2And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. …
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 propo…
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