Judges:11-13

mkjv@Judges:11:1 @ Now Jephthah, the Gileadite, was a mighty man of war. And he [was] the son of a harlot. And Gilead fathered Jephthah.

mkjv@Judges:11:2 @ And Gilead's wife bore him sons. And his wife's sons grew up, and [they] threw Jephthah out and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house. For you [are] the son of another woman.

mkjv@Judges:11:3 @ Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. And worthless men were gathered to Jephthah, and went out with him.

mkjv@Judges:11:4 @ And it happened after some time the sons of Ammon made war against Israel.

mkjv@Judges:11:5 @ And when the sons of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

mkjv@Judges:11:6 @ And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our commander, so that we may fight with the sons of Ammon.

mkjv@Judges:11:7 @ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Have you not hated me and thrown me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you [are] in trouble?

mkjv@Judges:11:8 @ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, For this reason we turn again to you now, so that you may go with us and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be our head over all the people of Gilead.

mkjv@Judges:11:9 @ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home again to fight against the sons of Ammon, and the LORD delivers them before me, shall I be your head?

mkjv@Judges:11:10 @ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The LORD is witness between us if we do not do so according to your word.

mkjv@Judges:11:11 @ And Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.

mkjv@Judges:11:12 @ And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that you have come against me to fight in my land?

mkjv@Judges:11:13 @ And the king of the sons of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and to Jordan. Now therefore restore those lands peaceably.

mkjv@Judges:11:14 @ And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the sons of Ammon.

mkjv@Judges:11:15 @ And he said to him, So says Jephthah, Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the sons of Ammon.

mkjv@Judges:11:16 @ But when they came up from Egypt, Israel walked through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh.

mkjv@Judges:11:17 @ And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, I pray you, let me pass through your land. But the king of Edom would not listen. And in the same way they sent to the king of Moab, but he would not. And Israel stayed in Kadesh.

mkjv@Judges:11:18 @ And they went along 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 pitched on the other side of Arnon, but they did not come within the border of Moab; for Arnon was the border of Moab.

mkjv@Judges:11:19 @ And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon. And Israel said to him, We pray you, let us pass through your land to my place.

mkjv@Judges:11:20 @ But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his border. But Sihon gathered all his people together and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

mkjv@Judges:11:21 @ And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, who lived in that country.

mkjv@Judges:11:22 @ And they possessed all the borders of the Amorites, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan.

mkjv@Judges:11:23 @ So now the LORD God of Israel has put out the Amorites before His people Israel, and should you possess it?

mkjv@Judges:11:24 @ Will you not possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whomever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, we will possess them.

mkjv@Judges:11:25 @ And now [are] you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them

mkjv@Judges:11:26 @ when Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities which [are] along by the borders of Arnon, for three hundred years? Why then did you not deliver them in that time?

mkjv@Judges:11:27 @ So I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. The LORD, the Judge, will judge this day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.

mkjv@Judges:11:28 @ And the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent to him.

mkjv@Judges:11:29 @ Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead passed over [to] the sons of Ammon.

mkjv@Judges:11:30 @ And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

mkjv@Judges:11:31 @ then it shall be that whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, surely it shall belong to the LORD, or I will offer it up [instead of] a burnt offering.

mkjv@Judges:11:32 @ And Jephthah passed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them. And the LORD delivered them into his hand.

mkjv@Judges:11:33 @ And he struck them from Aroer even until you come to Minnith, twenty cities, and to the meadow of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. So were the sons of Ammon subdued before the sons of Israel.

mkjv@Judges:11:34 @ And Jephthah came to Mizpeh to 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.

mkjv@Judges:11:35 @ And it happened when he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot go back.

mkjv@Judges:11:36 @ And she said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord; do to me according to that which has come out of your mouth, because the LORD has taken vengeance for you upon your enemies, even of the sons of Ammon.

mkjv@Judges:11:37 @ And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me. Let me alone two months, so that I may go up and down upon the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.

mkjv@Judges:11:38 @ And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two months. And she went with her companions and wept for her virginity upon the mountains.

mkjv@Judges:11:39 @ And it happened at the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her his vow which he had vowed. And she knew no man. And it is a custom in Israel,

mkjv@Judges:11:40 @ that the daughters of Israel went yearly to tell again of the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.

