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<div2 id="Jud.xiii" n="xiii" next="Jud.xiv" prev="Jud.xii" progress="17.57%" title="Chapter XII">
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<h2 id="Jud.xiii-p0.1">J U D G E S</h2>
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<h3 id="Jud.xiii-p0.2">CHAP. XII.</h3>
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<p class="intro" id="Jud.xiii-p1">In this chapter we have, I. Jephthah's rencounter
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with the Ephraimites, and the blood shed on that unhappy occasion
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(<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p1.1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.12.1-Judg.12.6" parsed="|Judg|12|1|12|6" passage="Jdg 12:1-6">ver. 1-6</scripRef>), and the
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conclusion of Jephthah's life and government, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p1.2" osisRef="Bible:Judg.12.7" parsed="|Judg|12|7|0|0" passage="Jdg 12:7">ver. 7</scripRef>. II. A short account of three other of
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the judges of Israel: Ibzan (<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p1.3" osisRef="Bible:Judg.12.8-Judg.12.10" parsed="|Judg|12|8|12|10" passage="Jdg 12:8-10">ver.
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8-10</scripRef>), Elon (<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p1.4" osisRef="Bible:Judg.12.11-Judg.12.12" parsed="|Judg|12|11|12|12" passage="Jdg 12:11,12">ver. 11,
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12</scripRef>), Abdon, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p1.5" osisRef="Bible:Judg.12.13-Judg.12.15" parsed="|Judg|12|13|12|15" passage="Jdg 12:13-15">ver.
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13-15</scripRef>.</p>
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<scripCom id="Jud.xiii-p0.1_1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.12" parsed="|Judg|12|0|0|0" passage="Jud 12" type="Commentary"/>
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<scripCom id="Jud.xiii-p0.2_1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.12.1-Judg.12.7" parsed="|Judg|12|1|12|7" passage="Jud 12:1-7" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Judg.12.1-Judg.12.7">
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<h4 id="Jud.xiii-p1.8">Displeasure of the Ephraimites; Punishment
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of the Ephraimites. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Jud.xiii-p1.9">b. c.</span> 1143.)</h4>
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<p class="passage" id="Jud.xiii-p2">1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves
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together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore
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passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and
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didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon
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thee with fire. 2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my
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people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I
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called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands. 3 And
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when I saw that ye delivered <i>me</i> not, I put my life in my
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hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the <span class="smallcaps" id="Jud.xiii-p2.1">Lord</span> delivered them into my hand:
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wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against
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me? 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead,
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and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim,
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because they said, Ye Gileadites <i>are</i> fugitives of Ephraim
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among the Ephraimites, <i>and</i> among the Manassites. 5
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And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the
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Ephraimites: and it was <i>so,</i> that when those Ephraimites
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which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead
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said unto him, <i>Art</i> thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
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6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said
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Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce <i>it</i> right.
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Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and
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there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
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7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah
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the Gileadite, and was buried in <i>one of</i> the cities of
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Gilead.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p3">Here is, I. The unreasonable displeasure of
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the men of Ephraim against Jephthah, because he had not called them
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in to his assistance against the Ammonites, that they might share
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in the triumphs and spoils, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p3.1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.1" parsed="|Judg|11|1|0|0" passage="Jdg 11:1"><i>v.</i>
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1</scripRef>. Pride was at the bottom of the quarrel. Only by that
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comes contention. Proud men think all the honours lost that go
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beside themselves, and then <i>who can stand before envy?</i> The
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Ephraimites had the same quarrel with Gideon (<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p3.2" osisRef="Bible:Judg.8.1" parsed="|Judg|8|1|0|0" passage="Jdg 8:1"><i>ch.</i> viii. 1</scripRef>), who was of Manasseh on
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their side Jordan, as Jephthah was of Manasseh on the other side
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Jordan. Ephraim and Manasseh were hearer akin than any other of the
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tribes, being both the sons of Joseph, and yet they were more
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jealous one of another than any other of the tribes. Jacob having
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crossed hands, and given Ephraim the preference, looking as far
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forward as the kingdom of the ten tribes, which Ephraim was the
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head of, after the revolt from the house of David, that tribe, not
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content with that honour in the promise, was displeased if Manasseh
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had any honour done it in the mean time. It is a pity that kindred
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or relationship, which should be an inducement to love and peace,
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should be ever an occasion (as it often proves) of strife and
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discord. <i>A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong
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city, and contentions among brethren are as the bars of a
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castle.</i> The anger of the Ephraimites at Jephthah was, 1.
