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Judges 11:1

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Jephthah: Hebrews 11:32, called Jephthae

an harlot: Heb. a woman

an harlot: Probably zonah: should be rendered as in Joshua 2:1, a hostess, or inn-keeper, so Targum of Jonathan, wehoo bar ittetha pundekeetha:, "and he was the son of a woman, a tavern-keeper." She was very probably a Canaanite, as she is called, Judges 11:2, a strange woman, ishah achereth:, "a woman of another race;" and on this account his brethren drove him from the family, as not having a full right to the inheritance.

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