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Judices 11:2

Habuit autem Galaad uxorem, de qua suscepit filios, qui, postquam creverant, eiecerunt Iephte dicentes: "Heres in domo patris nostri esse non poteris, quia de altera matre generatus es".

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gilead;   Jephthah;   Prayer;   Strife;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jephthah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Children;   Jephthah;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Vow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bastard;   Harlot;   Jephthah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bastards;   Harlot;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jephthah;   Prostitution;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gilead;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gilead ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jephtha;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jephthah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Children;   Gil'e-Ad;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;   Jephthah;   Testament;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gilead (2);   Jephthah;   Strange Woman;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bastard;  

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
ad reges quoque aquilonis, qui habitabant in montanis et in planitie contra meridiem Ceneroth, in campestribus quoque et in regionibus Dor juxta mare :
Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Habuit autem Galaad uxorem, de qua suscepit filios: qui postquam creverant, ejecerunt Jephte, dicentes: Hæres in domo patris nostri esse non poteris, quia de altera matre natus es.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thrust out: Genesis 12:10, Deuteronomy 23:2, Galatians 4:30

a strange: Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 5:3, Proverbs 5:20, Proverbs 6:24-26

Reciprocal: Judges 11:1 - an harlot Acts 7:39 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Gilead's wife bare him sons,.... It seems that, after the birth of Jephthah, Gilead took him a lawful wife, who bore him sons:

and his wife's sons grew up; to the estate of men:

and they thrust out Jephthah: out of his father's house, his father in all likelihood being dead, or he would not have suffered it, and what follows confirms it that he was dead:

and said unto him, thou shalt not inherit in our father's house: as he might not, if the son of an harlot, or of a woman of another tribe, or of a concubine; though as Kimchi, from their Rabbins, observes, the son of such an one might, provided his mother was not an handmaid nor a stranger. And it looks as if this was not rightly done, but that Jephthah was injuriously dealt with by his brethren, of which he complains:

for thou art the son of a strange woman: or of another "woman" e, that was not their father's lawful wife; or of a woman of another tribe, as the Targum; or of another nation, as others, prostitutes being used to go into foreign countries to get a livelihood, and hide the shame of their families; hence a strange woman, and a harlot, signified the same f, see Judges 11:1.

e אשה אחרת "mulieris alterius", Pagninus, Montanus; "exterae", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Tigurine version. f "Pro uxore hanc peregrinam", Terent. Audria, act 1, scen. 1. l. 118.


 
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