Albert Barnes Commentary Judges 10:1

"And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim." — Judges 10:1 (ASV)

Defend - The marginal reading “to deliver,” is far preferable. The word is the same as in Judges 2:16, Judges 2:18; Judges 3:9, Judges 3:15, Judges 3:31, etc., and is the technical word applied to the judges. Compare Nehemiah 9:27 (saviours who saved them, the King James Version).

The term “there arose,” also marks Tola as one of the Judges, properly so called, raised by divine providence.

Tola and Puah - Both names of heads of houses in the tribe of Issachar (1 Chronicles 7:1; Genesis 46:13).

Shamir - Not the same as that mentioned in Joshua 15:48, which was in the hill country of Judah. Issachar would seem from this to have extended into the northern part of Mount Ephraim.