Passage Research
Judges 10 — Sermon Preparation
After the minor judges Tola and Jair, Israel turns to idolatry again and is oppressed by the Ammonites and Philistines for eighteen years. Below is a research summary for Judges 10, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 18
- verses
- 260 / 116
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 5
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
Judges 10 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַמּוֹן | ʻAmmôwn | H5983 | 6 | Ammon |
| גִּלְעָד | Gilʻâd | H1568 | 5 | Gilad |
| עָבַד | ʻâbad | H5647 | 5 | work, serve |
| יָשַׁע | yâshaʻ | H3467 | 4 | be open, wide |
| שָׁנֶה | shâneh | H8141 | 4 | year, revolution |
| שְׁלוֹשִׁים | shᵉlôwshîym | H7970 | 3 | thirty, thirtieth |
| חַוּוֹת יָעִיר | Chavvôwth Yâʻîyr | H2334 | 2 | hamlets of Jair |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on Judges 10, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“God is able to multiply men's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols. But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help, and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions. It is necessary, in true repentance, that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God. They acknowledged what they deserved, yet prayed to God not to deal with them according to their deserts. We must submit to God's justice, with a hope in his mercy. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Judges 10:10–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Shamir 2— Judg 10:1
- Ammon— Judg 10:11
- Egypt— Judg 10:11
- Amalek— Judg 10:12
- Maon— Judg 10:12
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