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Why didn&#8217t you retake them during that time? <a href="/nlt/judges/11.htm">New Living Translation</a> “Israel has been living here for 300 years, inhabiting Heshbon and its surrounding settlements, all the way to Aroer and its settlements, and in all the towns along the Arnon River. Why have you made no effort to recover it before now? <a href="/esv/judges/11.htm">English Standard Version</a> While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time? <a href="/bsb/judges/11.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time? <a href="/kjv/judges/11.htm">King James Bible</a> While 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? <a href="/nkjv/judges/11.htm">New King James Version</a> While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities along the banks of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time? <a href="/nasb_/judges/11.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> While Israel was living in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time? <a href="/nasb/judges/11.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8216While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time? <a href="/nasb77/judges/11.htm">NASB 1977 </a> ‘While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time? <a href="/lsb/judges/11.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns and in Aroer and its towns and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them for yourself within that time? <a href="/amp/judges/11.htm">Amplified Bible</a> While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities along the banks of the Arnon for three hundred years, why did you not recover your lost lands during that time? <a href="/csb/judges/11.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> While Israel lived three hundred years in Heshbon and Aroer and their surrounding villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, why didn’t you take them back at that time? <a href="/hcsb/judges/11.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> While Israel lived 300 years in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, why didn&#8217t you take them back at that time? <a href="/asv/judges/11.htm">American Standard Version</a> While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; wherefore did ye not recover them within that time? <a href="/cev/judges/11.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> For 300 years, Israelites have been living in Heshbon and Aroer and the nearby villages, and in the towns along the Arnon River gorge. If the land really belonged to you Ammonites, you wouldn't have waited until now to try to get it back. <a href="/erv/judges/11.htm">English Revised Version</a> While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of Arnon, three hundred years; wherefore did ye not recover them within that time? <a href="/gwt/judges/11.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Israel has now lived in Heshbon, Aroer, all their villages, and in all the cities along the Arnon River for 300 years. Why didn't you recapture these cities during that time? <a href="/gnt/judges/11.htm">Good News Translation</a> For three hundred years Israel has occupied Heshbon and Aroer, and the towns around them, and all the cities on the banks of the Arnon River. Why haven't you taken them back in all this time? <a href="/isv/judges/11.htm">International Standard Version</a> When Israel was living in Heshbon and its surrounding villages, in Aroer and its surrounding villages, and in all the cities that line the banks of the Arnon River these past three hundred years, why didn't you retake them during that time? <a href="/msb/judges/11.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time? <a href="/net/judges/11.htm">NET Bible</a> Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time? <a href="/nheb/judges/11.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why did you not liberate them within that time? <a href="/wbt/judges/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that are along by the borders of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time? <a href="/web/judges/11.htm">World English Bible</a> 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? <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/judges/11.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> In Israel’s dwelling in Heshbon and in its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, and in all the cities which [are] by the sides of Arnon [for] three hundred years—and why have you not delivered them in that time? <a href="/ylt/judges/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> In Israel's dwelling in Heshbon and in its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, and in all the cities which are by the sides of Arnon three hundred years -- and wherefore have ye not delivered them in that time? <a href="/slt/judges/11.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> In Israel's dwelling in Heshbon and her daughters and in Aroer and her daughters, and in all the cities which are upon the hands of Arnon, three hundred years? and why took ye not them away in that time?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/judges/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon, and the villages thereof, and in Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan, for three hundred years. Why have you for so long a time attempted nothing about this claim? <a href="/cpdv/judges/11.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> 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? <a href="/nabre/judges/11.htm">New American Bible</a> Israel has dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, Aroer and its villages, and all the cities on the banks of the Arnon for three hundred years. Why did you not recover them during that time? <a href="/nrsvce/judges/11.