Verse 17

Judges 11:17

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17 Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֣ח יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל מַלְאָכִ֣ים אֶל מֶלֶךְ֩ אֱד֨וֹם לֵ/אמֹ֜ר אֶעְבְּרָה נָּ֣א בְ/אַרְצֶ֗/ךָ וְ/לֹ֤א שָׁמַע֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אֱד֔וֹם וְ/גַ֨ם אֶל מֶ֧לֶךְ מוֹאָ֛ב שָׁלַ֖ח וְ/לֹ֣א אָבָ֑ה וַ/יֵּ֥שֶׁב יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּ/קָדֵֽשׁ

English Translation

And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, "Please let us pass through your land," but the king of Edom would not listen. And he also sent to the king of Moab, who did not agree. And Israel stayed in Kadesh.

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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... Focus ↗

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...

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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