7And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
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Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. …
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, …
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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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