Judges 12:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he had forty sons and thirty nephews,a that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. ”

Judges 12:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Three Minor Judges. Ibzan's home was probably Bethlehem in Zebulun ( Joshua 19:15 ), 7 m. from Nazareth, still called Beit-lahm. For Aijalon we should probably read Elon (so the LXX). Pirathon...
Judges 12:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

nephews . grandsons.
Judges 12:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Judges 12:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Ephraimites Quarrel with Jephthah. His Death 1-6. Jephthah and Ephraim. Once more the members of the leading tribe find themselves left out of the victory, and complain: cp. Judges 8:1 ; Jeph...
Judges 12:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thirty nephews. — The Hebrew has “sons of sons” ( benî bhanîm ) , and the word nephews in our version always means “grandsons” ( nepoles ) , e.g., in Job 18:19 ; Isaiah 14:22 ; 1 Timothy 5:4...
Judges 12:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

at the Fords of Ephraim Judges 12:1-15 In this second war, Jephthah showed the same conciliatory spirit as he had showed to Ammon. He parleyed sensibly and courteously before he went into the c...
Judges 12:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The men of Ephraim took the same action in the case of Jephthah as they had done in the case of Gideon. After his victory they complained that they had not been called to help. It would seem as thoug...
Judges 12:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I include the whole of these verses, and of the reign of three judges, comprising a period of twenty-five years, within the compass of one view, not only for the sake of brevity, but because the Holy...
Judges 12:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he had forty sons, and thirty nephews ,.... Or sons' sons, that is, grandsons; so that he lived not only to see his sons married, but his grandchildren grown up to men's estate; since it follows...
Judges 12:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. Ver. 14. And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode. ] Equestris or...
Judges 12:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

AN UNNECESSARY CONFRONTATION (vv. 1-7) The men of Ephraim assumed the same proud attitude toward Jephthah as they had before done toward Gideon (tie.8:1-2).When Jephthah had gained the victory o...
Judges 12:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jephthah's Successors. B. C. 1112. 8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. ...
Judges 12:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Judges 12:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 12:14 a ‘And he had forty sons, and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy ass colts.' He had an abundant family, described in this way to bring to the number seventy, divine perfection i...
Judges 12:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE ARROGANT EPHRAIMITES AND JEPHTHAH—THE JUDGES WITHOUT FAME ( Judges 12:1-15 .) CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 12:1 . Gathered themselves together. ] Not in a disorderly or tumultuous manner as some...
Judges 12:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 12:3 . I put my life in my hands; a Hebraism of forcible import. David twice uses the same phrase. Now, to take the life of a man who had thus devoted himself, and whom God had honoured, wa...
Judges 12:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Abdon . .. had forty sons and thirty nephews. The time of peace For our instruction this we may learn, that in the time of peace, when there is freedom from war and persecution in a land, th...
Judges 12:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 12:8 Ibzan of Bethlehem . It is uncertain whether Bethlehem of Judah is meant, or Bethlehem in the tribe of Zebu-lun, mentioned in Joshua 19:15 . Josephus says that Ibza...
Judges 12:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Judgeships of Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon
Judges 12:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 10:4 ; Judges 5:10

Judges 12:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 12:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 12:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 12:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 12:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 12:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 12:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 12:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 12:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 12:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 12:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 12:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 12:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 12:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 12:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 12:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 12:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 12:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 12:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 12:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge