Judges 11:8

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 11:8

Therefore we turn again to thee now; being sensible that we have done thee injury, we come now to make time full reparations. 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 11:8

Jdg 11:8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. Ver. 8. Therefore we turn again to thee now. ] We see our former oversight, and are ready to make thee amends. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 11:8

the elders: Exodus 8:8, Exodus 8:28, Exodus 9:28, Exodus 10:17, 1 Kings 13:6, Luke 17:3, Luke 17:4 we turn: Judges 10:18 Reciprocal: Judges 11:11 - head 1 Samuel 11:1 - Nahash Job 29:25 - chose out read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Judges 11:8

And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.Therefore — Being sensible that we have done thee injury, we come now to make thee full reparation. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 11:8

8. Therefore Inasmuch as we did thee wrong, we turn again to thee now to repair, as far as possible, that wrong by electing thee our head, that is, our captain and chief. read more

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