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WHEN I CALLED YOU ... - This circumstance is not related in the main
narrative. It is likely to have occurred when Jephthah was first
chosen leader by the Gileadites, and when Ephraim would probably
i...
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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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_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 JEPHTHAH SAID UNTO THEM, I AND MY PEOPLE WERE AT GREAT STRIFE
WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON; AND WHEN I CALLED YOU, YE DELIVERED ME NOT
OUT OF THEIR HANDS._
When I called you, ye delivered me not o...
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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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WHEN I CALLED YOU] It would seem that Jephthah had done more than
simply rouse Gilead: see on Judges 11:29....
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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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I AND MY PEOPLE WERE AT GREAT STRIFE WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON. —
Literally, _I was a man of strife, I and my people, and the children
of Ammon exceedingly._ We have a similar phrase in Jeremiah 15:1...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יִפְתָּח֙ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם
אִ֣ישׁ רִ֗יב...
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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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_Strife, to defend our property. --- I called. Drusius doubts whether
he sent an express invitation to Ephraim, otherwise how durst they
assert that they had not been summoned? (Calmet) --- But we may...
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If the Reader recollects the dying benediction of the Patriarch over
the two sons of Joseph, how under the spirit of prophecy Jacob put
Ephraim before Manasseh, he will here trace the fulfillment of i...
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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 THEM, I AND MY PEOPLE WERE AT A GREAT STRIFE
WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,.... As to the cause of the war, or the
reason of his going over to fight the children of Ammon, it was a...
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And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with
the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out
of their hands.
Ver. 2. _And Jephthah said unto them._] Ap...
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_When I called you, ye delivered me not_ He answers them with great
mildness, but denies their charge. He affirms that he had begged their
assistance, but they had refused to grant it. _When I saw tha...
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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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THE DEFEAT OF THE EPHRAIMITES...
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And Jephthah, in an endeavor to make the situation clear to the
arrogant meddlers, SAID UNTO THEM, I AND MY PEOPLE WERE AT GREAT
STRIFE WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, literally, "A man of war was I, I
an...
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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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Hence it appears that he craved their assistance, which they denied,
though that be not elsewhere expressed....
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Judges 12:2 Jephthah H3316 said H559 (H8799) people H5971 were H1961
(H8804) great H3966 struggle H376...
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‘ And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at a great
strife with the children of Ammon, and when I called you, you did not
save me out of their hands.”
Jephthah had no thought of submitting....
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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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_Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon,
and didst not call us to go with thee?_
SHAMS AND FRAUDS
Though these Ephraimites are long since dead and gone, there are many
E...
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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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Judges 11:12...
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When I called — Hence it appears, that he had craved their
assistance, which they had denied; though that be not elsewhere
expressed....