Judges:10-12
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And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah Puw #
ah #,
the son of Dodo ,
a man of Issachar ;
and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim .
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And he judged Israel twenty and three years ,
and died ,
and was buried in Shamir .
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And after him arose Jair Ya #
iyr #,
a Gileadite Gil #
adiy #,
and judged Israel twenty and two years .
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And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts ,
and they had thirty cities ,
which are called Havothjair Chavvowthunto this day ,
which are in the land of Gilead Gil #
ad #.
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And Jair died ,
and was buried in Camon .
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And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD ,
and served Baalim Ba #
al #,
and Ashtaroth ,
and the gods of Syria ,
and the gods of Zidon ,
and the gods of Moab Mow #
ab #,
and the gods of the children of Ammon ,
and the gods of the Philistines ,
and forsook the LORD ,
and served not him .
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And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel Yisra #
el #,
and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines ,
and into the hands of the children of Ammon .
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And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel Yisra #
el #:
eighteen sh @
moneh #
years ,
all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites ,
which is in Gilead Gil #
ad #.
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Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah ,
and against Benjamin ,
and against the house of Ephraim ;
so that Israel was sore distressed .
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And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD ,
saying ,
We have sinned against thee ,
both because we have forsaken our God ,
and also served Baalim Ba #
al #.
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And the LORD said unto the children of Israel Yisra #
el #,
Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians ,
and from the Amorites ,
from the children of Ammon ,
and from the Philistines ?
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The Zidonians also ,
and the Amalekites ,
and the Maonites Ma #
own #,
did oppress you ;
and ye cried to me ,
and I delivered you out of their hand .
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Yet ye have forsaken me ,
and served other gods :
wherefore I will deliver you no more .
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Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen ;
let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation .
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And the children of Israel said unto the LORD ,
We have sinned :
do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee ;
deliver us only ,
we pray thee ,
this day .
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And they put away the strange gods from among them ,
and served the LORD :
and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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Then the children of Ammon were gathered together ,
and encamped in Gilead Gil #
ad #.
And the children of Israel assembled themselves together ,
and encamped in Mizpeh .
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And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another ,
What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon ?
he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead Gil #
ad #.
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Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour ,
and he was the son of an harlot #
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and Gilead begat Jephthah .
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And Gileads wife bare him sons ;
and his wifes sons grew up ,
and they thrust out Jephthah ,
and said unto him ,
Thou shalt not inherit in our fathers house ;
for thou art the son of a strange woman .
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Then Jephthah fled from his brethren ,
and dwelt in the land of Tob :
and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah ,
and went out with him .
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And it came to pass in process of time ,
that the children of Ammon made war against Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And it was so ,
that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel Yisra #
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the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob :
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And they said unto Jephthah ,
Come ,
and be our captain ,
that we may fight with the children of Ammon .
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And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead Gil #
ad #,
Did not ye hate me ,
and expel me out of my fathers house ?
and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress ?
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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 #.
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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 #?
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And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah ,
The LORD be witness between us ,
if we do not so according to thy words .
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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 .
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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 #
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 ?
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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 .
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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 .
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And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD ,
and said ,
If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands ,
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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 .
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So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them ;
and the LORD delivered them into his hands .
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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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And Jephthah came to Mizpeh 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 .
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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 the LORD ,
and I cannot go back .
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And she said unto him ,
My father ,
if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD ,
do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth ;
forasmuch as the LORD 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 go up and down upon the mountains ,
and bewail my virginity ,
I and my fellows re #
ra #
yah #.
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And he said ,
Go .
And he sent her away for two months :
and she went with her companions re #
ah #,
and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains .
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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 no man .
And it was a custom in Israel Yisra #
el #,
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That the daughters of Israel went yearly yowm #
to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year .
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And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together ,
and went northward ,
and said unto Jephthah ,
Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon ,
and didst not call us to go with thee ?
we will burn thine house upon thee with fire .
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And Jephthah said unto them ,
I and my people were at great strife #
H7379with the children of Ammon ;
and when I called you ,
ye delivered me not out of their hands .
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And when I saw that ye delivered me not ,
I put my life in my hands ,
and passed over against the children of Ammon ,
and the LORD delivered them into my hand :
wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day ,
to fight against me ?
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead Gil #
ad #,
and fought with Ephraim :
and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim ,
because they said ,
Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites ,
and among the Manassites .
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And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites :
and it was so ,
that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said ,
Let me go over ;
that the men of Gilead said unto him ,
Art thou an Ephraimite ?
If he said ,
Nay ;
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Then said they unto him ,
Say now Shibboleth :
and he said Sibboleth :
for he could not frame #
to pronounce it right .
Then they took him ,
and slew him at the passages of Jordan :
and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty #
arba #
iym #
and two thousand .
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And Jephthah judged Israel six years .
Then died Jephthah the Gileadite Gil #
adiy #,
and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead Gil #
ad #.
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And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem Beythjudged Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And he had thirty sons ,
and thirty daughters ,
whom he sent abroad ,
and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons .
And he judged Israel seven years .
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Then died Ibzan ,
and was buried at Bethlehem Beyth .
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And after him Elon ,
a Zebulonite ,
judged Israel Yisra #
el #;
and he judged Israel ten years .
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And Elon the Zebulonite died ,
and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun .
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And after him Abdon the son of Hillel ,
a Pirathonite Pir #
athowniy #,
judged Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And he had forty #
arba #
iym #
sons and thirty nephews ben #,
that rode on threescore and ten ass colts :
and he judged Israel eight years .
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And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died ,
and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim ,
in the mount of the Amalekites .
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And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD ;
and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty #
arba #
iym #
years .
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