And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
This brief notice stands in the closing portion of Judges, which embraces a fearfully checkered time in the history of Israel, dark and unstable in character. It comes after the wonderful victory God wrought through Jephthah over the Ammonites, marking the end of his six-year judgeship and his burial in Gilead. In that low condition of His people it displays God's goodness and mercy toward them, set in mighty contrast with the miracles and teaching of Christ in Luke which speak of that same goodness and mercy.
This brief notice stands in the closing portion of Judges, which embraces a fearfully checkered time in the history of Israel, dark and unstable in character. It comes after the wonderful victory God wrought through Jephthah over the Ammonites, marking the end of his six-year judgeship and his burial in Gilead. In that low condition of His people it displays God's goodness and mercy toward them, set in mighty contrast with the miracles and teaching of Christ in Luke which speak of that same goodness and mercy.