Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:17
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Heb. cast away his soul or life far off, out of his reach or power to recover it, i.e. exposed himself to utmost hazard for your sakes.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
For my father fought for you,…. In the valley of Jezreel, and at Karkor, where with three hundred men he routed and destroyed an army of 135,000:
and adventured his life far: which, according to our version, may seem to have respect to his going over Jordan, and following the Midianites, fleeing into their country, and fighting them at Karkor, at a great distance from his native place; but the phrase in the original text is, “he cast away his life afar” e, made no account of it, exposed it to the greatest danger; or, as the Targum,
“he delivered his life as it were to destruction:”
and delivered you out of the hand of Midian; from the oppression and bondage of the Midianites, under which they had laboured seven years.
e “et projecit animam suam a louge”, Pagninus; “vel eminus”, Montanus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(17) Adventured his life.Literally, as in the margin, cast his life (LXX., ), like the Latin projicere vitam (Lucan, Phars. iv. 516). Comp. the reading paraboleusamenos in Php. 2:30 and Isa. 53:12 : He hath poured out his soul unto death.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Jdg 9:17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Ver. 17. And adventured his life. ] Heb., Threw his life far from him, set light by it, was prodigal of it. And was not the Lord Christ much more so for us? Out upon our uuthankfulness!
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Note the parenthesis of verses: Jdg 9:17, Jdg 9:18.
life = soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
fought: Jdg 7:1-25, Jdg 8:4-10
adventured his life: Heb. cast his life, Est 4:16, Rom 5:8, Rom 16:4, Rev 12:11
Reciprocal: Jdg 12:3 – put 1Sa 19:5 – put his life 1Ch 11:19 – in jeopardy