4And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
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Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-11)Here is, I. The distress which the children of Israel were in upon the Ammonites’ invasion of their country, Jdg. 11:4. Probably this was the same invasion with that mentioned, Jdg. 10:17; when the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in or against Gilead . And those words, in process of time , refer to what goes immediately before of the expulsion of Jephthah; many days after he…
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