Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Judges 12:1
The Ephraimites expostulate with Jephthah, and threaten to burn his house. Jephthah discomfits them: he dies, and is succeeded by other judges.
Before Christ 1180.
The Ephraimites expostulate with Jephthah, and threaten to burn his house. Jephthah discomfits them: he dies, and is succeeded by other judges.
Before Christ 1180.
CHAPTER XII _The Ephraimites are incensed against Jephthah, because he did_ _not call them to war against the Ammonites; and threaten his_ _destruction_, 1. _He vindicates himself_, 2, 3; and arm...
Compare the similar complaint of the Ephraimites to Gideon Judges 8:1, when a civil war was only avoided by Gideon’s wise and patriotic moderation. The overhearing pride of Ephraim comes out in both o...
CHAPTER 12 THE STRIFE--JEPHTHAH'S DEATH--THE OTHER JUDGES _ 1. The strife and the slaying of the Ephraimites (Judges 12:1)_ 2. Jephthah's death (Judges 12:7) 3. Ibzan, Elon and Abdon (Judges 12:8)...
XII. 1- 6. CIVIL WAR BETWEEN GILEAD AND EPHRAIM. The Ephraimites hankered after the primacy among the tribes. Their _amour propre_ was easily offended, their anger quickly enflamed. Instead of praisin...
CHILDREN. sons....
_northward_ The wrong direction; so follow marg. TO ZAPHON, a place on the E. of Jordan near Succoth, Joshua 13:27, and not far from the river; Jos., _Ant._xiii. 12, 5 (Asophon). _and didst not call u...
Judges 12:1-7. _Jephthah's conflict with the men of Ephraim_ A sequel of the Ammonite war. Jephthah had returned to his house (Judges 11:34), two months at least had passed (Judges 11:39), the Gilead...
_Ephraimites Slain by Jephthah Judges 12:1-6_ And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the childre...
_AND THE MEN OF EPHRAIM GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, AND WENT NORTHWARD, AND SAID UNTO JEPHTHAH, WHEREFORE PASSEDST THOU OVER TO FIGHT AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND DIDST NOT CALL US TO GO WITH_...
NORTHWARD] RM 'to Zaphon,' a town near Succoth: cp. Joshua 13:27....
THE EPHRAIMITES QUARREL WITH JEPHTHAH. HIS DEATH 1-6. Jephthah and Ephraim. Once more the members of the leading tribe find themselves left out of the victory, and complain: cp. Judges 8:1; Jephthah...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 The men from Ephraim’s *tribe called out their army. And they went over the river to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, ‘You went to fight against...
GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER. — Literally, _were called._ Hence the Vulg. renders it “a sedition arose in Ephraim.” No doubt the phrase arose from the circulation of some warlike summons — whether wat...
וַ יִּצָּעֵק֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶפְרַ֔יִם וַֽ יַּעֲבֹ֖ר...
SHIBBOLETHS Judges 12:1 WHILE Jephthah and his Gileadites were engaged in the struggle with Ammon jealous watch was kept over all their movements by the men of Ephraim. As the head tribe of the house...
AT THE FORDS OF EPHRAIM Judges 12:1 In this second war, Jephthah showed the same conciliatory spirit as he had showed to Ammon. He parleyed sensibly and courteously before he went into the conflict....
The men of Ephraim took the same action in the case of Jephthah as they had done in the case of Gideon. After his victory they complained that they had not been called to help. It would seem as though...
Ruth 12:1-15 once again reveals the tragedy pride can lead us into (compare Joshua 17:14-18 and Ruth 8:1-3). The tribe of Ephraim approached Jephthah with threats because he had not called them to bat...
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went (a) northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call (b) us to g...
_Sedition. Hebrew, "the men of Ephraim shouted together" to arms. --- North. Septuagint, "Sephena." The Hebrew may either signify north, or some city. (Montanus) --- It is probable that Ephraim went t...
