Judices 10:18

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Qui præcepit sociis, et ait : Volvite saxa ingentia ad os speluncæ, et ponite viros industrios, qui clausos custodiant :

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Dixeruntque principes Galaad singuli ad proximos suos: Qui primus ex nobis contra filios Ammon cœperit dimicare, erit dux populi Galaad.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Dixeruntque populus, principes Galaad, singuli ad proximos suos: "Qui primus contra filios Ammon coeperit dimicare, erit dux omnium habitatorum Galaad".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What man: Judges 1:1, Judges 11:5-8, Isaiah 3:1-8, Isaiah 34:12

he shall be: Judges 11:11, Judges 12:7, 1 Samuel 17:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:21 - Gilead Judges 8:23 - I will Judges 11:8 - we turn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another,.... Being thus assembled and encamped:

what man is he that will begin to fight with the children of Ammon? for though the forces were assembled together for battle, yet it seems they had no general to command them, and lead them on to it:

he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead, this they ordered to be proclaimed, to encourage some person to take the command of them, and go before them to battle, promising him that he should be judge or governor over all the tribes on that side Jordan.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the people and princes ... - The inhabitants of Gilead appear as a separate and independent community, electing their own chief, without any reference to the West-Jordanic tribes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 10:18. What man is he that will begin to fight — It appears that, although the spirit of patriotism had excited the people at large to come forward against their enemies, yet they had no general, none to lead them forth to battle. God, however, who had accepted their sincere repentance, raised them up an able captain in the person of Jephthah; and in him the suffrages of the people were concentrated, as we shall see in the following chapter.

In those ancient times much depended on the onset; a war was generally terminated in one battle, the first impression was therefore of great consequence, and it required a person skillful, valorous, and strong, to head the attack. Jephthah was a person in whom all these qualifications appear to have met. When God purposes to deliver, he, in the course of his providence, will find out, employ, and direct the proper means.