Judges 12:3

I put my life in my hands - Compare 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21. The phrase expresses the utmost possible risk, knowingly incurred.

Related Commentaries of Judges 12:3

Arno Geneva Study Bible

And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, (c) I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XII. 1- 6. Civil War between Gilead and Ephraim. The Ephraimites hankered after the primacy among the tribes. Their amour propre was easily offen...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

my life . my soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I put my life in my hands— A strong phrase; which signifies, I exposed myself to the utmost hazard: the expression seems peculiar to the eastern...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them in...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I put my life in my hands. — Rather, in the hollow of my hand ( caph ). (See for the phrase, Psalms 119:109 ; Job 13:14 ; 1 Samuel 20:5 ; 1 S...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

SHIBBOLETHS Judges 12:1-7 WHILE Jephthah and his Gileadites were engaged in the struggle with Ammon jealous watch was kept over all their movem...
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...
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 h...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If the Reader recollects the dying benediction of the Patriarch over the two sons of Joseph, how under the spirit of prophecy Jacob put Ephraim befor...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when I saw that ye delivered me not ,.... Gave him no assistance against their common enemy, did not attempt to save him and his people out of t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When I called you, ye delivered me not He answers them with great mildness, but denies their charge. He affirms that he had begged their assistance...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Displeasure of the Ephraimites; Punishment of the Ephraimites. B. C. 1143....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I put my life in my hands, i.e. I exposed myself to utmost danger; as a man that carries a brittle and precious thing in his hand, which may easily...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 12:3 a “And when I saw that you did not save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon and Yahweh delive...
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....
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 t...
The Biblical Illustrator

Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? Shams and frauds Though these Ephra...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 12:1 Northward , or, otherwise rendered, to Zaphon , a city of the Gadites mentioned in Joshua 13:27 together with...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Defeat of the Ephraimites
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, he staked the most precious possession which he had, and passed over against the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 19:5 ; 1 Samuel 28:21 ; 2 Chronicles 13:12 ; Job 13:14 ; Judges 11:27 ; Judges 9:17 ; Psalms 119:109 ; Revelation 12:11 ; Romans 16...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Put my life — That is, I exposed myself to the utmost danger; as a man that carries a brittle and precious thing in his hand, which may easily eith...

³ And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

Related Commentaries of Judges 12:3

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Judges 12:3