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| Judges 11:1 |
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Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man
of valor, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. |
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| Judges 11:2 |
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And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and when his
wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not
inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another woman. |
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| Judges 11:3 |
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Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt
in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they
went out with him. |
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| Judges 11:4 |
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And it came to pass after a while, that the
children of Ammon made war against Israel. |
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| Judges 11:5 |
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And it was so, that, when the children of Ammon
made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the
land of Tob; |
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| Judges 11:6 |
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and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our
chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. |
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| Judges 11:7 |
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And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead,
Did not ye hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? and why are ye come
unto me now when ye are in distress? |
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| Judges 11:8 |
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And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah,
Therefore are we turned again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight
with the children of Ammon; and thou shalt be our head over all the inhabitants
of Gilead. |
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| Judges 11:9 |
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And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead,
If ye bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Jehovah deliver
them before me, shall I be your head? |
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| Judges 11:10 |
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And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah,
Jehovah shall be witness between us; surely according to thy word so will we do.
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| Judges 11:11 |
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Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead,
and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spake all his words
before Jehovah in Mizpah. |
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| Judges 11:12 |
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And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of
the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come
unto me to fight against my land? |
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| Judges 11:13 |
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And the king of the children of Ammon answered
unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came
up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan: now
therefore restore those lands again peaceably. |
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| Judges 11:14 |
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And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the
king of the children of Ammon; |
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| Judges 11:15 |
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and he said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel
took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon, |
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| Judges 11:16 |
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but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel
went through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh; |
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| Judges 11:17 |
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then Israel sent messengers unto the king of
Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom
hearkened not. And in like manner he sent unto the king of Moab; but he would
not: and Israel abode in Kadesh. |
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| Judges 11:18 |
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Then they went through the wilderness, and went
around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the
land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they came
not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab. |
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| Judges 11:19 |
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And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of
the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray
thee, through thy land unto my place. |
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| Judges 11:20 |
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But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through
his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz,
and fought against Israel. |
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| Judges 11:21 |
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And Jehovah, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon
and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed
all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. |
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| Judges 11:22 |
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And they possessed all the border of the Amorites,
from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.
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| Judges 11:23 |
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So now Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed
the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess them? |
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| Judges 11:24 |
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Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy
god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from
before us, them will we possess. |
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| Judges 11:25 |
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And now art thou anything better than Balak
the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he
ever fight against them? |
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| Judges 11:26 |
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While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns,
and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of
the Arnon, three hundred years; wherefore did ye not recover them within that
time? |
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| Judges 11:27 |
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I therefore have not sinned against thee, but
thou doest me wrong to war against me: Jehovah, the Judge, be judge this day between
the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. |
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| Judges 11:28 |
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Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened
not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him. |
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| Judges 11:29 |
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Then the Spirit of Jehovah came upon Jephthah,
and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and
from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon. |
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| Judges 11:30 |
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And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said,
If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, |
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| Judges 11:31 |
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then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth
from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children
of Ammon, it shall be Jehovah's, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering.
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| Judges 11:32 |
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So Jephthah passed over unto the children of
Ammon to fight against them; and Jehovah delivered them into his hand. |
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| Judges 11:33 |
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And he smote them from Aroer until thou come
to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter.
So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. |
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| Judges 11:34 |
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And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house;
and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances:
and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter. |
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| Judges 11:35 |
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And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he
rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low,
and thou art one of them that trouble me; for I have opened my mouth unto Jehovah,
and I cannot go back. |
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| Judges 11:36 |
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And she said unto him, My father, thou hast
opened thy mouth unto Jehovah; do unto me according to that which hath proceeded
out of thy mouth, forasmuch as Jehovah hath taken vengeance for thee on thine
enemies, even on the children of Ammon. |
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| Judges 11:37 |
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And she said unto her father, Let this thing
be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down upon the
mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions. |
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| Judges 11:38 |
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And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two
months: and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon
the mountains. |
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| Judges 11:39 |
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And it came to pass at the end of two months,
that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which
he had vowed: and she knew not man. And it was a custom in Israel, |
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| Judges 11:40 |
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that the daughters of Israel went yearly to
celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. |
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