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Causeless and unjust. Why <i>didst thou not call us to go with
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thee?</i> For a good reason. Because it was the men of Gilead that
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had made him their captain, not the men of Ephraim, so that he had
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no authority to call them. Had his attempt miscarried for want of
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their help, they might justly have blamed him for not desiring it.
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But when the work was done, and done effectually, the Ammonites
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being subdued and Israel delivered, there was no harm done, though
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their hands were not employed in it. 2. It was cruel and
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outrageous. They get together in a tumultuous manner, pass over
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Jordan as far as Mizpeh in Gilead, where Jephthah lived, and no
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less will satisfy their fury but they will burn his house and him
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in it. <i>Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce.</i> Those
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resentments that have the least reason for them have commonly the
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most rage in them. Jephthah was now a conqueror over the common
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enemies of Israel, and they should have come to congratulate him,
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and return him the thanks of their tribe for the good services he
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had done; but we must not think it strange if we receive ill from
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those from whom we deserve well. Jephthah was now a mourner for the
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calamity of his family upon his daughter's account, and they should
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have come to condole with him and comfort him; but barbarous men
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take a pleasure in adding affliction to the afflicted. In this
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world, the end of one trouble often proves the beginning of
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another; nor must we ever <i>boast as though we had put off the
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harness.</i></p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p4">II. Jephthah's warm vindication of himself.
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He did not endeavour to pacify them, as Gideon had done in the like
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case; the Ephraimites were now more outrageous than they were them,
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and Jephthah had not so much of a meek and quiet spirit as Gideon
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had. Whether they would be pacified or no, Jephthah takes care,</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p5">1. To justify himself, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p5.1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.2-Judg.11.3" parsed="|Judg|11|2|11|3" passage="Jdg 11:2,3"><i>v.</i> 2, 3</scripRef>. He makes it out that they
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had no cause at all to quarrel with him, for, (1.) It was not in
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pursuit of glory that he had engaged in this war, but for the
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necessary defence of his country, with which the children of Ammon
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greatly strove. (2.) He had invited the Ephraimites to come and
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join with him, though he neither needed them nor was under any
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obligation to pay that respect to them, but they had declined the
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service: <i>I called you, and you delivered me not out of their
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hands.</i> Had that been true which they charged him with, yet it
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would not have been a just ground of quarrel; but it seems it was
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false, and, as the matter of fact now appears, he had more cause to
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quarrel with them for deserting the common interests of Israel in a
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time of need. It is no new thing for those who are themselves most
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culpable to be most clamorous in accusing the innocent. (3.) The
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enterprise was very hazardous, and they had more reason to pity him
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than to be angry with him: <i>I put my life in my hands,</i> that
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is, "exposed myself to the utmost peril in what I did, having so
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small an army," The honour they envied was bought dearly enough;
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they needed not to grudge it to him; few of them would have
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ventured so far for it. (4.) He does not take the glory of the
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success to himself (that would have been invidious), but gives it
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all to God: "<i>The Lord delivered them into my hands.</i> If God
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was pleased so far to make use of me for his glory, why should you
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be offended at that? Have you any reason to <i>fight against
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me?</i> Is not that in effect to fight against God, in whose hand I
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have been only an unworthy instrument?"</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p6">2. When this just answer (though not so
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soft an answer as Gideon's) did not prevail to turn away their
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wrath, he took care both to defend himself from their fury and to
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chastise their insolence with the sword, by virtue of his authority
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as Israel's judge. (1.) The Ephraimites had not only quarrelled
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with Jephthah, but, when his neighbours and friends appeared to
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take his part, they had abused them, and given them foul language;
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for I adhere to our translation, and so take it, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p6.1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.4" parsed="|Judg|11|4|0|0" passage="Jdg 11:4"><i>v.</i> 4</scripRef>. They said in scorn, "You
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Gileadites that dwell here on the other side Jordan are but
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fugitives of Ephraim, the scum and dregs of the tribes of Joseph,
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of which Ephraim is the chief, the refuse of the family, and are so
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accounted among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites. Who cares
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for you? All your neighbours know what you are, no better than
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fugitives and vagabonds, separated from your brethren, and driven
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hither into a corner." The Gileadites were as true Israelites as
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any other, and at this time had signalized themselves, both in the
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choice of Jephthah and in the war with Ammon, above all the
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families of Israel, and yet are most basely and unjustly called
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<i>fugitives.</i> It is an ill thing to fasten names or characters
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of reproach upon persons or countries, as is common, especially
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upon those that lie under outward disadvantages: it often occasions
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quarrels that prove of ill consequence, as it did here. See
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likewise what a mischievous thing an abusive tongue is, that calls
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ill names, and gives scurrilous language: it <i>sets on fire the
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course of nature, and is set on fire of hell</i> (<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p6.2" osisRef="Bible:Jas.3.6" parsed="|Jas|3|6|0|0" passage="Jam 3:6">Jam. iii. 6</scripRef>), and many a time cuts the
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throat of him that uses it, as it did here, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p6.3" osisRef="Bible:Ps.34.8" parsed="|Ps|34|8|0|0" passage="Ps 34:8">Ps. lxiv. 8</scripRef>. If these Ephraimites could have
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denied themselves the poor satisfaction of calling the Gileadites
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<i>fugitives,</i> they might have prevented a great deal of
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bloodshed; for <i>grievous words stir up anger,</i> and who knows
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how great a matter a little of that fire may kindle? (2.) This
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affront raises the Gileadites' blood, and the indignity done to
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themselves, as well as to their captain, must be revenged. [1.]
