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and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/11.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/judges/11.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/judges/11.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/judges/11.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/judges/11.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/judges/11.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/11.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/judges/11.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/judges/11.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/judges/11.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/judges/11.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/judges/11.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/judges/11.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/judges/11.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/judges/11.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/judges/5-23.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/judges/11.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/judges/11.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/judges/11.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/judges/11.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/judges/11.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/judges/11.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/judges/11.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/judges/11.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/judges/11.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/judges/11.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/judges/11.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/judges/11.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/judges/11.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/judges/11.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/judges/11.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/11.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(19) <span class= "bld">Unto Sihon.</span>—<a href="/numbers/21-21.htm" title="And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,">Numbers 21:21</a>; <a href="/context/deuteronomy/2-26.htm" title="And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,">Deuteronomy 2:26-29</a> (where see the Commentary).<p><span class= "bld">The King of Heshbon.</span>—He was king of the Aniorites by birth, but king of Heshbon only by conquest. The town was assigned to Reuben (<a href="/numbers/32-37.htm" title="And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,">Numbers 32:37</a>).<p><span class= "bld">Into my place.</span>—The conquest of the territories of Reuben, Gad, and half-Manasseh had not entered into the original plan of Israel, but had been providentially determined by the hostility of Sihon and Og (<a href="/deuteronomy/2-29.htm" title="(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did to me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.">Deuteronomy 2:29</a>). The Vulg. renders it “unto the river (<span class= "ital">usque ad fluvium</span>)<span class= "ital">.</span><p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/judges/11.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/judges/11-19.htm" title="And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray you, through your land into my place....">Jdg 11:19-22</a></span>. <span class="ital">Let us pass through thy land unto my place — </span>That is, unto the land of Canaan, which the Lord hath given me. <span class="ital">But Sihon fought against Israel — </span>He not only refused, after the example of his neighbours, to grant the Israelites a passage through his country, which they could not insist upon as their absolute right, but raised all his forces, and proudly marched to drive them away from his borders. So that, as Jephthah intends to signify, Sihon was the aggressor, and the Israelites were compelled to fight in their own defence. <span class="ital">They possessed all the coasts — </span>Or borders, together with all the land included within those borders. <span class="ital">From the wilderness </span>— Namely, the desert of Arabia; <span class="ital">unto Jordan.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/judges/11.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>11:12-28 One instance of the honour and respect we owe to God, as our God, is, rightly to employ what he gives us to possess. Receive it from him, use it for him, and part with it when he calls for it. The whole of this message shows that Jephthah was well acquainted with the books of Moses. His argument was clear, and his demand reasonable. Those who possess the most courageous faith, will be the most disposed for peace, and the readiest to make advances to obtain; but rapacity and ambition often cloak their designs under a plea of equity, and render peaceful endeavours of no avail.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/11.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Into my place - This expression implies that the trans-Jordanic possessions of Israel were not included in the land of Canaan properly speaking.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/judges/11.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>13. the king of Ammon …, Because Israel took away my land—(See on [221]De 2:19). The subject of quarrel was a claim of right advanced by the Ammonite monarch to the lands which the Israelites were occupying. Jephthah's reply was clear, decisive, and unanswerable;—first, those lands were not in the possession of the Ammonites when his countrymen got them, and that they had been acquired by right of conquest from the Amorites [Jud 11:21]; secondly, the Israelites had now, by a lapse of three hundred years of undisputed possession, established a prescriptive right to the occupation [Jud 11:22, 23]; and thirdly, having received a grant of them from the Lord, his people were entitled to maintain their right on the same principle that guided the Ammonites in receiving, from their god Chemosh, the territory they now occupied [Jud 11:24]. This diplomatic statement, so admirable for the clearness and force of its arguments, concluded with a solemn appeal to God to maintain, by the issue of events, the cause of right and justice [Jud 11:27].