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Verse Judges 11:23. _THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL HATH DISPOSSESSED THE
AMORITES_] Jephthah shows that the Israelites did not take the land of
the Moabites or Ammonites, but that of the _Amorites_, which t...
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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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SHOULDEST THOU... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._
IT. him: i.e. Israel. Being _masculine_ (in Hebrew), cannot refer to
the land of Judges 11:21. and _singular,_ so that it cannot refer to
coasts of Ju...
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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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Jephthah's argument (see on Judges 11:19) is that no land had been
taken from Moab or Ammon, only from the aboriginal Amorites....
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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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SHOULDEST THOU POSSESS IT? — Is it likely that Israel would fight
battles solely to benefit Ammon and Moab?...
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וְ עַתָּ֞ה יְהוָ֣ה ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הֹורִישׁ֙...
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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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His land, which the Amorrhite had first conquered, and which God took
from him to give to Israel. It was clear that this country was not
then considered as the property of the sons of Lot, since God
e...
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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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SO NOW THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL HATH DISPOSSESSED THE AMORITES FROM
BEFORE HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL,.... It is his doing, and not the work of the
Israelites; it is he that dispossessed the Amorites, and put th...
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So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from
before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Ver. 23. _So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed._] He
argueth that...
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_So now the Lord_, &c. God, the sovereign Lord of all lands, hath
given us this land; this he adds, as a further and convincing reason;
because otherwise it might have been alleged against the former...
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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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So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from
before His people Israel, by a war of extermination, AND SHOULDEST
THOU POSSESS IT? For Ammon had not conquered Sihon and his host....
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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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God, the sovereign Lord of all lands, hath given us this land: this he
adds, as a further and a convincing reason; because otherwise it might
have been alleged against the former argument, that they c...
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“And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from Arnon even
to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan. So now Yahweh, the
God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his p...
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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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Judges 11:23...
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So the Lord — God, the sovereign Lord of all lands, hath given us
this land; this he adds, as a farther and convincing reason; because
otherwise it might have been alledged against the former argument...