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They routed them in the field, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p6.4" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.4" parsed="|Judg|11|4|0|0" passage="Jdg 11:4"><i>v.</i> 4</scripRef>. They fought with Ephraim, and,
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Ephraim being but a rude unheaded rabble, smote Ephraim, and put
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them to flight. [2.] They cut off their retreat, and so completed
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their revenge, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p6.5" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.5-Judg.11.6" parsed="|Judg|11|5|11|6" passage="Jdg 11:5,6"><i>v.</i> 5,
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6</scripRef>. The Gileadites, who perhaps were better acquainted
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with the passages of Jordan than the Ephraimites were, secured them
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with strong guards, who were ordered to slay every Ephraimite that
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offered to pass the river. Here was, <i>First,</i> Cruelty enough
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in the destruction of them. Sufficient surely was <i>the punishment
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which was inflicted by many;</i> when they were routed in the
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field, there needed not this severity to cut off all that escaped.
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Shall the sword devour for ever? Whether Jephthah is to be praised
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for this I know not; perhaps he saw it to be a piece of necessary
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justice. <i>Secondly,</i> Cunning enough in the discovery of them.
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It seems the Ephraimites, though they spoke the same language with
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other Israelites, yet had got a custom in the dialect of their
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country to pronounce the Hebrew letter <i>Shin</i> like
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<i>Samech,</i> and they had so strangely used themselves to it that
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they could not do otherwise, no, not to save their lives. We learn
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to speak by imitation; those that first used <i>s</i> for
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<i>sh,</i> did it either because it was shorter or because it was
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finer, and their children learnt to speak like them, so that you
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might know an Ephraimite by it; as in England we know a
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west-country man or a north-country man, nay, perhaps a Shropshire
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man, and a Cheshire man, by his pronunciation. <i>Thou art a
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Galilean, and thy speech betrays thee.</i> By this the Ephraimites
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were discovered. If they took a man that they suspected to be an
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Ephraimite, but he denied it, they bade him say <i>Shibboleth;</i>
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but either he <i>could not,</i> as our translation reads it, or he
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did not heed, or frame, or direct himself, as some read, to
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pronounce it aright, but said <i>Sibboleth,</i> and so was known to
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be an Ephraimite, and was slain immediately. <i>Shibboleth</i>
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signifies a <i>river or stream:</i> "Ask leave to go over
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Shibboleth, the river." Those that were thus cut off made up the
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whole number of slaughtered Ephraimites forty-two thousand,
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<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p6.6" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.6" parsed="|Judg|11|6|0|0" passage="Jdg 11:6"><i>v.</i> 6</scripRef>. Thus another
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mutiny of that angry tribe was prevented.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p7">3. Now let us observe the righteousness of
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God in the punishment of these proud and passionate Ephraimites,
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which in several instances answered to their sin. (1.) They were
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proud of the honour of their tribe, gloried in this, that they were
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Ephraimites; but how soon were they brought to be ashamed or afraid
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to own their country! <i>Art thou an Ephraimite?</i> No, now rather
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of any tribe than that. (2.) They had gone in a rage over Jordan to
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burn Jephthah's house with fire, but now they came back to Jordan
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as sneakingly as they had passed it furiously, and were cut off
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from ever returning to their own houses. (3.) They had upbraided
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the Gileadites with the infelicity of their country, lying at such
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a distance, and now they suffered by an infirmity peculiar to their
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own country, in not being able to pronounce <i>Shibboleth.</i> (4.)
