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; the present verse seems to be an attempt to provide some account of Jephthah's antecedents by inference from his brethren(properly his tribesmen, Judges 14:3) in Judges 11:3, and from Judges 11:7.

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