Judges:11:12-28
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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 against me to fight in my land ?
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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 they came up out of Egypt ,
from Arnon even unto Jabbok ,
and unto Jordan :
now therefore restore those lands again peaceably .
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And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon :
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And said unto him ,
Thus saith Jephthah ,
Israel took not away the land of Moab Mow #
ab #,
nor the land of the children of Ammon :
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But when Israel came up from Egypt ,
and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea ,
and came to Kadesh ;
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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 would not hearken thereto .
And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab Mow #
ab #:
but he would not consent :
and Israel abode in Kadesh .
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Then they went along through the wilderness ,
and compassed the land of Edom ,
and the land of Moab Mow #
ab #,
and came by the east side mizrach #
of the land of Moab Mow #
ab #,
and pitched on the other side of Arnon ,
but came not within the border of Moab Mow #
ab #:
for Arnon was the border of Moab Mow #
ab #.
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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 into my place .
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But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast :
but Sihon gatheredall his people together ,
and pitched in Jahaz ,
and fought against Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel Yisra #
el #,
and they smote them :
so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites ,
the inhabitants of that country .
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And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites ,
from Arnon even unto Jabbok ,
and from the wilderness even unto Jordan .
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So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel Yisra #
el #,
and shouldest thou possess it ?
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Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess ?
So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us ,
them will we possess .
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And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor ,
king of Moab Mow #
ab #?
did he ever strive against Israel Yisra #
el #,
or did he ever fight against them ,
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While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns ,
and in Aroer #
Arow #
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and her towns ,
and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon ,
three hundred years ?
why therefore did ye not recover them within that time ?
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Wherefore I have not sinned against thee ,
but thou doest #
me wrong to war against me :
the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon .
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Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him .