Judges 11:1 meaning and explanation
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
Judges 11:1, Berean Standard Bible
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Judges 11 opens by introducing Jephthah, a man from Gilead whose mother was a prostitute and whose father was Gilead. The narrator calls him a mighty man of valor, the same phrase used of Gideon, yet immediately names the stigma that will shape his story.
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