Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Judges 11:34
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.
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.
Verse Judges 11:34. _WITH TIMBRELS AND WITH DANCES_] From this instance we find it was an ancient custom for women to go out to meet returning conquerors with musical instruments, songs, and dances;...
HIS DAUGHTER CAME OUT TO MEET HIM - The precise phrase of his vow Judges 11:31. She was his “only child,” a term of special endearment (see Jeremiah 6:26; Zechariah 12:10). The same word is used o
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 ...
_his daughter … with timbrels and with dances_ For women celebrating a victory cf. Exodus 15:20; 1 Samuel 18:6; Psalms 68:11. The last half of the verse is phrased with much beauty, lost in the transl...
_Jephthah Victory Judges 11:32-40_ 32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands. 33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till t...
_AND JEPHTHAH CAME TO MIZPEH UNTO HIS HOUSE, AND, BEHOLD, HIS DAUGHTER CAME OUT TO MEET HIM WITH TIMBRELS AND WITH DANCES: AND SHE WAS HIS ONLY CHILD; BESIDE HER HE HAD NEITHER SON NOR DAUGHTER._ Jep...
JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW 1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
CAME OUT TO MEET HIM] cp. Exodus 15:20; 1 Samuel 18:6....
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’...
BEHOLD, HIS DAUGHTER CAME OUT TO MEET HIM WITH TIMBRELS AND WITH DANCES. — As Miriam went to meet Moses (Exodus 15:20), and the women to meet Saul and David (1 Samuel 18:6). HIS ONLY CHILD. — This is...
וַ יָּבֹ֨א יִפְתָּ֣ח הַ מִּצְפָּה֮ אֶל ־בֵּית
THE TERRIBLE VOW Judges 11:12 AT every stage of their history the Hebrews were capable of producing men of passionate religiousness. And this appears as a distinction of the group of nations to which...
A SHADOWED VICTORY Judges 11:29 All the nations around were accustomed to offer those dearest to them in sacrifice to their cruel national deities. This was pre-eminently the case with the neighborin...
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...
With God's help, the Ammonites were subdued with a great slaughter. Jephthah's daughter, who was his only child, was the first to come out of his house to greet him and celebrate his victory with danc...
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with (n) timbrels and with dances: and she [was his] only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter....
Daughter. It seems the vow had been kept secret, as no precautions were taken to prevent the affliction of the general; (Calmet) and indeed to have done so, would have been injurious to God's providen...
Various have been the opinions of pious men, on the subject of Jephthah's vow, and the event of it. But as the Holy Ghost hath not thought proper to make the subject clear, it should seem that it is t...
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 CAME TO MIZPEH UNTO HIS HOUSE,.... Where he had uttered his words before the Lord, which had passed between him and the elders of Gilead, and from whence he set out to fight the children...
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she [was his] only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. Ver...
_Behold his daughter came out to meet him_ In concert with other virgins, as the manner was. _Alas, my daughter! thou art one of them that trouble me_ Before this I was troubled by my brethren, and si...
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...
JEPHTHAH, AFTER HIS VICTORY, KEEPS HIS VOW...
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels, castanets, AND WITH DANCES, an expression of highest joy, a springing and leaping for happines...
BESIDE HER HE HAD NEITHER SON NOR DAUGHTER: Or, he had not of his own either son or daughter. _Heb._ of himself...
29-40 Several important lessons are to be learned from Jephthah's vow. 1. There may be remainders of distrust and doubting, even in the hearts of true and great believers. 2. Our vows to God should n...
WITH TIMBRELS AND WITH DANCES; in consort with other virgins, as the manner was. See EXODUS 15:20 1SA 18....
Judges 11:34 Jephthah H3316 came H935 (H8799) house H1004 Mizpah H4709 daughter H1323 out H3318 (H8802) meet
‘ And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels, and with dances, and she was his only child, besides her he had neither son nor daughter.' Yah...
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...
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,
_I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back._ RETREAT IMPOSSIBLE I. what we have done. “I have opened my mouth unto the Lord_._” 1. We have opened our mouths before the Lord, first,...
_JEPHTHAH’S VOW_ (Judges 11:30; Judges 11:34) CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 11:30. VOWED A VOW UNTO THE LORD.] He looked entirely to Jehovah for victory ...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 11:29 THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH, as upon Othniel, upon Gideon, and upon Samson (Judges 3:16; Judges 6:34;...
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...
1 Samuel 18:6; 1 Samuel 18:7; Exodus 15:20; Jeremiah 31:13; Jeremia
His daughter — In concert with other virgins, as the manner was....
How could God allow Jephthah to offer his daughter up as a burnt offering? PROBLEM: Just before Jephthah went into battle against the people of Ammon, he made a vow to the Lord. The vow he made was th...