9And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
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And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war, …
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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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