士師記 11:9 JCB

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:9

‘ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?” Jephthah wanted to be quite clear about what they were offering. He had had no reason to trust them in the past. Why should he trust them now? But his reply demonstrated that in spite of his way of life, he trusted in Yahweh. His faith had been tested in the fires of affliction, and in his military way of life, and now he... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:1-17

Judges 11:1-1 Kings : . Jephthah’ s Youth.— Jephthah (God opens the womb) is the Othello of Israelitish history, a splendid barbarian, “ little blessed with the soft phrase of peace,” familiar with “ moving accidents by flood and field,” who by his valour delivers his country, and by a mysterious fate sacrifices a life dearer to him than his own. A great warrior, he was handicapped in the race of life, and persecuted by his own flesh and blood, because he came into the world with the cruel... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 11:9

If ye bring me home again; if you recall me from this place where I am now settled, to the place whence I was expelled. Shall I be your head? will you really make good this promise? Jephthah was so solicitous in this case, either from his zeal for the public good, which required that he should be so; or from the law of self-preservation, that he might secure himself from his brethren; whose ill will he had experienced, and whose injuries he could not prevent, if, after he had served their ends,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 11:1-33

CHOICE OF A LEADER; AND SLAUGHTER OF THE ENEMYJudges 11:1-33.CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 11:1. The Gileadite.] Many regard this as not a definite patronymic, but indicating that he belonged to the clan of the Gileadites. The phrase, Gilead begat Jephthah, they suppose to mean that the son of Machir was his ancestor, and add, that his posterity is not more distinctly given because his birth was illegitimate. But this is to put a strain on the passage, for we are told that Jephthah’s father had other... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 11:1-40

Chapter 11He was a mighty man of valour, he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and the wife's sons when they grew up, they threw Jephthah out, and they said, You're not gonna inherit our father's house; you're the son of a strange woman. So Jephthah fled from his brothers, and he dwelled in the land of Tob: and there gathered unto him vain men who began to [sort of pal around him]. And it came to pass in the process of time, that the children of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Judges 11:1-40

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 2:0., son of a hostess. Judges 11:3 . Vain men, rogues and rakes. The Hebrews is the same as for those who followed Abimelech: Judges 9:4. Judges 11:5 . The land of Tob. Ish-tob is mentioned. 2 Samuel 10:8. It lay between Syria and Ammon. Here Jephthah led a species of martial life, it would seem, with his men; and being ready to hire himself to any cause, he... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Judges 11:1-33

Judges 11:1-33Jephthah the Gileadite.JephthahIt is common to regard Jephthah as one of the wildest characters of the Bible--a rough and heedless man; alike rash in vowing and heartless in fulfilling; one whom it is strange to find in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. Jephthah was neither a godless nor a selfish man. Not godless, for we find in the brief annals of his life more copious recognition of God than in the case of most of the other judges; and not selfish, because, forgetting his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 11:9

Jdg 11:9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head? Ver. 9. Shall I be your head? ] He would make his bargain wisely, to prevent all differences for the future, and the rather because he had been before but coarsely used by them. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 11:9

If ye bring: Numbers 32:20-Joel : Reciprocal: Judges 8:23 - I will read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Judges 11:9

And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?If, … — If you recall me from this place where I am now settled, to the place whence I was expelled.Shall I, … — Will you really make good this promise? Jephthah was so solicitous in this case, either from his zeal for the public good, which required that he should be so; or from the law of self-preservation, that he might... read more