Judges 11:2
And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
The princes and people of Gilead we left, in the close of the foregoing chapter, consulting about the choice of a general, having come to this resolve, that whoever would undertake to lead their…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
And Gilead's wife i.e. the lawful wife in distinction from another woman(1Ch 2:26). In Jdg 11:11 it is the elders of Gilead, not his half-brothers, who drove Jephthah out of his home; the present…
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