judges 11 commentary

Jephthah dedicated her to the service of Yahweh at the tabernacle where she ministered from then on as a virgin. And it was a custom in Israel,American King James Version×). The fact that she received a two-month reprieve before Jephthah carried out his vowed action suggests that she died ( Judges 11:37-38). Moreover, if the common understanding of the story is correct, God gave Jephthah the victory over Ammon knowing full well that Jephthah would sacrifice his child, and yet He never said a word—not in person, not in a dream, not by a prophet. Now immediately after the conclusion of the war with the Ammonites, we find Jephthah engaged in a bitter war with the Ephraimites. Lord God, Ne 9:22 Ps 135:10-12 136:17-21, they smote, Nu 21:24,25 Dt 2:33,34, so Israel, Jos 13:15-32. from the wilderness: From Arabia Deserta on the east, to Jordan on the west. [5] And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: Went — By direction from God, who both qualified him for, and called him to the office of a judge, otherwise they might not have chosen a bastard. Additionally, when his daughter learned of her father's vow, she encouraged him to keep the vow and asked only to be able to go and mourn her virginity for two months, at the end of which time she voluntarily returned so that her father could carry out his vow. No mournings, no lamentations will ever be excited by our performance of them. He felt he would be denying everything he believed in and stood for. Study Judges 11 using Wesley’s Explanatory Notes to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. Dennis Bratcher: We are supposed to recoil from the monstrosity of Jephthah’s actions. And though such were not ordinarily to enter into the congregation of the Lord, Deuteronomy 23:2. Let us so live as to cast a halo of light on our origin, however lowly. 3. I believe Jephthah offered his daughter as a human sacrifice. http://www.backtothebible.org/index.php/Back-to-the-Bible-Radio-Program/Jephthah-s-TragicMistake-2010.html (Paul Apple - Judges Commentary), Judges 11:35 And it came about when he saw her, that he tore his clothes and said, "Alas, my daughter! Generally, it’s not that we don’t know what to do. Jeremiah and many of the other prophets were often rejected because of their message. Not by the high priest, or any regular member of the priesthood, for with all the deplorable laxness, ignorance, and degeneracy that prevailed, it is incredible that any officiating priest should have tolerated for a moment, in the face of such explicit prohibitions as Moses had given, the oblation of a human sacrifice. Finally, Jephthah called on Yahweh the Judge to judge who had rightful title to the land ( Judges 11:27). But there is only one condition on which the Lord will fight for us against our over-mastering foes. As discussed above, there is debate as to what he actually did. Chapter 11. The whole world unites in condemning so base, so iniquitous a conduct, as that of repudiating a person betrothed. God forbid! We know the Word… we just fail to apply it. In that sense, Jephthah's fulfilling of his vow may be seen as a real act of faith! If only a dog had met Jephthah, would he have offered up that for a burnt-offering? 21:2) This, it must be confessed, has a legal appearance, and looks like offering to make a bargain with God: but vows may certainly be made in perfect consistency with the liberal spirit of the Gospel: for it is intimated, that under the Gospel, yea even in the millennial age, such a practice should obtain; (Is 19:21) and we know that Paul both made a vow himself (Acts 18:18), and united with others in services to which by a voluntary engagement they had bound themselves. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. ", [Note: Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror, p97.]. Jephthah, we know, is good at opening his mouth. Yet she ended up weeping because of the folly of her idolatrous, self-assertive father. Judges 11:12. The ungodly world indeed may regret that we have renounced its ways and vanities; and Satan may regret that we have cast off his yoke; but all the saints and angels will rejoice; yea, “there is joy among the angels in the presence of God over one sinner that repenteth.” Even God himself will “be glad and make merry with us,” and will “rejoice over us to do us good.” True it is, that such a consecration of ourselves to God is difficult and self-denying; but it is our truest wisdom, and our highest joy. 27:29): and Saul, in sparing Agag, whom God had devoted to destruction, sinned as much as if he had murdered one whom God had ordered to be spared. and ended the18-year Ammonite oppression ( Judges 10:8). 23:21, 22, 23) and the attempting to set them aside by the plea of inadvertence or of difficulties attending the observance of them, will only deceive our own souls, and bring upon us the heavy displeasure of our God. 10:6 – sign of intense mourning at time of death, B. But, whatever be their office or character, two things I would say to all: first, Be cautious in making vows; and next, Be conscientious in performing them. If indeed a woman to whom one was engaged, were to disgrace herself by some gross misconduct, it might be a reason for refusing to continue the engagement with her, because she has ceased to be the person with whom the engagement was formed. Today, will you be a doer of the Word and not merely a hearer (Jas 1:22)? The joy of victory was suddenly turned to sorrow when Jephthah saw his daughter and remembered his vow (v31). [Note: Block, Judges . Mizpeh of Gilead — So called to distinguish it from other cities of the same name, having gathered what forces he suddenly could, he came hither to the borders of the Ammonites. The greater the challenge the more tempting it is to try to make a deal with God. (3) From