From Nave’s Topical Bible
Shamir
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 4Passages listed
- 3Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- 1. A city in the mountains of JudahJoshua 15:48
- 2. A city on Mount Ephraim
- The home and burial place of Tola, one of Israel' s judges (leaders)Judges 10:1Judges 10:2
- 3. Son of Michah, a Levite1 Chronicles 24:24
The passages, in Bible order (4)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Joshua 15:48
These were in the hill country:
Commentary on Joshua 15:481 voice
And in the mountains,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 10:1
After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
Commentary on Judges 10:12 voices
There arose - Not of himself, but raised by God, as the other Judges were. To defend - Or, to save, which he did not by fighting against, and overthrowing their enemies, but by a prudent and pious government of them, whereby he kept them from sedition, oppression, and idolatry. In Shamir - Which was in the very midst of the land.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 10:2
Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.
Commentary on Judges 10:22 voices
And he judged Israel twenty three years, and died,.... He did not take upon him to be king, as Abimelech did, but acted as a judge, in which office he continued twenty three years, and faithfully discharged it, and died in honour: and was buried in Shamir; the place where he executed his office. It is said (t), that in the first year of Tola, the son of Puah, Priamus reigned in Troy. (t) Juchasin, fol. 136. 1.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Jair the Gileadite was probably the same person as is named in Num 32:41; Deu 3:14, as having given the name of Havoth-jair to certain villages in Bashan.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- 1 Chronicles 24:24
From the sons of Uzziel: Micah; from the sons of Micah: Shamir.
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 24:241 voice
The particular account of these establishments is of little use to us now; but, when Ezra published it, it was of great use to direct their church affairs after their return from captivity into the old channel again.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan