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Judges 11 Brenton's English Septuagint

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Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 And Jephthae the Galaadite [was] a mighty man; and he [was] the son of a harlot, who bore Jephthae to Galaad.
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
2 And the wife of Galaad bore him sons; and the sons of his wife grew up, and they cast out Jephthae, and said to him, Thou shalt not inherit in the house of our father, for thou art the son of a concubine.
2 Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
3 And Jephthae fled from the face of his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and vain men gathered to Jephthae, and went out with him.
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.
4 And it came to pass when the children of Ammon prepared to fight with Israel,
4 After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
5 that the elders of Galaad went to fetch Jephthae from the land of Tob.
5 When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
6 And they said to Jephthae, Come, and be our head, and we will fight with the sons of Ammon.
6 They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
7 And Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, Did ye not hate me, and cast me out of my father's house, and banish me from you? and wherefore are ye come to me now when ye want me?
7 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”
8 And the elders of Galaad said to Jephthae, Therefore have we now turned to thee, that thou shouldest go with us, and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Galaad.
8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
9 And Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, If ye turn me back to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord should deliver them before me, then will I be your head.
9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivers them before me, will I be your head?”
10 And the elders of Galaad said to Jephthae, The Lord be witness between us, if we shall not do according to thy word.
10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”
11 And Jephthae went with the elders of Galaad, and the people made him head and ruler over them: and Jephthae spoke all his words before the Lord in Massepha.
11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
12 And Jephthae sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have I to do with thee, that thou hast come against me to fight in my land?
12 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”
13 And the king of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthae, Because Israel took my land when he went up out of Egypt, from Arnon to Jaboc, and to Jordan: now then return them peaceably and I will depart.
13 The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”
14 And Jephthae again sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon,
14 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
15 and said to him, Thus says Jephthae, Israel took not the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;
15 and he said to him, “Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;
16 for in their going up out of Egypt Israel went in the wilderness as far as the sea of Siph, and came to Cades.
16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,
17 And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, I will pass, if it please thee, by thy land: and the king of Edom complied not: and [Israel] also sent to the king of Moab, and he did not consent; and Israel sojourned in Cades.
17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh.
18 And [they] journeyed in the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab: and they came by the east of the land of Moab, and encamped in the country beyond Arnon, and came not within the borders of Moab, for Arnon [is] the border of Moab.
18 Then they went 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 they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
19 And Israel sent messengers to Seon king of the Amorite, king of Esebon, and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray thee, by thy land to our place.
19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’
20 And Seon did not trust Israel to pass by his coast; and Seon gathered all his people, and they encamped at Jasa; and he set the battle in array against Israel.
20 But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
21 And the Lord God of Israel delivered Seon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote him; and Israel inherited all the land of the Amorite who dwelt in that land,
21 Yahweh, the 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, the inhabitants of that country.
22 from Arnon and to Jaboc, and from the wilderness to Jordan.
22 They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
23 And now the Lord God of Israel has removed the Amorite from before his people Israel, and shalt thou inherit his [land]?
23 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
24 Wilt thou not inherit those possessions which Chamos thy god shall cause thee to inherit; and shall not we inherit the [land of] all those whom the Lord our God has removed from before you?
24 Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
25 And now art thou any better than Balac son of Sepphor, king of Moab? Did he indeed fight with Israel, or indeed make war with him,
25 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
26 when [Israel] dwelt in Esebon and in its coasts, and in the land of Aroer and in its coasts, and in all the cities by Jordan, three hundred years? and wherefore didst thou not recover them in that time?
26 Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?
27 And now I have not sinned against thee, but thou wrongest me in preparing war against me: may the Lord the Judge judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
27 Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
28 But the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthae, which he sent to him.
28 However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
29 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthae, and he passed over Galaad, and Manasse, and passed by the watch-tower of Galaad to the other side of the children of Ammon.
29 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
30 And Jephthae vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
30 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
31 then it shall come to pass that whosoever shall first come out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, he shall be the Lord's: I will offer him up for a whole-burnt-offering.
31 then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”
32 And Jephthae advanced to meet the sons of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hand.
32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
33 And he smote them from Aroer till [one] comes to Arnon, in number twenty cities, and as far as Ebelcharmim, with a very great destruction: and the children of Ammon were straitened before the children of Israel.
33 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
34 And Jephthae came to Massepha to his house; and behold, his daughter came forth to meet him with timbrels and dances; and she was his only child, he had not another son or daughter.
34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
35 And it came to pass when he saw her, that he rent his garments, and said, Ah, ah, my daughter, thou hast indeed troubled me, and thou wast the cause of my trouble; and I have opened my mouth against thee to the Lord, and I shall not be able to return from it.
35 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 Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”
36 And she said to him, Father, hast thou opened thy mouth to the Lord? Do to me accordingly as [the word] went out of thy mouth, in that the Lord has wrought vengeance for thee on thine enemies of the children of Ammon.
36 She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”
37 And she said to her father, Let my father now do this thing: let me alone for two months, and I will go up and down on the mountains, and I will bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
37 Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”
38 And he said, Go: and he sent her away for two months; and she went, and her companions, and she bewailed her virginity on the mountains.
38 He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
39 And it came to pass at the end of the two months that she returned to her father; and he performed upon her his vow which he vowed; and she knew no man:
39 At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel
40 and it was an ordinance in Israel, [That] the daughters of Israel went from year to year to bewail the daughter of Jephthae the Galaadite for four days in a year.
40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

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  • Jephthah

    Gileadite judge and warrior

    Mighty warrior, son of Gilead and a prostitute, driven out by his half-brothers but recalled by the elders of Gilead to fight the Ammonites; he made a vow that fell on his only…

    Cited in the guide: Judges 11:1; Judges 11:11; Judges 11:30–31

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Cross references (35)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Hebrews 11:32; Judges 6:12; 2 Kings 5:1
  2. 2 Proverbs 2:16; Genesis 12:10; Deuteronomy 23:2; Proverbs 5:20; Galatians 4:30
  3. 3 Judges 9:4; 1 Samuel 22:2; 2 Samuel 10:8; Job 30:1–10; 1 Samuel 27:2
  4. 4 Judges 10:9
  5. 5 1 Corinthians 1:27–29; Acts 7:35–39; Psalm 118:22–23; 1 Samuel 11:12; Judges 10:17–18
  6. 7 Genesis 45:4–5; Revelation 3:9; Proverbs 17:17; Isaiah 60:14; Acts 7:9–14
  7. 8 Judges 10:18; Exodus 9:28; Exodus 10:17; 1 Kings 13:6; Exodus 8:28
  8. 9 Numbers 32:20–29
  9. 10 Jeremiah 42:5; Genesis 31:50; Genesis 16:5; Jeremiah 29:23; 1 Samuel 24:12
  10. 11 1 Samuel 10:17; Judges 20:1; Judges 10:17; James 1:5; James 1:17
  11. 12 Matthew 18:15–16; Proverbs 25:8–9; Deuteronomy 2:26; Numbers 20:14; 2 Kings 14:8–12
  12. 13 Genesis 32:22; Numbers 21:24–26; Proverbs 19:9; Deuteronomy 2:37; Proverbs 19:5
  13. 14 1 Peter 3:11; Hebrews 12:14; Psalm 120:7; Romans 12:18
  14. 15 Deuteronomy 2:19; Deuteronomy 2:9; 2 Chronicles 20:10; Numbers 21:13–15; Numbers 21:27–30
  15. 16 Numbers 14:25; Deuteronomy 1:40; Numbers 20:1; Numbers 13:26; Joshua 5:6
  16. 17 Numbers 20:14–21; Deuteronomy 2:4–9; Numbers 20:1; Joshua 24:9; Deuteronomy 2:29
  17. 18 Numbers 21:4–13; Deuteronomy 2:1–8; Numbers 22:36; Numbers 33:37–44; Numbers 20:22
  18. 19 Deuteronomy 2:26–36; Numbers 21:21–35; Joshua 13:8–12; Deuteronomy 3:1–17
  19. 20 Psalm 135:10–12; Deuteronomy 2:32–34; Joshua 13:15–32; Numbers 21:23–25; Nehemiah 9:22
  20. 22 Deuteronomy 2:36
  21. 24 Micah 4:5; Numbers 21:29; Psalm 78:55; 1 Kings 11:7; Joshua 3:10
  22. 25 Micah 6:5; Joshua 24:9–10; Deuteronomy 23:3–4; Numbers 22:2–21
  23. 26 Deuteronomy 2:36; Joshua 12:2; Judges 9:22; Judges 5:31; Joshua 11:18
  24. 27 Genesis 18:25; Genesis 16:5; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 24:12; Genesis 31:53
  25. 28 Proverbs 16:18; 2 Kings 14:11
  26. 29 Judges 3:10; Numbers 11:25; Judges 13:25; 1 Samuel 10:10; Judges 10:17
  27. 30 Genesis 28:20; 1 Samuel 1:11; Ecclesiastes 5:4–5; Ecclesiastes 5:1–2; Numbers 30:2–16
  28. 31 Psalm 66:13–14; 1 Samuel 1:28; 1 Samuel 1:11; Leviticus 27:28–29; 1 Samuel 14:44
  29. 32 Judges 1:4; Judges 3:10; Judges 2:18
  30. 33 Ezekiel 27:17; Deuteronomy 2:36
  31. 34 Jeremiah 31:4; Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:11; Judges 10:17; Psalm 150:4
  32. 35 Matthew 14:7–9; Genesis 42:36–38; 2 Samuel 13:30–31; 1 Samuel 14:44–45; Genesis 37:34–35
  33. 36 Acts 21:13; Romans 16:4; Philippians 2:30; 2 Samuel 18:19; 2 Samuel 19:30
  34. 37 Luke 1:25; 1 Samuel 1:6
  35. 39 Isaiah 66:3; Judges 11:31; 1 Samuel 2:18; Leviticus 27:28–29; 1 Samuel 1:24

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