Judges 12:1
_THE EPHRAIMITES EXPOSTULATE WITH JEPHTHAH, AND THREATEN TO BURN HIS HOUSE. JEPHTHAH DISCOMFITS THEM: HE DIES, AND IS SUCCEEDED BY OTHER JUDGES._ _Before Christ 1180._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE EPHRAIMITES EXPOSTULATE WITH JEPHTHAH, AND THREATEN TO BURN HIS HOUSE. JEPHTHAH DISCOMFITS THEM: HE DIES, AND IS SUCCEEDED BY OTHER JUDGES._ _Before Christ 1180._... [ Continue Reading ]
I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS— A strong phrase; which signifies, _I exposed myself to the utmost hazard:_ the expression seems peculiar to the eastern writers; for Casaubon remarks, that among all the Greek and Roman writers he never met with it, except once in Zenarchus. See Bishop Patrick.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAY, NOW, SHIBBOLETH— The word has two senses in the Hebrew; namely, _an ear of corn,_ and _floods of water,_ Psalms 69:2. It is used in the latter sense here; and the test which the Gileadites put the Ephraimites to was to bid them say, "Let me pass over the water." The pronunciation of words of th... [ Continue Reading ]
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 read, _In the city of_ _Gilead._ It is the Chaldee alone that reads, _In the cities._ He observes, t... [ Continue Reading ]