These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Judges 11
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Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of a harlot; and begot Jephthah.
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And Gilead’s wife bore 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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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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And it came to pass after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against .
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- 5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against , the elders of went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
- 6 And they said unto Jephthah: ‘Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.’
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And Jephthah said unto the elders of : ‘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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And the elders of said unto Jephthah: ‘Therefore are we returned 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 .’
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And Jephthah said unto the elders of : ‘If ye bring me back home to fight with the children of Ammon, and deliver them before me, I will be your head.’
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- 10 And the elders of said unto Jephthah: ‘The shall be witness between us; surely according to thy so will we do.’
- 11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of , and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before in Mizpah.
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And Jephthah sent messengers unto the 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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And the of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah: ‘Because took away my land, when he came up out of , from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and unto the ; now therefore restore those cities peaceably.’
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And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the of the children of Ammon;
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and he said unto him: ‘Thus saith Jephthah: took not away the land of , nor the land of the children of Ammon.
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But when they came up from , and walked through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
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then sent messengers unto the of , saying: Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the of hearkened not. And in like manner he sent unto the of ; but he would not; and abode in Kadesh.
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Then he walked through the wilderness, and compassed the land of , and the land of , and came by the east side of the land of , and they pitched on the other side of the Arnon; but they came not within the border of , for the Arnon was the border of .
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And sent messengers unto Sihon of the Amorites, the of Heshbon; and said unto him: Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place.
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But Sihon trusted not to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against .
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- 21 And , the of , delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of , and they smote them; so possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
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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 .
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- 23 So now , the of , hath dispossessed the Amorites from before His people , and shouldest thou possess them?
- 24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever our hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
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And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, of ? did he ever strive against , or did he ever fight against them?
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- 26 While 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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I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me; , the Judge, be judge this day between the children of and the children of Ammon.’
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1 Samuel 24:12 Genesis 31:53 1 Samuel 24:15 Genesis 16:5 Genesis 18:25 Ecclesiastes 12:14 Psalm 94:2 Romans 14:10-12 1 Samuel 2:10 Psalm 75:7 Psalm 7:11 Psalm 98:9 Psalm 82:8 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Job 23:7 John 5:22-23 Job 9:15 2 Corinthians 5:10 Psalm 50:6 2 Timothy 4:8 2 Corinthians 11:11 Psalm 7:8-9 Hebrews 12:23 -
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Howbeit the of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
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Then the of came upon Jephthah, and he passed over and , and passed over Mizpeh of , and from Mizpeh of he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
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And Jephthah vowed a vow unto , and said: ‘If Thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
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- 31 then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’S, and I will offer it up for a burnt-.’
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So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and delivered them into his hand.
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And he smote them from Aroer until thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto -cheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of .
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- 34 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; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
- 35 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 become my troubler; for I have opened my mouth unto , and I cannot go back.’
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And she said unto him: ‘My father, thou hast opened thy mouth unto ; do unto me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.’
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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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- 38 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.
- 39 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 had not known man. And it was a custom in ,
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that the daughters of went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
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