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the towns that are along the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/judges/11.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, and in Adoer and its villages, and in all the cities that are along the banks of Arnon, three hundred years? Why did you not recover them within that time? <a href="/hpbt/judges/11.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> When Israel dwelt in Kheshbon and in its villages and in Aduir and in its villages and among all the towns that are upon the side of Arnon three hundred years, why did you not lay hold of them in that time?<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/judges/11.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; wherefore did ye not recover them within that time? <a href="/sep/judges/11.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> when Israel dwelt in Esebon and in its coasts, and in the land of Aroer and in its coasts, and in all the cities by Jordan, three hundred years? and wherefore didst thou not recover them in that time? <a href="/parallel/judges/11-26.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AjzBiIYY2Dc?start=3605" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/judges/11.htm">Jephthah Delivers Israel</a> …25Are you now so much better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel or fight against them? 26<a href="/hebrew/7969.htm" title="7969: šə·lōš (Number-fsc) -- A three, triad. Or shalosh; masculine shlowshah; or shloshah; a primitive number; three; occasionally third, or Thrice.">For three</a> <a href="/hebrew/3967.htm" title="3967: mê·’ō·wṯ (Number-fp) -- Hundred. Or metyah; properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction.">hundred</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">years</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: bə·še·ḇeṯ (Prep-b:: V-Qal-Inf) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">has lived</a> <a href="/hebrew/2809.htm" title="2809: bə·ḥeš·bō·wn (Prep-b:: N-proper-fs) -- A place E. of the Jordan. The same as cheshbown; Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan.">in Heshbon,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: ū·ḇiḇ·nō·w·ṯe·hā (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-fpc:: 3fs) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6177.htm" title="6177: ū·ḇə·‘ar·‘ō·wr (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-proper-fs) -- Or 'Aro'er; or 'Ar'owr; the same as arow'er; nudity of situation; Aroer, the name of three places in or near Palestine.">Aroer,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: ū·ḇiḇ·nō·w·ṯe·hā (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-fpc:: 3fs) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">and their villages,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: ū·ḇə·ḵāl (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">as well as all</a> <a href="/hebrew/5892.htm" title="5892: he·‘ā·rîm (Art:: N-fp) -- Excitement. Or par; or ayar; from uwr a city in the widest sense.">the cities</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">along</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yə·ḏê (N-fdc) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">the banks</a> <a href="/hebrew/769.htm" title="769: ’ar·nō·wn (N-proper-fs) -- Or Arnon; from ranan; a brawling stream; the Arnon, a river east of the Jordan, also its territory.">of the Arnon.</a> <a href="/hebrew/4069.htm" title="4069: ū·mad·dū·a‘ (Conj-w:: Interrog) -- Why? for what reason?. Or madduaa; from mah and the passive participle of yada'; what known?; i.e. why?.">Why</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">did you not</a> <a href="/hebrew/5337.htm" title="5337: hiṣ·ṣal·tem (V-Hifil-Perf-2mp) -- To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver. ">take them back</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: ha·hî (Art:: Pro-3fs) -- He, she, it. ">during that</a> <a href="/hebrew/6256.htm" title="6256: bā·‘êṯ (Prep-b, Art:: N-cs) -- Time. From ad; time, especially now, when, etc.">time?</a> 27I have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/numbers/21-24.htm">Numbers 21:24-26</a> And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified. / Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages. / Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon. <a href="/deuteronomy/2-9.htm">Deuteronomy 2:9-19</a> Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.” / (The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. / Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites. ... <a href="/joshua/13-25.htm">Joshua 13:25-27</a> The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah; / the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir; / and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (the territory on the east side of the Jordan up to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth). <a href="/2_kings/10-33.htm">2 Kings 10:33</a> from the Jordan eastward through all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh), and from Aroer by the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan. <a href="/1_chronicles/5-9.htm">1 Chronicles 5:9-11</a> They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead. / During the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who were defeated at their hands, and they occupied the dwellings of the Hagrites throughout the region east of Gilead. / The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah: <a href="/joshua/11-16.htm">Joshua 11:16-17</a> So Joshua took this entire region: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah, and the mountains of Israel