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Judges - ch 11 v 1 - 20

  1. Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.
  2. And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.
  3. So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of good-for-nothing men, joining Jephthah, went out with him on his undertakings.
  4. Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
  5. And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;
  6. And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.
  7. But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?
  8. And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead.
  9. Then Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, If you take me back to make war against the children of Ammon, and if with the help of the Lord I overcome them, will you make me your head?
  10. And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.
  11. So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah said all these things before the Lord in Mizpah.
  12. Then Jephthah sent men to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you against me that you have come to make war against my land?
  13. And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.
  14. And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon,
  15. And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the children of Ammon;
  16. But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;
  17. Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh.
  18. Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon; they did not come inside the limit of Moab, for the Arnon was the limit of Moab.
  19. And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let me now go through your land to my place.
  20. But Sihon would not give way and let Israel go through his land; and Sihon got together all his people, and put his army in position in Jahaz, and made war on Israel.
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