士師記 11:13-23 JCB

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 11:22

And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites ,.... Peaceably and quietly, nor did any pretend to call their right in question, or dispute their title, or give them any disturbance: from Arnon unto Jabbok : which was the length of the country, and the direction was from south to north, and reached from the river Arnon, the border of Moab, to the river Jabbok, the border of Ammon; so that it included no part of what was at this time in the possession of either: and from the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 11:23

So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel ,.... It is his doing, and not the work of the Israelites; it is he that dispossessed the Amorites, and put the Israelites into the possession of their land, and therefore they enjoy it by a good tenure: and shouldest thou possess it ? what through the blessing of God on their arms they have obtained by conquest, and he has settled them in; did they conquer, that thou should possess what they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:13

From Arnon even unto Jabbok , and unto Jordan - That is, all the land that had formerly belonged to the Amorites, and to the Moabites, who it seems were confederates on this occasion. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:22

From the wilderness even unto Jordan - From Arabia Deserta on the east to Jordan on the west. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:23

The Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites - Jephthah shows that the Israelites did not take the land of the Moabites or Ammonites, but that of the Amorites, which they had conquered from Sihon their king, who had, without cause or provocation, attacked them; and although the Amorites had taken the lands in question from the Ammonites, yet the title by which Israel held them was good, because they took them not from the Ammonites, but conquered them from the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:13

From Arnon even unto Jabbok ... - The land bounded by the Arnon on the south, by the Jabbok on the north, by the Jordan on the west, and by the wilderness on the east was, of old, the kingdom of Sihon, but then the territory of Reuben and Gad. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:15-28

Consult the marginal references. If the ark with the copy of the Law Deuteronomy 31:26 was at Mizpeh, it would account for Jephthah’s accurate knowledge of it; and this exact agreement of his message with Numbers and Deuteronomy would give additional force to the expression, “he uttered all his words before the Lord” Judges 11:11.Judges 11:17No mention is made of this embassy to Moab in the Pentateuch.Judges 11:19Into my place - This expression implies that the trans-Jordanic possessions of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 11:13

Judges 11:13 . Because Israel took away my land The land was not theirs when the Israelites conquered it, but the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites. For as to the country of the Ammonites, God expressly charged the children of Israel not to meddle with it, Deuteronomy 2:19. It is true, this land, which they now claimed, had formerly belonged to the Moabites, but Sihon had made a conquest of it, and driven them out, as we read Numbers 21:26. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 11:16-17

Judges 11:16-17. Unto the Red sea Unto which they came three times; once, Exodus 13:18; again, a little after their passage over it; and a third time, long after, when they came to Ezion-geber, which was upon the shore of the Red sea, from whence they went to Kadesh; of this time he speaks here. In the like manner they sent to the king of Moab We do not read of such a message sent to the Moabites; but when the Israelites came from Ezion-geber into the wilderness of Moab, we find a command... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 11:19-22

Judges 11:19-22. Let us pass through thy land unto my place That is, unto the land of Canaan, which the Lord hath given me. But Sihon fought against Israel He not only refused, after the example of his neighbours, to grant the Israelites a passage through his country, which they could not insist upon as their absolute right, but raised all his forces, and proudly marched to drive them away from his borders. So that, as Jephthah intends to signify, Sihon was the aggressor, and the... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 11:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 11:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 11:15-28

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 11:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 11:16-17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Judges 11:19-22

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