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:I put my life in my hands; ready to deliver it up in the defence of his country; the meaning is, that he exposed himself to the utmost danger, hazarded his life in going with a few troops into an enemy's country to fight him, and so liable to lose his life; which was in as much danger, as some observe, as any brittle thing contained in the hand is in danger of falling, or of being snatched out of it:and passed over against the children of Ammon: took a long and fatiguing march over the land of Gilead into that of the children of Ammon, to fight with them:and the Lord delivered them into my hand; gave him victory over them, which showed that his cause was just, and his call to engage in it clear:wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day to fight against me?
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Judges 12:3
Judges 12:3
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Northward, or, otherwise rendered, to Zaphon, a city of the Gadites mentioned in Joshua 13:27 together with Succoth, and thought to be the modern, Amateh on the Wady Rajlb (see Vanderveld's map). It is…Judges 12:3Judges 12:3 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeput: Judges 9:17; 1 Samuel 19:5, 1 Samuel 28:21; Job 13:14; Psalms 119:109; Romans 16:4; Revelation 12:11
wherefore: Judges 11:27; 2 Chronicles 13:12