SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:4
¶ Y aconteció que después de algunos días los hijos de Amón hicieron guerra contra Israel.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 11:4
Verse 4. The children of Ammon made war] They had invaded the land of Israel, and were now encamped in Gilead. See Judges x. 17.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 4. And it came to pass in process of time , etc.] Some time after Jephthah had been expelled from his father’s house, and he was become famous for his martial genius, and military exploits; or at the close of the eighteen years’ oppression of the children of Israel by the Ammonites, or some few days after the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpeh, that the people and princes of Gilead were preparing for war with Ammon, and were thinking of a proper person to be their general: that the children of Ammon made war against Israel ; not only passed over Jordan again, and encamped in Gilead, but began to attack them in some place or another, at least threatened them with it, and made motions towards it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-11 - Men ought not to be blamed for their parentage, so long as they by their personal merits roll away any reproach. God had forgiven Israel therefore Jephthah will forgive. He speaks not with confidence of his success, knowing how justly God might suffer the Ammonites to prevai for the further punishment of Israel. Nor does he speak with an confidence at all in himself. If he succeed, it is the Lord deliver them into his hand; he thereby reminds his countrymen to look up to God as the Giver of victory. The same question as here, in fact, is put to those who desire salvation by Christ. If he save you, will ye be willing that he shall rule you? On no other terms will he save you. I he make you happy, shall he make you holy? If he be your helper, shal he be your Head? Jephthah, to obtain a little worldly honour, wa willing to expose his life: shall we be discouraged in our Christia warfare by the difficulties we may meet with, when Christ has promise a crown of life to him that overcometh?
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 מימים 3117 וילחמו 3898 בני 1121 עמון 5983 עם 5973 ישׂראל׃ 3478
