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Consult the marginal references. If the ark with the copy of the Law
Deuteronomy 31:26 was at Mizpeh, it would account for Jephthah’s
accurate knowledge of it; and this exact agreement of his message...
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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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ART THOU. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ Compare Numbers
22:2.Deuteronomy 23:4.Joshua 24:9....
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_art thou … better than Balak_ Though the king of Ammon is supposed
to be addressed, the question really aims at some king of Moab: is he
a better man than his predecessor Balak, who did not dare to f...
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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 SAID UNTO HIM, THUS SAITH JEPHTHAH, ISRAEL TOOK NOT AWAY THE LAND
OF MOAB, NOR THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON:_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW
1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
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RV rightly puts the stop at the end of the v. Judges 11:26 begins a
fresh question: see Numbers 22:2....
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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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ART THOU ANYTHING BETTER THAN BALAK? — Literally, _Are you the good,
good in comparison with?_ It is one of the Hebrew ways of expressing
the superlative. Jephthah here argues from prescriptive right,...
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וְ עַתָּ֗ה הֲ טֹ֥וב טֹוב֙ אַתָּ֔ה מִ
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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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_Him. Josue (xxiv. 9,) says that Balac fought against Israel. But it
was not in a pitched battle, (Calmet) at least of which we have the
particulars, (Haydock) nor to recover the territory which the
I...
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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 NOW ART THOU ANYTHING BETTER THAN BALAK THE SON OF ZIPPOR KING OF
MOAB?.... This argument seems to strengthen the conjecture, that this
king was king of Moab at this time, and so Balak was one of...
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And now [art] thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king
of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight
against them,
Ver. 25. _And now art thou anything better than B...
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_Art thou any thing better than Balak?_ Art thou wiser than he? Or
hast thou more right than he had? This is a third argument, that
though Balak plotted against Israel, in defence of his own land, whi...
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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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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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ART THOU BETTER THAN BALAK? art thou wiser than he? or hast thou more
right than he had? Balak, though he plotted against Israel, in defence
of his own land, which he feared they would invade and conq...
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Judges 11:25 better H2896 Balak H1111 son H1121 Zippor H6834 king
H4428 Moab H4124 ever H7378 (H8800) strive...
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“ And now are you anything better than Balak, the son of Zippor,
king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel? Or did he ever fight
against them?”
Now Jephthah sought to stress the superiority of I...
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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 23:3; Deuteronomy 23:4; Joshua 24:10; Joshua 24:9; Micah
6:5
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Than Balak — Art thou wiser than he? Or hast thou more right than he
had? Balak, though he plotted against Israel, in defence of his own
land, which he feared they would invade and conquer, yet never...