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Verse Judges 11:24. _WILT NOT THOU POSSESS THAT WHICH CHEMOSH THY
GOD_ _GIVETH THEE_] As if he had said: "It is a maxim with you, as it
is among all nations, that the lands which they conceive to be...
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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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WILT NOT THOU... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. Jephthah does not
recognize Chemosh as. god. The emphasis is on "thy" and "our", and is
the argument _a fortiori_: and, taking them on their own ground,...
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_Chemosh thy god … the Lord our God_ What Jehovah was to Israel
Chemosh was to Moab; Numbers 21:29, Moab. St. _passim_. Obviously
Moabites are in the speaker's mind, not Ammonites, whose national god...
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WILT NOT THOU POSSESS THAT WHICH CHEMOSH THY GOD, &C.— This is
plainly an argument _ad hominem,_ in which Jephthah does not by any
means confess _Chemosh_ to be a god; but only argues with the king of...
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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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CHEMOSH] properly, the god of Moab. The Ammonite god was Milcom (1
Kings 11:33, etc.). It has been inferred that Jephthah, or the
narrator of Jephthah's words, believed in the existence and power of
C...
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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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CHEMOSH THY GOD. — The expression shows the close connection between
Ammon and Moab. Chemosh was distinctively the god of Moab, and Moloch
of Ammon; but the two nations were of kindred blood and allie...
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הֲ לֹ֞א אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁ֧ר יֹורִֽישְׁךָ֛
כְּמֹ֥ושׁ...
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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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Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to
possess? So whomsoever the (h) LORD our God shall drive out from
before us, them will we possess.
(h) For we should believe and obey Go...
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Chamos. The idol of the Moabites and Ammonites. He argues from their
opinion, who thought they had a just title to the countries which they
imagined they had conquered by the help of their gods: how m...
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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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WILT NOT THOU POSSESS THAT WHICH CHEMOSH THY GOD GIVETH THEE TO
POSSESS?.... Chemosh was the idol of the Moabites, see
Numbers 21:29, which has led some to think, that the present king of
Ammon was a...
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Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to
possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before
us, them will we possess.
Ver. 24. _That which Chemosh thy god give...
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Jdg. 11:24. The land which the Amorites now possessed was a land that
they had taken from others - viz., from the Zamzummims. (Deuteronomy
2:20; Deuteronomy 2:21). They had been extraordinarily assist...
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_Wilt not thou possess_, &c. He does not call Chemosh a god; but only
argues from the opinion that they had of him, which was such as all
nations entertained of their gods, namely, that they owed thei...
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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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Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh, thy god, giveth thee to
possess? They would surely consider such a procedure as just and fair,
if they believed their war-god to have given them the victory i...
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Jephthah's Message to the Ammonites...
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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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He speaks according to their fond and absurd opinion. The Ammonites
and Moabites got their land by right of war, and conquest of the old
inhabitants, whom they cast out; and this success, though given...
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Judges 11:24 possess H3423 (H8799) Chemosh H3645 god H430 possess
H3423 (H8686) LORD H3068 God H430 possession...
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“ Will you not possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to
possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us,
them we will possess.”
Chemosh was in fact the god of Moab, not 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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1 Kings 11:7; Deuteronomy 18:12; Deuteronomy 9:4; Deuteronomy 9:5;...
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Wilt not thou — He speaks according to their absurd opinion: the
Ammonites and Moabites got their land by conquest of the old
inhabitants, whom they cast out; and this success, though given them
by th...