Sunday Sermontte: GROUNDHOG DAY . . .

 Ground hog day,Groundhog day,Groundhog day. . . Chapter 10 is just more of the same. First we get the names of a couple of random judges, about which we are told a couple of random factoids. (The thirty sons on thirty donkeys is of obvious theological importance.) Then, as usual, the Israelites turn away from Yaweh and they need saving, so this chapter is a setup for the next hero, whose story will play out in the coming chapters. Tola10 After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.2 He led[a] Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.Jair3 He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years.4 He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.[b]5 When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.Jephthah6 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of theLord. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook theLord and no longer served him,7 he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,8 who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gi...
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