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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete) /. Pride was at the bottom of the quarrel; only by that comes contention.

(1-7) Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon judge Israel. What need we have to watch and pray against evil tempers! It often occasions quarrels that prove of ill consequence, as it did here. The men of Ephraim gathered themselves together - ויצעק vaiyitstsaek, they called each other to arms; summoning all their tribe and friends to arm themselves to destroy Jephthah and the Gileadites, being jealous lest they should acquire too much power. KJV Judges 12:8 ¶ And after him [That is, Jephthah] Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. Jephthah died--After a government of six years, this mighty man of valor died; and however difficult it may be for us to understand some passages in his history, he has been ranked by apostolic authority among the worthies of the ancient church. Where the point of this reproach lies, or what is the reason of it, cannot be easily ascertained. 5:10, 10:4; see notes and remarks]; and he judged Israel eight years. It does not appear that any thing particular took place in the civil state of the Israelites during the time of these latter judges; nothing is said concerning their administration, whether it was good or bad; nor is any thing mentioned of the state of religion. It is likely that they enjoyed peace without, and their judges were capable of preventing discord and sedition within. He was followed by a succession of minor judges, of whom the only memorials preserved relate to the number of their families and their state [ Judges 12:8-15 ]. Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise), Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. The Ephraimites had the same quarrel with Jephthah as with Gideon. The Vulgate makes a paraphrase: Dic ergo Shibboleth, quod interpretatur spica: qui respondebat Sibboleth; eadem litera spicam exprimere non valens. Salem Media Group. Proud member 9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. It is then, Fight and conquer, or die. The ground of their offense now was their desire of enjoying the credit of patriotism although they had not shared in the glory of victory.

Ibzan judge seven years, Judges 12:8. Ephraimites quarrel with Jephthah. II.

And the words of the Conqueror, Isaiah 63:5, seem to confirm the above view of the subject: I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered there was none to uphold; therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; i.e., by mine own arm I saved my life, and brought destruction on mine enemies.

The difference between ש seen, without a point, which when pointed is pronounced sheen, and ס samech, is supposed by many to be imperceptible.

Then rushing to the fords of the Jordan, they intercepted and slew every fugitive.

And after him Ibzan - It appears that during the administration of Jephthah, six years - Ibzan, seven years - Elon, ten years - and Abdon, eight years, (in the whole thirty-one years), the Israelites had peace in all their borders; and we shall find by the following chapter that in this time of rest they corrupted themselves, and were afterwards delivered into the power of the Philistines. Shibboleth, means "a stream"; Sibboleth, "a burden." Bibliography InformationClarke, Adam. The sound of th cannot be pronounced by the Persians in general; and yet it is a common sound among the Arabians. Judges 12. To live in credit and quiet, to be peacefully useful to those around us, to possess a clear conscience; but, above all, and without which nothing can avail, to enjoy …

The Chaldee has שובלתא shubbaltha for the Gileaditish pronunciation, and סבלתא subbaltha for that of Ephraim. Abdon judge eight years, Judges 12:13.

said unto Jephthah, Wherefore .

A feud immediately ensued.

Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. It is also true that as much as our dialect gives us away, so does our everyday speech. THE EPHRAIMITES QUARRELLING WITH JEPHTHAH. And fought with Ephraim - Some commentators suppose that there were two battles in which the Ephraimites were defeated: the first mentioned in the above clause; and the second occasioned by the taunting language mentioned in the conclusion of the verse, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim. All Rights Reserved. They ought rather to have been delighted and thankful that the war had terminated without their incurring any labor and danger.

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But cebboleth is the reading of the Complutensian Polyglot, and is supported by one of my own MSS., yet the former reading, thebboleth, is found in two of my MSS. "Say therefore, Shibboleth; which interpreted is an ear of corn: but he answered, Sibboleth; not being able to express an ear of corn by that letter." "Commentary on Judges 12:4".

Jephthah dies, having judged Israel six years, Judges 12:7. The Gileadites, determined to chastise this public affront, gave them battle; and having defeated the Ephraimites, they chased their foul-mouthed but cowardly assailants out of the territory.

Others should be able to tell … I put my life in my hands - I exposed myself to the greatest difficulties and dangers. The method adopted for discovering an Ephraimite was by the pronunciation of a word naturally suggested by the place where they stood. (8-15). But whence did this form of speech arise?

