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1 Samuel 12:11
So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Samuel addresses the assembled Israelites at Mizpah, recounting Yahweh’s past interventions immediately after they confessed their sin of demanding a human king. The words — The verse highlights וַיִּשְׁלַח (va.yishlach), meaning “and he sent,” and בְּדָן (be.Dan), the proper name Bedan, which the supplied Hebrew text identifies as the second deliverer rather than Barak. The thread — The named agents connect to earlier rescue figures recorded in Judges 6:32 for Jerubbaal, Judges 4:6 for Barak, and Judges 6:14 where Yahweh commissions Gideon to save Israel. Why it lands — It requires the reader to acknowledge that Yahweh alone orchestrates deliverance, rendering human demands for political leadership secondary to divine sovereignty.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
Cross-references
- Judges 6:32 So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.
- Judges 4:6 She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.
- Judges 6:14 The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”
- Judges 8:29 and he—Jerubbaal son of Joash—returned home and settled down.
- Judges 8:35 They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.
- Judges 11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
- 1 Samuel 7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
- Judges 13:1 Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.