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1 At that time, there was a Gileadite, Jephthah, a very strong man and a fighter, the son of a kept woman, and he was born of Gilead.
1 EXISTÍA entonces Jephté, Galaadita, hombre valiente, hijo de una ramera, al cual había engendrado Galaad.
2 Now Gilead had a wife, from whom he received sons. And they, after growing up, cast out Jephthah, saying, “You cannot inherit in the house of our father, because you were born of another mother.”
2 Y la mujer de Galaad [también] le había parido hijos; los cuales cuando fueron grandes, echaron fuera á Jephté, diciéndole: No heredarás en la casa de nuestro padre, porque eres bastardo.
3 And so, fleeing and avoiding them, he lived in the land of Tob. And men who were indigent and robbers joined with him, and they followed him as their leader.
3 Huyendo pues Jephté á causa de sus hermanos, habitó en tierra de Tob; y juntáronse con él hombres ociosos, los cuales con él salían.
4 In those days, the sons of Ammon fought against Israel.
4 Y aconteció que después de días los hijos de Ammón hicieron guerra contra Israel:
5 And being steadfastly attacked, the elders of Gilead traveled so that they might obtain for their assistance Jephthah, from the land of Tob.
5 Y como los hijos de Ammón tenían guerra contra Israel, los ancianos de Galaad fueron para volver á Jephté de tierra de Tob;
6 And they said to him, “Come and be our leader, and fight against the sons of Ammon.”
6 Y dijeron á Jephté: Ven, y serás nuestro capitán, para que peleemos con los hijos de Ammón.
7 But he answered them: “Are you not the ones who hated me, and who cast me out of my father’s house? And yet now you come to me, compelled by necessity?”
7 Y Jephté respondió á los ancianos de Galaad: ¿No me habéis vosotros aborrecido, y me echasteis de la casa de mi padre? ¿por qué pues venís ahora á mí cuando estáis en aflicción?
8 And the leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “But it is due to this necessity that we have approached you now, so that you may set out with us, and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be commander over all who live in Gilead.”
8 Y los ancianos de Galaad respondieron á Jephté: Por esta misma causa tornamos ahora á ti, para que vengas con nosotros, y pelees contra los hijos de Ammón, y nos seas cabeza á todos los que moramos en Galaad.
9 Jephthah also said to them: “If you have come to me so that I may fight for you against the sons of Ammon, and if the Lord will deliver them into my hands, will I truly be your leader?”
9 Jephté entonces dijo á los ancianos de Galaad: Si me volvéis para que pelee contra los hijos de Ammón, y Jehová los entregare delante de mí, ¿seré yo vuestra cabeza?
10 They answered him, “The Lord who hears these things is himself the Mediator and the Witness that we shall do what we have promised.”
10 Y los ancianos de Galaad respondieron á Jephté: Jehová oiga entre nosotros, si no hiciéremos como tú dices.
11 And so Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead, and all the people made him their leader. And Jephthah spoke all his words, in the sight of the Lord, at Mizpah.
11 Entonces Jephté vino con los ancianos de Galaad, y el pueblo lo eligió por su cabeza y príncipe; y Jephté habló todas sus palabras delante de Jehová en Mizpa.
12 And he sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, who said on his behalf, “What is there between you and me, that you would approach against me, so that you might lay waste to my land?”
12 Y envió Jephté embajadores al rey de los Ammonitas, diciendo: ¿Qué tienes tú conmigo que has venido á mí para hacer guerra en mi tierra?
13 And he responded to them, “It is because Israel took my land, when he ascended from Egypt, from the parts of Arnon, as far as the Jabbok and the Jordan. Now therefore, restore these to me with peace.”
13 Y el rey de los Ammonitas respondió á los embajadores de Jephté: Por cuanto Israel tomó mi tierra, cuando subió de Egipto, desde Arnón hasta Jaboc y el Jordán; por tanto, devuélvelas ahora en paz.
14 And Jephthah again commissioned them, and he ordered them to say to the king of Ammon:
14 Y Jephté tornó á enviar otros embajadores al rey de los Ammonitas,
15 “Jephthah says this: Israel did not take the land of Moab, nor the land of the sons of Ammon.