all the circumstances, the probability, we think, is very strong that Jephthah availed himself of the provisions of the law, in respect to devoted persons and things; in other words, that during the two months’ interval, he had become better instructed in regard to the subject of vows in general under the Mosaic statutes, and ascertained that a dispensation, in his case, was practicable. In cases of difficulty, where it appeared of more than ordinary importance to secure the divine favour and protection, the patriarchs had resorted to vows, and bound themselves, in case he should vouchsafe to them the desired blessing, to render unto him according to the benefits he should confer upon them. The divine patron of Ammon was Milkom." The absence of any external attestation probably may be attributed to the fact that the events described to this point have all concerned only the Transjordanian tribes, whom their Cisjordanian countrymen tended to marginalize from the beginning. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. Son of a harlot — That is, a bastard. (Judges 11 Commentary). Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. (Judges 11 Commentary). The only thing that prevented that tragedy was the intervention of the Israelites. Compare Gideon"s similar response to the gift of God"s Spirit. Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you wronged me by fighting against me. One also recalls Jesus" rejection (cf. It would therefore almost amount to a positive immolation of her. Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. The seed of the woman, according to the protevangelical promise (Gen. 3:15), was to crush the serpent’s head: hence arose the yearning desire of maternity]. gender. On the contrary we affirm, that the terms used by Jephthah do not imply any such thing. We are expressly told (ver. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. It may be thought that we are in no danger of imitating it: but what do we in rash oaths? This appears, 1. Jephthah"s personal background was quite similar to Abimelech"s ( Judges 8:31 to Judges 9:4). If he make you happy, shall he make you holy? This explanation, however, has left out the possibility of an unclean animal, such as a dog, coming out. These men were not necessarily evil, but they were wild. Far from playing the decisive role, as he had in the provision of all the other Judges , God is relegated to the role of silent witness to a purely human contract between a desperate people and an ambitious candidate." God gave us little information about the personal lives of the first three major judges: Othniel, Ehud, and Deborah. Is it not more probable, that after deep deliberation in concert with the authorised expounders of the law, he yielded to the conviction, that although his solemn pledge did not originally contemplate any such alternative, yet it might be embraced in the provisions now alluded to—that it might come under the class of redeemable vows? This idea is also inaccurate and pagan. Now we know that Jehovah, our God, has given us the land of the Israelites; and therefore we will not give it up. ", "Even the pagans recognized that when victory was given by a deity, the victors had full right to possess that territory. You will, eventually, miss a Sunday. Would he not learn, that as an offering (עילה, the term he had employed in his vow) was in its own nature incompatible with a ’herem (חרם), and that the law having made no provision for the latter being substituted for the former, he was even, according to the very terms of his vow, rightly understood, not only released, but prohibited from performing it? 4:1; 1 Sam. American King James Version×). Prayer of Manasseh , to the north, recruiting soldiers. -- How often it has happened that in our extremity we, like the elders of Gilead, have turned to Him whom we refused. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. We do not affirm this to have been the design, but it is certainly conceivable that if it had been expressly stated that the vow in its literal sense had not been performed, it might have gone to relax somewhat of the apprehended sacredness of all such votive engagements, and led men to think that God himself might easily dispense with them. Judges 11:10. Jesus was rejected by His people, the Jews. What has precipitated the crisis with his daughter is that he has opened his mouth to Yahweh, that Isaiah , he has tried to conduct his relationship with God in the same way that he has conducted his relationships with men. They pinned the sheriff"s badge on him. c. The institution of a four-day annual feast in Israel as a result of her fate argues for her death ( Judges 11:40). What he did (the sacrifice of his daughter) is a thing all Scripture condemns; why he did it (in order to keep his word) is a thing all Scripture commends. (Acts 21:23, 24). Again, immediately after sending the ambassadors to Ammon "the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah" (verse 29). Is not this also an illustration of God's constant action (1 Cor. [Observe the language used by all parties on this occasion, and it will manifestly lead to a very different conclusion from that which has been usually adopted. In addition to all this, observe the language in which the commemoration of the event is mentioned: “It was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.” If she was dead, there was scarcely any adequate reason for the daughters of Israel to go four times a year to one particular place to lament her; for they might as well have lamented her at home: but if she was alive, and secluded from company all the rest of the year, there was reason enough why they should visit her then. [20] But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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