Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Then the Spirit of the Lord ... - This was the sanctification of Jephthah for his office of Judge and savior of God' s people Israel. Compare Judges 6:34; Judges 13:25. The declaration is one of the distinctive marks which stamp this history as a divine history.
The geography is rather obscure, but the sense seems to be that Jephthah first raised all the inhabitants of Mount Gilead; then he crossed the Jabbok into Manasseh, and raised them; then he returned at the head of his new forces to his own camp at Mizpeh to join the troops he had left there; and thence at the head of the whole army marched against the Ammonites, who occupied the southern parts of Gilead.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 11:29:
Genesis 31:1-55
Joshua 11:3
Judges 3:10
Judges 6:34
Judges 11:31
1 Samuel 16:13
Amos 1:13
Hebrews 11:32
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