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Jephthah Scripture - Judges 11:29

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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Jephthah Scripture - Judges 12:4

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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Jephthah Scripture - Judges 11:2

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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Jephthah in Wikipedia

(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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Jephthah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Jephthah in Naves Topical Bible

-(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 Ju...

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Jephthah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Jephthah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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