Land. Jephte acts with a prudence and moderation which could not have been expected from one who had been brought up amid the noise of arms. (Calmet) --- He gives notice that he has been recognized by the lawful proprietors of the land for their head; and therefore begs that that Ammonites would desist from their unjust warfare. If words prove ineffectual, he must then try the fortune of a battle. (Haydock)
Verse Judges 11:12. _JEPTHAH SENT MESSENGERS_] He wished the Ammonites to explain their own motives for undertaking a war against Israel; as then the justice of his cause would appear more forcibly to...
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 ...
JEPHTHAH'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE KING OF AMMON. As generally happens, there was a war of diplomacy before the war of swords. The history of 300 years was reviewed in an attempt to settle a present que...
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...
_with me_ i.e. the people represented by Jephthah; see on Judges 11:17. _my land … from Arnon even unto Jabbok_ The Arnon, now called Wadi el-Môjîb, descends from the E. and flows into the Dead Sea at...
_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...
_AND JEPHTHAH SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, SAYING, WHAT HAST THOU TO DO WITH ME, THAT THOU ART COME AGAINST ME TO FIGHT IN MY LAND?_ Jephthah sent messengers unto the king...
JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW 1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
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’...
WHAT HAST THOU TO DO WITH ME? — Literally, _What to me and to thee?_ (Joshua 22:24; 2 Samuel 16:10, &c.). Jephthah speaks in the name of Israel, as an acknowledged prince. His message resembles the pr...
וַ יִּשְׁלַ֤ח יִפְתָּח֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל ־מֶ֥לֶךְ...
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...
A WARNING FROM HISTORY Judges 11:12 Jephthah acted with great prudence. Before rushing into war, he endeavored to argue the matter at issue in peaceful and courteous terms. In answer to the contentio...
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...
Jephthah then tried to use diplomatic means to avert a war. He sent to the king of the Ammonites and asked why he had come to fight against their land. His answer was that Israel had taken away his la...
I include the whole of the treaty, which passed between Jephthah, and the leader of the Ammonites, in one point of view, not only for the sake of shortness, but also for the sake of connection. In the...
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...
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...
AND JEPHTHAH SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,.... Being now declared chief and sole governor of the tribes on the other side Jordan, he acted in character, and as such sent mess...
And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land? Ver. 12. _And Jephthah sent messengers._]...
_Jephthah sent messengers_ That is, ambassadors, to prevent bloodshed, that so the Israelites might be acquitted before God and men from all the sad consequences of the war; and herein he showed great...
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...
Jephthah's Message to the Ammonites...
And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, for he intended to remove every suspicion as though he had ruthlessly violated the Lord's command not to molest the children of Amm...
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...
12-28 One instance of the honour and respect we owe to God, as our God, is, rightly to employ what he gives us to possess. Receive it from him, use it for him, and part with it when he calls for it....
MESSENGERS, i.e. ambassadors, to prevent bloodshed, and make peace, as far as in him lay; that so the Israelites might be acquitted before God and men from all the sad consequences of this war: herein...
Judges 11:12 Jephthah H3316 sent H7971 (H8799) messengers H4397 king H4428 people H1121 Ammon H5983 saying H559 ...
‘ And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What have you to do with me that you are come to me to fight against my land.” ' Jephthah's fighting experience was immedi...
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...
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,
_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...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 11:12 In__ an impressive speech, Jephthah answered the Ammonite charge (v. Judges 11:13) that Israel had unlawfully seized the disputed territory. Jephthah asserted that “th
_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...
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...
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...
2 Kings 14:8; Deuteronomy 2:26; Deuteronomy 20:10; Deuteronomy 20:11;...
Messengers — That is, ambassadors, to prevent blood — shed, that so the Israelites might be acquitted before God and men, from all the sad consequences of this war; herein he shewed great prudence, an...