Bible Person
Meaning: worm; grub; scarlet · Male · 1 cross reference
This Tola entry refers to the judge in Judges 10:1, not to the ancestor of Issachar in Genesis. He belongs to the quieter period of deliverers between more dramatic crises. First appears in Judg 10:1.1
AI summary: This Tola matters because his cross references preserve a period of stabilizing leadership that could easily be overshadowed by more dramatic judges. The entry helps show that Israel's preservation often came through steady governance as well as spectacular victories. Taken together, the material presents this Tola as a judge who sustained Israel for a significant span of time.1
Central Figure
Tola
Meaning: worm; grub; scarlet
A judge of the tribe of Issachar who “judged” Israel twenty-three years (Judg.
A judge of the tribe of Issachar who “judged” Israel twenty-three years (Judg. 10:1, 2), when he died, and was buried in Shamir. He was succeeded by Jair. 3
| Book | Cross-References |
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.