15 Para decirle: Jephté ha dicho así: Israel no tomó tierra de Moab, ni tierra de los hijos de Ammón:
16 But when they ascended together from Egypt, he walked through the desert as far as the Red Sea, and he went into Kadesh.
16 Mas subiendo Israel de Egipto, anduvo por el desierto hasta el mar Bermejo, y llegó á Cades.
17 And he sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Permit me to pass through your land.’ But he was not willing to agree to his petition. Likewise, he sent to the king of Moab, who also refused to offer him passage. And so he delayed in Kadesh,
17 Entonces Israel envió embajadores al rey de Edom, diciendo: Yo te ruego que me dejes pasar por tu tierra. Mas el rey de Edom no los escuchó. Envió también al rey de Moab; el cual tampoco quiso: quedóse por tanto Israel en Cades.
18 and he circled around the side of the land of Edom and the land of Moab. And he arrived opposite the eastern region of the land of Moab. And he made camp across the Arnon. But he was not willing to enter the borders of Moab. (Of course, Arnon is the border of the land of Moab.)
18 Después, yendo por el desierto, rodeó la tierra de Edom y la tierra de Moab, y viniendo por el lado oriental de la tierra de Moab, asentó su campo de estotra parte de Arnón, y no entraron por el término de Moab: porque Arnón término es de Moab.
19 And so Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who was living at Heshbon. And they said to him, “Permit me to cross through your land as far as the river.”
19 Y envió Israel embajadores á Sehón rey de los Amorrheos, rey de Hesbón, diciéndole: Ruégote que me dejes pasar por tu tierra hasta mi lugar.
20 But he, too, despising the words of Israel, would not permit him to cross through his borders. Instead, gathering an innumerable multitude, he went out against him at Jahaz, and he resisted strongly.
20 Mas Sehón no se fió de Israel para darle paso por su término; antes juntando Sehón toda su gente, puso campo en Jaas, y peleó contra Israel.
21 But the Lord delivered him, with his entire army, into the hands of Israel. And he struck him down, and he possessed all the land of the Amorite, the inhabitant of that region,
21 Empero Jehová el Dios de Israel entregó á Sehón y á todo su pueblo en mano de Israel, y venciólos: y poseyó Israel toda la tierra del Amorrheo que habitaba en aquel país.
22 with all its parts, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
22 Poseyeron también todo el término del Amorrheo desde Arnón hasta Jaboc, y desde el desierto hasta el Jordán.
23 Therefore, it was the Lord, the God of Israel, who overthrew the Amorites, by means of his people Israel fighting against them. And now you wish to possess his land?
23 Así que Jehová el Dios de Israel echó los Amorrheos delante de su pueblo Israel: ¿y lo has de poseer tú?
24 Are not the things that your god Chemosh possesses owed to you by right? And so, what the Lord our God has obtained by victory falls to us as a possession.
24 Si Chêmos tu dios te echase alguno, ¿no lo poseerías tú? Así poseeremos nosotros á todo aquel que echó Jehová nuestro Dios de delante de nosotros.
25 Or are you, perhaps, better than Balak, the son of Zippor, the king of Moab? Or are you able to explain what his argument was against Israel, and why he fought against him?
25 ¿Eres tú ahora en algo mejor que Balac hijo de Sephor, rey de Moab? ¿tuvo él cuestión contra Israel, ó hizo guerra contra ellos?
26 And though he has lived in Heshbon, and its villages, and in Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan for three hundred years, why have you, for such long a time, put forward nothing about this claim?
26 Cuando Israel ha estado habitando por trescientos años á Hesbón y sus aldeas, á Aroer y sus aldeas, y todas las ciudades que están á los términos de Arnón, ¿por qué no las habéis reclamado en ese tiempo?
27 Therefore, I am not sinning against you, but you are doing evil against me, by declaring an unjust war against me. May the Lord be the Judge and the Arbiter this day, between Israel and the sons of Ammon.”
27 Así que, yo nada he pecado contra ti, mas tú haces mal conmigo haciéndome guerra: Jehová, que es el juez, juzgue hoy entre los hijos de Israel y los hijos de Ammón.
