Numbers 30:5-8
Ho 6:6; Mt 15:4-6; Mr 7:10-13; Eph 6:1 she vowed. Heb. her vows were upon her.Ps 56:12 7 Ge 3:16; 1Co 7:4; 14:34; Eph 5:22-24Judges 11:30-31
Ge 28:20; Nu 30:2-16; 1Sa 1:11; Ec 5:1,2,4,5 whatsoever, etc. Heb. that which cometh forth, which shallcome forth. shall surely. Le 27:2,3,28,29; 1Sa 1:11,28; 2:18; 14:24,44; Ps 66:13,14and I will. or, or I will, etc.{Wehäâleetheehoo ôlah,} rather, as Dr. Randolph and others contend, "and I will offer Him (or to Him, i.e., Jehovah) a burnt offering;" for {hoo} may with much more propriety be referred to the person to whom the sacrifice was to be made, than to the thing to be sacrificed. Unless understood in this way, or as the marginal reading, it must have been the vow of a heathen or a madman. If a dog, or other uncleaned animal had met him, he could not have made it a burnt offering; or if his neighbour's wife, sons, etc., his vow gave him no right over them. Le 27:11,12; De 23:18; Ps 66:13; Isa 66:3Judges 11:39
did with.That Jephthah did not sacrifice his daughter, but consecrated her to the service of God in the tabernacle, in a state of celibacy, will we imagine be evident from the following consideration:--1. Human sacrifices were ever an abomination to Jehovah, of which Jephthah could not be ignorant; and consequently he would neither have made such a vow, nor carried it into execution. 2. We are expressly told (ver. 29) that Jephthah was under the influence of the Spirit of God, which would effectually prevent him from embruing his hands in the blood of his own child. 3. He had it in his power to redeem his daughter, (Le 27:4;) and surely his only child must have been of more value than thirty shekles. 4. Besides, who was to perform the horrid rite? Not Jephthah himself, who was no priest, and in whom it would have been most unnatural and inhuman; and the priests would certainly have dissuaded him from it. 5. The sacred historian informs us, that she bewailed her virginity, that she knew no man, and that the Israelitish women went yearly to comfort or lament with her. 31; Le 27:28,29; De 12:31; Isa 66:3to his vow.1Sa 1:11,22,24,28; 2:18custom. or, ordinance.Judges 21:1
1 The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin.8 By the destruction of Jabesh-gilead they provide them four hundred wives.16 They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh. had sworn.20:1,8,10; Jer 4:2There.5; 11:30,31; 1Sa 14:24,28,29; Ec 5:2; Mr 6:23; Ac 23:12; Ro 10:2his daughter.Ex 34:12-16; De 7:2,3Judges 21:7-23
sworn.1,18; 1Sa 14:28,29,45 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 9 Go and smite.As they had sworn to destroy those who would not assist in the war (ver. 5,) they determined to destroy the men of Jabesh, and to leave none except the virgins; and to give these to the 600 Benjamites who had escaped to the rock of Rimmon. The whole account is dreadful. The crime of the men of Gibeah was of the deepest dye; the punishment involving both the guilty and innocent, was extended to the most criminal excess, and their mode of remedying the evil they had occasioned was equally abominable. 