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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 11:32

So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

Ver. 32. So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon.] He stayed not their coming, but went over to them to fight them, being caelo, Christo, Deo armatus, - not Styge armatus, as the poet saith of Achilles, - and that he was therefore insuperable.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Jephthah Victory Judges 11:32-40_ 32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands. 33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till t...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW 1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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’...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SO. — Rather, _And._ The clause does not refer in any way to Jephthah’s vow, but merely resumes the narrative....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּעֲבֹ֥ר יִפְתָּ֛ח אֶל ־בְּנֵ֥י עַמֹּ֖ון...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A SHADOWED VICTORY Judges 11:29 All the nations around were accustomed to offer those dearest to them in sacrifice to their cruel national deities. This was pre-eminently the case with the neighborin...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The coming of the Spirit of the Lord on Jephthah proved he was God's appointed leader. He immediately rose up and traveled through the area gathering an army to fight for the freedom of Gilead. This a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe who it was that made Jephthah victorious. Yes! As in heaven so on earth, the armies of God overcame by the blood of the Lamb. It is always delightful to trace from whence our mercies flow; bec...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO JEPHTHAH PASSED OVER UNTO THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, TO FIGHT AGAINST THEM,.... As in Judges 11:29, after he had made the above vow: AND THE LORD DELIVERED THEM INTO HIS HANDS; when both armies met an...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    29-40 Several important lessons are to be learned from Jephthah's vow. 1. There may be remainders of distrust and doubting, even in the hearts of true and great believers. 2. Our vows to God should n...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 11:32 Jephthah H3316 advanced H5674 (H8799) people H1121 Ammon H5983 fight H3898 (H8736) LORD H3068 delivered

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Judges 11:32 a ‘So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon, to fight against them, and Yahweh delivered them into his hand, And he smote them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty c...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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,

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JEPHTHAH’S VOW_ (Judges 11:30; Judges 11:34) CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 11:30. VOWED A VOW UNTO THE LORD.] He looked entirely to Jehovah for victory ...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JUDGES 11:29 THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH, as upon Othniel, upon Gideon, and upon Samson (Judges 3:16; Judges 6:34;...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Judges 1:4; Judges 2:18; Judges 3:10...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    How could God allow Jephthah to offer his daughter up as a burnt offering? PROBLEM: Just before Jephthah went into battle against the people of Ammon, he made a vow to the Lord. The vow he made was th...

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