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Judges
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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
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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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