8And 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.
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Matthew Henry
(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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