Rashi on TanakhJudges 10

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Judges 10:1

Ben Dodo. This was his name.

Judges 10:4

Thoroughbreds.עוּלִין,1This is Targum Yonasan’s translation. the choicest horses.
They owned thirty towns. They owned thirty unwalled municipalities. This is why they are described as עַיָרִים, "towns", meaning the same as עַיָירָוֹת.2Rather than עָרִים meaning walled cities.

Judges 10:6

The Baals. Seven pagan gods are enumerated here.3Beitzah, 25:b. “The deities of Aram, Tzidon, etc.” does not explain where the Baals and Ashteros were worshiped, but lists deities in addition to them. Hence, the total is seven.
They abandoned Adonoy, and did not worship Him. Not even concurrently with these.4Otherwise, “and did not worship Him” is redundant. (Beitzah, ibid).

Judges 10:8

That year when Yair died.
Across the Yardein. The territory of Reuven, Gad, and half of Menasheh; they were neighbors.5Of the Ammonites. See below, ch.11.

Judges 10:11

Was it not from Mitzrayim. There are seven salvations here, corresponding with the seven pagan gods they worshiped.6V. 6. See Rashi there.

Judges 10:12

And Maon. The name of a nation.7But not, as generally translated, “a dwelling place.”

Judges 10:16

Could not contain Himself at [Yisroel's] anguish. As if one could depict God as lacking the space to bear and encompass His pain at Yisroel's anguish.

Judges 10:17

Were called together. They were assembled by proclamation.

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