John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 11:18
Then they went along the wilderness ,.... The wilderness of Paran, which lay along the borders of Edom; they went, according to Jarchi, from the west to the east on the south border of Edom and Moab: and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab ; all the south of the land of Edom, and all the south of the land of Moab; towards the sunrising, as in Numbers 21:11 . and pitched on the other side of Arnon ; the river Arnon, which, according to Jarchi, was at the east end of the... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 11:12-28
We have here the treaty between Jephthah, now judge of Israel, and the king of the Ammonites (who is not named), that the controversy between the two nations might, if possible, be accommodated without the effusion of blood. I. Jephthah, as one having authority, sent to the king of Ammon, who in this war was the aggressor, to demand his reasons for invading the land of Israel: ?Why hast thou come to fight against me in my land? Jdg. 11:12. Had I come first into thy land to disturb thee in thy... read more