and their foothills, / from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death. <a href="/joshua/12-1.htm">Joshua 12:1-6</a> Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward: / Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead, / as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah. ... <a href="/joshua/24-8.htm">Joshua 24:8-9</a> Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you. / Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you, <a href="/2_samuel/10-8.htm">2 Samuel 10:8-19</a> The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country. / When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans. / And he placed the rest of the troops under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites. ... <a href="/1_kings/4-19.htm">1 Kings 4:19-21</a> Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah. / The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing. / And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. <a href="/acts/13-19.htm">Acts 13:19</a> And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance. <a href="/hebrews/11-32.htm">Hebrews 11:32-34</a> And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, / who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, / quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight. <a href="/romans/15-4.htm">Romans 15:4</a> For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope. <a href="/acts/7-45.htm">Acts 7:45</a> And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David, <a href="/acts/13-17.htm">Acts 13:17-20</a> The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land. / He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness. / And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance. ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>While Israel dwelled 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 you not recover them within that time?Heshbon<a href="/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25-30</a> And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof… <a href="/deuteronomy/2-24.htm">Deuteronomy 2:24</a> Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.<a href="/deuteronomy/3-2.htm">Deuteronomy 3:2,6</a> And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon… Aroer<a href="/deuteronomy/2-36.htm">Deuteronomy 2:36</a> From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:three hundred<a href="/judges/3-11.htm">Judges 3:11,30</a> And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died… <a href="/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31</a> So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.<a href="/judges/8-28.htm">Judges 8:28</a> Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/judges/11-22.htm">Arnon</a> <a href="/joshua/13-25.htm">Aroer</a> <a href="/judges/11-22.htm">Borders</a> <a href="/judges/10-4.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/judges/11-22.htm">Coasts</a> <a href="/judges/11-3.htm">Dwelt</a> <a href="/judges/11-19.htm">Heshbon</a> <a href="/judges/8-26.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/judges/11-25.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-26.htm">Recover</a> <a href="/judges/11-18.htm">Side</a> <a href="/judges/10-2.htm">Three</a> <a href="/judges/11-4.htm">Time</a> <a href="/judges/10-4.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/judges/5-11.htm">Villages</a> <a href="/judges/11-7.htm">Wherefore</a> <a href="/judges/11-18.htm">Within</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_kings/10-33.htm">Arnon</a> <a href="/judges/11-33.htm">Aroer</a> <a href="/judges/18-2.htm">Borders</a> <a href="/judges/11-33.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/judges/18-2.htm">Coasts</a> <a href="/judges/15-8.htm">Dwelt</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/6-81.htm">Heshbon</a> <a href="/judges/15-4.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/judges/11-27.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_samuel/30-8.htm">Recover</a> <a href="/judges/19-1.htm">Side</a> <a href="/judges/14-14.htm">Three</a> <a href="/judges/11-40.htm">Time</a> <a href="/judges/20-14.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/1_samuel/6-18.htm">Villages</a> <a href="/judges/11-27.htm">Wherefore</a> <a href="/judges/14-12.htm">Within</a><div class="vheading2">Judges 11</div>1. <a href="/judges/11-1.htm">The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites, that he should lead</a> 12. <a href="/judges/11-12.htm">The treaty of peace between him and the Ammonites is in vain</a> 29. <a href="/judges/11-29.htm">Jephthah's vow</a> 32. <a href="/judges/11-32.htm">His conquest of the Ammonites</a> 34. <a href="/judges/11-34.htm">He performs his vow on his daughter.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/judges/11.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/judges/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/judges/11.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>For three hundred years This phrase highlights the significant period during which Israel occupied the land. The number 300 is symbolic of completeness and divine order in biblical numerology. This time frame suggests a long-established presence, indicating that the Israelites had settled and integrated into the region. Historically, this period covers the time from the conquest under Joshua to the judgeship of Jephthah, reflecting a stable occupation.Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages Heshbon and Aroer were significant cities east of the Jordan River. Heshbon was the capital of Sihon, king of the Amorites, whom Israel defeated (<a href="/numbers/21-21.htm">Numbers 21:21-31</a>). Aroer was located near the Arnon River, marking the southern boundary of the Amorite territory. The mention of "their villages" indicates the extent of Israelite settlement, suggesting a well-established community structure. This occupation fulfilled God's promise to give Israel the land of the Amorites.as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon The Arnon River served as a natural boundary between Moab and the Amorite kingdom. The cities along its banks were strategically important for trade and defense. The Israelites' control of these cities demonstrated their dominance in the region. This control was part of the land promised to Abraham and his descendants (<a href="/genesis/15-18.htm">Genesis 15:18-21</a>).Why did you not take them back during that time? This rhetorical question challenges the Ammonites' claim to the land. It implies that if the Ammonites had a legitimate claim, they would have acted within the 300 years of Israelite occupation. The question underscores the idea of divine providence and justice, suggesting that the land was rightfully Israel's by God's decree. It also reflects the biblical principle that God's timing and purposes prevail over human claims and disputes.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jephthah.htm">Jephthah</a> A judge of Israel, known for his leadership and vow. He is the central figure in this chapter, negotiating with the Ammonites. 2. <a href="/topical/a/ammonites.htm">Ammonites</a> A group of people who were in conflict with Israel over territorial claims. They demanded the return of lands they believed were taken by Israel. 3. <a href="/topical/h/heshbon.htm">Heshbon</a> A significant city in the territory disputed by the Ammonites and Israelites. It was a former Amorite city conquered by Israel. 4. <a href="/topical/a/aroer.htm">Aroer</a> Another city mentioned in the territorial dispute, located near the Arnon River. 5. <a href="/topical/a/arnon_river.htm">Arnon River</a> A geographical boundary that played a crucial role in the territorial disputes between Israel and its neighbors.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/h/historical_context_matters.htm">Historical Context Matters</a> Understanding the historical context of territorial disputes helps us appreciate the complexities of biblical accounts and God's providence in history. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_over_time.htm">God's Faithfulness Over Time</a> The 300-year period mentioned highlights God's enduring faithfulness to Israel despite their frequent disobedience. <a href="/topical/r/resolving_conflicts_with_wisdom.htm">Resolving Conflicts with Wisdom</a> Jephthah's approach to resolving the conflict with the Ammonites through dialogue and historical evidence is a model for addressing disputes today. <a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_promises.htm">Trust in God's Promises</a> The Israelites' possession of the land was based on God's promises. Believers today can trust in God's promises for their lives. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_stewardship.htm">The Importance of Stewardship</a> The Israelites' long-term occupation of the land underscores the importance of stewardship over what God has entrusted to us.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_judges_11.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Judges 11</a> <a href="/q/is_there_evidence_for_israel's_300-year_stay.htm">Judges 11:26: Is there archaeological evidence supporting the 300-year timeline mentioned for Israel’s occupation of the land? </a> <a href="/q/what_beliefs_define_eastern_religions.htm">When was Exodus written?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_exodus_14_fit_egypt's_timeline.htm">How does Exodus 14 align with any verifiable timeline of Egyptian dynasties and events if the dating is uncertain? </a> <a href="/q/when_was_exodus_written.htm">When was Exodus written?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/11.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(26) While Israel dwelt in Heshbon.--See <a href="/numbers/21-25.htm" title="And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.">Numbers 21:25</a>. This is an argument from undisputed possession.In Aroer and her towns.--These had been assigned to the tribe of Gad (<a href="/numbers/32-34.htm" title="And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,">Numbers 32:34</a>).In all the cities that be along by the coast of Arnon.--The LXX. read Jordan.Three hundred years.--There is an almost insuperable difficulty in making out any reasonable scheme of chronology even by accepting this as a round number, because it is difficult to reconcile with nine or ten genealogies which have been preserved to us, and which represent the period between the conquest and David by seven or eight generations. Now the period covered by these genealogies includes the judgeship of Samuel and the reign of Saul--at least seventy years; and seven or eight generations cannot possibly span 370 years. The hypothesis that in all these genealogies--even the four times repeated genealogy of David--generations are always omitted is very improbable. The chronology of the Jews is confessedly loose and uncertain, and it seems quite possible that "three hundred years" may be a marginal gloss which has crept into the text. What makes this more probable is that the words not only create an immense chronological difficulty, but (1) are quite needless to Jephthah's argument, and (2) actually conflict with the rest of the sentence, which refers to Balak alone; the argument being, If Balak, "at that time" (as the words should be rendered), did not advance any claim, what right have you to do so now? If, however, in spite of these difficulties, the clause be genuine, and if there has not been one of the clerical errors which are so common where numerals are concerned, it seems possible that 300 years may be counted inclusively, e.g., 100 full years since the death of Joshua and nominal completion of the conquest of Canaan, with parts of a century before and after it. Certainly this is a recognised mode of reckoning time among the Jews. For instance, if a king began to reign on December 30, 1879, and died on January 2, 1881, they would say that he had reigned three years. Whatever explanations we may adopt, there is nothing but conjecture to go upon. (See Introduction.)Within that time.