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 bastard. And though such were not ordinarily to enter into the congregation of the Lord, Deuteronomy 23:2. Yet God can dispense with his own laws, and hath sometimes done honour to base — born persons, so far, that some of them were admitted to be the progenitors of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Gilead — One of the children of that ancient Gilead, Numbers 32:1.
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Judges 11:1
1 Now Jephthaha the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.