Judges:11:8-33

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* And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah , Therefore we turn again to thee now , that thou mayest go with us , and fight against the children of Ammon , and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead Gil #ad #. * And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead Gil #ad #, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon , and the LORD deliver them before me , shall I be your head ro #sh #? * And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah , The LORD be witness between us , if we do not so according to thy words . * Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead Gil #ad #, and the people made him head and captain over them : and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh . * 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 ? * 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 . * And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon : * 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 : * But when Israel came up from Egypt , and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea , and came to Kadesh ; * 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 . * 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 #. * 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 . * 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 #. * 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 . * And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites , from Arnon even unto Jabbok , and from the wilderness even unto Jordan . * So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel Yisra #el #, and shouldest thou possess it ? * 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 . * 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 , * While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns , and in Aroer #Arow #er # 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 ? * 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 . * Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him . * Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah , and he passed over Gilead Gil #ad #, and Manasseh , and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead Gil #ad #, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon . * And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD , and said , If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands , * Then it shall be , that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me , when I return in peace from the children of Ammon , shall surely be the LORDS , and I will offer it up for a burnt offering . * So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them ; and the LORD delivered them into his hands . * And he smote them from Aroer #Arow #er #, even till thou come to Minnith , even twenty cities , and unto the plain of the vineyards #Abel , with a very great slaughter . Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel Yisra #el #.

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