George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Judges 11:2
Sons. Grabe's Septuagint determines the number to be "two." (Haydock) --- They caused the magistrates to declare that Jephte should not partake in the inheritance, ver. 7. (Menochius)
Sons. Grabe's Septuagint determines the number to be "two." (Haydock) --- They caused the magistrates to declare that Jephte should not partake in the inheritance, ver. 7. (Menochius)
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 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...
STRANGE. foreign....
_And Gilead's wife_ i.e. the lawful wife in distinction from _another woman_(1 Chronicles 2:26). In Judges 11:7 it is the elders of Gilead, not his half-brothers, who drove Jephthah out of his home; t...
_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 GILEAD'S WIFE BARE HIM SONS; AND HIS WIFE'S SONS GREW UP, AND THEY THRUST OUT JEPHTHAH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NOT INHERIT IN OUR FATHER'S HOUSE; FOR THOU ART THE SON OF A STRANGE WOMAN._...
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’...
THEY THRUST OUT JEPHTHAH. — This was in perfect accordance with the law (Deuteronomy 23:2), and with family rules and traditions. Abraham had sent the son of Hagar and the sons of Keturah to found oth...
וַ תֵּ֧לֶד אֵֽשֶׁת ־גִּלְעָ֛ד לֹ֖ו בָּנִ֑ים ו
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...
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...
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 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...
And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou [art] the son of a (a) strange wom...
It was remarked in the preceding chapter, that the men of Gilead were consulting who to appoint as their leader, to go out with them to battle against the Ammonites. The Lord was about to appear for t...
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 GILEAD'S WIFE BARE HIM SONS,.... It seems that, after the birth of Jephthah, Gilead took him a lawful wife, who bore him sons: AND HIS WIFE'S SONS GREW UP; to the estate of men: AND THEY THRUST...
And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou [art] the son of a strange woman....
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...
And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, expelled him from the home as not on the same level with them, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NOT INHERIT IN...
JEPHTHAH CHOSEN AS LEADER AGAINST AMMON...
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...
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...
THE GILEADITE; so called, either from his father Gilead, JOSHUA 17:1,2, or from the mountain or city of Gilead, the place of his birth or abode. THE SON OF AN HARLOT, i.e. a bastard; for though such w...
Judges 11:2 Gileads H1568 wife H802 bore H3205 (H8799) sons H1121 wifes H802 sons H1121 up H1431 ...
‘ And Gilead's wife bore him sons, and when his wife's sons grew up they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall not inherit in our father's house. For you are the son of another woman.' It wo...
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 11:1 JEPHTHAH was a MIGHTY WARRIOR, but his illegitimacy caused his half brothers to force him out of his father’s house. He attracted WORTHLESS FELLOWS (v....
_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...
Deuteronomy 23:2; Galatians 4:30; Genesis 12:10; Proverbs 2:16;...