JEPHTHAH. He will deliver. Note the Fig, _Epanadiplosis_ (App-6), to call attention to the facts of this verse, introducing Jephthah. All was irregular: no king, no judge, no priest. GILEADITE. son of the man Gilead. MAN. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGE. foreign.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM. Hebrew "from the face of". Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ App-6. TOB. fruitful land. East of Syria. VAIN. unemployed, or bankrupt.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE WITNESS. be. hearer.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "unto". BEFORE THE LORD. in the presence of Jehovah. IN MIZPEH. Compare Judges 10:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID.. special reading (_Sevir_, App-34) and some codices read "and they said". Hebrew text. he.... [ Continue Reading ]
ME. Most codices, with Syriac, read "us" as in Judges 11:19. Compare Numbers 20:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT ALONG. went on. BUT CAME NOT. Compare Numbers 21:13; Numbers 21:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL SENT. Compare Deuteronomy 2:26. US. Compare Judges 11:17 and Deuteronomy 2:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUSTED. stayed or rested on. See App-69. COAST. border.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHOULDEST THOU... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ IT. him: i.e. Israel. Being _masculine_ (in Hebrew), cannot refer to the land of Judges 11:21. and _singular,_ so that it cannot refer to coasts of Judges 11:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILT NOT THOU... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. Jephthah does not recognize Chemosh as. god. The emphasis is on "thy" and "our", and is the argument _a fortiori_: and, taking them on their own ground, it is the _argumentum ad hominem._... [ Continue Reading ]
ART THOU. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ Compare Numbers 22:2.Deuteronomy 23:4.Joshua 24:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE HUNDRED YEARS. Not. "round number". See App-50.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_ (feminine.) See App-9. UNTO. This word is read in the text of some codices with Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate.... [ Continue Reading ]
VOWED. VOW. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). made. solemn vow. See notes on Leviticus 27:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHATSOEVER. This is _masculine._ But the issuer from his house was _feminine._ Thus his rash vow was impossible of fulfillment, and was to be repented of. AND. or. The Hebrew (_Vav_) is. connective Particle, and is rendered in many different ways. It is also used as. _disjunctive,_ and is often rend... [ Continue Reading ]
TIMBRELS. drums. See note on Exodus 15:20. BESIDE HER. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ App-6. The fact is stated in two ways, in order to emphasize it.... [ Continue Reading ]
OPENED MY MOUTH. Hebraism for making. formal, prepared, and solemn statement.... [ Continue Reading ]
GO UP AND DOWN. wander about.... [ Continue Reading ]
DID WITH HER ACCORDING TO HIS VOW WHICH HE HAD VOWED. He did not offer her as. burnt offering; for Jehovah could not accept _th_. _t_. Therefore Jephthah must have _dedicated_ her to the LORD by. perpetual virginity. Such. vow was provided for in Leviticus 27. See note on Judges 11:31. AND SHE KNEW... [ Continue Reading ]
TO LAMENT. to rehearse with, as in Judges 5:11. to celebrate [her dedication] in praises. FOUR DAYS IN. YEAR. Thus annually her friends "went", evidently to Jephthah's daughter, to rehearse with her this great event of her life: not of her death.... [ Continue Reading ]