Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 11:11
All his words — Or, all his matters, the whole business. Before the Lord — That is, before the public congregation, wherewith God was usually, and then especially present.
All his words — Or, all his matters, the whole business. Before the Lord — That is, before the public congregation, wherewith God was usually, and then especially present.
Verse Judges 11:11. _JEPTHAH WENT WITH THE ELDERS_] The _elders_ had chosen him for their head; but, to be valid, this choice must be confirmed by the _people_; therefore, it is said, _the people mad...
JEPHTHAH UTTERED ALL HIS WORDS BEFORE THE LORD IN MIZPEH - This phrase designates the presence of the tabernacle, or the ark, or of the high priest with Urim and Thummim Judges 20:26; Judges 21:2; Jos...
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...
WITH. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "unto". BEFORE THE LORD. in the presence of Jehovah. IN MIZPEH. Compare Judges 10:17....
The second half of the verse comes awkwardly after the announcement of Jephthah's promotion; and as it stands _his words_must refer to Judges 11:9. But would he repeat them to give additional solemnit...
JEPHTHAH UTTERED ALL HIS WORDS BEFORE THE LORD— It is evident from these words, that Jephthah was a man of true religion, and had a serious regard for God; since, though the people had done all that w...
_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...
_THEN JEPHTHAH WENT WITH THE ELDERS OF GILEAD, AND THE PEOPLE MADE HIM HEAD AND CAPTAIN OVER THEM: AND JEPHTHAH UTTERED ALL HIS WORDS BEFORE THE LORD IN MIZPEH._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
BEFORE THE LORD] in the holy place at Mizpeh, so that there would be no going back from the bargain. 12-28. Jephthah and the Ammonite chieftain. For this appeal to the enemy's sense of right cp. Numb...
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’...
THE PEOPLE MADE HIM HEAD AND CAPTAIN. — The people ratified the promise of the elders, and solemnly inaugurated him as both the civil and military leader of the Trans-jordanic tribes. UTTERED ALL HIS...
וַ יֵּ֤לֶךְ יִפְתָּח֙ עִם ־זִקְנֵ֣י גִלְעָ֔ד...
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...
Prince. Hebrew, "head or captain," (Haydock) to carry on the war, with a promise that he should be the judge of all the people, if he succeeded. (Calmet) --- Words. Plans, explaining how he would firs...
It is said of the adored Redeemer, that Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest, but was called of God, as was Aaron. Hebrews 5:4. It is beautiful, and even glorious in the contemplatio...
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...
THEN JEPHTHAH WENT WITH THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL,.... From the land of Tob into the land of Gilead, his native country: AND THE PEOPLE MADE HIM HEAD AND CAPTAIN OVER THEM; ratified and confirmed what the...
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh. Ver. 11. _Then Jephthah went._] He not...
_The Lord be witness The Lord be a hearer;_ so the Hebrew word is. Whatever we speak, it concerns us to remember that God is a hearer! _The people made him head_, &c. They confirmed in full assembly,...
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...
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them, leader in both peace and war; AND JEPHTHAH UTTERED ALL HIS WORDS BEFORE THE LORD IN MIZPEH, he repeate...
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...
JEPHTHAH UTTERED ALL HIS WORDS, objectively so called; i.e. all that was spoken, not only by him, but also by the elders of Gilead concerning him, and concerning this whole transaction, and the condit...
Judges 11:11 Jephthah H3316 went H3212 (H8799) elders H2205 Gilead H1568 people H5971 made H7760 (H8799) head...
‘ Then Jephthah went with the elders of Israel, and the people made him head and commander-in-chief over them, and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.' Satisfied with their oath Jeph...
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 11:11 JEPHTHAH SPOKE ALL HIS WORDS BEFORE THE LORD. Jephthah displayed a strange mixture of faith and foolishness. While he acknowledged God (see vv....
_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...
1 Kings 3:7; 1 Samuel 10:17; 1 Samuel 11:15; 1 Samuel 23:9;...