Jephthah
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Israelite judge whose war against the Ammonites is cited as an example of just war by natural reason.
Of this kind is the war of Jephthah against the Ammonites, in defence of their borders.
For we find in holy writ, that when the King of the Ammonites demanded the lands situated between the rivers Arnon and Jabok, and those extending from the deserts of Arabia to the Jordan, Jepthah opposed his pretentions by proving his own possession of the same for three hundred years, and asked why he and his ancestors had for so long a period neglected to make their claim.
Upon this principle among others, Jephthah defends himself against the Ammonites, because by the laws of war they had lost the land, which they claimed, in the same manner, as another part had been transferred from the Moabites to the Amorites, and from the Amorites to the Hebrews.
Stromata
Biblical judge listed among the exemplars of faith from Israel's history.
Why, then, should I still set out testimonies of faith, gathering them from the history among us?
And when they had repented, Jephthah the Gileadite, of the tribe of Manasseh, leads them, and ruled six years;