And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Barak, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt safely.
Read Chapter 12
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Jerobaal and Badan. That is, Gedeon and Samson, called here Badan or Bedan, because he was of Dan. (Challoner) (Chaldean) (Worthington)
Others think that Jair, (Judges x. 3.; Junius, Usher,) or, according to the Septuagint, "Barac "are designated. Jair was a descendant of one Bedan, 1 Paralipomenon ii. 21. (Calmet)
But we do not read that Jair performed any great exploit. (Haydock)
Samuel. He speaks of himself as of any other man: as the interests of God were not to be betrayed by an unseasonable modesty. (Calmet)
Josephus only specifies Jephte and Gedeon. (Haydock)
The Israelites thought that they could dispose things better than God had done under the judges; and hence their sin is so often repeated. (St. Gregory) (Worthington)