mkjv@Judges:12:1 @ And the men of Ephraim were called together and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Why did you go over to fight against the sons of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house upon you with fire.

mkjv@Judges:12:2 @ And Jephthah said to them, My people and I were at great strife [with] the sons of Ammon. And when I called you, you did not deliver me out of their hands.

mkjv@Judges:12:3 @ When I saw that you did not deliver me, I took my life in my hand and passed over against the sons of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand, and why have you come up against me, to fight against me today?

mkjv@Judges:12:4 @ And Jephthah called up all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites.

mkjv@Judges:12:5 @ And the Gileadites took the fords of Jordan before the Ephraimites. And it happened that when one of those Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And he said, No.

mkjv@Judges:12:6 @ And they said to him, Please say Shibboleth. And he said, Sibboleth, for he could not manage to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him and killed him at the passages of Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites.

mkjv@Judges:12:7 @ And Jephthah judged Israel six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

mkjv@Judges:12:8 @ And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

mkjv@Judges:12:9 @ 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.

mkjv@Judges:12:10 @ Then Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.

mkjv@Judges:12:11 @ And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel. And he judged Israel ten years.

mkjv@Judges:12:12 @ And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon, the land of Zebulun.

mkjv@Judges:12:13 @ And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.

mkjv@Judges:12:14 @ And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy ass colts. And he judged Israel eight years.

mkjv@Judges:12:15 @ 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.

mkjv@Judges:13:1 @ And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.

mkjv@Judges:13:2 @ And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah. And his wife was barren and did not bear.

mkjv@Judges:13:3 @ And the Angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, Behold now, you [are] barren and do not bear. But you shall conceive and bear a son.

mkjv@Judges:13:4 @ And now, please take heed, and do not drink wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean [thing].

mkjv@Judges:13:5 @ For lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head. For the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

mkjv@Judges:13:6 @ And the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and His face [was] like the face of an Angel of God, very terrifying. But I did not ask Him where He came from, neither did He tell me His name.

mkjv@Judges:13:7 @ But He said to me, Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean [thing], for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

mkjv@Judges:13:8 @ And Manoah prayed to the LORD and said, O, my Lord, let the Man of God, whom You sent, come again to us and teach us what we shall do to the boy that shall be born.

mkjv@Judges:13:9 @ And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the Angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband [was] not with her.

mkjv@Judges:13:10 @ And the woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, Behold, the Man has appeared to Me, the one who came to me the [other] day.

mkjv@Judges:13:11 @ And Manoah arose and went after his wife, and came to the Man, and said to Him, [Are] You the Man who spoke to the woman? And He said, I [am].

mkjv@Judges:13:12 @ And Manoah said, Now let Your words come to pass. [How] shall we order the child, and what shall we do to him?

mkjv@Judges:13:13 @ And the Angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.

mkjv@Judges:13:14 @ She may not eat of all that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean [thing]. Let her do all that I commanded her.

mkjv@Judges:13:15 @ And Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, I pray You, let us keep You until we have made a kid ready for You.

mkjv@Judges:13:16 @ And the Angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Though you keep Me, I will not eat of your bread. And if you will offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the LORD. For Manoah did not know that He [was] the Angel of the LORD.

mkjv@Judges:13:17 @ And Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, What [is] Your name, so that when Your sayings come to pass we may do You honor?

mkjv@Judges:13:18 @ And the Angel of the LORD said to him, Why do you ask after My name in this way? Yea, it [is] Wonderful.

mkjv@Judges:13:19 @ And Manoah took a kid with a food offering, and offered [it] upon a rock to the LORD, and did wonderfully. And Manoah and his wife looked on.

mkjv@Judges:13:20 @ For it happened when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, the Angel of the LORD went up in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on [it] and fell on their faces to. the ground.

mkjv@Judges:13:21 @ But the Angel of the LORD did not appear any more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that He [was] an Angel of the LORD.

mkjv@Judges:13:22 @ And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die because we have seen God.

mkjv@Judges:13:23 @ But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt offering and a food offering at our hands, neither would He have showed us all these [things, nor have told us [such things] as these at this time.

mkjv@Judges:13:24 @ And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

mkjv@Judges:13:25 @ And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

mkjv@Judges:14:1 @ And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

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