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Księga Sędziów 12:1

I zebrali się mężowie Efraimscy, a przyszedłszy ku północy, rzekli do Jeftego: Przeczżeś szedł walczyć przeciwko synom Ammonowym, a nie wezwałeś nas, abyśmy szli z tobą? przetoż dom twój i ciebie spalimy ogniem.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Citizens;   Ephraim;   Israel;   Jealousy;   Jephthah;   Judge;   Strife;   Treason;   War;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ephraim;   Tribe;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ephraim, Tribe of;   Manasseh, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Shibboleth;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ephraim;   Jephthah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shibboleth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ephraim (1);   Ephraim, Wood of;   Gideon;   Jephthah;   Rehoboam;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ephraim;   Judges, Book of;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Levi;   Shibboleth;   Zaphon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephraim ;   Forest;   Jephthah, Jephthae ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jephthah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephraim (1);   Gilead (1);   Israel, History of the People;   Jephthah;   Judges, Period of;   Zaphon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amathus;   Jephthah;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Tedy się zebrali Efraimitowie, a przyszli ku stronie północnej i rzekli do Jeftego: Przecześ szedł walczyć przeciw synom Ammon, a nie wezwałeś nas, abychmy szli z tobą? Przetoż dom twój i z tobą spalemy.
Biblia Gdańska (1632)
I zebrali się mężowie Efraimscy, a przyszedłszy ku północy, rzekli do Jeftego: Przeczżeś szedł walczyć przeciwko synom Ammonowym, a nie wezwałeś nas, abyśmy szli z tobą? przetoż dom twój i ciebie spalimy ogniem.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Potem zebrali się Efraimici, przeszli na północ i zarzucili Jefcie: Dlaczego wyruszyłeś do walki z Ammonitami, a nas nie wezwałeś, abyśmy poszli z tobą? Spalimy ci teraz dach nad głową!
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Nadto zostali zwołani efraimscy mężowie i pociągnęli ku północy oraz powiedzieli do Iftacha: Czemu wyruszyłeś do walki z Ammonitami, a nas nie wezwałeś, abyśmy z tobą poszli? Spalimy ogniem twój dom nad tobą.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Potem zebrali się mężczyźni Efraimici i wyruszyli na północ, po czym powiedzieli do Jeftego: Dlaczego poszedłeś walczyć przeciwko synom Ammona, a nas nie wezwałeś, abyśmy poszli z tobą? Spalimy ogniem twój dom nad tobą.
Biblia Warszawska
Potem zebrali się Efraimici, ruszyli na północ i rzekli do Jefty: Dlaczego wyruszyłeś na wojnę z Ammonitami a nas nie wezwałeś, abyśmy z tobą poszli? Toteż spalimy twój dom razem z tobą.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

gathered: Heb. were called

Wherefore: Judges 8:1, 2 Samuel 19:41-43, Psalms 109:4, Ecclesiastes 4:4, John 10:32

we will burn: Judges 14:15, Judges 15:6, Proverbs 27:3, Proverbs 27:4, James 3:16, James 4:1, James 4:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:24 - Israel 2 Samuel 19:43 - the words 1 Kings 12:13 - answered Proverbs 13:10 - Only Proverbs 17:14 - beginning Proverbs 26:4 - General Mark 3:24 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together,.... Or "cried" r; got together by a cry or proclamation made: in the Hebrew text it is, "a man of Ephraim"; not a single man, but a body of men, who met together and joined as one man. It is highly probable that there were no less than 50,000 of them; for 42,000 of them were slain, Judges 12:6

and went northward; or, "went over northward s"; that is, over the river Jordan, which lay between Gilead and Ephraim; and when they had crossed the river, they turned northward; for Mizpeh, where Jephthah lived, was in the north of the land, near Hermon and Lebanon, Joshua 11:3

and said unto Jephthah, wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon? not over Jordan, but over that part of the land of Israel from the plain where Jephthah dwelt, to the country of the children of Ammon:

and didst not call us to go with thee? they quarrel with him just in the same manner as they did with Gideon: these Ephraimites were a proud and turbulent people, and especially were very jealous of the tribe of Manasseh, of which both Gideon and Jephthah were; the one of the half tribe on this side Jordan, and the other of the half that was on the other side; and they were jealous of both, lest any honour and glory should accrue thereunto, and they should get any superiority in any respect over them, since Jacob their father had given the preference to Ephraim; and this seems to lie at the bottom of all their proceedings:

we will burn thine house upon thee with fire; that is, burn him and his house, burn his house and him in it; which shows that they were in great wrath and fury, and argued not only the height of pride and envy, but wretched ingratitude, and a cruel disposition; who, instead of congratulating him as Israel's deliverer, and condoling him with respect to the case of his only child, threaten him in this brutish manner.

r יצעק εβοησεν, Sept. "clamatus", i.e. "clamando convocatus", Piscator. "mnellius", Pimcator. s יעבר "transivit", Pagninus, Montanus; "transiverunt", Junius et Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the similar complaint of the Ephraimites to Gideon Judges 8:1, when a civil war was only avoided by Gideon’s wise and patriotic moderation. The overhearing pride of Ephraim comes out in both occurrences (see also Joshua 17:14-18).

We will burn thine house upon thee with fire - Compare the fierce threat of the Philistines to Samson’s wife Judges 14:15, and the yet fiercer execution Judges 15:6. Burning appears as a mode of capital punishment Genesis 38:24; Joshua 7:25, and as a mode of desperate warfare (Judges 1:8; Judges 20:48; Joshua 8:8, Joshua 8:19, etc.).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XII

The Ephraimites are incensed against Jephthah, because he did

not call them to war against the Ammonites; and threaten his

destruction, 1.

He vindicates himself, 2, 3;

and arms the Gileadites against the men of Ephraim; they fight

against them, and kill forty-two thousand Ephraimites at the

passages of Jordan, 4-6.

Jephthah dies, having judged Israel six years, 7.

Ibzan judge seven years, 8.

His posterity and death, 9,10.

Elon judge ten years, and dies, 11, 12.

Abdon judge eight years, 13.

His posterity and death, 14, 15.

NOTES ON CHAP. XII

Verse Judges 12:1. The men of Ephraim gathered themselves together — ויצעק vaiyitstsaek, they called each other to arms; summoning all their tribe and friends to arm themselves to destroy Jephthah and the Gileadites, being jealous lest they should acquire too much power.


 
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