Event · Conquest and Judges
Tola and Jair
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Tola and JairJudges 10:1–5Before the monarchy; no agreed dates
Tola judges Israel for twenty-three years and Jair for twenty-two.
- Main passage Judges 10:1–5
- Place in the order
- Explicit biblical sequence Scripture itself gives the order of these events.
- Historical setting
- Before the monarchy; no agreed dates Disputed date
Judges gives years for each judge, but they add up to more than 1 Kings 6:1 allows, so some judges probably overlapped. Calendar dates depend on the date of the exodus.
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Judges 10:1–5 WEB
1After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. 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 Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years. 4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. 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.