Judges 12:7
And Jephte the Galaadite judged Israel six years: and he died, and was buried in his city of Galaad.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Judicavit itaque Jephte Galaadites Israël sex annis : et mortuus est, ac sepultus in civitate sua Galaad.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἔκρινεν Ἰεφθάε τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἑξήκοντα ἔτη· καὶ ἀπέθανεν Ἰεφθάε ὁ Γαλααδείτης, καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν πόλει αὐτοῦ ἐν Γαλαάδ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט יִפְתָּ֛ח אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שֵׁ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֑ים וַיָּ֗מָת יִפְתָּח֙ הַגִּלְעָדִ֔י וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר בְּעָרֵ֥י גִלְעָֽד
Haydock's commentary
His city. Maspha, in the country of Galaad, chap. xi. 34. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "in the cities;" whence the Rabbins have idly conjectured, that parts of his body were interred in different cities out of respect, or that they rotted off, in punishment of the sacrifice of his daughter. (Munster)
Grotius compares Jepthe with the renowned Viriatus. His character, both in peace and war, deserves the highest commendations; and in many respects, he was a striking figure of Jesus Christ. (Calmet)
The uncertainty of his birth, and the subsequent persecution which he endured from his brethren, foreshewed the deformity of the synagogues, and the conduct of the Jews (Haydock) towards their Messias, from whom alone they could expect salvation. Hence they are forced to have recourse to him, as the Israelites found themselves under a necessity of recalling Jepthe to lead them on to victory. Those who refused obedience to him, were deservedly exterminated, as the faithless Jews were by the arms of the Romans. Whether the daughter of Jepthe was immolated, or only consecrated to God, we may discover in her person a figure of the death and of the resurrection of our Saviour, who voluntarily made a sacrifice of his human nature to the justice of his father. See St. Augustine, q. 49.; Serarius, q. 26. (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.