Named person · Old Testament
Meet Tola.
A briefly described judge.
Who was Tola?
Tola was a judge from the tribe of Issachar. Judges names his father and grandfather, his home in Shamir and twenty-three years of leadership. It does not give a detailed account of his deeds.
The brief record places Tola after Abimelech's troubled period. We can recognise his place in the sequence without inventing an adventure to make the page longer.
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