28 But the king of the sons of Ammon was not willing to agree to the words of Jephthah that he commissioned by the messengers.
28 Mas el rey de los hijos de Ammón no atendió las razones de Jephté que le envió.
29 Therefore, the Spirit of the Lord rested upon Jephthah, and circling around Gilead, and Manasseh, and also Mizpah of Gilead, and crossing from there to the sons of Ammon,
29 Y el espíritu de Jehová fué sobre Jephté: y pasó por Galaad y Manasés; y de allí pasó á Mizpa de Galaad; y de Mizpa de Galaad pasó á los hijos de Ammón.
30 he made a vow to the Lord, saying, “If you will deliver the sons of Ammon into my hands,
30 Y Jephté hizo voto á Jehová, diciendo: Si entregares á los Ammonitas en mis manos,
31 whoever will be the first to depart from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, the same will I offer as a holocaust to the Lord.”
31 Cualquiera que me saliere á recibir de las puertas de mi casa, cuando volviere de los Ammonitas en paz, será de Jehová, y le ofreceré en holocausto.
32 And Jephthah crossed to the sons of Ammon, so that he might fight against them. And the Lord delivered them into his hands.
32 Pasó pues Jephté á los hijos de Ammón para pelear contra ellos; y Jehová los entregó en su mano.
33 And he struck them down from Aroer, as far as the entrance to Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel, which is covered with vineyards, in an exceedingly great slaughter. And the sons of Ammon were humbled by the sons of Israel.
33 Y los hirió de grandísimo estrago desde Aroer hasta llegar á Minnith, veinte ciudades; y hasta la vega de las viñas. Así fueron domeñados los Ammonitas delante de los hijos de Israel.
34 But when Jephthah returned to Mizpah, to his own house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and dances. For he had no other children.
34 Y volviendo Jephté á Mizpa á su casa, he aquí que su hija le salió á recibir con adufes y danzas, y era la sola, la única suya; no tenía fuera de ella otro hijo ni hija.
35 And upon seeing her, he tore his garments, and he said: “Alas, my daughter! You have cheated me, and you yourself have been cheated. For I opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do nothing else.”
35 Y como él la vió, rompió sus vestidos diciendo: ¡Ay, hija mía! de verdad me has abatido, y tú eres de los que me afligen: porque yo he abierto mi boca á Jehová, y no podré retractarme.
36 And she answered him, “My father, if you have opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me whatever you have promised, since victory has been granted to you, as well as vengeance against your enemies.”
36 Ella entonces le respondió: Padre mío, si has abierto tu boca á Jehová, haz de mí como salió de tu boca, pues que Jehová ha hecho venganza en tus enemigos los hijos de Ammón.
37 And she said to her father: “Grant to me this one thing, which I request. Permit me, that I may wander the hillsides for two months, and that I may mourn my virginity with my companions.”
37 Y tornó á decir á su padre: Hágasme esto: déjame por dos meses que vaya y descienda por los montes, y llore mi virginidad, yo y mis compañeras.
38 And he answered her, “Go.” And he released her for two months. And when she had departed with her friends and companions, she wept over her virginity in the hillsides.
38 El entonces dijo: Ve. Y dejóla por dos meses. Y ella fué con sus compañeras, y lloró su virginidad por los montes.
39 And when the two months expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her just as he had vowed, though she knew no man. From this, the custom grew up in Israel, and the practice has been preserved,
39 Pasados los dos meses volvió á su padre, é hizo de ella conforme á su voto que había hecho. Y ella nunca conoció varón.
40 such that, after each year passes, the daughters of Israel convene as one, and they lament the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite, for four days.
40 De aquí fué la costumbre en Israel que de año en año iban las doncellas de Israel á endechar á la hija de Jephté Galaadita, cuatro días en el año.
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Gilead
Father of Jephthah by a prostitute, whose other sons by his wife drove Jephthah out of the family.
