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Verse Judges 12:3. _I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS_] I exposed myself to
the greatest difficulties and dangers. But whence did this form of
speech arise? Probably from a man's laying hold of his sword, sp...
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I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS - Compare 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21. The
phrase expresses the utmost possible risk, knowingly incurred....
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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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MY LIFE. my soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS— A strong phrase; which signifies, _I
exposed myself to the utmost hazard:_ the expression seems peculiar to
the eastern writers; for Casaubon remarks, that among all the Gre...
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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 WHEN I SAW THAT YE DELIVERED ME NOT, I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS,
AND PASSED OVER AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND THE LORD DELIVERED
THEM INTO MY HAND: WHEREFORE THEN ARE YE COME UP UNTO ME THIS...
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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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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 PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS. — Rather, _in the hollow of my hand_
(_caph_). (See for the phrase, Psalms 119:109; Job 13:14; 1 Samuel
20:5;...
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וָֽ אֶרְאֶ֞ה כִּֽי ־אֵינְךָ֣
מֹושִׁ֗יעַ וָ אָ
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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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And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, (c) I put my life in my
hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD
delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me...
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_Hands exposed to all sorts of danger. I resolved to defend myself to
the utmost, 1 Kings xix. 6., and Ecclesiastes x. 2. (Calmet)_...
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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 WHEN I SAW THAT YE DELIVERED ME NOT,.... Gave him no assistance
against their common enemy, did not attempt to save him and his people
out of their hands, but left them to defend themselves:
I PU...
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And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, I put my life in my hands,
and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered
them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me thi...
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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 when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, he
staked the most precious possession which he had, AND PASSED OVER
AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, in a bold attack upon their army...
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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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I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS, i.e. I exposed myself to utmost danger; as
a man that carries a brittle and precious thing in his hand, which may
easily either fall to the ground, or be snatched from him....
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Judges 12:3 saw H7200 (H8799) deliver H3467 (H8688) took H7760 (H8799)
life H5315 hands H3709 over...
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Judges 12:3 a
“And when I saw that you did not save me, I put my life in my hand,
and passed over against the children of Ammon and Yahweh delivered
them into my hand.”
Thus Gilead and he had done th...
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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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1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21; 2 Chronicles 13:12; Job 13:14; J
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Put my life — That is, I exposed myself to the utmost danger; as a
man that carries a brittle and precious thing in his hand, which may
easily either fall to the ground, or be snatched from him. Where...