Judg 11:21-23, 12:1-2, 21:8, Neh 9:22, Psa 135:10-12, 136:19, Amo 2:9 | TSK

Judges 11:21-23

And they.

from the wilderness.From Arabia Deserta on the east, to Jordan on the west. Jephthah shews that the Israelites did not take the land of the Moabites or Ammonites, but that of the Amorites, which they had conquered from Sihon their king; and although the Amorites had taken the lands in question from the Ammonites, yet the title by which Israel held them was good, because they took them, not from the Ammonites, but from the Amorites.

Judges 12:1-2

1 The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephthah, and discerned by Shibboleth, are slain by the Gileadites.

7 Jephthah dies.

8 Ibzan, who had thirty sons, and thirty daughters;

11 and Elon;

13 and Abdon, who had forty sons, and thirty nephews, judge Israel.

gathered. Heb. were called. Wherefore.

8:1; 2Sa 19:41-43; Ps 109:4; Ec 4:4; Joh 10:32

we will burn.

14:15; 15:6; Pr 27:3,4; Jas 3:16; 4:1,2

I and my.

11:12-33

Judges 21:8

Jabesh-gilead.This place, as its name imports, was situated in Gilead, east of Jordan. Eusebius and Jerome say it was a great town in their time, standing upon a hill, six miles south from Pella, in the way to Geresa, now Djerash. The Wady Yabes, mentioned by Burckhardt, which empties itself into the Jordan, in the neighbourhood of Bisan or Beth-shan (see 1 Sa 31:11,) and upon which Pella was situated, (celebrated by Pliny, 1. v. c. 18, for its fine waters,) seems to have taken its name from Jabesh. Near this spot, we must therefore look for its site; and the place called Kalaat Rabbad seems to correspond, very nearly, to the spot; though it probably still retains among the Arabs its ancient name.

1Sa 11:1-3; 31:11-13; 2Sa 2:5,6