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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links and a discussion forum 2014 May 20
Attila and his Hordes Overrun Italy and the Arts (1843-1847)
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
Romanticism Style
Bibliotheque, Palais Bourbon, Paris, France
Image Source: Wikipaintings
Explanation: As in the painting above, so in the experience of Israel, hordes of enemies often came sweeping in upon them. Judges 10 contains the account of Israel's struggle against various hordes of their enemies -- particularly as led by two Judges of Israel (Tola and Jair) -- with a prelude to the account of a third Judge, Jephthah, whose story concludes in the next chapter. Tola was from Shamir on the western side of the Jordan River; and he judged Israel for twenty years (1-2). After him came Jair who lived in Gilead on the east side of the Jordan River. He judged Israel for twenty-two years. He had thirty sons, each of whom rode on an ass colt, and each of whom ruled a city. This group of cities was called Havothjair (Villages of the Enlightener). Jair died and was buried in Camon (3-5). But Israel turned to many other gods and forsook the LORD. And the Philistines and the Ammonites oppressed them for eighteen years. and made war against them (6-9). So Israel cried to the LORD for help. But the LORD rebuked them for forsaking him and told them to ask the gods they now worshiped for help. But they confessed their sins and put away their strange gods; and the LORD was grieved for their misery (10-16). And the children of Ammon gathered against Israel somewhere in the territory of Gilead (perhaps at the town of Gilead) on the eastern side of the Jordan River. And Israel gathered on the eastern side of the Jordan in Mizpeh, possibly in Mizpah of Gilead (otherwise known as Ramathmizpeh and Ramoth in Gilead -- Joshua 13:26; Joshua 20:8). And the people asked who would go to fight against the Ammonites, saying that he would be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead (17-18). The war that ensued is described in the next chapter.
Judges 10
1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
8 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.
9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
11 And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
15 And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
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