Verse 40
Judges 11:40
Geneva Bible
40
The daughters of Israel went yere by yere to lament the daughter of Iphtah the Gileadite, foure dayes in a yeere.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִ/יָּמִ֣ים יָמִ֗ימָ/ה תֵּלַ֨כְנָה֙ בְּנ֣וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְ/תַנּ֕וֹת לְ/בַת יִפְתָּ֖ח הַ/גִּלְעָדִ֑י אַרְבַּ֥עַת יָמִ֖ים בַּ/שָּׁנָֽה
English Translation
For four days in the year, the daughters of Israel would go out to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
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Chapter 11 Context
1
Then Gilead begate Iphtah, and Iphtah the Gileadite was a valiant man, but the sonne of an harlot.
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And Gileads wife bare him sonnes, and when the womans children were come to age, they thrust out Iph...
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Then Iphtah fledde from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there gathered idle fellowes...
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And in processe of time the children of Ammon made warre with Israel.
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And when the children of Ammon fought with Israel, the Elders of Gilead went to fet Iphtah out of th...
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And they saide vnto Iphtah, Come and be our captaine, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
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Iphtah then answered the Elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expell me out of my fathers house...
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Then the Elders of Gilead saide vnto Iphtah, Therefore we turne againe to thee now, that thou mayest...
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And Iphtah said vnto the Elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home againe to fight against the children...
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And the Elders of Gilead saide to Iphtah, The Lord be witnesse betweene vs, if we doe not according...
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Then Iphtah went with the Elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captaine ouer them: and...
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Then Iphtah sent messengers vnto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to doe wi...
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And the King of the children of Ammon answered vnto the messengers of Iphtah, Because Israel tooke m...
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Yet Iphtah sent messengers againe vnto the King of the children of Ammon,
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And said vnto him, Thus saith Iphtah, Israel tooke not the lande of Moab, nor the lande of the child...
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But when Israel came vp from Egypt, and walked through the wildernesse vnto the redde Sea, then they...
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And Israel sent messengers vnto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, goe thorowe thy lande...
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Then they went through the wildernesse, and compassed the lande of Edom, and the lande of Moab, and...
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Also Israel sent messengers vnto Sihon, King of the Amorites, the King of Heshbon, and Israel said v...
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But Sihon consented not to Israel, that he shoulde goe through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his...
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And the Lord God (Elohim) of Israel gaue Sihon and all his folke into the handes of Israel, and they...
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And they possessed all the coast of the Amorites, from Arnon vnto Iabbok, and from the wildernesse e...
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Nowe therefore the Lord God (Elohim) of Israel hath cast out the Amorites before his people Israel,...
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Wouldest not thou possesse that which Chemosh thy god giueth thee to possesse? So whomesoeuer the Lo...
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And art thou nowe farre better then Balak the sonne of Zippor King of Moab? did he not striue with I...
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When Israel dwelt in Heshbon and in her townes, and in Aroer and in her townes, and in all the citie...
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Wherefore, I haue not offended thee: but thou doest me wrong to warre against me. The Lord the Iudge...
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Howbeit the King of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the wordes of Iphtah, which he had sent...
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Then the Spirite of the Lord came vpon Iphtah, and he passed ouer to Gilead and to Manasseh, and cam...
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And Iphtah vowed a vowe vnto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt deliuer the children of Ammon into mi...
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Then that thing that commeth out of the doores of mine house to meete me, when I come home in peace...
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And so Iphtah went vnto the children of Ammon to fight against them, and the Lord deliuered them int...
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And he smote them from Aroer euen till thou come to Minnith, twentie cities, and so foorth to Abel o...
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Nowe when Iphtah came to Mizpeh vnto his house, beholde, his daughter came out to meete him with tim...
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And when hee sawe her, hee rent his clothes, and saide, Alas my daughter, thou hast brought me lowe,...
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And she said vnto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth vnto the Lord, doe with me as thou h...
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Also she saide vnto her father, Doe thus much for me: suffer me two moneths, that I may goe to the m...
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And he sayde, Goe: and he sent her away two moneths: so she went with her companions, and lamented h...
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And after the ende of two moneths, she turned againe vnto her father, who did with her according to...
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The daughters of Israel went yere by yere to lament the daughter of Iphtah the Gileadite, foure daye...