Judges 11:5
And as they pressed hard upon them, the ancients of Galaad went to fetch Jephte out of the land of Tob to help them:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quibus acriter instantibus perrexerunt majores natu de Galaad, ut tollerent in auxilium sui Jephte de terra Tob :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Γαλαὰδ λαβεῖν τὸν Ἰεφθάε ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς Τώβ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִ֕י כַּאֲשֶׁר נִלְחֲמ֥וּ בְנֵֽי עַמּ֖וֹן עִם יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ זִקְנֵ֣י גִלְעָ֔ד לָקַ֥חַת אֶת יִפְתָּ֖ח מֵאֶ֥רֶץ טֽוֹב
Haydock's commentary
Hard. Hebrew, "and when the Ammonites made war." As both armies were encamped near Maspha, they could hardly avoid having some skirmishes. But the Israelites durst not come to a pitched battle till they had Jephte at their head. (Haydock)
The Ammonites infested them every year with similar incursions, ver. 12. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Persecution
7. As to those that reproach us (saying): “Ye are persecuted and are not delivered,” let them be ashamed themselves, that at every time they have been persecuted, even for many years before they were delivered. They were made to serve in Egypt two hundred and twenty-five years. And the Midianites made Israel serve in the days of Barak and Deborah. The Moabites ruled over them in the days of Ehud; the Ammonites in the days of Jephthah; the Philistines in the days of Samson, and also in the days of Eli and of Samuel the Prophet; the Edomites in the days of Ahab; the Assyrians in the days of Hezekiah. The king of Babylon uprooted them from their place and dispersed them; and after he had tried and persecuted them much, they did not amend, as He said to them: In vain have I smitten your sons, for they did not accept chastisement . …