--This is a mistranslation, due probably to the perplexity caused by the "three hundred years." The Hebrew has "in that time," i.e., at that crisis. It was obvious, without special mention, that they had remained in possession ever since Balak's day, and in the most ancient times it was admitted that lapse of time secured possession (Isocr. Ep. ad Aechid., p. 121; Tac. Ann. vi. 31).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/judges/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 26. - The occupation of the cities and villages referred to is related in <a href="/numbers/21-23.htm">Numbers 21:23</a> and following verses, and in <a href="/deuteronomy/2-36.htm">Deuteronomy 2:36</a>; see too <a href="/joshua/12-2.htm">Joshua 12:2</a>. Aroer is not mentioned among the cities of Moab taken by the Amorites in the ancient book quoted in <a href="/numbers/21-27.htm">Numbers 21:27</a>-80, and it has been conjectured that it may have been built by the Amorites to secure their new frontier. It is described by Eusebius and Jerome in the 'Onomasticon' as built on a hill overhanging the bank of the Amen, and a ruin called Arair has been foBy the coasts of Arnon, i.e. on the banks. The Septuagint for Arnon reads Jordan, which was the western boundary, as Arnon was the southern (ver. 22). The corresponding description in <a href="/deuteronomy/2-36.htm">Deuteronomy 2:36</a> is, From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead:, there was not owe city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us. Three hundred years. These words seem quite unintelligible and out of place. They are also chronologically impracticable. One expects the number of the cities, as in ver. 33, rather than the number of years; and it is remarkable that the whole number of cities taken by the Israelites on the east of Jordan must have been just about 300, since the half-tribe of Manasseh had sixty. If Gad and Reuben had the same proportion, it would be exactly 300 (5 × 60). Within that time. The Hebrew phrase, which occurs about seventy times, invariably means at that time, and here can only refer to the time of the first settlement in the days of Balak, of which he had been speaking - another proof that the enumeration three hundred years is out of place here. If the reading years is not, as above suggested, an error for cities, the whole sentence, three hundred years, may very probably be an interpolation by a professed chronologist. The adding up of all the numbers of the servitudes and rests given in the book gives 301 years from the commencement of the oppression by Chushan-rishathaim to the death of Jair. But this method of reckoning gives the impossible period of 600 years from the exodus to the building of the temple. <a href="/commentaries/judges/11-26.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>For three שְׁלֹ֥שׁ (šə·lōš) Number - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7969.htm">Strong's 7969: </a> Three, third, thrice hundred מֵא֖וֹת (mê·’ō·wṯ) Number - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3967.htm">Strong's 3967: </a> A hundred years שָׁנָ֑ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year Israel יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc has lived בְּשֶׁ֣בֶת (bə·še·ḇeṯ) Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry in Heshbon, בְּחֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן (bə·ḥeš·bō·wn) Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2809.htm">Strong's 2809: </a> Heshbon -- a place East of the Jordan Aroer, וּבְעַרְע֣וֹר (ū·ḇə·‘ar·‘ō·wr) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6177.htm">Strong's 6177: </a> Aroer -- three cities in Israel and their villages, וּבִבְנוֹתֶ֗יהָ (ū·ḇiḇ·nō·w·ṯe·hā) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> A daughter as well as all וּבְכָל־ (ū·ḇə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every the cities הֶֽעָרִים֙ (he·‘ā·rîm) Article | Noun - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5892.htm">Strong's 5892: </a> Excitement along עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against the banks יְדֵ֣י (yə·ḏê) Noun - fdc <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> A hand of the Arnon. אַרְנ֔וֹן (’ar·nō·wn) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_769.htm">Strong's 769: </a> Arnon -- 'a roaring stream', a wadi and stream in Moab Why וּמַדּ֥וּעַ (ū·mad·dū·a‘) Conjunctive waw | Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4069.htm">Strong's 4069: </a> Why? for what reason? did you not לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no take them back הִצַּלְתֶּ֖ם (hiṣ·ṣal·tem) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5337.htm">Strong's 5337: </a> To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver during that הַהִֽיא׃ (ha·hî) Article | Pronoun - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> He, self, the same, this, that, as, are time? בָּעֵ֥ת (bā·‘êṯ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6256.htm">Strong's 6256: </a> Time, now, when <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/judges/11-26.htm">Judges 11:26 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/judges/11-26.htm">OT History: Judges 11:26 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its (Jd Judg. 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