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Consult the marginal references. If the ark with the copy of the Law
Deuteronomy 31:26 was at Mizpeh, it would account for Jephthah’s
accurate knowledge of it; and this exact agreement of his message...
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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 NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE KING OF AMMON. As generally happens,
there was a war of diplomacy before the war of swords. The history of
300 years was reviewed in an attempt to settle a present que...
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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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ME. Most codices, with Syriac, read "us" as in Judges 11:19. Compare
Numbers 20:14....
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Abbreviated from Numbers 20:14-18 JE. Edom lay to the S. and S.E. of
Palestine. There is no mention elsewhere of the embassy to Moab.
_Let me, I pray thee_ The nation as a whole is personified, a not...
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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 SAID UNTO HIM, THUS SAITH JEPHTHAH, ISRAEL TOOK NOT AWAY THE LAND
OF MOAB, NOR THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON:_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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UNTO THE KING OF EDOM. — As narrated in Numbers 20:14, _seq._ Even
if Jephthah had no written documents before him to which he could
refer, the events which he recounts were not so distant as to have...
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וַ יִּשְׁלַ֣ח יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל
מַלְאָכִ֣ים ׀ אֶל ־מֶלֶךְ֩...
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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...
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A WARNING FROM HISTORY
Judges 11:12
Jephthah acted with great prudence. Before rushing into war, he
endeavored to argue the matter at issue in peaceful and courteous
terms. In answer to the contentio...
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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 then tried to use diplomatic means to avert a war. He sent to
the king of the Ammonites and asked why he had come to fight against
their land. His answer was that Israel had taken away his la...
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_Moab. This is not specified by Moses, but he sufficiently insinuates
that he had done it, Deuteronomy ii. 8, 9. (Calmet)_...
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I include the whole of the treaty, which passed between Jephthah, and
the leader of the Ammonites, in one point of view, not only for the
sake of shortness, but also for the sake of connection. In the...
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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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THEN ISRAEL SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE KING OF EDOM,.... The history of
which may be read in Numbers 20:14, c.
SAYING, LET ME, I PRAY THEE, PASS THROUGH THY LAND the land of Edom,
from the south to the...
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Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I
pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not
hearken [thereto]. And in like manner they sent unto the king of M...
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_Unto the Red sea_ Unto which they came three times; once, Exodus
13:18; again, a little after their passage over it; and a third time,
long after, when they came to Ezion-geber, which was upon the sh...
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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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then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I
pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom would not
hearken thereto, Numbers 20:18; Numbers 20:21. AND IN LIKE MANNER...
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Jephthah's Message to the Ammonites...
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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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12-28 One instance of the honour and respect we owe to God, as our
God, is, rightly to employ what he gives us to possess. Receive it
from him, use it for him, and part with it when he calls for it....
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Peaceably, and did not revenge their unkindness and inhumanity, as
they could have done....
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Judges 11:17 Israel H3478 sent H7971 (H8799) messengers H4397 king
H4428 Edom H123 saying H559 (H8800) through...
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‘ And said to him, “Thus says Jephthah, Israel did not take away
the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon. But when they
came from Egypt, and Israel walked through the wilderness to the...
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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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Deuteronomy 2:29; Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 2:9; Numbers 20:1;...
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Abode — Peaceably, and did not revenge their unkindness as they
could have done....