If the Reader recollects the dying benediction of the Patriarch over the two sons of Joseph, how under the spirit of prophecy Jacob put Ephraim before Manasseh, he will here trace the fulfillment of i...
CONTENTS This chapter is connected with the former. It relates to us the displeasure of the men of Ephraim against Jephthah, because he called them not to the battle with Ammon; and the sad consequen...
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...
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...
AND THE MEN OF EPHRAIM GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER,.... Or "cried" r; got together by a cry or proclamation made: in the Hebrew text it is, "a man of Ephraim"; not a single man, but a body of men, wh...
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with t...
_The men of Ephraim went northward_ Over Jordan, where Jephthah was, in the northern part of the land beyond Jordan. _And said_ Through pride and envy, contending with him as they did before with Gide...
1 The Ephraimites quarrelling with Iephthah, and discerned by Shibboleth, are slaine by the Gileadites. 7 Iephthah dieth. 8 Ibzan, who had thirtie sonnes and thirtie daughters, 11 and Elon, 13 and...
THE DEFEAT OF THE EPHRAIMITES...
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together and went northward, or, marched Zaphon, a town in the tribe of Gad, on the eastern side of the Jordan Valley, AND SAID UNTO JEPHTHAH, WHEREFORE PASS...
AN UNNECESSARY CONFRONTATION (vv. 1-7) The men of Ephraim assumed the same proud attitude toward Jephthah as they had before done toward Gideon (tie.8:1-2).When Jephthah had gained the victory over...
GATHERED: _ Heb._ were called...
1-7 The Ephraimites had the same quarrel with Jephthah as with Gideon. Pride was at the bottom of the quarrel; only by that comes contention. It is ill to fasten names of reproach upon persons or cou...
JUDGES CHAPTER 12 The Ephraimites wage war against Jephthah; are smitten by the Gileadites; and being discerned by Shibboleth, are slain to the number of two and forty thousand, JUDGES 12:1. Jephthah...
Judges 12:1 men H376 Ephraim H669 together H6817 (H8735) over H5674 (H8799) Zaphon H6828 said H559 ...
CHAPTER 12. JEPHTHAH AND EPHRAIM FALL OUT. This chapter relates a quarrel between Jephthah and the Ephraimites, which was fatal to the latter; the period of Jephthah's judging of Israel; his death an...
CONTENTS: Second jealousy of Ephriam. CHARACTERS: God, Jeptha, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon. CONCLUSION: Proud men think all the honors wasted that they themselves did not win. Envy brings serious contentions...
Judges 12:3. _I put my life in my hands;_ a Hebraism of forcible import. David twice uses the same phrase. Now, to take the life of a man who had thus devoted himself, and whom God had honoured, was t...
_Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee?_ SHAMS AND FRAUDS Though these Ephraimites are long since dead and gone, there are many E...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 12:1 This episode recalls Ephraim’s earlier challenge to Gideon (Judges 8:1). While Gideon was able to pacify Ephraim, Jephthah was not, and a civil war erupted. The Ephraimites...
_THE ARROGANT EPHRAIMITES AND JEPHTHAH—THE JUDGES WITHOUT FAME_ (Judges 12:1.) CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 12:1. GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER.] Not in a disorderly or tumultuous manner as some would take...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 12:1 NORTHWARD, or, otherwise rendered, to _Zaphon_,_ _a city of the Gadites mentioned in Joshua 13:27 together with Succoth, and thought to be _the modern_,_ Amateh _on the Wady Ra...
Now, remember the men of Ephraim when Gideon came back having, you know, gotten the victory and they said, "Why didn't you call us?" Well here they are again, chapter twelve. AND the men of Ephraim ga...
2 Samuel 19:41; Ecclesiastes 4:4; James 3:16; James 4:1; James 4:2;...
Northward — Over Jordan, where Jephthah was, in the northern part of the land beyond Jordan. And said — Through pride and envy, contending with him as they did before with Gideon. Over — Not over Jord...