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Judges 11:15-23
King James Version
Judges 11:15-23
King James Version
15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
17 Then 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.
18 Then 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.
19 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.
20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
21 And 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.
22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
23 So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
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Judges 11:15-23
New International Version
Judges 11:15-23
New International Version
15 saying:
“This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab(A) or the land of the Ammonites.(B) 16 But when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea[a](C) and on to Kadesh.(D) 17 Then Israel sent messengers(E) to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Give us permission to go through your country,’(F) but the king of Edom would not listen. They sent also to the king of Moab,(G) and he refused.(H) So Israel stayed at Kadesh.
18 “Next they traveled through the wilderness, skirted the lands of Edom(I) and Moab, passed along the eastern side(J) of the country of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon.(K) They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was its border.
19 “Then Israel sent messengers(L) to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon,(M) and said to him, ‘Let us pass through your country to our own place.’(N) 20 Sihon, however, did not trust Israel[b] to pass through his territory. He mustered all his troops and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.(O)
21 “Then the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and his whole army into Israel’s hands, and they defeated them. Israel took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country, 22 capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan.(P)
23 “Now since the Lord, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over?
Footnotes
- Judges 11:16 Or the Sea of Reeds
- Judges 11:20 Or however, would not make an agreement for Israel
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