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Verse Judges 11:13. _FROM ARNON EVEN UNTO JABBOK, AND UNTO JORDAN_]
That is, all the land that had formerly belonged to the Amorites, and
to the Moabites, who it seems were confederates on this occasi...
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FROM ARNON EVEN UNTO JABBOK ... - The land bounded by the Arnon on the
south, by the Jabbok on the north, by the Jordan on the west, and by
the wilderness on the east was, of old, the kingdom of Sihon...
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CHAPTER 11 JEPHTHAH AND THE AMMONITES
_ 1. Jephthah's covenant (Judges 11:1)_
2. The messages to Ammon (Judges 11:12)
3. Jephthah's vow and victory (Judges 11:29)
4. Jephthah keeps his vow ...
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JEPHTHAH'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE KING OF AMMON. As generally happens,
there was a war of diplomacy before the war of swords. The history of
300 years was reviewed in an attempt to settle a present que...
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JEPHTHAH'S YOUTH. Jephthah (God _opens_ the womb) is the Othello of
Israelitish history, a splendid barbarian, little blessed with the
soft phrase of peace, familiar with moving accidents by flood and...
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_Jephthah Delivers Israel Judges 11:1-28_
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the
son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah,
2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wi...
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_AND THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON ANSWERED UNTO THE MESSENGERS OF
JEPHTHAH, BECAUSE ISRAEL TOOK_ _ AWAY MY LAND, WHEN THEY CAME UP OUT
OF EGYPT, FROM ARNON EVEN UNTO JABBOK, AND UNTO JORDAN: NOW...
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See on Judges 10:7. RESTORE] The possessions of Israel are still in
dispute....
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JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW
1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 11
V1 Jephthah, a man from Gilead’s family, was a brave soldier.
Gilead was his father. V2 His mother was a woman who sold her body for
sex. Gilead’...
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BECAUSE ISRAEL TOOK AWAY MY LAND. — This was a very plausible plea,
but was not in accordance with facts. The Israelites had been
distinctly forbidden to war against the Moabites and Ammonites
(Deuter...
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וַ יֹּאמֶר֩ מֶ֨לֶךְ בְּנֵי ־עַמֹּ֜ון
אֶל ־מַל
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THE TERRIBLE VOW
Judges 11:12
AT every stage of their history the Hebrews were capable of producing
men of passionate religiousness. And this appears as a distinction of
the group of nations to which...
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A WARNING FROM HISTORY
Judges 11:12
Jephthah acted with great prudence. Before rushing into war, he
endeavored to argue the matter at issue in peaceful and courteous
terms. In answer to the contentio...
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At last deliverance came through Jephthah, whose history is full of
interest. He was the son of a harlot and had been thrust out from his
inheritance by the legitimate sons of his father. Evidently th...
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Jephthah then tried to use diplomatic means to avert a war. He sent to
the king of the Ammonites and asked why he had come to fight against
their land. His answer was that Israel had taken away his la...
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_To me. The king falsely asserts, that all the country between the
Arnon and the Jaboc belonged to him when Moses took it. The Ammonites
had possession when the Israelites arrived, and it had formerly...
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I include the whole of the treaty, which passed between Jephthah, and
the leader of the Ammonites, in one point of view, not only for the
sake of shortness, but also for the sake of connection. In the...
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My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire
to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar
character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, 11, AND 12.
After Gideon's death we see the results of this distance from God in
the internal struggles which took place between the children of
Israel...
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AND THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON ANSWERED UNTO THE MESSENGERS OF
JEPHTHAH,.... Who this king of Ammon was is not said, however he
returned an answer to Jephthah's messengers, which they brought t...
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And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of
Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of
Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now ther...
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_Because Israel took away my land_ The land was not theirs when the
Israelites conquered it, but the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites.
For as to the country of the Ammonites, God expressly charged...
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1 The Couenant betweene Iephthah and the Gileadites, that hee should
be their head.
12 The treaty of peace betweene him and the Ammonites is in vaine.
29 Iephthahs vow.
32 His conquest of the Ammon...
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JEPHTHAH; AN UNUSUAL LEADER
(vv. 1-11)
There was one man whose capacities for leadership stood out above
others in Israel, Jephthah a Gileadite, but he was not popular, being
the son of a prostitute...
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12-28 One instance of the honour and respect we owe to God, as our
God, is, rightly to employ what he gives us to possess. Receive it
from him, use it for him, and part with it when he calls for it....
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MY LAND, i.e. this land of Gilead, which was mine, but unjustly taken
from me, by Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and the injury
perpetuated by Israel's detaining it from me. This land, befor...
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Judges 11:13 king H4428 people H1121 Ammon H5983 answered H559 (H8799)
messengers H4397 Jephthah H3316 Israel H3478 a
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‘ And the king of the children of Ammon replied to the messengers of
Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when they came up out of
Egypt, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and to Jordan. Now therefore...
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CONTENTS: Jeptha's awful vow and the victory over the Ammorites.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeptha, his daughter.
CONCLUSION: A Christian in the hands of the Spirit is assured of
success in the u...
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Judges 11:1. _Jephthah son of a harlot._ The Hebrew is the same as in
Joshua 2:1. The rabbins mostly read here, as Joshua 2., son of a
hostess.
Judges 11:3. Vain men,
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_Jephthah the Gileadite._
JEPHTHAH
It is common to regard Jephthah as one of the wildest characters of
the Bible--a rough and heedless man; alike rash in vowing and
heartless in fulfilling; one whom...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 11:12 In__ an impressive speech, Jephthah
answered the Ammonite charge (v. Judges 11:13) that Israel had
unlawfully seized the disputed territory. Jephthah asserted that “th
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_CHOICE OF A LEADER; AND SLAUGHTER OF THE ENEMY_
Judges 11:1.
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 11:1. THE GILEADITE.] Many regard this as
not a definite patronymic, but indicating that he belonged to the clan...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 11:1
The narrative here goes back probably some years, to explain the
antecedents of Jephthah, who was about to play so prominent a part in
the ensuing history. Jephthah we learn wa...
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He was a mighty man of valour, he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead
begat Jephthah. And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and the wife's sons
when they grew up, they threw Jephthah out, and they said, Yo...
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Deuteronomy 2:37; Deuteronomy 3:16; Genesis 32:22; Numbers 21:24;...
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My land — That is, this land of Gilead, which was mine, but unjustly
taken from me, by Sihon and Og, the kings of the Ammonites; and the
injury perpetuated by Israel's detaining it from me. This land,...