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Verse Judges 11:40. _TO LAMENT THE DAUGHTER OF JEPHTHAH_] I am
satisfied that this is not a correct translation of the original
לתנות לבת יפתח _lethannoth lebath yiphtach_. Houbigant
translates the wh...
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There is no allusion extant elsewhere to this annual lamentation of
the untimely fate of Jephthah’s daughter. But the poetical turn of
the narrative suggests that it may be taken from some ancient son...
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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 (Judges...
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TO LAMENT. to rehearse with, as in Judges 5:11. to celebrate [her
dedication] in praises.
FOUR DAYS IN. YEAR. Thus annually her friends "went", evidently to
Jephthah's daughter, to rehearse with her...
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_And it was And it_ BECAME, altering the verb from fern, to masc. The
verse is wrongly divided. For _went_render USED TO GO (frequentative).
_to celebrate_ So translated to agree with Judges 5:11 (_re...
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IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF TWO MONTHS— When Jephthah returned
victorious, he was met by his daughter, who accordingly became the
object of his vow, and therefore, as we understand it, being in ever...
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_Jephthah Victory Judges 11:32-40_
32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against
them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands.
33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till t...
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_THAT THE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL WENT YEARLY TO LAMENT THE DAUGHTER OF
JEPHTHAH THE GILEADITE FOUR DAYS IN A YEAR._
That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament ... х_ LªTANOWT_
(H8567)] - to rehe...
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JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW
1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
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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’s...
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TO LAMENT. — Rabbi Tanchum makes it mean “to praise,” or
“celebrate.” The feelings of the Israelites towards Jephthah’s
daughter would be much the same as that of the Romans towards Claelia,
and of ot...
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מִ יָּמִ֣ים ׀ יָמִ֗ימָה תֵּלַ֨כְנָה֙
בְּנֹ֣ות יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְ תַנֹּ֕ות לְ
בַת ־יִפְתָּ֖ח הַ גִּלְעָדִ֑י
אַרְבַּ֥עַת
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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...
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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...
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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...
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With God's help, the Ammonites were subdued with a great slaughter.
Jephthah's daughter, who was his only child, was the first to come out
of his house to greet him and celebrate his victory with danc...
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Lament. Hebrew Lethanoth. On this term the solution of this question
greatly depends. (Haydock) --- Kimchi translates, "to talk with," or
"to comfort the daughter of Jephte" as he supposes that the cu...
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Various have been the opinions of pious men, on the subject of
Jephthah's vow, and the event of it. But as the Holy Ghost hath not
thought proper to make the subject clear, it should seem that it is
t...
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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...
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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
Israe...
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THAT THE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL WENT YEARLY TO LAMENT THE DAUGHTER OF
JEPHTHAH THE GILEADITE,.... Either the death of her, as some, or her
virginity, as others; though the word p used may signify to talk...
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Judges 11:40 [That] the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the
daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Ver. 40. _To lament._] Or, To talk with her, as Judges 5:11 ....
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_The daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of
Jephthah_ The Hebrew word לתנות, _lethannoth_, here rendered, _to
lament_, occurs nowhere else in Scripture, but Judges 5:11, where it
is...
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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...
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JEPHTHAH, AFTER HIS VICTORY, KEEPS HIS VOW...
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YEARLY:
_ Heb._ from year to year
TO LAMENT:
Or, to talk with...
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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...
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WENT YEARLY, to a place appointed for their meeting to this end,
possibly to the place where she was sacrificed. TO LAMENT THE DAUGHTER
OF JEPHTHAH; to express their sorrow for her loss, according to...
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Judges 11:40 daughters H1323 Israel H3478 went H3212 (H8799) four H702
days H3117 each H3117 year H3117 H8141 lament H8567 (H8763) daughter
H1323 Jephthah H3316 Gileadite H1569
yearly - Heb. from yea...
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Judges 11:39 a
‘And so it was that at the end of two months she returned to her
father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. And
she had not known man.'
Obedient to her calling...
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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...
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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,_ rogues and rakes. The Hebrews...
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_I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back._
RETREAT IMPOSSIBLE
I. what we have done. “I have opened my mouth unto the Lord_._”
1. We have opened our mouths before the Lord, first,...
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_JEPHTHAH’S VOW_
(Judges 11:30; Judges 11:34)
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 11:30. VOWED A VOW UNTO THE LORD.] He looked
entirely to Jehovah for victory (Psalms 18:2; Psalms 18:6; Psalms
18:29, etc.; Psalm...
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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; Judges 13:25;
Judges 14:19; Judges 15:14). HE PASSED O...
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He was a mighty man of valour, he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead
begat Jephthah. And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and the wife's sons
when they grew up, they threw Jephthah out, and they said, Yo...
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1 Kings 9:25; Judges 5:11...
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The daughter of Jephthah — It is really astonishing, that the
general stream of commentators, should take it for granted, that
Jephthah murdered his daughter! But, says Mr. Henry, "We do not find
any...
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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...