2 Kings 5:1; Hebrews 11:32; Joshua 2:1; Judges 6:12
The history of Jephthah appears to be an independent history inserted by the compiler of the Book of Judges. Judges 11:4-5 introduce the Ammonite...
Jephthah's Youth. Jephthah (God opens the womb) is the Othello of Israelitish history, a splendid barbarian, little blessed with the soft phrase...
Jephthah . He will deliver. Note the Fig, Epanadiplosis (App-6), to call attention to the facts of this verse, introducing Jephthah. All was irreg...
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. Now Jephthah - was the son of a...
Jephthah's covenant with the Gileadites: his vow; which he performeth on his daughter. Before Christ 1186. Judges 11:1 . The son of an h...
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. Jephthah - `opener.' So...
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 pla...
Jephthah's Victory over the Ammonites. His Rash Vow 1-11. The Choice of Jephthah.
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, t...
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 infl...
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 irregu...
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...
CONTENTS The history of the Judges during the commonwealth of Israel, and their government is continued. In this chapter we have the relation of Jep...
It was remarked in the preceding chapter, that the men of Gilead were consulting who to appoint as their leader, to go out with them to battle agains...
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 se...
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 fro...
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 v...
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...
JEPHTHAH; AN UNUSUAL LEADER (vv. 1-11) There was one man whose capacities for leadership stood out above others in Israel, Jephthah a Gileadite,...
Jephthah's Promotion. B. C. 1143. 1 No...
JUDGES CHAPTER 11 Jephthah dwells in the land of Tob, Judges 11:1-3 ; is called by the elders of Gilead to command in chief against the Ammonite...
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...
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 defi...
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....
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...
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...
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 wedl...
Jephthah Chosen as Leader Against Ammon
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...
1 Now Jephthaha the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.