Judges 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 21:5
a great oath.1,18; 5:23; Le 27:28,29; 1Sa 11:7; Jer 48:101 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 14:28-29
Cursed.24,43faint. or, weary. My father.1Ki 18:18see.It is well known, that hunger and fatigue produce faintness and dim the sight; and on taking a little food, this affection is immediately removed.Ecclesiastes 5:2
not rash.Ge 18:27,30,32; 28:20,22; Nu 30:2-5; Jud 11:30; 1Sa 14:24-45Mr 6:23thing. or, word. for.Ps 115:3; Isa 55:9; Mt 6:9let thy .3,7; Pr 10:19; Mt 6:7; Jas 3:2Mark 6:23
he.1Sa 28:10; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 5:34-37; 14:7Whatsoever.Es 5:3,6; 7:2; Pr 6:2; Mt 4:9Acts 23:12
certain.21,30; 25:3; Ps 2:1-3; 64:2-6; Isa 8:9,10; Jer 11:19; Mt 26:4bound.1Ki 19:2; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 27:25; Mr 6:23-26under a curse. or, with an oath of execration.Le 27:29; Jos 6:26; 7:1,15; Ne 10:29; Mt 26:74; *Gr:1Co 16:22; Ga 3:13that.Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt. (ch. 25:2, 3.) If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud. 1Sa 14:24,27,28,40-44; Ps 31:13Romans 10:2
I bear them.By this fine apology for the Jews, the Apostle prepares them for the harsher truths which he was about to deliver. 2Co 8:3; Ga 4:15; Col 4:13that they.2Ki 10:16; Joh 16:2; Ac 21:20,28; 22:3,22; 26:9,10; Ga 1:14; 4:17,18Php 3:6but not.3; 9:31,32; Ps 14:4; Pr 19:2; Isa 27:1; 2Co 4:4,6; Php 1:9
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