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They had called the Gileadites, unjustly, fugitives, and now they
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really and in good earnest became fugitives themselves; and in the
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Hebrew the same word (<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p7.1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.5" parsed="|Judg|11|5|0|0" passage="Jdg 11:5"><i>v.</i>
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5</scripRef>) is used of the Ephraimites that escaped, or that
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fled, which they had used in scorn of the Gileadites, calling them
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<i>fugitives.</i> He that rolls the stone of reproach unjustly upon
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another, let him expect that it will justly return upon
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himself.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p8">III. Here is the end of Jephthah's
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government. He judged Israel but six years, and then died,
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<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p8.1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.7" parsed="|Judg|11|7|0|0" passage="Jdg 11:7"><i>v.</i> 7</scripRef>. Perhaps the
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death of his daughter sunk him so that he never looked up
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afterwards, but it shortened his days, and he went to his grave
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mourning.</p>
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</div><scripCom id="Jud.xiii-p0.3" osisRef="Bible:Judg.12.8-Judg.12.15" parsed="|Judg|12|8|12|15" passage="Jud 12:8-15" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Judg.12.8-Judg.12.15">
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<h4 id="Jud.xiii-p8.3">Jephthah's Successors. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Jud.xiii-p8.4">b. c.</span> 1112.)</h4>
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<p class="passage" id="Jud.xiii-p9">8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged
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Israel. 9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters,
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<i>whom</i> he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from
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abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. 10
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Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem. 11 And after
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him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten
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years. 12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in
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Aijalon in the country of Zebulun. 13 And after him Abdon
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the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. 14 And he
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had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten
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ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. 15 And Abdon
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the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon
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in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p10">We have here a short account of the short
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reigns of three more of the judges of Israel, the first of whom
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governed but seven years, the second ten, and the third eight.
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<i>For the transgression of a land, many are the princes
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thereof,</i> many in a short time, successively (<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p10.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.28.2" parsed="|Prov|28|2|0|0" passage="Pr 28:2">Prov. xxviii. 2</scripRef>), good men being removed in
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the beginning of their usefulness and by the time that they have
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applied themselves to their business.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p11">I. Ibzan of Bethlehem, most probably
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Bethlehem of Judah, David's city, not that in Zebulun, which is
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only mentioned once, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p11.1" osisRef="Bible:Josh.19.15" parsed="|Josh|19|15|0|0" passage="Jos 19:15">Josh. xix.
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15</scripRef>. He ruled but seven years, but by the number of his
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children, and his disposing of them all in marriage himself, it
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appears that he lived long; and probably the great increase of his
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family, and the numerous alliances he made, added to his personal
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merits, made him the more fit to be either chosen by the people as
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Jephthah was, or called of God immediately, as Gideon was, to be
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Israel's judge, to keep up and carry on the work of God among them.
