The passages] RV 'fords.' Ephraim had invaded Gilead, and the Gileadites took advantage of a dialectical peculiarity to identify every Ephraimite fugitive. Some exaggeration of numbers seems indisputable.
8-15. The Minor Judges, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon.
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...
PASSAGES. fords....
_took the fords_ Cf. Judges 3:28; Judges 7:24. Render _against_(dat. incommodi) rather than _toward_(marg.) in these passages....
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 GILEADITES TOOK THE PASSAGES OF JORDAN BEFORE THE EPHRAIMITES: AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN THOSE EPHRAIMITES WHICH WERE ESCAPED SAID, LET ME GO OVER; THAT THE MEN OF GILEAD SAID UNTO HIM, ART TH...
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...
TOOK THE PASSAGES OF JORDAN. — Only through these fords could the Ephraimites escape to their own tribe. (Comp. Judges 3:28; Judges 7:24.) But while it was excusable to cut off all escape from a dange...
וַ יִּלְכֹּ֥ד גִּלְעָ֛ד אֶֽת ־מַעְבְּרֹ֥ות הַ...
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...
Shibboleth means a river. The only difference between this and Sibboleth, arose from spelling the former with the Hebrew letter Shin, and the latter with Samech. But what is the spiritual illustration...
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 GILEADITES TOOK THE PASSAGES OF JORDAN BEFORE THE EPHRAIMITES,.... Being either swifter of foot, or going a nearer and shorter way, being better acquainted with their own country: AND IT WAS...
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was [so], that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, [Art]...
_If he said, Nay_ To avoid the present danger. _Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth_ To find out the truth, they put him to this test; whether his pronunciation of some words was like that of...
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...
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites, the fords which led to the country of Ephraim; AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN THOSE EPHRAIMITES WHICH WERE ESCAPED, who had not been ki...
THE DEFEAT OF THE EPHRAIMITES...
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...
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...
THOSE EPHRAIMITES WHICH WERE ESCAPED, Heb. _the fugitives of Ephraim_, as before; for the Hebrew words are the same; which may make the latter exposition of the foregoing words more probable, to wit,...
Judges 12:5 Gileadites H1568 seized H3920 (H8799) fords H4569 Jordan H3383 Ephraimites H669 Ephraimite H669 escaped H6412
Judges 12:5 a ‘And the Gileadites took the fords of Jordan against the Ephraimites.' Having defeated Ephraim Jephthah moved swiftly and set strong guards at the fords that led back over the Jordan, t...
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...
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...
Joshua 2:7; Joshua 22:11; Judges 3:28; Judges 7:24...
Said Nay — To avoid the present danger....