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So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead ,
and the people made him head and leader over them ;
and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah .
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Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said , "
What have you against me ,
that you have come to me to fight against my land ?"
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And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah , "
Because Israel on coming from Egypt took away my land ,
from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan ;
now therefore restore it peaceably ."
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And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites
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and said to him , "
Thus says Jephthah :
Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites ,
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but when they came up from Egypt ,
Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh .
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Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom ,
saying , `
Let us pass ,
we pray ,
through your land ';
but the king of Edom would not listen .
And they sent also to the king of Moab ,
but he would not consent .
So Israel remained at Kadesh .
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Then they journeyed through the wilderness ,
and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab ,
and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab ,
and camped on the other side of the Arnon ;
but they did not enter the territory of Moab ,
for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab .
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Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites ,
king of Heshbon ;
and Israel said to him , `
Let us pass ,
we pray ,
through your land to our country .'
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But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory ;
so Sihon gathered all his people together ,
and encamped at Jahaz ,
and fought with Israel .
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And the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel ,
and they defeated them ;
so Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites ,
who inhabited that country .
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And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan .
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So then the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel ;
and are you to take possession of them ?
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Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess ?
And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us ,
we will possess .
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Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor ,
king of Moab ?
Did he ever strive against Israel ,
or did he ever go to war with them ?
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While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages ,
and in Aro '
er and its villages ,
and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon ,
three hundred years ,
why did you not recover them within that time ?
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I therefore have not sinned against you ,
and you do me wrong by making war on me ;
the LORD ,
the Judge ,
decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon ."
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But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message of Jephthah which he sent to him .
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Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah ,
and he passed through Gilead and Manas '
seh ,
and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead ,
and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites .
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And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD ,
and said , "
If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand ,