JudgesChapter 10

Commentary on the chapter (in Russian)

1-5. Судьи Фола и Иаир. 6-9. Идолопоклонство израильтян и притеснение их от филистимлян и аммонитян. 10. Обращение израильтян к Господу. 11-16. Ответ Господа и Его милость к израильтянам. 17-18. Занятие аммонитянами Галаада, собрание израильтян и предложение начальствования.

1After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

2He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

3After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

5Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.

Commentary, vv. 1–5 (in Russian)

. По смерти Авимелеха судьями Израиля были последовательно Фола из колена Иссахарова и Иаир из Галаада, не заявившие себя особыми действиями в жизни народа. Из них первый по смерти был погребен в г. Шамире Ефремовом, который отличается от Шамира Иудейского (Нав XV:48), а второй - в г. Камоне, лежавшем, по свидетельству Иосифа Флавия, в колене Манассиином, в Галааде (Antiquit. V, 7, 6).

6The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord, and did not serve him.

7The anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

8They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. Eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

9The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was very distressed.

Commentary, vv. 6–9 (in Russian)

. По смерти Фолы и Каира идолопоклонство израильтян усилилось до крайней степени: они почитали богов всех окрестных народов, оставив в то же время служение Господу. За такое нечестие Господь предал их под власть двух народов: филистимлян (ср. Быт X:14), занимавших побережье Средиземного моря, к юго-западу от Израильской территории, и аммонитян (Быт XIX:38), живших близ Мертвого моря, на северо-восток от моавитян, в прежней территории аморреев, которые (аммонитяне) в настоящем случае перешли Иордан, и угнетали израильтян.

10The children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals."

11The Lord said to the children of Israel, "Did I not save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

12The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.

13Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

14Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress."

15The children of Israel said to the Lord, "We have sinned. Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, this day."

16They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Commentary, vv. 10–16 (in Russian)

. Когда израильтяне, под влиянием притеснений со стороны аммонитян, обратились к Господу с молитвой о помиловании, то Господь, уже не единожды миловавший их, на этот раз, чтобы возбудить в них более глубокое раскаяние, не тотчас послал им избавителя, а сделал это лишь после того, когда увидел их искреннее раскаяние и обращение к Нему.

17Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped at Mizpah.

18The people, the rulers of Gilead, said to each other, "What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

Commentary, vv. 17–18 (in Russian)

. Видя, что аммонитяне заняли Галаад, израильтяне собрались и расположились в Массифе, которая в настоящем случае отождествляется с Рамоф, галаадским (Втор IV:43; Нав XIII:26), и предложили первому, осмелившемуся начать войну против аммонитян, быть у них начальником.

Text: New Heart English Bible. Commentary: The Explanatory Bible, ed. A. P. Lopukhin (in Russian).