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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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JUDGED. First, deliverance; then rule.
BURIED IN ONE OF THE CITIES. City unnamed. Memory not honoured, though
mentioned in Hebrews 11:32. yet the last name in that list....
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The story of Jephthah is brought to a close with the formula which is
used of the Minor Judges, Judges 12:8-15; Judges 10:2-5.
_was buried in one of the cities of Gilead_ The text has _in the
cities o...
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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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IN ONE OF THE CITIES OF GILEAD— In the Hebrew it is, _in the cities
of Gilead,_ which has given rise to a thousand ridiculous rabbinical
fables. Houbigant well remarks, that all the ancient versions r...
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_AND JEPHTHAH JUDGED ISRAEL SIX YEARS. THEN DIED JEPHTHAH THE
GILEADITE, AND WAS BURIED IN ONE OF THE CITIES OF GILEAD._
Jephthah ... died. After a government of six years this 'mighty man
of valour...
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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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JUDGED ISRAEL. — The word implies that he was one of the recognised
_Shophetim,_ but there are no details to show in the case of any of
the judges either what were the limits of their jurisdiction or...
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וַ יִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט יִפְתָּ֛ח אֶת
־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שֵׁ֣שׁ...
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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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Jephthah judged Israel for six years. He was followed by Ibzan, who
judged for seven years and Elon, who God used over his people for ten
years. Abdon is said to be a Pirathonite, which was in Ephraim...
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His city. Maspha, in the country of Galaad, chap. xi. 34. (Calmet) ---
Hebrew, "in the cities;" whence the Rabbins have idly conjectured,
that parts of his body were interred in different cities out o...
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How quick in succession the departure of men! It may be said of all
God's servants, as it is of David, after he had served his own
generation, by the will of God, he fell on sleep, and was laid unto
h...
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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 JEPHTHAH JUDGED ISRAEL SIX YEARS,.... After the affair of the
Ephraimites, he was acknowledged by all Israel as their judge and
supreme governor, but did not live long; being perhaps depressed and...
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And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the
Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
Ver. 7. _And was buried in one of the cities of Gilead._] Heb., In
the cities;...
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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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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
cou...
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IN ONE OF THE CITIES, Heb. _in the cities_; the plural number put for
the singular, as GENESIS 19:29, where _Lot_ is said to dwell _in the
cities_, i.e. _one of the cities_; and 1 SAMUEL 18:21, _the t...
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Judges 12:7 Jephthah H3316 judged H8199 (H8799) Israel H3478 six H8337
years H8141 Jephthah H3316 Gileadite H1569 died
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‘ And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the
Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.'
Jephthah ‘judged Israel' for six years. That is was responsible for
acting as...
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Judges 10:6 JUDGES 12:7
I. As is frequently the case, the chief interest and instructiveness
of Jephthah's career gather round that event in his life which, to
himself and his contemporaries, might se...
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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 take...
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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 ga...