Verse 23
Judges 11:23
World English Bible
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So now Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עַתָּ֞ה יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הוֹרִישׁ֙ אֶת הָ֣/אֱמֹרִ֔י מִ/פְּנֵ֖י עַמּ֣/וֹ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְ/אַתָּ֖ה תִּירָשֶֽׁ/נּוּ
English Translation
And now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before His people Israel, and you shall possess them.
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Chapter 11 Context
1
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead bec...
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Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out, and said to him,...
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Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah,...
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After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
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When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of...
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They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
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Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? W...
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The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go w...
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Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Amm...
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10
The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what yo...
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11
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jeph...
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12
Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What have you to do with me,...
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The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away...
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Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
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and he said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of t...
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but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to...
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then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but...
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Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and c...
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Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘...
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But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together...
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Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and...
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They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilde...
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23
So now Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Isra...
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Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God (Elohi...
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Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against I...
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26
While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that...
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I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge...
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However the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
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Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpa...
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Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my...
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then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peac...
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So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them in...
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He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a...
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Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines...
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When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, an...
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36
She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which...
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37
She said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart...
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He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourne...
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39
At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he...
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40
that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four da...
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