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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 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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STRANGE. foreign....
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_And Gilead's wife_ i.e. the lawful wife in distinction from _another
woman_(1 Chronicles 2:26). In Judges 11:7 it is the elders of Gilead,
not his half-brothers, who drove Jephthah out of his home; t...
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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 GILEAD'S WIFE BARE HIM SONS; AND HIS WIFE'S SONS GREW UP, AND
THEY THRUST OUT JEPHTHAH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NOT INHERIT IN
OUR FATHER'S HOUSE; FOR THOU ART THE SON OF A STRANGE WOMAN._...
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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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THEY THRUST OUT JEPHTHAH. — This was in perfect accordance with the
law (Deuteronomy 23:2), and with family rules and traditions. Abraham
had sent the son of Hagar and the sons of Keturah to found oth...
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GILEAD AND ITS CHIEF
Judges 10:1; Judges 11:1
THE scene of the history shifts now to the east of Jordan, and we
learn first of the influence which the region called Gilead was coming
to have in Hebre...
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TURNING TO A REJECTED LEADER
Judges 10:17; Judges 11:1
The life of Jephthah is a great consolation to those whose birth has
been irregular. The sin of his parents was not allowed permanently to
injur...
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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 was a brave man whose mother was a harlot. The men of Gilead
allowed his brethren to drive him away so he could not receive a part
of the inheritance of their father. He went to live in the l...
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And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they
thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our
father's house; for thou [art] the son of a (a) strange wom...
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_Sons. Grabe's Septuagint determines the number to be "two." (Haydock)
--- They caused the magistrates to declare that Jephte should not
partake in the inheritance, ver. 7. (Menochius)_...
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It was remarked in the preceding chapter, that the men of Gilead were
consulting who to appoint as their leader, to go out with them to
battle against the Ammonites. The Lord was about to appear for t...
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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 GILEAD'S WIFE BARE HIM SONS,.... It seems that, after the birth of
Jephthah, Gilead took him a lawful wife, who bore him sons:
AND HIS WIFE'S SONS GREW UP; to the estate of men:
AND THEY THRUST...
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And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they
thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our
father's house; for thou [art] the son of a strange woman....
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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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JEPHTHAH CHOSEN AS LEADER AGAINST AMMON...
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And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they
thrust out Jephthah, expelled him from the home as not on the same
level with them, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NOT INHERIT IN...
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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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1-11 Men ought not to be blamed for their parentage, so long as they
by their personal merits roll away any reproach. God had forgiven
Israel, therefore Jephthah will forgive. He speaks not with conf...
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THE GILEADITE; so called, either from his father Gilead, JOSHUA
17:1,2, or from the mountain or city of Gilead, the place of his birth
or abode. THE SON OF AN HARLOT, i.e. a bastard; for though such w...
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Judges 11:2 Gileads H1568 wife H802 bore H3205 (H8799) sons H1121
wifes H802 sons H1121 up H1431 ...
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‘ And Gilead's wife bore him sons, and when his wife's sons grew up
they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall not inherit in
our father's house. For you are the son of another woman.'
It wo...
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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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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 11:1 JEPHTHAH was a MIGHTY WARRIOR, but his
illegitimacy caused his half brothers to force him out of his
father’s house. He attracted WORTHLESS FELLOWS (v....
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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 23:2; Galatians 4:30; Genesis 12:10; Proverbs 2:16;...