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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 12:3

I put my life in my hands— A strong phrase; which signifies, I exposed myself to the utmost hazard: the expression seems peculiar to the eastern writers; for Casaubon remarks, that among all the Greek and Roman writers he never met with it, except once in Zenarchus. See Bishop Patrick.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 12:3. _I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS_] I exposed myself to the greatest difficulties and dangers. But whence did this form of speech arise? Probably from a man's laying hold of his sword, sp...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS - Compare 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21. The phrase expresses the utmost possible risk, knowingly incurred....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MY LIFE. my soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _that_ THOU WAST NOT GOING TO SAVE _me_ Or omit _thou_, and render _that there was none to save_, LXX. cod. A, Luc. Cf. Isaiah 63:5. _I put my life in my hand_ Cf. 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WHEN I SAW THAT YE DELIVERED ME NOT, I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS, AND PASSED OVER AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND THE LORD DELIVERED THEM INTO MY HAND: WHEREFORE THEN ARE YE COME UP UNTO ME THIS...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS. — Rather, _in the hollow of my hand_ (_caph_). (See for the phrase, Psalms 119:109; Job 13:14; 1 Samuel 20:5;...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וָֽ אֶרְאֶ֞ה כִּֽי ־אֵינְךָ֣ מֹושִׁ֗יעַ וָ אָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, (c) I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hands exposed to all sorts of danger. I resolved to defend myself to the utmost, 1 Kings xix. 6., and Ecclesiastes x. 2. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN I SAW THAT YE DELIVERED ME NOT,.... Gave him no assistance against their common enemy, did not attempt to save him and his people out of their hands, but left them to defend themselves: I PU...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me thi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _When I called you, ye delivered me not_ He answers them with great mildness, but denies their charge. He affirms that he had begged their assistance, but they had refused to grant it. _When I saw tha...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, he staked the most precious possession which he had, AND PASSED OVER AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, in a bold attack upon their army...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DEFEAT OF THE EPHRAIMITES...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS, i.e. I exposed myself to utmost danger; as a man that carries a brittle and precious thing in his hand, which may easily either fall to the ground, or be snatched from him....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 12:3 saw H7200 (H8799) deliver H3467 (H8688) took H7760 (H8799) life H5315 hands H3709 over...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Judges 12:3 a “And when I saw that you did not save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon and Yahweh delivered them into my hand.” Thus Gilead and he had done th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21; 2 Chronicles 13:12; Job 13:14; J

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Put my life — That is, I exposed myself to the utmost danger; as a man that carries a brittle and precious thing in his hand, which may easily either fall to the ground, or be snatched from him. Where...

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