Verse 9
Judges 11:9
Young's Literal Translation
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And Jephthah saith unto the elders of Gilead, 'If ye are taking me back to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and Jehovah hath given them before me -- I, am I to you for a head?'
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר יִפְתָּ֜ח אֶל זִקְנֵ֣י גִלְעָ֗ד אִם מְשִׁיבִ֨ים אַתֶּ֤ם אוֹתִ/י֙ לְ/הִלָּחֵם֙ בִּ/בְנֵ֣י עַמּ֔וֹן וְ/נָתַ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה אוֹתָ֖/ם לְ/פָנָ֑/י אָנֹכִ֕י אֶהְיֶ֥ה לָ/כֶ֖ם לְ/רֹֽאשׁ
English Translation
And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me back to fight against the Ammonites and the Lord gives them into my hands, I will be your leader."
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Chapter 11 Context
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And Jephthah the Gileadite hath been a mighty man of valour, and he [is] son of a woman, a harlot; a...
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and the wife of Gilead beareth to him sons, and the wife's sons grow up and cast out Jephthah, and s...
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And Jephthah fleeth from the face of his brethren, and dwelleth in the land of Tob; and vain men gat...
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And it cometh to pass, after a time, that the Bene-Ammon fight with Israel,
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and it cometh to pass, when the Bene-Ammon have fought with Israel, that the elders of Gilead go to...
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and they say unto Jephthah, 'Come, and thou hast been to us for captain, and we fight against the Be...
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And Jephthah saith to the elders of Gilead, 'Have not ye hated me? and ye cast me out from the house...
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and the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, 'Therefore, now, we have turned back unto thee; and thou...
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And Jephthah saith unto the elders of Gilead, 'If ye are taking me back to fight against the Bene-Am...
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And the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, 'Jehovah is hearkening between us -- if according to thy...
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And Jephthah goeth with the elders of Gilead, and the people set him over them for head and for capt...
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And Jephthah sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon, saying, 'What -- to me and to thee,...
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And the king of the Bene-Ammon saith unto the messengers of Jephthah, 'Because Israel took my land i...
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And Jephthah addeth yet and sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon,
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and saith to him, 'Thus said Jephthah, Israel took not the land of Moab, and the land of the Bene-Am...
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for in their coming up out of Egypt, Israel goeth in the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and cometh in...
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and Israel sendeth messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me pass over, I pray thee, through...
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and he goeth through the wilderness, and compasseth the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and comet...
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'And Israel sendeth messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and Israel saith to...
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and Sihon hath not trusted Israel to pass over through his border, and Sihon gathereth all his peopl...
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and Jehovah, God (Elohim) of Israel, giveth Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and th...
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and they possess all the border of the Amorite from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and from the wildern...
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'And now, Jehovah, God (Elohim) of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His pe...
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That which Chemosh thy god causeth thee to possess -- dost thou not possess it? and all that which J...
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'And now, [art] thou at all better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he at all strive with...
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In Israel's dwelling in Heshbon and in its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, and in all the citi...
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And I -- I have not sinned against thee, and thou art doing with me evil -- to fight against me. Jeh...
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And the king of the Bene-Ammon hath not hearkened unto the words of Jephthah which he sent unto him,
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and the Spirit of Jehovah is on Jephthah, and he passeth over Gilead and Manasseh, and passeth over...
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And Jephthah voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, 'If Thou dost at all give the Bene-Ammon into my ha...
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then it hath been, that which at all cometh out from the doors of my house to meet me in my turning...
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And Jephthah passeth over unto the Bene-Ammon to fight against them, and Jehovah giveth them into hi...
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and he smiteth them from Aroer, and unto thy going in to Minnith, twenty cities, and unto the meadow...
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And Jephthah cometh into Mizpeh, unto his house, and lo, his daughter is coming out to meet him with...
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And it cometh to pass, when he seeth her, that he rendeth his garments, and saith, 'Alas, my daughte...
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And she saith unto him, 'My father -- thou hast opened thy mouth unto Jehovah, do to me as it hath g...
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And she saith unto her father, 'Let this thing be done to me; desist from me two months, and I go on...
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And he saith, 'Go;' and he sendeth her away two months, and she goeth, she and her friends, and she...
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and it cometh to pass at the end of two months that she turneth back unto her father, and he doth to...
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from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four...
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