5; 5:23; De 13:15; Jos 7:24; 1Sa 11:7; 15:3 every male.Nu 31:17,18; De 2:34hath lain by man. Heb. knoweth the lying with man. virgins. Heb. women, virgins. Shiloh.20:18,23; Jos 18:1; Ps 78:60; Jer 7:12 to speak. Heb. and spake and called. the rock Rimmon.20:47; Jos 15:32call peaceably. or, proclaim peace.De 20:10; Isa 57:19; Lu 10:5; Eph 2:17 sufficed them not.12; 20:47; 1Co 7:2 repented.6,17a breach.1Ch 13:11; 15:13; Isa 30:13; 58:12 16 an inheritance.Nu 26:55; 36:7 sworn.1; 11:35 a feast.Ex 23:14-16; Le 23:2,4,6,10,34; Nu 10:10; 28:16,26; 29:12De 16:1,10,13; Ps 81:3; Joh 5:1; 7:2yearly. Heb. from year to year. on the east side. or,toward the sun rising. of the highway. or, on. Lebonah. Maundrell supposes, that either Khan Leban, which is situated on the eastern side of a "delicious vale," four leagues south from Shechem, and two leagues north from Bethel, or the village of Leban, which is on the opposite side, occupies the site of the ancient Lebonah. It is eight hours, or about 24 miles, from Jerusalem, according to Dr. Richardson. 20 dance.11:34; Ex 15:20; 1Sa 18:6; 2Sa 6:14,21; Ps 149:3; 150:4; Ec 3:4Jer 31:13; Mt 10:17; Lu 17:25 Be favourable unto them. or, Gratify us in them.Phm 1:9-12each man.14; Ge 1:27; 7:13; Mr 10:6-8; 1Co 7:2give unto.1,7,18; Pr 20:25 and they went.It appears that the Benjamites acted in the most honourable way to the women they had thus violently carried off, and we may rest assured, that they took them to an inheritance more than equal to their own. But this transaction, as well as the indiscriminate massacre of the people of Jabesh-gilead, as Dr. Gray observes, was certainly stamped with injustice and cruelty; and must be condemned on those principles which the Scriptures elsewhere furnish. repaired.20:481 Samuel 14:24
Cursed.27-30; Le 27:29; Nu 21:2; De 27:15-26; Jos 6:17-19,26; Jud 11:30Jud 11:31; 21:1-5; Pr 11:9; Ro 10:2; 1Co 16:22I may be.Jud 5:2; 1:28; Ps 18:471 Samuel 14:28
Cursed.24,43faint. or, weary.1 Samuel 14:39-45
24,44; 19:6; 20:31; 22:16; 28:10; 2Sa 12:5; Ec 9:2 Do what seemeth.7,36; 2Sa 15:15 Therefore.Both the Septuagint and Vulgate add much to this verse: [Kai eipe Saoul, Kyrie Lo Theos Israel, ti Loti ouk apekrithes to doulo sou semeron? ei en emoi e en lonathan to Luio mou he adikia, Kyrie ho Theos Israel dos delous kai ean tade eipe, dos de to lao sou Israel, dos de osioteta, k.t.l.] {Et dixit Saul ad Dominum Deum Israel; Domine Deus Israel da indicium: quid est quòd non responderis servo tuo hodie? Si in me, aut in Jonatha filio meo est iniquitas hæc, da ostensionem: aut si hæc iniquitas est in populo tuo, da sanctitatem, etc.} "And Saul said [to the Lord God of Israel, Vulg.] Lord God of Israel [give a sign, Vulg.] Why is it that thou has not answered thy servant to-day? If the iniquity be in me, or in my son Jonathan, [O Lord God of Israel, LXX.] make it manifest; and if thou say thus, give to thy people Israel, give mercy," etc., [but Vulg. Or, if this iniquity be in thy people, give sanctification," etc.] Give a perfect lot. or, Shew the innocent.Pr 16:33; Ac 1:24And Saul.10:20,21; Jos 7:16-18; Jon 1:7escaped. Heb. went forth. 42 Tell me.Jos 7:19; Jon 1:7-10I did but.27 God.25:22; Ru 1:17; 2Sa 3:9; 19:13thou shalt.39; Ge 38:24; 2Sa 12:5,31; Pr 25:16 who hath.23; 19:5; Ne 9:27there shall not.The people judged rightly, that the guilt was contracted by Saul, and not by Jonathan; and therefore they rescued him from the hands of his rash and severe father. 2Sa 14:11; 1Ki 1:52; Mt 10:30; Lu 21:18; Ac 27:34he hath.2Ch 19:11; Isa 13:3; Ac 14:27; 15:12; 21:19; Ro 15:18; 1Co 3:92Co 6:1; Php 2:12,13; Re 17:14; 19:14the people.Isa 29:20,211 Samuel 25:22
So and more.Nothing can justify this conduct of David, which was rash, unjust, and cruel in the extreme. David himself condemns it, and thanks God for being prevented from executing this evil. (ver. 32-34.) 3:17; 14:44; 20:13,16; Ru 1:17if I leave.34any that pisseth, etc.This seems to have been a proverbial expression among the Israelites; and may with the utmost propriety be read "any male." 1Ki 14:10; 16:11; 21:21; 2Ki 9:8
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