Judges 10:2 meaning and explanation

Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.

Judges 10:2, Berean Standard Bible

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Tola rose up after Abimelech's destructive reign to save Israel, and this verse closes his account with the length of his rule and his burial. He judged twenty-three years, a long and quiet tenure in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim, far from the dramatic stories around him.

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