And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
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Gill's Exposition
And when I saw that ye delivered me not,.... Gave him no assistance against their common enemy, did not attempt to save him and his people out of their hands, but left them to defend themselves:
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Barnes' Notes
I put my life in my hands - Compare 1Sa 19:5; 1Sa 28:21. The phrase expresses the utmost possible risk, knowingly incurred.
Here Is, I. The unreasonable displeasure of the men of Ephraim against Jephthah, because he had not called them in to his assistance against the Ammonites, that they might share in the triumphs and…
Cambridge Bible
that thou wast not going to save me Or omit thou, and render that there was none to save, LXX. cod. A, Luc. Cf. Isa 63:5.
I put my life in my hand Cf. 1Sa 19:5; 1Sa 28:21; Job 13:14; Psa 119:109.
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