Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 11:1

NOW Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot : and Gilead begat Jephthah.

So called, either from his Father Gilead, Ios. 17. 1, 2. or from the Mountain, or City of Gilead, the place of his birth or abode.

i. e. A Bastard; for though such were not ordinarily to enter into the Congregation of the Lord, Deut. 23. 2. Yet God can dispence with his own Laws, and hath sometimes done honour to base-born persons, so far, that some of them were admitted to be the Progenitors of the Lord Jesus Christ.

One of the Children of that Ancienter Gilead, Numb. 32. 1. Iosh. 17. 1.

Marginal references: Heb. 11. 32. called Jephte.; Heb. a woman an harlot