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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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_And it was so … against Israel_ These words, which merely repeat
Judges 11:4, presuppose that the history has already begun, and were
perhaps inserted to connect with Judges 10:17 f. In some recensio...
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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 IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON MADE WAR AGAINST
ISRAEL, THE ELDERS OF GILEAD WENT TO FETCH JEPHTHAH OUT OF THE LAND OF
TOB:_
The elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah. All eyes wer...
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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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WHEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON MADE WAR. — The allusion is to some
special threat of invasion (_acriter instantibus,_ Vulg.) at the close
of the eighteen years of oppression (Judges 10:9).
TO FETCH JEPHT...
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וַ יְהִ֕י כַּ אֲשֶׁר ־נִלְחֲמ֥וּ
בְנֵֽי ־עַמּ
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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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And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against
Israel, the (d) elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the
land of Tob:
(d) Or, ambassadors, sent for that purpose....
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_Hard. Hebrew, "and when the Ammonites made war." As both armies were
encamped near Maspha, they could hardly avoid having some skirmishes.
But the Israelites durst not come to a pitched battle till t...
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Reader! spiritualize this passage, and see if the cry of the soul to
Jesus in the hour of extremity is not similar. Before the soul is
brought to this, we are like Gilead, without an head. But when ru...
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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 IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON MADE WAR AGAINST
ISRAEL,.... Were preparing for it, and had assembled their forces near
them, and had began to make some efforts against them:
THE ELDER...
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And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against
Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of
Tob:
Ver. 5. _The elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah._] Whe...
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_The children of Ammon made war against Israel_ The Ammonites had
oppressed them eighteen years, and now, when the Israelites begin to
make opposition, they commence a war against them. _The elders of...
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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 CHOSEN AS LEADER AGAINST AMMON...
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And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against
Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of
Tob, for they believed him, with his qualities of valor and sagac...
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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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By direction or instinct from God, who both qualified him for and
called him to the office of a judge. See JUDGES 12:7 HEBREWS 11:32.
Otherwise they might not have chosen a bastard, DEUTERONOMY 23:2....
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Judges 11:5 people H1121 Ammon H5983 war H3898 (H8738) Israel H3478
elders H2205 Gilead H1568 went H3212 ...
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‘ And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against
Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah from the land of
Tob.'
Recognising the imminence of the coming main attack the eld...
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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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1 Corinthians 1:27; 1 Samuel 10:27; 1 Samuel 11:12; 1 Samuel 11:6;...