Judges 11:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head? ”

• Judges 11:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Jephthah made his own aggrandisement the condition of his delivering; his country. The circumstances of his birth and long residence in a pagan land were little favorable to the formation of the hi...

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• Judges 11:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Judges 11:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

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• Judges 11:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?

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• Judges 11:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of...

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• Judges 11:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jephthah's Victory over the Ammonites. His Rash Vow 1-11. The Choice of Jephthah.

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• Judges 11:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Shall I be your head? — We must not be surprised if Jephthah does not display a disinterested patriotism. He was only half an Israelite; he had been wronged by his father’s kin; he had spent long y...

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• Judges 11:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  GILEAD AND ITS CHIEF Judges 10:1-18 ; Judges 11:1-11 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...

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• Judges 11:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Turning to a Rejected Leader Judges 10:17-18 ; Judges 11:1-11 The life of Jephthah is a great consolation to those whose birth has been irregular. The sin of his parents was not allowed perman...

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• Judges 11:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 t...

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• Judges 11:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It is said of the adored Redeemer, that Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest, but was called of God, as was Aaron. Hebrews 5:4-5 . It is beautiful, and even glorious in the contemp...

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• Judges 11:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead ,.... Considering the former usage he had met with from them, and the character which he himself bore, and the fickleness of men, when their turn is serve...

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• Judges 11:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head? Ver. 9. Shall I be your he...

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• Judges 11:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If ye bring me home If ye recall me from this place where I am now settled to the place whence I was expelled. Shall I be your head? Will you really make good this promise? Jephthah was so solici...

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• Judges 11:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 prosti...

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• Judges 11:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.   5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead...

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• Judges 11:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If ye bring me home again; if you recall me from this place where I am now settled, to the place whence I was expelled. Shall I be your head? will you really make good this promise? Jephthah was...

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• Judges 11:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?” Jephthah wanted to be quite...

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• Judges 11:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CHOICE OF A LEADER; AND SLAUGHTER OF THE ENEMY Judges 11:1-33 . CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 11:1 . The Gileadite .] Many regard this as not a definite patronymic, but indicating that he belonged t...

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• Judges 11:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Judges 11:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 w...

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• Judges 11:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Judges 11:1-7 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...

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• Judges 11:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jephthah Chosen as Leader Against Ammon

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• Judges 11:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Numbers 32:20-29

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• Judges 11:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  If, &c. — If you recall me from this place where I am now settled, to the place whence I was expelled. Shall I, &c. — Will you really make good this promise? Jephthah was so solicitous in t...

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