Cited in the guide: Judges 11:1; Judges 11:2
Jephthah
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
Cross references (35)
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- 1 Hebrews 11:32; Judges 6:12; 2 Kings 5:1
- 2 Proverbs 2:16; Genesis 12:10; Deuteronomy 23:2; Proverbs 5:20; Galatians 4:30
- 3 Judges 9:4; 1 Samuel 22:2; 2 Samuel 10:8; Job 30:1–10; 1 Samuel 27:2
- 4 Judges 10:9
- 5 1 Corinthians 1:27–29; Acts 7:35–39; Psalm 118:22–23; 1 Samuel 11:12; Judges 10:17–18
- 7 Genesis 45:4–5; Revelation 3:9; Proverbs 17:17; Isaiah 60:14; Acts 7:9–14
- 8 Judges 10:18; Exodus 9:28; Exodus 10:17; 1 Kings 13:6; Exodus 8:28
- 9 Numbers 32:20–29
- 10 Jeremiah 42:5; Genesis 31:50; Genesis 16:5; Jeremiah 29:23; 1 Samuel 24:12
- 11 1 Samuel 10:17; Judges 20:1; Judges 10:17; James 1:5; James 1:17
- 12 Matthew 18:15–16; Proverbs 25:8–9; Deuteronomy 2:26; Numbers 20:14; 2 Kings 14:8–12
- 13 Genesis 32:22; Numbers 21:24–26; Proverbs 19:9; Deuteronomy 2:37; Proverbs 19:5
- 14 1 Peter 3:11; Hebrews 12:14; Psalm 120:7; Romans 12:18
- 15 Deuteronomy 2:19; Deuteronomy 2:9; 2 Chronicles 20:10; Numbers 21:13–15; Numbers 21:27–30
- 16 Numbers 14:25; Deuteronomy 1:40; Numbers 20:1; Numbers 13:26; Joshua 5:6
- 17 Numbers 20:14–21; Deuteronomy 2:4–9; Numbers 20:1; Joshua 24:9; Deuteronomy 2:29
- 18 Numbers 21:4–13; Deuteronomy 2:1–8; Numbers 22:36; Numbers 33:37–44; Numbers 20:22
- 19 Deuteronomy 2:26–36; Numbers 21:21–35; Joshua 13:8–12; Deuteronomy 3:1–17
- 20 Psalm 135:10–12; Deuteronomy 2:32–34; Joshua 13:15–32; Numbers 21:23–25; Nehemiah 9:22
- 22 Deuteronomy 2:36
- 24 Micah 4:5; Numbers 21:29; Psalm 78:55; 1 Kings 11:7; Joshua 3:10
- 25 Micah 6:5; Joshua 24:9–10; Deuteronomy 23:3–4; Numbers 22:2–21
- 26 Deuteronomy 2:36; Joshua 12:2; Judges 9:22; Judges 5:31; Joshua 11:18
- 27 Genesis 18:25; Genesis 16:5; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 24:12; Genesis 31:53
- 28 Proverbs 16:18; 2 Kings 14:11
- 29 Judges 3:10; Numbers 11:25; Judges 13:25; 1 Samuel 10:10; Judges 10:17
- 30 Genesis 28:20; 1 Samuel 1:11; Ecclesiastes 5:4–5; Ecclesiastes 5:1–2; Numbers 30:2–16
- 31 Psalm 66:13–14; 1 Samuel 1:28; 1 Samuel 1:11; Leviticus 27:28–29; 1 Samuel 14:44
- 32 Judges 1:4; Judges 3:10; Judges 2:18
- 33 Ezekiel 27:17; Deuteronomy 2:36
- 34 Jeremiah 31:4; Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:11; Judges 10:17; Psalm 150:4
- 35 Matthew 14:7–9; Genesis 42:36–38; 2 Samuel 13:30–31; 1 Samuel 14:44–45; Genesis 37:34–35
- 36 Acts 21:13; Romans 16:4; Philippians 2:30; 2 Samuel 18:19; 2 Samuel 19:30
- 37 Luke 1:25; 1 Samuel 1:6
- 39 Isaiah 66:3; Judges 11:31; 1 Samuel 2:18; Leviticus 27:28–29; 1 Samuel 1:24
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