<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/judges/11.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> i.e. Unto the land of Canaan, which God hath given to me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/judges/11.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon,.... Which was his royal city, where he had his palace, and kept his court, and is therefore particularly mentioned; and the rather, because he had taken it from the Moabites, and was part of that land now in dispute; and this Sihon was not only in possession of, when Israel sent messengers to him, but it was his royal seat, the metropolis of his kingdom, and he was called king of it: <p>and Israel said unto him, let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place; the land of Canaan, prepared and reserved for them when the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, promised by the Lord to their ancestors and to them, and given unto them, who is sovereign Lord of all; and all that Israel desired of Sihon was only a passage through his land to that, promising the same as to the king of Edom; see the history of it in <a href="/numbers/21-21.htm">Numbers 21:21</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/judges/11.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And 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.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/judges/11.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">19</span>. Again abbreviated from JE’s narrative, <a href="/context/numbers/21-21.htm" title="And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,...">Numbers 21:21-24</a>, which is further expanded in <a href="/context/deuteronomy/2-26.htm" title="And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,...">Deuteronomy 2:26-37</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Sihon … the king of Heshbon</span>] So frequently, e.g. <a href="/numbers/21-26.htm" title="For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon.">Numbers 21:26</a>, <a href="/deuteronomy/2-24.htm" title="Rise you up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.">Deuteronomy 2:24</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/2-26.htm" title="And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,">Deuteronomy 2:26</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/2-30.htm" title="But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as appears this day.">Deuteronomy 2:30</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/3-6.htm" title="And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.">Deuteronomy 3:6</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/29-7.htm" title="And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote them:">Deuteronomy 29:7</a>, <a href="/joshua/12-5.htm" title="And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.">Joshua 12:5</a> etc. The site of Sihon’s capital is now represented by Ḥesbân (nearly 3000 ft.), finely placed among the mountains, 16 m. N.E. of the upper end of the Dead Sea, and overlooking Mt Nebo, which Isaiah 5 m. to the S.W. In later times Heshbon is referred to as a Moabite city, <a href="/isaiah/15-4.htm" title="And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.">Isaiah 15:4</a>; <a href="/isaiah/16-8.htm" title="For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even to Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.">Isaiah 16:8</a> f., <a href="/jeremiah/48-2.htm" title="There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also you shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue you.">Jeremiah 48:2</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/48-34.htm" title="From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, and even to Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.">Jeremiah 48:34</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/48-45.htm" title="They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.">Jeremiah 48:45</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/49-3.htm" title="Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.">Jeremiah 49:3</a>; it was assigned to Reuben by the Israelites, <a href="/joshua/13-17.htm" title="Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,">Joshua 13:17</a> P.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/judges/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 19.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And Israel</span>, etc. The text here follows <a href="/numbers/21-21.htm">Numbers 21:21-24</a> almost verbatim; but the expression, "the <span class="accented">king of Heshbon</span>," is from <a href="/deuteronomy/2-24.htm">Deuteronomy 2:24, 26</a>, 80. Judges 11:19<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/judges/11.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-19.htm">Judges 11:19-22</a> are almost verbatim the same as <a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/21-21.htm">Numbers 21:21-25</a>. Israel then sent messengers to Sihon the king of the Amorites at Heshbon, to ask permission to pass through his land. "Into my place," i.e., into the land of Canaan, that Jehovah has appointed for me. But Sihon "trusted not Israel to pass through his land," i.e., he did not trust to the assurance of Israel that they only wanted to pass peaceably through his land, but supposed the petition to cover an intention to take forcible possession of it. (In <a href="/numbers/21-23.htm">Numbers 21:23</a> we have נתן לא instead of האמין לא.) He did not confine himself, therefore, to a refusal of the permission they asked for, but collected his men of war, and marched against the Israelites to the desert as far as Jahza, on the east of Medeba and Dibon (see at <a href="/numbers/21-23.htm">Numbers 21:23</a>), and fought with them. 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