Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Judges 11:29
Verse Judges 11:29. Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah] The Lord qualified him for the work he had called him to do, and thus gave him the most convincing testimony that his cause was good.
Verse Judges 11:29. Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah] The Lord qualified him for the work he had called him to do, and thus gave him the most convincing testimony that his cause was good.
THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD ... - This was the sanctification of Jephthah for his office of Judge and savior of God’s people Israel. Compare Judges 6:34; Judges 13:25. The declaration is one of the di...
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 ...
JEPHTHAH'S VOW, AND HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMMON. Judges 11:29 b is probably an editorial note, a somewhat unskilful attempt to fasten the new cloth (Judges 11:12) into the old garment (Moore.) Jephthah...
THE SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_ (feminine.) See App-9. UNTO. This word is read in the text of some codices with Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate....
An editorial hand has attempted to pick up the thread of the narrative after the long interpolation, Judges 11:12. _Then the spirit of the Lord came upon_ J. may well have stood originally at the begi...
_Jephthah's Vow Judges 11:29-31_ 29 Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over...
_THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH, AND HE PASSED OVER GILEAD, AND MANASSEH, AND PASSED OVER MIZPEH OF GILEAD, AND FROM MIZPEH OF GILEAD HE PASSED OVER UNTO THE CHILDREN OF AMMON._ Then...
JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW 1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD] cp. 7:34. In Judges 11:11 Jephthah and all the people are already at Mizpeh. If these words stand in the right place, they must refer to further journeys taken by Jephthah to r...
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’...
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH. — A weaker expression is used than that which is applied to Gideon in Judges 6:34. It implies, as R. Tanchum rightly says, that he was endowed with the coura...
וַ תְּהִ֤י עַל ־יִפְתָּח֙ ר֣וּחַ יְהוָ֔ה וַ
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...
The coming of the Spirit of the Lord on Jephthah proved he was God's appointed leader. He immediately rose up and traveled through the area gathering an army to fight for the freedom of Gilead. This a...
Then the (l) Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon. ...
Therefore. Hebrew, "then." Septuagint, "and." The refusal of the king of Ammon was not precisely the reason why God endued Jephte with shuch wisdom and courage, though we may say that it was the occas...
I pray the Reader to remark Jephthah's anointing. It was the same spirit which came upon Jephthah, which descended upon the Lord Jesus, only with this difference, on Jephthah, according to the measure...
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...
THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH,.... The spirit of strength, as the Targum; of fortitude of mind, of uncommon valour and courage, and of zeal for God and Israel, and against their enemi...
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon. Ver....
_The Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah_ The people had chosen him for their leader, and promised to continue him their chief governor, as they had already made him; and now God publicly declares his...
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...
Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, through the entire country east of Jordan, in order to muster as large an army as possible, AND PASSED OVER MIZP...
JEPHTHAH, AFTER HIS VICTORY, KEEPS HIS VOW...
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...
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON JEPHTHAH; endued him with a more than ordinary courage and resolution. MANASSEH, i.e. _Bashan_, which the half tribe of Manasseh, beyond Jordan, inhabited, JOSHUA 20:8...
Judges 11:29 Spirit H7307 LORD H3068 Jephthah H3316 through H5674 (H8799) Gilead H1568 Manasseh H4519 through H5
‘ Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.' Jephthah was...
JEPHTHAH Jephthah seems to have been judge only of northeast Israel....
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,
_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...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 11:29 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WAS UPON. See note on 14:6. ⇐
_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...
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 Chronicles 12:18; 1 Samuel 10:10; 1 Samuel 16:13; Judges 10:17;...
Spirit came — Indued him with a more than ordinary courage and resolution. Manasseh — That is, Bashan, which the half tribe of Manasseh beyond Jordan inhabited. Mizpeh of Gilead — So called to disting...
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...