Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 12:2
When I called — Hence it appears, that he had craved their assistance, which they had denied; though that be not elsewhere expressed.
When I called — Hence it appears, that he had craved their assistance, which they had denied; though that be not elsewhere expressed.
WHEN I CALLED YOU ... - This circumstance is not related in the main narrative. It is likely to have occurred when Jephthah was first chosen leader by the Gileadites, and when Ephraim would probably i...
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)...
XII. 1- 6. CIVIL WAR BETWEEN GILEAD AND EPHRAIM. The Ephraimites hankered after the primacy among the tribes. Their _amour propre_ was easily offended, their anger quickly enflamed. Instead of praisin...
_were at great strife with the children of Ammon_ lit. -I was at strife, I and my people, and the children of A. exceedingly." Supply AFFLICTED ME in the last clause, with LXX. cod. A, Luc. etc., Syro...
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...
_Ephraimites Slain by Jephthah Judges 12:1-6_ And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the childre...
_AND JEPHTHAH SAID UNTO THEM, I AND MY PEOPLE WERE AT GREAT STRIFE WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON; AND WHEN I CALLED YOU, YE DELIVERED ME NOT OUT OF THEIR HANDS._ When I called you, ye delivered me not o...
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...
WHEN I CALLED YOU] It would seem that Jephthah had done more than simply rouse Gilead: see on Judges 11:29....
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...
I AND MY PEOPLE WERE AT GREAT STRIFE WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON. — Literally, _I was a man of strife, I and my people, and the children of Ammon exceedingly._ We have a similar phrase in Jeremiah 15:1...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יִפְתָּח֙ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם אִ֣ישׁ רִ֗יב...
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...
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....
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...
Ruth 12:1-15 once again reveals the tragedy pride can lead us into (compare Joshua 17:14-18 and Ruth 8:1-3). The tribe of Ephraim approached Jephthah with threats because he had not called them to bat...
_Strife, to defend our property. --- I called. Drusius doubts whether he sent an express invitation to Ephraim, otherwise how durst they assert that they had not been summoned? (Calmet) --- But we may...
If the Reader recollects the dying benediction of the Patriarch over the two sons of Joseph, how under the spirit of prophecy Jacob put Ephraim before Manasseh, he will here trace the fulfillment of i...
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 SAID UNTO THEM, I AND MY PEOPLE WERE AT A GREAT STRIFE WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,.... As to the cause of the war, or the reason of his going over to fight the children of Ammon, it was a...
And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands. Ver. 2. _And Jephthah said unto them._] Ap...
_When I called you, ye delivered me not_ He answers them with great mildness, but denies their charge. He affirms that he had begged their assistance, but they had refused to grant it. _When I saw tha...
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...
And Jephthah, in an endeavor to make the situation clear to the arrogant meddlers, SAID UNTO THEM, I AND MY PEOPLE WERE AT GREAT STRIFE WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, literally, "A man of war was I, I an...
THE DEFEAT OF THE EPHRAIMITES...
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...
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...
Hence it appears that he craved their assistance, which they denied, though that be not elsewhere expressed....
Judges 12:2 Jephthah H3316 said H559 (H8799) people H5971 were H1961 (H8804) great H3966 struggle H376...
‘ And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at a great strife with the children of Ammon, and when I called you, you did not save me out of their hands.” Jephthah had no thought of submitting....
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...
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...
_Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee?_ SHAMS AND FRAUDS Though these Ephraimites are long since dead and gone, there are many E...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Judges 11:12...