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And Gilead was the father of Jephthah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>Gileads wife bore him sons; and when his wifes sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, You shall not have an inheritance in our fathers house, for you are the son of another woman. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows gathered themselves about Jephthah, and they went out with him.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>It came about after a while that the sons of Ammon fought against Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>When the sons of Ammon fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief that we may fight against the sons of Ammon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did you not hate me and drive me from my fathers house? So why have you come to me now when you are in trouble? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, For this reason we have now returned to you, that you may go with us and fight with the sons of Ammon and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you take me back to fight against the sons of Ammon and the L<font size="1">ORD</font> gives them up to me, will I become your head? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The L<font size="1">ORD</font> is witness between us; surely we will do as you have said. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> at Mizpah.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, What is between you and me, that you have come to me to fight against my land? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>The king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land when they came up from Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and the Jordan; therefore, return them peaceably now. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>But Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the sons of Ammon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>and they said to him, Thus says Jephthah, Israel did not take away the land of Moab nor the land of the sons of Ammon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>For when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let us pass through your land, but the king of Edom would not listen. And they also sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Then they went through the wilderness and around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon <i>was</i> the border of Moab. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>And 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 our place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people and camped in Jahaz and fought with Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>So they possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Since now the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites from before His people Israel, are you then to possess it? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whatever the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God has driven out before us, we will possess it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive with Israel, or did he ever fight against them? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me; may the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>But the king of the sons of Ammon disregarded the message which Jephthah sent him.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Jephthahs Tragic Vow</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Now the Spirit of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came upon Jephthah, so that he passed through Gilead and Manasseh; then he passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he went on to the sons of Ammon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Jephthah made a vow to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> and said, If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall be the L<font size="1">ORD</font><font size="1">S,</font> and I will offer it up as a burnt offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>So Jephthah crossed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them; and the L<font size="1">ORD</font> gave them into his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>He struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one <i>and</i> only child; besides her he had no son or daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and I cannot take <i>it</i> back. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>So she said to him, My father, you have given your word to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>; do to me as you have said, since the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has avenged you of your enemies, the sons of Ammon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity, I and my companions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/11-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>Then he said, Go. 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