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That which is remarkable concerning him is, 1. That he had many
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children, sixty in all, a quiver full of these arrows. Thus was
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Bethlehem of old famous for increase, the very city where <i>he</i>
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was to be born whose spiritual seed should be <i>as the stars of
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heaven.</i> 2. That he had an equal number of each sex, thirty sons
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and thirty daughters, a thing which does not often happen in the
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same family, yet, in the great family of mankind, he that at first
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made two, male and female, by his wise providence preserves a
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succession of both in some sort of equality as far as is requisite
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to the keeping up of the generations of men upon earth. 3. That he
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took care to marry them all. His daughters he sent abroad, <i>et
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maritis dedit,</i> so the vulgar Latin adds—<i>he provided
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husbands for them;</i> and, as it were in exchange, and both ways,
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strengthening his interest, he <i>took in thirty daughters from
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abroad for his sons.</i> The Jews say, Every father owes three
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things to his son: to teach him to read the law, give him a trade,
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and get him a wife. What a difference was there between Ibzan's
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family and that of his immediate predecessor Jephthah! Ibzan has
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sixty children and all married, Jephthah but one, a daughter, that
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dies or lives unmarried. Some are increased, others are diminished:
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both are the Lord's doing.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p12">II. Elon of Zebulun, in the north of
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Canaan, was next raised up to preside in public affairs, to
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administer justice, and to reform abuses. Ten years he continued a
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blessing to Israel, and then died, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p12.1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.11-Judg.11.12" parsed="|Judg|11|11|11|12" passage="Jdg 11:11,12"><i>v.</i> 11, 12</scripRef>. Dr. Lightfoot computes
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that in the beginning of his time the forty years' oppression by
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the Philistines began (spoken of <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p12.2" osisRef="Bible:Judg.13.1" parsed="|Judg|13|1|0|0" passage="Jdg 13:1"><i>ch.</i> xiii. 1</scripRef>), and about that time
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Samson was born. Probably, his residence being in the north, the
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Philistines who bordered upon the southern parts of Canaan took the
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opportunity of making incursions upon them.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p13">III. Abdon, of the tribe of Ephraim,
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succeeded, and in him that illustrious tribe begins to recover its
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reputation, having not afforded any person of note since Joshua;
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for Abimelech the Shechemite was rather a scandal to it. This Abdon
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was famous for the multitude of his offspring (<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p13.1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.14" parsed="|Judg|11|14|0|0" passage="Jdg 11:14"><i>v.</i> 14</scripRef>): he had forty sons and thirty
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grandsons, all of whom he lived to see grown up, and they rode on
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seventy ass-colts either as judges and officers or as gentlemen and
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persons of distinction. It was a satisfaction to him thus to see
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his children's children, but it is feared he did not see peace upon
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Israel, for by this time the Philistines had begun to break in upon
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them. Concerning this, and the rest of these judges that have ever
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so short an account given of them, yet notice is taken where they
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were buried (<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p13.2" osisRef="Bible:Judg.11.7 Bible:Judg.11.10 Bible:Judg.11.12 Bible:Judg.11.15" parsed="|Judg|11|7|0|0;|Judg|11|10|0|0;|Judg|11|12|0|0;|Judg|11|15|0|0" passage="Jdg 11:7,10,12,15"><i>v.</i> 7, 10,
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12, 15</scripRef>), perhaps because the inscriptions upon their
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monuments (for such were anciently used, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p13.3" osisRef="Bible:2Kgs.23.17" parsed="|2Kgs|23|17|0|0" passage="2Ki 23:17">2 Kings xxiii. 17</scripRef>) would serve for the
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confirmation and enlargement of their story, and might be consulted
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by such as desired further information concerning them. Peter,
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having occasion to speak of David, says, <i>His sepulchre is with
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us unto this day,</i> <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p13.4" osisRef="Bible:Acts.2.29" parsed="|Acts|2|29|0|0" passage="Ac 2:29">Acts ii.
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29</scripRef>. Or it is intended for the honour of the places where
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they laid their bones, but may be improved for the lessening of our
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esteem of all worldly glory, of which death and the grave will
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stain the pride. These judges, that were as gods to Israel, died
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like men, and all their honour was laid in the dust.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Jud.xiii-p14">It is very strange that in the history of
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all these judges, some of whose actions are very particularly
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related, there is not so much as once mention made of the high
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priest, or any other priest or Levite, appearing either for counsel
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or action in any public affair, from Phinehas (<scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p14.1" osisRef="Bible:Judg.20.28" parsed="|Judg|20|28|0|0" passage="Jdg 20:28">Judg. xx. 28</scripRef>) to Eli, which may well be
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computed 250 years; only the names of the high priests at that time
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are preserved, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p14.2" osisRef="Bible:1Chr.6.4-1Chr.6.7 Bible:Ezra.7.35" parsed="|1Chr|6|4|6|7;|Ezra|7|35|0|0" passage="1Ch 6:4-7,Ezr 7:35">1 Chron. vi.
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4-7; and Ezra vii. 3-5</scripRef>. How can this strange obscurity
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of that priesthood for so long a time, now in the beginning of its
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days, agree with that mighty splendour with which it was introduced
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and the figure which the institution of it makes in the law of
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Moses? Surely it intimates that the institution was chiefly
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intended to be typical, and that the great benefits that seemed to
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be promised by it were to be chiefly looked for in its antitype,
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the everlasting priesthood of our Lord Jesus, in comparison of the
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superior glory of which that priesthood had no glory, <scripRef id="Jud.xiii-p14.3" osisRef="Bible:2Cor.3.10" parsed="|2Cor|3|10|0|0" passage="2Co 3:10">2 Cor. iii. 10</scripRef>.</p>
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