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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Judges 11:29

I pray the Reader to remark Jephthah's anointing. It was the same spirit which came upon Jephthah, which descended upon the Lord Jesus, only with this difference, on Jephthah, according to the measure of the gift of Christ; upon the Lord Jesus without measure. But it is delightful to contemplate, that the anointing and qualifying of the Lord Jesus and his church is one and the same. All these worketh that one, and the selfsame spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. See Ephesians 4:7; Joh 3:34; 1 Corinthians 12:11.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 11:29. _THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH_] The Lord qualified him for the work he had called him to do, and thus gave him the most convincing testimony that his cause was go...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD ... - This was the sanctification of Jephthah for his office of Judge and savior of God’s people Israel. Compare Judges 6:34; Judges 13:25. The declaration is one of the di...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEPHTHAH'S VOW, AND HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMMON. Judges 11:29 b is probably an editorial note, a somewhat unskilful attempt to fasten the new cloth (Judges 11:12) into the old garment (Moore.) Jephthah...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_ (feminine.) See App-9. UNTO. This word is read in the text of some codices with Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    An editorial hand has attempted to pick up the thread of the narrative after the long interpolation, Judges 11:12. _Then the spirit of the Lord came upon_ J. may well have stood originally at the begi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Jephthah's Vow Judges 11:29-31_ 29 Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH, AND HE PASSED OVER GILEAD, AND MANASSEH, AND PASSED OVER MIZPEH OF GILEAD, AND FROM MIZPEH OF GILEAD HE PASSED OVER UNTO THE CHILDREN OF AMMON._ Then...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW 1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD] cp. 7:34. In Judges 11:11 Jephthah and all the people are already at Mizpeh. If these words stand in the right place, they must refer to further journeys taken by Jephthah to r...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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’...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH. — A weaker expression is used than that which is applied to Gideon in Judges 6:34. It implies, as R. Tanchum rightly says, that he was endowed with the coura...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תְּהִ֤י עַל ־יִפְתָּח֙ ר֣וּחַ יְהוָ֔ה וַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A SHADOWED VICTORY Judges 11:29 All the nations around were accustomed to offer those dearest to them in sacrifice to their cruel national deities. This was pre-eminently the case with the neighborin...

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

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The coming of the Spirit of the Lord on Jephthah proved he was God's appointed leader. He immediately rose up and traveled through the area gathering an army to fight for the freedom of Gilead. This a...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then the (l) Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon. ...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Therefore. Hebrew, "then." Septuagint, "and." The refusal of the king of Ammon was not precisely the reason why God endued Jephte with shuch wisdom and courage, though we may say that it was the occas...

  • 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

    THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH,.... The spirit of strength, as the Targum; of fortitude of mind, of uncommon valour and courage, and of zeal for God and Israel, and against their enemi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon. Ver....

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

    _The Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah_ The people had chosen him for their leader, and promised to continue him their chief governor, as they had already made him; and now God publicly declares his...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEPHTHAH, AFTER HIS VICTORY, KEEPS HIS VOW...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, through the entire country east of Jordan, in order to muster as large an army as possible, AND PASSED OVER MIZP...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    29-40 Several important lessons are to be learned from Jephthah's vow. 1. There may be remainders of distrust and doubting, even in the hearts of true and great believers. 2. Our vows to God should n...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH; endued him with a more than ordinary courage and resolution. MANASSEH, i.e. _Bashan_, which the half tribe of Manasseh, beyond Jordan, inhabited, JOSHUA 20:8...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 11:29 Spirit H7307 LORD H3068 Jephthah H3316 through H5674 (H8799) Gilead H1568 Manasseh H4519 through H5

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.' Jephthah was...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    JEPHTHAH Jephthah seems to have been judge only of northeast Israel....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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,

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 11:29 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WAS UPON. See note on 14:6. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JUDGES 11:29 THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH, as upon Othniel, upon Gideon, and upon Samson (Judges 3:16; Judges 6:34;...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 12:18; 1 Samuel 10:10; 1 Samuel 16:13; Judges 10:17;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Spirit came — Indued him with a more than ordinary courage and resolution. Manasseh — That is, Bashan, which the half tribe of Manasseh beyond Jordan inhabited. Mizpeh of Gilead — So called to disting...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    How could God allow Jephthah to offer his daughter up as a burnt offering? PROBLEM: Just before Jephthah went into battle against the people of Ammon, he made a vow to the Lord. The vow he made was th...

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