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1 Jefté era un gran guerrero de la tierra de Galaad, pero su madre era una prostituta.
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 Su padre, cuyo nombre era Galaad, tenía otros hijos de su esposa legítima, y cuando estos medio hermanos crecieron, echaron a Jefté de su país. «Hijo de prostituta —le dijeron—, no heredarás las propiedades de nuestro padre».
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 Jefté huyó de la casa de su padre y vivió en la tierra de Tob. Pronto se unió a él una banda de gente miserable, que lo siguieron y vivían como bandidos.
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 Fue por este tiempo que los amonitas comenzaron su guerra contra Israel.
4 After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
5 Los jefes de Galaad entonces mandaron a buscar a Jefté
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 para que los dirigiera contra los amonitas.
6 They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
7 Pero Jefté les dijo: ―¿Por qué acuden a mí, si me odian y me han expulsado de la casa de mi padre? ¿Por qué vienen a mí cuando están en dificultades?
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 ―Porque te necesitamos —le contestaron—. Si quieres ser comandante en jefe contra los amonitas, te haremos rey de 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 ―¡De veras! —exclamó Jefté—. ¿Esperan que yo lo crea?
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 ―Te lo juramos —respondieron—. Lo prometemos con un juramento solemne.
10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”
11 Entonces Jefté aceptó la comisión y fue hecho comandante en jefe y rey. El contrato fue ratificado delante del Señor en Mizpa, en una asamblea general de todo el pueblo.
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 Luego Jefté envió mensajeros al rey de Amón preguntándole por qué atacaban a Israel.
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 El rey de Amón le contestó que la tierra pertenecía al rey de Amón y les había sido robada cuando los israelitas llegaron de Egipto. Todo el territorio desde el río Arnón hasta el Jaboc y el Jordán lo reclamaba como suyo. ―Devuélvenos pacíficamente la tierra —le exigió.
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 Jefté contestó: «Israel no les robó la tierra;
14 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
15 Not in this translation
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 lo que ocurrió fue esto: Cuando el pueblo de Israel llegó a Cades en su viaje desde Egipto después de cruzar el Mar Rojo;
16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,
17 envió un mensaje al rey de Edom pidiéndole permiso para cruzar a través de su tierra, pero la petición fue negada. Le pidieron al rey de Moab un permiso similar, y allí ocurrió lo mismo. El pueblo de Israel permaneció en 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 »Finalmente rodearon Edom y Moab a través del desierto, y viajaron por el límite oriental hasta que llegaron a la frontera de Moab en el río Arnón. Pero nunca entraron en 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 »Entonces Israel envió mensajeros al rey Sijón de los amorreos, que vivía en Hesbón, y le pidió permiso para cruzar por su tierra para llegar a su destino.
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 Pero el rey Sijón no confió en Israel, y movilizó su ejército en Jahaza y lo atacaron.
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 Pero el Señor nuestro Dios ayudó a Israel a derrotar a Sehón y todo su pueblo, de modo que Israel tomó toda la tierra que se extiende desde el río Arnón hasta Jaboc, y desde el desierto hasta el río Jordán.
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 Not in this translation
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 Así es que, como puedes ver, fue el Señor Dios de Israel el que quitó la tierra a los amorreos y la entregó a Israel. ¿Por qué creen que deben poseerla ustedes?
23 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
24 Conserva para ti todo lo que tu dios Quemós te dé, y nosotros retendremos todo lo que el Señor nuestro Dios nos dé.
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 Y además, ¿quién crees tú que eres? ¿Eres tú mejor que el rey Balac de Moab? ¿Trató él de recobrar su tierra después que Israel lo derrotó? No, por supuesto que no.
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 Pero después de trescientos años vienes tú a crear problema por esto. Israel ha estado viviendo aquí durante todo ese tiempo, ocupando la tierra de Hesbón hasta Aroer y a todo lo largo del río Arnón. ¿Por qué no hiciste un esfuerzo para recobrarla antes de ahora?
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 Así que yo no he pecado contra ti; más bien tú me has provocado viniendo a hacerme la guerra. Pero el Señor el juez pronto mostrará quién de nosotros tiene la razón, si Israel o Amón».
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 El rey de Amón no prestó atención al mensaje de Jefté.
28 However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
29 En aquel tiempo el Espíritu del Señor vino sobre Jefté y guio sus hombres a través de la tierra de Galaad y Manasés, más allá de Mizpa en Galaad, y a través de Amón.
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 Mientras tanto, Jefté había hecho voto delante del Señor, que si Dios ayudaba a los israelitas a vencer a los amonitas, él volvería a su casa en paz, y que la primera persona que saliera a recibirlo sería sacrificada en holocausto al Señor.
30 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
31 Not in this translation
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 Jefté condujo su ejército contra los amonitas y el Señor le dio la victoria.
32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
33 Destruyó a los amonitas con una terrible matanza a lo largo de todo el camino entre Aroer y Minit, incluyendo veinte ciudades, y hasta la vega de las viñas. Los amonitas fueron subyugados por el pueblo de 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 Cuando Jefté regresó a su casa, su hija, su única hija, corrió a su encuentro tocando el tamboril y danzando de alegría.
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 Cuando él la vio rasgó su ropa con angustia. ―¡Ay, hija mía! —exclamó—. Tú me has abatido hasta el polvo. Porque he hecho voto delante del Señor y no puedo retractarme.
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 ―Padre —le dijo ella—, debes hacer lo que has prometido al Señor, porque él te ha dado una gran victoria sobre tus enemigos los amonitas.
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 Pero, primero déjame que suba a los montes y llore con mis amigas mi virginidad durante dos meses.
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 ―Sí —dijo él—, anda. Y ella lo hizo y lloró su suerte con sus amigas durante dos meses;
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 luego regresó a donde estaba su padre, que hizo lo prometido. Así que ella nunca se casó. Y después llegó a ser una costumbre de Israel
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 que las jóvenes salieran cuatro días cada año a lamentar el destino de la hija de Jefté.
40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
People & places in this chapter
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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
Jephthah's daughter
Unnamed only child of Jephthah, who came out with tambourines to meet him after the victory over Ammon, accepted his vow, mourned her virginity two months in the mountains, and…
Cited in the guide: Judges 11:34; Judges 11:35; Judges 11:39–40
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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