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<p class="tab-1">This chapter gives as the history of Jephthah, another of Israel’s judges, and numbered among the worthies of the Old Testament, that by faith did great things (<a class="bibleref" title="Heb.11.32" href="/passage/?search=Heb.11.32">Heb. 11:32</a>), though he had not such an extraordinary call as the rest there mentioned had. Here we have, I. The disadvantages of his origin, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.11.1-Judg.11.3" href="/passage/?search=Judg.11.1-Judg.11.3">Jdg. 11:1-3</a>. II. The Gileadites’ choice of him to be commander-in-chief against the Ammonites, and the terms he made with them, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.11.4-Judg.11.11" href="/passage/?search=Judg.11.4-Judg.11.11">Jdg. 11:4-11</a>. III. His treaty with the king of Ammon about the rights of the two nations, that the matter might be determined, if possible, without bloodshed, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.11.12-Judg.11.28" href="/passage/?search=Judg.11.12-Judg.11.28">Jdg. 11:12-28</a>. IV. His war with the Ammonites, which he enters upon with a solemn vow (<a class="bibleref" title="Judg.11.29-Judg.11.31" href="/passage/?search=Judg.11.29-Judg.11.31">Jdg. 11:29-31</a>), prosecutes with bravery (<a class="bibleref" title="Judg.11.32" href="/passage/?search=Judg.11.32">Jdg. 11:32</a>), and ends with a glorious victory, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.11.33" href="/passage/?search=Judg.11.33">Jdg. 11:33</a>. V. The straits he was brought into at his return to his own house by the vow he had made, <a class="bibleref" title="Judg.11.34-Judg.11.40" href="/passage/?search=Judg.11.34-Judg.11.40">Jdg. 11:34-40</a>.</p>
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