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Verse Judges 11:12. _JEPTHAH SENT MESSENGERS_] He wished the Ammonites
to explain their own motives for undertaking a war against Israel; as
then the justice of his cause would appear more forcibly to...
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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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_with me_ i.e. the people represented by Jephthah; see on Judges
11:17.
_my land … from Arnon even unto Jabbok_ The Arnon, now called Wadi
el-Môjîb, descends from the E. and flows into the Dead Sea at...
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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 JEPHTHAH SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,
SAYING, WHAT HAST THOU TO DO WITH ME, THAT THOU ART COME AGAINST ME TO
FIGHT IN MY LAND?_
Jephthah sent messengers unto the king...
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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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WHAT HAST THOU TO DO WITH ME? — Literally, _What to me and to thee?_
(Joshua 22:24; 2 Samuel 16:10, &c.). Jephthah speaks in the name of
Israel, as an acknowledged prince. His message resembles the
pr...
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וַ יִּשְׁלַ֤ח יִפְתָּח֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים
אֶל ־מֶ֥לֶךְ...
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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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_Land. Jephte acts with a prudence and moderation which could not have
been expected from one who had been brought up amid the noise of arms.
(Calmet) --- He gives notice that he has been recognized b...
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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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AND JEPHTHAH SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF
AMMON,.... Being now declared chief and sole governor of the tribes on
the other side Jordan, he acted in character, and as such sent
mess...
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And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon,
saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to
fight in my land?
Ver. 12. _And Jephthah sent messengers._]...
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_Jephthah sent messengers_ That is, ambassadors, to prevent bloodshed,
that so the Israelites might be acquitted before God and men from all
the sad consequences of the war; and herein he showed great...
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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's Message to the Ammonites...
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And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon,
for he intended to remove every suspicion as though he had ruthlessly
violated the Lord's command not to molest the children of Amm...
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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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MESSENGERS, i.e. ambassadors, to prevent bloodshed, and make peace, as
far as in him lay; that so the Israelites might be acquitted before
God and men from all the sad consequences of this war: herein...
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‘ And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon,
saying, “What have you to do with me that you are come to me to
fight against my land.” '
Jephthah's fighting experience was immedi...
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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 11:12 In__ an impressive speech, Jephthah
answered the Ammonite charge (v. Judges 11:13) that Israel had
unlawfully seized the disputed territory. Jephthah asserted that “th
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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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2 Kings 14:8; Deuteronomy 2:26; Deuteronomy 20:10; Deuteronomy 20:11;...
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Messengers — That is, ambassadors, to prevent blood — shed, that
so the Israelites might be acquitted before God and men, from all the
sad consequences of this war; herein he shewed great prudence, an...