR; e sua alma foi angustiada por causa do sofrimento de Israel.

17E juntando-se os filhos de Amom, assentaram acampamento em Gileade; juntaram-se assim os filhos de Israel, e assentaram seu acampamento em Mispá.

18E os príncipes e o povo de Gileade disseram um ao outro: Quem será o que começará a batalha contra os filhos de Amom? Ele será cabeça sobre todos os que habitam em Gileade.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

After the minor judges Tola and Jair, Israel again serves foreign gods and is oppressed by the Ammonites. The people cry out to God, who initially responds with harshness, but has compassion when they truly repent.

Explanation

God's initial response to Israel's cry is surprisingly blunt: 'go and cry out to the gods you have chosen' (v.14), a way of confronting the people with the futility of serving idols that cannot save. This confrontation is not a final rejection, but a call to genuine repentance, which proves real when the people actually remove the foreign gods from among them, not merely speak words of repentance. The closing statement, that God's 'soul was grieved for the misery of Israel' (v.16), uses intense emotional language to describe divine compassion, showing that even God's discipline is born of deep love, not indifference.

Fun facts

  • Jair had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty towns called 'Havvoth-jair' — a sign of considerable prosperity and social status for the time.
  • The list of foreign gods served by Israel in this chapter (the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Syria, Sidon, Moab, Ammon, and the Philistines) shows how spiritually eclectic the nation had become, absorbing influences from every neighboring people.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Juízes 10:1After Abimelech, Tola, of the tribe of Issachar, rises up to save Israel; he lives in Shamir, in the mountains of Ephraim.
  2. Juízes 10:2Tola judges Israel for twenty-three years, dies, and is buried in Shamir. The text moves past him quickly, without recounting any great battle.
  3. Juízes 10:3After Tola, Jair the Gileadite rises up and judges Israel for twenty-two years.
  4. Juízes 10:4Jair has thirty sons who ride on thirty donkeys and own thirty cities, called Havoth-jair right up to the time the book was written, a sign of a large and influential family.
  5. Juízes 10:5Jair judged Israel for 22 years and had thirty sons, each with his own city in Gilead, a mark of wealth and power in the time of the judges.
  6. Juízes 10:6Israel again does what is evil in the sight of the Lord, now serving an even longer list of foreign gods: the Baalim, Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, of Zidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of the Philistines.
  7. Juízes 10:7The Lord’s anger burns against Israel, and He sells them into the hand of the Philistines and of the Ammonites, widening the oppression to two fronts at once.
  8. Juízes 10:8That same year, an eighteen-year oppression begins over the Israelites living on the other side of the Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, in Gilead.
  9. Juízes 10:9The Ammonites even cross the Jordan to attack Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim as well, leaving all Israel in great distress.
  10. Juízes 10:10Israel cries out to the Lord, admitting its own sin of forsaking God to serve the Baalim.
  11. Juízes 10:11God answers by reminding them that He has already delivered Israel before, from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, and the Philistines.
  12. Juízes 10:12God continues the list, reminding them that He also delivered the people from the Zidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites when they cried out before.
  13. Juízes 10:13Despite so many deliverances, the people always go back to abandoning God for other gods, and so He warns that this time He will not deliver them anymore.
  14. Juízes 10:14God answers the people’s cry by telling them, with a certain irony, to go and cry out for help to the gods they chose to serve. It is a hard way of exposing the inconsistency of turning to Him only when the other gods fail.
  15. Juízes 10:15Even so, Israel keeps pleading, admitting their sin and asking God to do with them whatever He pleases, as long as He delivers them now, in this moment of distress.
  16. Juízes 10:16After the people rid themselves of the foreign gods, the text describes God as grieved over Israel’s suffering, one of the few times in the Bible where the narrative shows this kind of stirring even before deliverance is granted.
  17. Juízes 10:17The Ammonites gather together and camp in Gilead, while the Israelites gather together and camp in Mizpeh, preparing for the confrontation.
  18. Juízes 10:18The leaders of Gilead ask one another who will lead the attack against the Ammonites, promising that whoever does will become head over all the inhabitants of the region. It is this question that opens the way for Jephthah in the next chapter.

Chapters

123456789101112131415161718192021

Our apps

Our apps →

Bible in Stories

The Bible told as a story, with audio and videos.

📱 Get the app

World in Stories

True stories of humanity that sound made up.

App StoreGoogle Play

Feito! Pequenas Vitórias

A light daily routine for people who lose track of the day.

App StoreGoogle Play