Judg 12:1-6, 2Sa 19:41-43, 1Ki 12:14, 16, 2Ki 14:8-10, Pro 17:14 | TSK | STEP | The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephthah, and discerned by Shibboleth, are slain by the Gileadites. Jephthah dies. Ibzan, who had thirty sons, and thirty daughters; and Elon; and Abdon, who had forty sons, and thirty nephews, judge Israel. gathered. Heb. were called. Wherefore. we will burn.

Ps 69:2,15; Isa 27:12; *Heb:{Shibboleth} also means an ear of corn, (Job 24:24,) and {sibboleth} signifies a burden, (Ex 6:6;) and a heavy burden they were obliged to bear who could not pronounce this test letter. It is well known that several nations cannot pronounce certain letters. The sound of th cannot be pronounced by the Persians, no more than by some of our Continental neighbours; though it is a common sound among the Arabians. To this day, many of the German Jews cannot articulate [t] th, for which they substitute ss; thus for {baith,} a house, they say {baiss.}

there fell.

Pr 17:14; 18:19; Ec 10:12; Mt 12:25; Ga 5:15

forty.{Arbäim ooshenayim aleph,} "forty and two thousand." Here the [w,] and, may mean simple addition; and this number may denote 2,040 and not 42,000. At the last census of the Israelites (Nu 26:37) the whole tribe of Ephraim only amounted to 32,500, compared with which this last number appears far too great.

2 Samuel 19:41-43

Why have.

Jud 8:1; 12:1; Joh 7:5,6

stolen.

Because.

We have.

ten parts.

despise us. Heb. set us at light. our advice.

9,14; Ga 5:20,26; Php 2:3

the words.

Jud 8:1; 9:23; 12:1-6; Pr 15:1; 17:14; 18:19; Ro 12:21; Ga 5:15,20

Jas 1:20; 3:2-10,14-16; 4:1-5Whatever value or respect the men of Israel at this time professed for their king, they would not have quarrelled so fiercely about their own credit and interest in recalling him, if they had been truly sorry for their former rebellion.

1 Kings 12:14

the counsel.

2Ch 22:4,5; Es 1:16-21; 2:2-4; Pr 12:5; Isa 19:11-13; Da 6:7

My father made.

10,11; Pr 13:10; 16:18; 17:14; Ec 7:8; Jas 3:14-18; 4:1,2

1 Kings 12:16

What portion.

2Sa 20:1; 2Ch 10:16

to your tents.

22:17,36

now see.

11:13,34,36,39; 2Sa 7:15,16; Ps 2:1-6; 76:10; 89:29-37; 132:17

Isa 7:2,6,7; 9:6,7; Jer 23:5,6; 33:15,16,21; Lu 19:14,27

So Israel.

Jud 8:35; 2Sa 15:13; 16:11

2 Kings 14:8-10

A.M. 3178. B.C. 826. Amaziah.

2Ch 25:17-24

Come.

11; 2Sa 2:14-17; Pr 13:10; 17:14; 18:6; 20:18; 25:8

The thistle.

Jud 9:8-15; 2Sa 12:1-4; 1Ki 4:33; Eze 20:49The word {choach,} which is rendered here, and in 2 Ch 25:18; Job 31:18, thistle, in 1 Sa 13:6, thicket in Isa 34:13, bramble, and in 2 Ch 33:11; Pr 26:9; So 2:2; Ho 9:6 thorn, is probably the black thorn, or sloe tree, the {prunus spinosa} of Linnæus, as the same word signifies in Arabic. There is a vast deal of insolent dignity in this remonstrance of Jehoash; but it has nothing conciliatory; no proposal of making amends for the injury his army had done to the unoffending inhabitants of Judah. (2 Ch 25:10-13.) The comparatively useless thorn, which may by chance lacerate the incautious passenger, is made the emblem of the house of Judah and David, while the house of Jehu is represented by the stately cedar.

thine heart.

De 8:14; 2Ch 26:16; 32:25; Pr 16:18; Eze 38:2,5,17; Da 5:20-23

Hab 2:4; Jas 4:6

glory of this.

Ex 8:9; Jer 9:23,24; Jas 1:9

home. Heb. thy house. why shouldest.

2Ch 35:21; Pr 3:30; 15:18; 17:14; 20:3; 25:8; 26:17; Lu 14:31,32

Proverbs 17:14

beginning.

19; 26:21; 29:22; Jud 12:1-6; 2Sa 2:14-17; 19:41-43; 20:1-22

2Ch 10:14-16; 13:17; 25:17-24; 28:6

leave.

13:10; 14:29; 15:1; 16:32; 19:11; 20:3; 25:8; Ge 13:8,9; Jud 8:1-3

Ec 7:8,9; Mt 5:39-41; Ac 6:1-5; 15:2-21; Ro 12:18; 1Th 4:11

2Ti 2:23,24; Jas 3:14-18