Compare the similar complaint of the Ephraimites to Gideon (Judges 8:1), when a civil war was only avoided by Gideon’s wise and patriot…

Gathered themselves together. —Literally, were called. Hence the Vulgate renders it “a sedition arose in Ephraim…

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together
Or "cried" ^F18 ; got together by a cry or proclamatio…

The Ephraimites had the same quarrel with Jephthah as with Gideon. Pride was at the bottom of the quarrel; only by that comes contention. It is wro…