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Verse Judges 11:3. _THERE WERE GATHERED VAIN MEN TO JEPHTHAH_]
אנשים ריקים _anashim reykim, empty men _- persons destitute
of good sense, and profligate in their manners. The word may, however,
mean i...
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THE LAND OF TOB - To the north of Gilead, toward Damascus. The
readiness with which Jephthah took to the freebooter’s life gives us
a lively picture of the unsettled times in which he lived....
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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 ...
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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...
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FROM. Hebrew "from the face of". Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ App-6.
TOB. fruitful land. East of Syria.
VAIN. unemployed, or bankrupt....
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_the land of Tob_ A Syrian district near the territory of Gilead
(Judges 11:5), 2Sa 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8; cf. 1Ma 5:13; 1Ma 5:2 Mace.
12:17 (probably the same place). A town now called eṭ-Ṭaiyibe
betwe...
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_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...
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_THEN JEPHTHAH FLED FROM HIS BRETHREN, AND DWELT IN THE LAND OF TOB:
AND THERE WERE GATHERED VAIN MEN TO JEPHTHAH, AND WENT OUT WITH HIM._
Jephthah ... dwelt in the land of Tob - on the north of Gile...
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JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW
1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
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TOB] must have been near Gilead, probably to the NE. (cp. 2 Samuel
10:6). VAIN MEN] see on Judges 9:4. 'Broken men,' such as came to
David at the cave of Adullam (1 Samuel 22:2). WENT OUT] on forays....
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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’...
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DWELT IN THE LAND OF TOB. — A Syrian district on the north-east of
Peræa (2 Samuel 10:6). It is referred to in 1Ma. 5:13; 2Ma. 12:17.
The name means “good,” but lends no sanction to the idle
allegorie...
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וַ יִּבְרַ֤ח יִפְתָּח֙ מִ פְּנֵ֣י
אֶחָ֔יו וַ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of (b)
Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and (c) went out
with him.
(b) Where the governor of the country was called Tob....
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Tob, to the north of Galaad, of which it is a part. (Josephus) --- It
is called Tubim, 1 Machabees v. 13. See 2 Kings x. 6. --- And robbers.
This is a farther explication of rekim, poor vain fellows,...
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The gathering of vain men unto Jephthah, is not unsimilar to David's
army, when he became their captain, when everyone that was in
distress, and everyone that was in debt, and everyone that was
discon...
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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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THEN JEPHTHAH FLED FROM HIS BRETHREN,.... Being ill used by them, and
a man of spirit and courage, and could not bear to be treated with
contempt, nor to live in a dependence on others, and therefore...
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Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob:
and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
Ver. 3. _Dwelt in the land of Tob._] Or, Of the Tubiemites, as...
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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...
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Then Jephthah, unable to find support among the elders of Gilead, FLED
FROM HIS BRETHREN, an outcast of society, AND DWELT IN THE LAND OF
TOB, a region toward the northeast, on the boundary of Syria;...
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JEPHTHAH CHOSEN AS LEADER AGAINST AMMON...
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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...
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FROM:
_ Heb._ from the face
IN PROCESS OF TIME:
_ Heb._ after days...
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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...
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THE LAND OF TOB, the name either of the land or territory, or of the
man who was the owner or ruler of it. This place was in or near
Gilead, as appears by the speedy intercourse which here was between...
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Judges 11:3 Jephthah H3316 fled H1272 (H8799) from H6440 brothers H251
dwelt H3427 (H8799) land H776 Tob...
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‘ Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelt in the land of
Tob, and there were gathered adventurers to Jephthah, and went out
with him.'
So Jephthah had to leave his home and make his living as...
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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...
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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,
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_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...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 11:1 JEPHTHAH was a MIGHTY WARRIOR, but his
illegitimacy caused his half brothers to force him out of his
father’s house. He attracted WORTHLESS FELLOWS (v....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 22:2; 1 Samuel 27:2; 1 Samuel 30:22; Acts 17:5; Job 30:1;...
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Of Tob — The name either of the land, or of the man who was the
owner or ruler of it. This place was in, or near Gilead, as appears by
the speedy intercourse which here was between Jephthah and the
Is...