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This Jephthah had done, having encountered and routed the Ammonites with the aid of his Gileadite volunteers alone; and since the Lord had enabled him to conquer without requiring assistance from any other tribe, why should the Ephraimites take offense?

Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth - The original differs only in the first letter ס samech, instead of ש sheen ; סבלת ויאמר שבלת נא אמר emar na Shibboleth, vaiyomer Sibboleth .

But there can be no doubt there was, to the ears of a Hebrew, a most sensible distinction.

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DISCERNED BY THE WORD SIBBOLETH, ARE SLAIN BY THE GILEADITES. 2. when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands--The straightforward answer of Jephthah shows that their charge was false; their complaint of not being treated as confederates and allies entirely without foundation; and their boast of a ready contribution of their services came with an ill grace from people who had purposely delayed appearing till the crisis was past. The Ephraimites are incensed against Jephthah, because he did not call them to war against the Ammonites; and threaten his destruction, Judges 12:1. This was a sufficient test to find out an Ephraimite; and he who spake not as he was commanded, at the fords of Jordan, spoke against his own life. . https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/judges-12.html. His posterity and death, Judges 12:9, Judges 12:10.

Adam Clarke CommentaryJudges 12.

This was addressed to a peculiarly sensitive people.

It often occasions quarrels that prove of ill consequence, as it did here.

But instead of יכין yachin, to direct, thirteen of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., with two ancient editions, read יבין yabin ; "they did not understand to speak it thus."

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Finding the new version too difficult to understand? He vindicates himself, Judges 12:2, Judges 12:3; and arms the Gileadites against the men of Ephraim; they fight against them, and kill forty-two thousand Ephraimites at the passages of Jordan, Judges 12:4-6. 4-6. the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim--The remonstrances of Jephthah, though reasonable and temperate, were not only ineffectual, but followed by insulting sneers that the Gileadites were reckoned both by the western Manassites and Ephraimites as outcasts--the scum and refuse of their common stock. . 7. This phrase occurs in some other places of Scripture; see 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21.

For he could not frame to pronounce it right - This is not a bad rendering of the original כן לדבר יכין ולא velo yachin ledabber ken ; "and they did not direct to speak it thus."

3. when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands--A common form of speech in the East for undertaking a duty of imminent peril. Judges 12:1-3 .

1. the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together -- Hebrew, "were summoned." One to whom the Arabic is vernacular, hearing a native speak, discerns it in a moment; but the delicate enunciation of the characteristic difference between those letters ש seen and ס samech, and seen and saad, is seldom caught by a European.

edition, makes some observations on the different dialects which prevailed in Arabia Felix, the chief of which were the Hemyaret and Koreish; and to illustrate the point in hand, he produces the following story from the Mohammedan writers: "An envoy from one of the feudatory states, having been sent to the tobba, (the sovereign), that prince, when he was introduced, pronounced the word T'heb, which in the Hemyaret implied, Be seated: unhappily it signified, in the native dialect of the ambassador, Precipitate thyself; and he, with a singular deference for the orders of his sovereign, threw himself instantly from the castle wall and perished." Judges 12 Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary, by the leading authority in the Church of Christ, presents a verse level look at the Bible. It is ill to fasten names of reproach upon persons or countries, as is common, especially upon those under outward disadvantages. To this day multitudes of the German Jews cannot pronounce ת th, but put ss in the stead of it: thus for בית beith (a house) they say bess. May the Lord incline all his people to follow after things which make for peace! Article Images Copyright © 2020 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. To live in credit and quiet, to be peacefully useful to those around us, to possess a clear conscience; but, above all, and without which nothing can avail, to enjoy communion with God our Saviour while we live, and to die at peace with God and man, form the substance of all that a wise man can desire. Most Europeans, and, indeed, most who have written grammars of the language, perceive scarcely any difference between the Arabic seen and saad ; but as both those letters are radical not only in Arabic but in Hebrew, the difference of enunciation must be such as to be plainly perceivable by the ear; else it would be impossible to determine the root of a word into which either of these letters entered, except by guessing, unless by pronunciation the sounds were distinct.

In my very ancient copy of the Vulgate, probably the editio princeps, there is sebboleth in the first instance as the test word, and thebboleth as the Ephraimite pronunciation. The Ephraimites are incensed against Jephthah, because he did not call them to war against the Ammonites; and threaten his destruction, Judges 12:1. Yet, doubtless, God was at work among them, though there were none to record the operations either of his hand or his Spirit; but the people who feared him no doubt bore testimony to the word of his grace.

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