Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Judges 11:38
And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months; and she went with her companions and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months; and she went with her companions and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
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 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...
_AND SHE SAID UNTO HIM, MY FATHER, IF THOU HAST OPENED THY MOUTH UNTO THE LORD, DO TO ME ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH HATH PROCEEDED OUT OF THY MOUTH; FORASMUCH AS THE LORD HATH TAKEN VENGEANCE FOR THEE OF...
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’...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר לֵ֔כִי וַ יִּשְׁלַ֥ח אֹותָ֖הּ שְׁ
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 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...
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...
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...
_Mountains. Such places were frequented in times of mourning, Jeremias xxxi. 15., and Isaias xv. 2. (Calmet) --- Jepthe allowed his daughter this short respite, without any offence, (Deuteronomy xxiii...
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...
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 HE SAID, GO,.... He granted her request at once: AND HE SENT HER AWAY FOR TWO MONTHS; as she desired: AND SHE WENT WITH HER COMPANIONS, AND BEWAILED HER VIRGINITY UPON THE MOUNTAINS; for the spa...
And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. Ver. 38. _Upon the mountains._] Which were solitary places, wh...
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 11:38 said H559 (H8799) Go H3212 (H8798) away H7971 (H8799) two H8147 months H2320 went...
‘ And he said, “Go.” And he sent her away for two moon periods. And she departed, she and her companions, and she bewailed her virginity on the mountains.' Jephthah granted her request immediately. An...
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,
_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,...
_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 ...
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;...
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...
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...