Reading for December 21st

Read Judges 10.1-18
In verses 1-5: Minor judges: Tola and Jair.
In verse 1-2: Tola is the only minor judge credited with a military role (rose to deliver Israel).
Tradition preserves the names Tola and Puah (as Puvah) as clans of Issachar (Gen 46.13).
In verses 3-5: Jair was remembered as a pioneer in the settlement of Gilead (Josh 13.30; 1 Kings 4.13).
Hav-voth-jair means "tent villages of Jair."
In verses 6-18: Oppression by Ammon.
In verse 6: A long catalog of gods emphasizes the magnitude of Israel's infidelity.
In verses 7-8: The Ammonites lived to the east and south of Israel's territory in Gilead.
In verse 12: Traditions of deliverance from the Sidonians or the otherwise known Maonites are not preserved elsewhere.
In verse 13:The Lord has fulfilled the threat made in 2.3.
In verse 16: To put away the foreign gods may reflect an established ceremony (Gen 35.2-4; Josh 24.23).
The Lord's relationship to Israel is described as an emotional attachment.
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