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Verse Judges 12:4. _AND FOUGHT WITH EPHRAIM_] Some commentators
suppose that there were _two_ battles in which the Ephraimites were
defeated: the first mentioned in the above clause; and the second
oc...
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BECAUSE THEY SAID ... - This passage is extremely obscure. Render: -
“The men of Gilead smote Ephraim, for they (the Gileadites) said, Ye
are. the fugitives of Ephraim. (Gilead lies between Ephraim an...
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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)...
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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...
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AND. This "and" is read in the text in some codices, with two early
printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate....
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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...
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_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...
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_THEN JEPHTHAH GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THE MEN OF GILEAD, AND FOUGHT
WITH EPHRAIM: AND THE MEN OF GILEAD_ _ SMOTE EPHRAIM, BECAUSE THEY
SAID, YE GILEADITES ARE FUGITIVES OF EPHRAIM AMONG THE EPHRAIMITES...
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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...
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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...
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ALL THE MEN OF GILEAD. — This probably implies the Eastern tribes
generally.
AND THE MEN OF GILEAD SMOTE EPHRAIM BECAUSE THEY SAID... — The
translation and the meaning are here highly uncertain. It s...
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וַ יִּקְבֹּ֤ץ יִפְתָּח֙ אֶת ־כָּל
־אַנְשֵׁ֣י גִלְעָ֔ד וַ יִּלָּ֖חֶם אֶת
־אֶפְרָ֑יִם וַ יַּכּוּ֩ אַנְשֵׁ֨י...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with
Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye
Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim (d) among the Ephraimit...
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_Fugitive. Vile and timid, so that his brethren around him might
destroy him at any time. (Menochius) --- Galaad dwelt in the midst of
the descendants of Joseph. (Haydock) --- But Ephraim, in despite,...
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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...
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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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THEN JEPHTHAH GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THE MEN OF GILEAD, AND FOUGHT WITH
EPHRAIM,.... The Ephraimites not being pacified with the account
Jephthah gave of the war between him and the children of Ammon,...
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with
Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye
Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites,...
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_The men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said_, &c. That which
provoked the army of Jephthah to kill so many of them was their
insulting language, added to their threats, whereby they reproached...
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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...
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THE DEFEAT OF THE EPHRAIMITES...
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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...
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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 coun...
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According to this translation, these words are a scoffing and
contemptuous expression of the Ephraimites concerning the Gileadites,
whom they call fugitives of Ephraim; the word _Ephraim_ being here
t...
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Judges 12:4 Jephthah H3316 together H6908 (H8799) men H582 Gilead
H1568 fought H3898 (H8735) Ephraim H669 men H582 Gilead H1568 defeated
H5221 (H8686) Ephraim H669 said H559 (H8804) Gileadites H1568
f...
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‘ Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought
with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim because they said,
“You Gileadites, you are fugitives of Ephraim in the midst of
E...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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 tak...
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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...
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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 g...
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1 Samuel 25:10; Deuteronomy 3:12; Judges 11:10; Nehemiah 4:4; Numbers
32:39; Numbers 32:40; Proverbs 12:13; Proverbs 15:1; Psalms 78:9...
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Ye Gileadites — These words are a contemptuous expression of the
Ephraimites concerning the Gileadites, whom they call fugitives of
Ephraim; the word Ephraim being here taken largely, as it comprehend...