Judges 12:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.

Wherefore

John 10:32

We will burn

James 4:1

General references

Proverbs 26:4

Mark 3:24

Bible References

Wherefore

Then the people of Ephraim said to Gideon: Why did you not call us when you went to fight the Midianites? Why did you treat us like this? They complained bitterly about it.

All the people of Israel came to the king. They asked: Why did our brothers, the people of Judah, kidnap you and bring you and your family across the Jordan River?

In return for my love, they accuse me, but I pray for them.

I have learned why people work so hard to succeed. It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is vanity! It is like chasing the wind.

Jesus replied to them: I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?

We will burn

On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife: Trick your husband into telling us what the riddle means. If you do not, we will burn your father's house with you in it. Did you invite us here to rob us?

When the Philistines asked who had done this, they learned that Samson had done it because his father-in-law, a man from Timnah, had given Samson's wife to a friend of Samson's. So the Philistines burned the woman to death and burned down her father's house.

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's anger is heavier than them both.

For where jealousy and selfishness are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

General references

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him.

When a kingdom is divided against itself that kingdom cannot stand.