Verse 6

Judges 11:6

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6 And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ לְ/יִפְתָּ֔ח לְכָ֕/ה וְ/הָיִ֥יתָה לָּ֖/נוּ לְ/קָצִ֑ין וְ/נִֽלָּחֲמָ֖ה בִּ/בְנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן

English Translation

And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our commander, and let us fight against the Ammonites."

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Chapter 11 Context

1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was h... Focus ↗

2 And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying,... Focus ↗

3 So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of go... Focus ↗

4 Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel. Focus ↗

5 And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Je... Focus ↗

6 And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Amm...

7 But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away f... Focus ↗

8 And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so... Focus ↗

9 Then Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, If you take me back to make war against the chi... Focus ↗

10 And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly d... Focus ↗

11 So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over the... Focus ↗

12 Then Jephthah sent men to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you against me that y... Focus ↗

13 And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came... Focus ↗

14 And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon, Focus ↗

15 And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land... Focus ↗

16 But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kade... Focus ↗

17 Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Ed... Focus ↗

18 Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by... Focus ↗

19 And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let... Focus ↗

20 But Sihon would not give way and let Israel go through his land; and Sihon got together all his peop... Focus ↗

21 And the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hands of Israel, an... Focus ↗

22 All the limit of the Amorites was theirs, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the waste lan... Focus ↗

23 So now the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel, has taken away their land from the Amorites and given i... Focus ↗

24 Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep... Focus ↗

25 What! are you any better than Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever take up a cause ag... Focus ↗

26 While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in... Focus ↗

27 So I have done no wrong against you, but you are doing wrong to me in fighting against me: may the L... Focus ↗

28 The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him... Focus ↗

29 Then the spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he went through Gilead and Manasseh, and came to M... Focus ↗

30 And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hand... Focus ↗

31 Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the chil... Focus ↗

32 So Jephthah went over to the children of Ammon to make war on them; and the Lord gave them into his... Focus ↗

33 And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as... Focus ↗

34 Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way wi... Focus ↗

35 And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow,... Focus ↗

36 And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have s... Focus ↗

37 Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountai... Focus ↗

38 And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mount... Focus ↗

39 And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oat... Focus ↗

40 For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in... Focus ↗

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Book: Judges
Chapter: Chapter 11 (40 verses)
Version: Bible in Basic English

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