What does Judges 11:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now Jephthaha the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah."
CHAPTER XI _The history of Jephthah, and his covenant with the Gileadites_, 1-10. _He is elected by the people_, 11. _Sends an embassy to the king of the Ammonites, to inquire why_ _they invaded...
The history of Jephthah appears to be an independent history inserted by the compiler of the Book of Judges. Judges 11:4 introduce the Ammonite war without any apparent reference to Judges 10:17. A ge...
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 (Judges...
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...
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 o...
_Jephthah_ Hebr. _Yiphtaḥ_, probably a shortened form of Yiphtaḥ-el = _God will open_; cf. Pethah-iah Ezra 10:23. The full form occurs as the name of a town Joshua 19:14; Joshua 19:27. _the Gileadite...
_JEPHTHAH'S COVENANT WITH THE GILEADITES: HIS VOW; WHICH HE PERFORMETH ON HIS DAUGHTER._ _Before Christ 1186._ _JUDGES 11:1. THE SON OF AN HARLOT_— See the note on Joshua 2:1. Josephus understands...
_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...
_NOW JEPHTHAH THE GILEADITE WAS A MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR, AND HE WAS THE SON OF AN HARLOT: AND GILEAD BEGAT JEPHTHAH._ Jephthah - `opener.' SON OF AN HARLOT - a concubine, or foreigner; implying an i...
As the son of a harlot, Jephthah has no legal standing in the tribe. GILEAD BEGAT] Throughout the rest of the narrative Gilead is the name of a place, not a person (cp. Judges 12:7). Here Gilead's 'so...
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’s...
THE SON OF AN HARLOT. — The words are so rendered in all the versions, and can hardly have any other meaning. If an inferior wife had been meant, the word used would not have been _zonah,_ but _pilges...
וְ יִפְתָּ֣ח הַ גִּלְעָדִ֗י הָיָה֙ גִּבֹּ֣ור חַ֔יִל וְ ה֖וּא בֶּן ־אִשָּׁ֣ה זֹונָ֑ה וַ יֹּ֥ולֶד...
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 Hebr...
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 inju...
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...
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...
Harlot. Hebrew Zona, Josue ii. 1. It is uncertain whether she was properly a concubine, or a wife of inferior dignity. She lived with her son in the house of Galaad; (Calmet) at least the latter was i...
CONTENTS The history of the Judges during the commonwealth of Israel, and their government is continued. In this chapter we have the relation of Jephthuh's administration. His birth, valor, contest w...
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...
_JEPHTHAH_ ‘Jephthah the Gileadite.’ Judges 11:1 I. ONE THING IS PLAIN ON THE SURFACE OF THE HISTORY: JEPHTHAH WAS NEITHER A GODLESS NOR A SELFISH MAN.—Not godless, for we find in the brief annals...
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 Israe...
NOW JEPHTHAH THE GILEADITE WAS A MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR,.... Jephthah had his name of Gileadite either from his father, whose name was Gilead, or from the city and country in which he was born, which is...
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he [was] the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. Ver. 1. _Was a mighty man of valour._] _Magna vi animi et corporis fuit,_ as Sallu...
_Jephthah the Gileadite_ So called, either from his father Gilead, or from the mountain, or city of Gilead, the place of his birth. _Son of a harlot_ That is, a bastard. And though such were not ordin...
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...
Now Jephthah, the Gileadite, was a mighty man of valor, distinguished for courage and energy, BUT HE WAS THE SON OF AN HARLOT, born outside of wedlock; AND GILEAD, one of the prominent men of the trib...
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 prostitut...
AN HARLOT: _ Heb._ a woman, an harlot...
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...
JUDGES CHAPTER 11 Jephthah dwells in the land of Tob, JUDGES 11:1; is called by the elders of Gilead to command in chief against the Ammonites, JUDGES 11:4. He demands to be continued head after the w...
Judges 11:1 Jephthah H3316 Gileadite H1569 man H1368 valor H2428 son H1121 harlot H802 H2181 (H8802) Gilead H1568 begot H3205 (H8686) Jephthah H3316 Jephthah - Hebrews 11:32, called Jephthae a mighty...
CHAPTER 11 JEPHTHAH THE GILEADITE. This chapter gives an account of a further judge of Israel, Jephthah, of his descent and character, of the call the elders of Gilead gave him to be their general an...
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,_ rogues and rakes. The Hebrews...
_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 11:1 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. Judges 11:3; compare...
_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 11:1 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...
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...
2 Kings 5:1; Hebrews 11:32; Joshua 2:1; Judges 6:12...
Gileadite — So called, either from his father Gilead, or from the mountain, or city of Gilead, the place of his birth. Son of a harlot — That is, a bastard. And though such were not ordinarily to ente...