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Jephthah made his own aggrandisement the condition of his delivering;
his country. The circumstances of his birth and long residence in a
pagan land were little favorable to the formation of the highe...
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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 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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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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_shall I be …?_ Rather IT IS I WHO AM TO BE YOUR HEAD, accepting the
agreement in Judges 11:6....
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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 ELDERS OF GILEAD SAID UNTO JEPHTHAH, THEREFORE WE TURN AGAIN
TO THEE NOW, THAT THOU MAYEST GO WITH US, AND FIGHT AGAINST THE
CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND BE OUR HEAD OVER ALL THE INHABITANTS OF
GIL...
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JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW
1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
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Jephthah insists on being more than a hired captain: he will be
reinstated in the tribe, and placed at its head permanently: cp. 1
Samuel 11:15....
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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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SHALL I BE YOUR HEAD? — We must not be surprised if Jephthah does
not display a disinterested patriotism. He was only half an Israelite;
he had been wronged by his father’s kin; he had spent long year...
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וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יִפְתָּ֜ח אֶל ־זִקְנֵ֣י
גִלְעָ֗ד...
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GILEAD AND ITS CHIEF
Judges 10:1; Judges 11:1
THE scene of the history shifts now to the east of Jordan, and we
learn first of the influence which the region called Gilead was coming
to have in Hebre...
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TURNING TO A REJECTED LEADER
Judges 10:17; Judges 11:1
The life of Jephthah is a great consolation to those whose birth has
been irregular. The sin of his parents was not allowed permanently to
injur...
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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 was a brave man whose mother was a harlot. The men of Gilead
allowed his brethren to drive him away so he could not receive a part
of the inheritance of their father. He went to live in the l...
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It is said of the adored Redeemer, that Christ glorified not himself
to be made an high priest, but was called of God, as was Aaron.
Hebrews 5:4. It is beautiful, and even glorious in the contemplatio...
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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 JEPHTHAH SAID UNTO THE ELDERS OF GILEAD,.... Considering the
former usage he had met with from them, and the character which he
himself bore, and the fickleness of men, when their turn is served,...
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And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again
to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them
before me, shall I be your head?
Ver. 9. _Shall I be your head...
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_If ye bring me home_ If ye recall me from this place where I am now
settled to the place whence I was expelled. _Shall I be your head?_
Will you really make good this promise? Jephthah was so solicit...
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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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1-11 Men ought not to be blamed for their parentage, so long as they
by their personal merits roll away any reproach. God had forgiven
Israel, therefore Jephthah will forgive. He speaks not with conf...
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IF YE BRING ME HOME AGAIN; if you recall me from this place where I am
now settled, to the place whence I was expelled. SHALL I BE YOUR HEAD?
will you really make good this promise? Jephthah was so so...
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Judges 11:9 Jephthah H3316 said H559 (H8799) elders H2205 Gilead H1568
home H7725 (H8688) fight H3898 ...
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‘ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home
again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them
before me, shall I be your head?”
Jephthah wanted to be quite clea...
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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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_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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Numbers 32:20...
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If, &c. — If you recall me from this place where I am now settled,
to the place whence I was expelled. Shall I, &c. — Will you really
make good this promise? Jephthah was so solicitous in this case,
e...