And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
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Gill's Exposition
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel,.... The Philistines on one side, and the children of Ammon on the other; meaning either that year in which Jair died, as Jarchi; or the…
Barnes' Notes
That year - Perhaps the closing year of the oppression, when the Ammonites passed over the Jordan. For it was this crowning oppression which brought the Israelites to repentance Jdg 10:10, Jdg…
While those two judges, Tola and Jair, presided in the affairs of Israel, things went well, but afterwards,
I. Israel returned to their idolatry, that sin which did most easily beset them (Jdg 10:6):…
Cambridge Bible
they vexed The subject is -the children of Ammon" (see on Jdg 10:10).
that year: eighteen years cannot be right; either that year(marking the beginning of the oppression, Jdg 11:4) has slipped in from…