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Verse Judges 11:4. _THE CHILDREN OF AMMON MADE WAR_] They had invaded
the land of Israel, and were now encamped in Gilead. See Judges 10:17....
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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 ...
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JEPHTHAH'S YOUTH. Jephthah (God _opens_ the womb) is the Othello of
Israelitish history, a splendid barbarian, little blessed with the
soft phrase of peace, familiar with moving accidents by flood and...
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CHILDREN. sons....
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_after a while_ An indefinite mark of time as in Judges 14:8; Judges
15:1. The wording implies that the Ammonites have not been mentioned
before; this is another reason for believing that the introduc...
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_Jephthah Delivers Israel Judges 11:1-28_
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the
son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah,
2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wi...
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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’...
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IN PROCESS OF TIME. — Marg., _after days,_ implying the time between
Jephthah’s expulsion in early youth and his mature manhood.
THE CHILDREN OF AMMON MADE WAR. — The fact that this is introduced
as a...
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וַ יְהִ֖י מִ יָּמִ֑ים וַ יִּלָּחֲמ֥וּ
בְנֵֽי
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GILEAD AND ITS CHIEF
Judges 10:1; Judges 11:1
THE scene of the history shifts now to the east of Jordan, and we
learn first of the influence which the region called Gilead was coming
to have in Hebre...
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TURNING TO A REJECTED LEADER
Judges 10:17; Judges 11:1
The life of Jephthah is a great consolation to those whose birth has
been irregular. The sin of his parents was not allowed permanently to
injur...
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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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Jephthah was a brave man whose mother was a harlot. The men of Gilead
allowed his brethren to drive him away so he could not receive a part
of the inheritance of their father. He went to live in the l...
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Reader! spiritualize this passage, and see if the cry of the soul to
Jesus in the hour of extremity is not similar. Before the soul is
brought to this, we are like Gilead, without an head. But when ru...
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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
Israel...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS IN PROCESS OF TIME,.... Some time after Jephthah
had been expelled from his father's house, and he was become famous
for his martial genius, and military exploits; or at the close...
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_And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon
made war against Israel._
Ver. 4. _In process of time._] Heb., After days. Junius rendereth it,
_post annos illos,_ after those yea...
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_The children of Ammon made war against Israel_ The Ammonites had
oppressed them eighteen years, and now, when the Israelites begin to
make opposition, they commence a war against them. _The elders of...
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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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And it came to pass in process of time that the children of Ammon made
war against Israel, as related in the preceding chapter....
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JEPHTHAH CHOSEN AS LEADER AGAINST AMMON...
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JEPHTHAH; AN UNUSUAL LEADER
(vv. 1-11)
There was one man whose capacities for leadership stood out above
others in Israel, Jephthah a Gileadite, but he was not popular, being
the son of a prostitute...
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1-11 Men ought not to be blamed for their parentage, so long as they
by their personal merits roll away any reproach. God had forgiven
Israel, therefore Jephthah will forgive. He speaks not with conf...
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IN PROCESS OF TIME, Heb. _after some days_; or, _after a year_; _days_
being oft put for a _year_, as hath been showed, after that year
mentioned JUDGES 10:8. The Ammonites had vexed and oppressed the...
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Judges 11:4 time H3117 people H1121 Ammon H5983 war H3898 (H8735)
Israel H3478
in process of time - Heb. after days....
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‘ And it happened that, after a while, the children of Ammon made
war against Israel.'
This is the continuation of Judges 10:17. Having encamped and waited
for an approach from the elders of Gilead w...
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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,
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_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...
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_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...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 11:1
The narrative here goes back probably some years, to explain the
antecedents of Jephthah, who was about to play so prominent a part in
the ensuing history. Jephthah we learn wa...
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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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Judges 11:4...
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Made war — The Ammonites had vexed and oppressed them eighteen
years, and now the Israelites begin to make opposition, they commence
a war against them....