Judges 11

¹Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Heb 11:322 Kgs 5:1Judg 6:12

²And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 23:2Gen 12:10Prov 2:16Gal 4:30Prov 5:20Prov 5:3Prov 6:24-26

³Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 9:41 Sam 22:21 Sam 27:22 Sam 10:62 Sam 10:8Job 30:1-101 Sam 30:22-24Acts 17:5

⁴And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 10:9

⁵And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 1:27-291 Sam 11:12Acts 7:35-39Ps 118:22-231 Sam 10:271 Sam 11:6-7Judg 10:17-18Judg 10:9

⁶And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

⁷And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 45:4-5Prov 17:17Rev 3:9Acts 7:9-14Isa 60:14Gen 26:27Gen 37:27

⁸And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 10:18Exod 10:17Exod 9:281 Kgs 13:6Exod 8:28Exod 8:8Luke 17:3-4

⁹And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliver them before me, shall I be your head? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 32:20-29

¹⁰And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 42:5Gen 31:50Gen 16:5Jer 29:231 Sam 12:51 Sam 24:122 Cor 11:31Deut 1:16Exod 20:7Gen 21:23

¹¹Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 10:17Judg 20:1Jas 1:5Judg 10:171 Sam 11:15Jas 1:171 Kgs 3:7-91 Sam 23:9-12Josh 15:382 Cor 3:5

¹²And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 18:15-16Deut 2:26Prov 25:8-92 Kgs 14:8-12Deut 20:10-11Num 20:14Num 21:21

¹³And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 32:22Num 21:24-26Deut 2:37Deut 3:16Prov 19:5Prov 19:9

¹⁴And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 3:11Heb 12:14Ps 120:7Rom 12:18

¹⁵And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 2:19Deut 2:92 Chr 20:10Acts 24:12-13Num 21:13-15Num 21:27-30

¹⁶But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 1:40Num 14:25Num 13:26Num 20:1Deut 1:46Gen 14:7Josh 5:6

¹⁷Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 2:4-9Num 20:1Num 20:14-21Deut 2:29Josh 24:9

¹⁸Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed 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 came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 2:1-8Num 21:4-13Num 22:36Num 33:37-44Num 20:22

¹⁹And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 2:26-36Deut 3:1-17Josh 13:8-12Num 21:21-35

²⁰But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 135:10-12Deut 2:32-34Josh 13:15-32Neh 9:22Num 21:23-25Ps 136:17-21

²¹And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²²And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 2:36

²³So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁴Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mic 4:5Num 21:29Ps 78:551 Kgs 11:7Josh 3:10Deut 18:12Deut 9:4-5Jer 48:46Jer 48:7Ps 44:2

²⁵And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mic 6:5Josh 24:9-10Deut 23:3-4Num 22:2-21

²⁶While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 2:36Deut 2:24Deut 3:2Deut 3:6Josh 11:18Josh 12:2Josh 12:5Josh 13:10Josh 23:1Judg 10:2-3

²⁷Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the Lord the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 24:121 Sam 24:15Gen 16:5Gen 18:25Gen 31:53Rom 14:10-12Eccl 11:9Ps 75:7Ps 82:8Ps 94:2

²⁸Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 14:11Prov 16:18

²⁹Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 11:25Judg 13:25Judg 3:101 Chr 12:181 Sam 10:101 Sam 16:13-15Judg 10:17Judg 6:34

³⁰And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 28:201 Sam 1:11Eccl 5:1-2Eccl 5:4-5Num 30:2-16

³¹Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 66:13-141 Sam 1:111 Sam 1:281 Sam 14:241 Sam 14:441 Sam 2:18Deut 23:18Isa 66:3Lev 27:11-12Lev 27:28-29

³²So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 1:4Judg 2:18Judg 3:10

³³And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 27:17Deut 2:36

³⁴And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 15:20Jer 31:4Judg 10:17Judg 11:11Ps 150:4Ps 68:251 Sam 18:6-7Jer 31:13Judg 5:1-31Luke 7:12

³⁵And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 42:36-38Matt 14:7-91 Sam 14:44-452 Sam 13:30-312 Sam 18:33Eccl 5:2-6Gen 37:29-30Gen 37:34-35Job 1:20Judg 21:1-7

³⁶And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 21:132 Sam 18:19Phil 2:30Rom 16:42 Sam 18:312 Sam 19:30Judg 16:28-30Acts 20:24

³⁷And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 1:251 Sam 1:6

³⁸And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

³⁹And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 66:3Judg 11:311 Sam 2:18Lev 27:28-291 Sam 1:111 Sam 1:241 Sam 1:28Deut 12:311 Sam 1:22

⁴⁰That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI