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CHAPTER 12 THE STRIFE--JEPHTHAH'S DEATH--THE OTHER JUDGES
_ 1. The strife and the slaying of the Ephraimites (Judges 12:1)_
2. Jephthah's death (Judges 12:7)
3. Ibzan, Elon and Abdon (Judges 12:8)...
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XII. 1- 6. CIVIL WAR BETWEEN GILEAD AND EPHRAIM. The Ephraimites
hankered after the primacy among the tribes. Their _amour propre_ was
easily offended, their anger quickly enflamed. Instead of praisin...
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PASSAGES. fords....
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_took the fords_ Cf. Judges 3:28; Judges 7:24. Render _against_(dat.
incommodi) rather than _toward_(marg.) in these passages....
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Judges 12:1-7. _Jephthah's conflict with the men of Ephraim_
A sequel of the Ammonite war. Jephthah had returned to his house
(Judges 11:34), two months at least had passed (Judges 11:39), the
Gilead...
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_Ephraimites Slain by Jephthah Judges 12:1-6_
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went
northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to
fight against the childre...
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_AND THE GILEADITES TOOK THE PASSAGES OF JORDAN BEFORE THE
EPHRAIMITES: AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN THOSE EPHRAIMITES WHICH WERE
ESCAPED SAID, LET ME GO OVER; THAT THE MEN OF GILEAD SAID UNTO HIM,
ART TH...
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THE EPHRAIMITES QUARREL WITH JEPHTHAH. HIS DEATH
1-6. Jephthah and Ephraim. Once more the members of the leading tribe
find themselves left out of the victory, and complain: cp. Judges 8:1;
Jephthah...
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THE PASSAGES] RV 'fords.' Ephraim had invaded Gilead, and the
Gileadites took advantage of a dialectical peculiarity to identify
every Ephraimite fugitive. Some exaggeration of numbers seems
indisputa...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 12
V1 The men from Ephraim’s *tribe called out their army. And they
went over the river to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, ‘You went to
fight against...
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TOOK THE PASSAGES OF JORDAN. — Only through these fords could the
Ephraimites escape to their own tribe. (Comp. Judges 3:28; Judges
7:24.) But while it was excusable to cut off all escape from a
dange...
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וַ יִּלְכֹּ֥ד גִּלְעָ֛ד אֶֽת
־מַעְבְּרֹ֥ות הַ...
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SHIBBOLETHS
Judges 12:1
WHILE Jephthah and his Gileadites were engaged in the struggle with
Ammon jealous watch was kept over all their movements by the men of
Ephraim. As the head tribe of the house...
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AT THE FORDS OF EPHRAIM
Judges 12:1
In this second war, Jephthah showed the same conciliatory spirit as he
had showed to Ammon. He parleyed sensibly and courteously before he
went into the conflict....
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The men of Ephraim took the same action in the case of Jephthah as
they had done in the case of Gideon. After his victory they complained
that they had not been called to help. It would seem as though...
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Ruth 12:1-15 once again reveals the tragedy pride can lead us into
(compare Joshua 17:14-18 and Ruth 8:1-3). The tribe of Ephraim
approached Jephthah with threats because he had not called them to
bat...
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Shibboleth means a river. The only difference between this and
Sibboleth, arose from spelling the former with the Hebrew letter Shin,
and the latter with Samech. But what is the spiritual illustration...
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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 GILEADITES TOOK THE PASSAGES OF JORDAN BEFORE THE
EPHRAIMITES,.... Being either swifter of foot, or going a nearer and
shorter way, being better acquainted with their own country:
AND IT WAS...
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And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites:
and it was [so], that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said,
Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, [Art]...
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_If he said, Nay_ To avoid the present danger. _Then said they unto
him, Say now Shibboleth_ To find out the truth, they put him to this
test; whether his pronunciation of some words was like that of...
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1 The Ephraimites quarrelling with Iephthah, and discerned by
Shibboleth, are slaine by the Gileadites.
7 Iephthah dieth.
8 Ibzan, who had thirtie sonnes and thirtie daughters,
11 and Elon,
13 and...
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And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites,
the fords which led to the country of Ephraim; AND IT WAS SO, THAT
WHEN THOSE EPHRAIMITES WHICH WERE ESCAPED, who had not been ki...
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THE DEFEAT OF THE EPHRAIMITES...
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AN UNNECESSARY CONFRONTATION
(vv. 1-7)
The men of Ephraim assumed the same proud attitude toward Jephthah as
they had before done toward Gideon (tie.8:1-2).When Jephthah had
gained the victory over...
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1-7 The Ephraimites had the same quarrel with Jephthah as with
Gideon. Pride was at the bottom of the quarrel; only by that comes
contention. It is ill to fasten names of reproach upon persons or
cou...
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THOSE EPHRAIMITES WHICH WERE ESCAPED, Heb. _the fugitives of Ephraim_,
as before; for the Hebrew words are the same; which may make the
latter exposition of the foregoing words more probable, to wit,...
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Judges 12:5 Gileadites H1568 seized H3920 (H8799) fords H4569 Jordan
H3383 Ephraimites H669 Ephraimite H669 escaped H6412
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Judges 12:5 a
‘And the Gileadites took the fords of Jordan against the
Ephraimites.'
Having defeated Ephraim Jephthah moved swiftly and set strong guards
at the fords that led back over the Jordan, t...
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CONTENTS: Second jealousy of Ephriam.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeptha, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon.
CONCLUSION: Proud men think all the honors wasted that they themselves
did not win. Envy brings serious contentions...
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Judges 12:3. _I put my life in my hands;_ a Hebraism of forcible
import. David twice uses the same phrase. Now, to take the life of a
man who had thus devoted himself, and whom God had honoured, was t...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 12:1 This episode recalls Ephraim’s earlier
challenge to Gideon (Judges 8:1). While Gideon was able to pacify
Ephraim, Jephthah was not, and a civil war erupted. The Ephraimites...
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_THE ARROGANT EPHRAIMITES AND JEPHTHAH—THE JUDGES WITHOUT FAME_
(Judges 12:1.)
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 12:1. GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER.] Not in
a disorderly or tumultuous manner as some would take...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 12:1
NORTHWARD, or, otherwise rendered, to _Zaphon_,_ _a city of the
Gadites mentioned in Joshua 13:27 together with Succoth, and thought
to be _the modern_,_ Amateh _on the Wady Ra...
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Now, remember the men of Ephraim when Gideon came back having, you
know, gotten the victory and they said, "Why didn't you call us?" Well
here they are again, chapter twelve.
AND the men of Ephraim ga...
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Joshua 2:7; Joshua 22:11; Judges 3:28; Judges 7:24...