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Geneva Bible Notes (1560): Judges 11

1 / Ebr. a man of mightie force.

1 ! Iphtah being chased by his brethren, was after made captaine.

1 / Ebr. man of mightie force.

1 / Or, vitailer.

2 a That is, of an harlot, as {ver. 1}.

3 c Joyned with him as some thinke, against his brethren.

3 b Where the gouernour of the countrey was called Tob.

3 b Where the gouernour of the countrey was called Tob.

3 c Joyned with him, as some thinke, against his brethren.

5 d Or, ambassadours,sent for that purpose.

6 e Men oft times are constrained to desire helpe of them, whome before they haue refused.

6 e Men of times are constrained to desire helpe of them, whome before they haue refused.

7 f Oft tymes, those things, which men reject, God choseth to do great enterprises by.

20 g He trusted them not to go through his countrey.

24 h For we oght more to beleue and obey God, then thou thine idoles.

30 m As the Apostie commendeth Iphtah for his worthy enterprise in deliuering the people, Ebr. 11, 32, so by his rashe vowe & wicked performance of the same, his victorie was defated: and here we se that the sinnes of the godly do not vtterly extinguisa their faith.

35 o Being ouercome with blinde zeale, and not considering whether the vowe was lauful or no.

37 p For it was counted as a shame in Israel to dye without children, and therefore they rejoyced to be maryed.

39 ! And sacrificeth his daughter according to his vowe.