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 (1 Chronicles 27:14). He judged for eight years.
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)...
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....
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
וַ יִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט יִפְתָּ֛ח אֶת ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שֵׁ֣שׁ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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;...
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 judged Israel six years, his jurisdiction apparently extending chiefly over the country east of Jordan. THEN DIED JEPHTHAH, THE GILEADITE, AND WAS BURIED IN ONE OF THE CITIES OF GILEAD. R...
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...
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...
Judges 12:7 Jephthah H3316 judged H8199 (H8799) Israel H3478 six H8337 years H8141 Jephthah H3316 Gileadite H1569 died
‘ 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...
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...
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...
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...