Judges 11:6
What meaning of the judges 11:6 in the Bible?
What does Judges 11:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon."
What does Judges 11:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon."
Verse Judges 11:6. _COME, AND BE OUR CAPTAIN_] The Israelites were assembled in Mizpeh, but were without a captain to lead them against the Ammonites. And we find, from the conclusion of the preceding...
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...
_chief_ i.e. commander in war, Joshua 10:24; Daniel 11:18 (RVm.); the same word as the Arabic _ḳâḍi_....
_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...
_AND THEY SAID UNTO JEPHTHAH, COME, AND BE OUR CAPTAIN, THAT WE MAY FIGHT WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
JEPHTHAH'S VICTORY OVER THE AMMONITES. HIS RASH VOW 1-11. The Choice of Jephthah....
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...
OUR CAPTAIN. — The word used is _katzin_ (Joshua 10:24; Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 22:3), which is specially a leader in time of war; but Jephthah demands something more — namely, to be their “head” (_rosh_)...
וַ יֹּאמְר֣וּ לְ יִפְתָּ֔ח לְכָ֕ה וְ הָיִ֥יתָה לָּ֖נוּ לְ קָצִ֑ין וְ נִֽלָּחֲמָ֖ה בִּ בְנֵ֥י...
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...
And they said unto Jephthah, (e) Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. (e) Men are often forced to ask for help from them, whom before they refused....
Reader! spiritualize this passage, and see if the cry of the soul to Jesus in the hour of extremity is not similar. Before the soul is brought to this, we are like Gilead, without an head. But when ru...
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 Israe...
AND THEY SAID UNTO JEPHTHAH, COME AND BE OUR CAPTAIN,.... The general of their army, to conduct and lead on their forces; they did not propose him to be their king, being convinced by Abimelech's cond...
And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. Ver. 6. _Come, and be our captain._] See Trapp on " Jdg 11:2 "....
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 CHOSEN AS LEADER AGAINST AMMON...
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...
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...
OUR CAPTAIN: they say not _our king_; for the experience of Abimelech's kingship had cooled their appetite in that particular; but our captain....
Judges 11:6 said H559 (H8799) Jephthah H3316 Come H3212 (H8798) commander H7101 fight H3898 (H8735) people H1121 Ammon H5983...
‘ And they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our general, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.” ' Their aim was that he should be general of their fighting men and bring his men with him. Victo...
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 11:6 COME AND BE OUR LEADER. God did not “raise up” Jephthah, as he had previous judges (Judges 3:9, Judges 3:15; Judges 4:6; Judges 6:14). The people appointed a leader without...
_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...