Jephthah
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed
over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead,
and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children
of Ammon....
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and
fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim,
because they said, Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim
among the Ephraimites, [and] among the Manassites....
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And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up,
and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt
not inherit in our father's house; for thou [art] the son of a
strange woman....
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(also spelled Jephtha or Jephte; Hebrew: יפתח, "Yiftach";
Greek: Ιεφθάε; Latin: Jephte) is a character in the Hebrew
Bible's Book of Judges, serving as a judge over Israel for a
period of six years (Judges 12:7). He lived in Gilead and was
a member of the Tribe of Manasseh. His father's name was also
Gilead. The Book of Judges describes Jepht...
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jef'-tha (yiphtach, "opened," or "opener," probably
signifying "Yahweh will open"; Iephthae; used as the name of
a place, as in Josh 15:43; 19:14; of a man, Jdg 10:6 through
12:7): Ninth judge of the Israelites. His antecedents are
obscure. Assuming Gilead to be the actual name of his
father, his mother was a harlot. He was driven from home on...
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-(A judge (leader, hero) of Israel)
-Illegitimate, and therefore not entitled to inherit his
father's property
Jud 11:1,2
-Escapes the violence of his half-brothers; lives in the
land
of Tob
Jud 11:3
-Recalled from the land of Tob by the elders of Gilead
Jud 11:5
-Made captain of the army
Jud 11:5-11
-Made head of the land of Gilead
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(whom God sets free), A judge about B.C. 1143-1137. His
history is contained in Jud 11:1 ... 12:8 He was a
Gileadite, the son of Gilead and a concubine. Driven by the
legitimate sons from his father's inheritance, he went to
Tob and became the head of a company of freebooters in a
debatable land probably belonging to Ammon. 2Sa 10:6 (This
lan...
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whom God sets free, or the breaker through, a "mighty man
of
valour" who delivered Israel from the oppression of
the
Ammonites (Judg. 11:1-33), and judged Israel six
years (12:7).
He has been described as "a wild, daring, Gilead
mountaineer, a
sort of warrior Elijah." After forty-five years of
comparative
quiet Israel again apostatized, a...
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