Shìshījì 12:2

2 Yēfútā duì tāmen shuō , wǒ hé wǒde mín yǔ Yàmén rén dàdà zhēng zhàn . wǒ zhāo nǐmen lái , nǐmen jìng méiyǒu lái jiù wǒ tuōlí tāmende shǒu .

Shìshījì 12:2 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 12:2

And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at a great
strife with the children of Ammon
As to the cause of the war, or the reason of his going over to fight the children of Ammon, it was a strife or contention between the Gileadites and them, concerning their country; which the children of Ammon claimed as theirs, and the Gileadites insisted on it they had a just right to it; by which it appeared that this was not a personal contention between Jephthah and them; and therefore the Ephraimites had no reason to fall so furiously upon him particularly; and it was a contention which chiefly concerned the two tribes and a half, and not the rest; and so could not be blamed for defending themselves alone if they could, without interesting others in the quarrel: but this is not all he has to say, he adds,

and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands;
it seems he had called them to assist in driving the enemy out of their boarders when there, and they refused to help him; though it is not elsewhere said, and it is not denied by them, so that it was false what they alleged; or however, since they declined giving him any assistance, when the children of Ammon were in his country, he could not expect they would join him in an expedition into theirs.

Shìshījì 12:2 In-Context

1 Yǐfǎlián rén jùjí , dào le bĕi fāng , duì Yēfútā shuō , nǐ qù yǔ Yàmén rén zhēng zhàn , wèishénme méiyǒu zhāo wǒmen tóng qù ne . wǒmen bì yòng huǒshào nǐ hé nǐde fángwū .

2 Yēfútā duì tāmen shuō , wǒ hé wǒde mín yǔ Yàmén rén dàdà zhēng zhàn . wǒ zhāo nǐmen lái , nǐmen jìng méiyǒu lái jiù wǒ tuōlí tāmende shǒu .

3 Wǒ jiàn nǐmen bù lái jiù wǒ , wǒ jiù pīn méng qián qù gōngjī Yàmén rén , Yēhéhuá jiāng tāmen jiāo zaì wǒ shǒu zhōng . nǐmen jīnrì wèishénme shàng wǒ zhèlǐ lái gōngdǎ wǒ ne .

4 Yúshì Yēfútā zhāo jù Jīliè rén , yǔ Yǐfǎlián rén zhēng zhàn . Jīliè rén jī shā Yǐfǎlián rén , shì yīn tāmen shuō , nǐmen Jīliè rén zaì Yǐfǎlián , Mǎnáxī zhōngjiān , bú guō shì Yǐfǎlián taó wáng de rén .

5 Jīliè rén bǎshǒu Yuēdànhé de dùkǒu , bùróng Yǐfǎlián rén guō qù . Yǐfǎlián taó zǒu de rén ruò shuō , róng wǒ guō qù . Jīliè rén jiù wèn tā shuō , nǐ shì Yǐfǎlián rén bú shì . tā ruò shuō , bú shì ,