Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 11:1-3
The princes and people of Gilead we left, in the close of the foregoing chapter, consulting about the choice of a general, having come to this resolve, that whoever would undertake to lead their forces against the children of Ammon should by common consent be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. The enterprise was difficult, and it was fit that so great an encouragement as this should be proposed to him that would undertake it. Now all agreed that Jephthah, the Gileadite, was a mighty man... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 11
This chapter gives as the history of Jephthah, another of Israel's judges, and numbered among the worthies of the Old Testament, that by faith did great things (Heb. 11:32), though he had not such an extraordinary call as the rest there mentioned had. Here we have, I. The disadvantages of his origin, Jdg. 11:1-3. II. The Gileadites? choice of him to be commander-in-chief against the Ammonites, and the terms he made with them, Jdg. 11:4-11. III. His treaty with the king of Ammon about the... read more