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 consequence of this
jealousy: the death of Jephthah; the three successive judges to
Jephthah, lbzan, Elon, an... [ Continue Reading ]
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 it, and
therefrom discover the foundation of the jealousy between those two
houses. See Genesis 48:13... [ Continue Reading ]
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 of
the passage to mark the Shibboleth from the Sibboleth? Is it not,
according to what our adored R... [ Continue Reading ]
How quick in succession the departure of men! It may be said of all
God's servants, as it is of David, after he had served his own
generation, by the will of God, he fell on sleep, and was laid unto
his fathers, and saw corruption. But Reader! what a precious addition
to this remark doth the Holy Gh... [ Continue Reading ]
I include the whole of these verses, and of the reign of three judges,
comprising a period of twenty-five years, within the compass of one
view, not only for the sake of brevity, but because the Holy Ghost
hath been pleased to have nothing more recorded of those men but that
they lived, and reigned,... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
My soul! in all the contentions and animosities of life, and
especially among brethren, never lose sight of Him, and his unequalled
love, who passeth by the repeated provocations of thy sinful nature,
and in return for thy manifold instances of ingratitude, pours
himself, and his fullnes... [ Continue Reading ]