1Then Gilead begate Iphtah, and Iphtah the Gileadite was a valiant man, but the sonne of an harlot.

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Hebrews 11:32, Hebrews 11:32, 2 Kings 5:1, Judges 6:12, 2 Kings 5:1

2And Gileads wife bare him sonnes, and when the womans children were come to age, they thrust out Iphtah, and sayd vnto him, Thou shalt not inherite in our fathers house: for thou art the sonne of a strange woman.

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Deuteronomy 23:2, Genesis 12:10, Proverbs 2:16, Deuteronomy 23:2, Genesis 12:10

3Then Iphtah fledde from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there gathered idle fellowes to Iphtah, and went out with him.

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Judges 9:4, Judges 9:4, 1 Samuel 22:2, 2 Samuel 10:8, Job 30:1

4And in processe of time the children of Ammon made warre with Israel.

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Judges 10:9, Judges 10:9

5And when the children of Ammon fought with Israel, the Elders of Gilead went to fet Iphtah out of the land of Tob.

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1 Samuel 11:12, 1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:29, Psalms 118:22, Psalms 118:23

6And they saide vnto Iphtah, Come and be our captaine, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

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7Iphtah then answered the Elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expell me out of my fathers house? how then come you vnto me now in time of your tribulation?

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Genesis 26:27, Genesis 26:27, Revelation 3:9, Revelation 3:9, Genesis 45:4

8Then the Elders of Gilead saide vnto Iphtah, Therefore we turne againe to thee now, that thou mayest goe with vs, and fight against the children of Ammon, and bee our head ouer all the inhabitants of Gilead.

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Judges 10:18, Judges 10:18, Exodus 10:17, Exodus 8:28, Exodus 8:8

9And Iphtah said vnto the Elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home againe to fight against the children of Ammon, if the Lord giue them before me, shall I be your head?

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Numbers 32:20, Numbers 32:29, Numbers 32:20, Numbers 32:29

10And the Elders of Gilead saide to Iphtah, The Lord be witnesse betweene vs, if we doe not according to thy wordes.

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Jeremiah 42:5, Jeremiah 42:5, Genesis 31:50, Genesis 31:50, Genesis 16:5

11Then Iphtah went with the Elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captaine ouer them: and Iphtah rehearsed all his wordes before the Lord in Mizpeh.

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1 Samuel 10:17, Judges 20:1, Judges 10:17, 1 Samuel 10:17, Judges 20:1

12Then Iphtah sent messengers vnto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to doe with me, that thou art come against me, to fight in my lande?

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Deuteronomy 2:26, Matthew 18:15, Matthew 18:16, Deuteronomy 2:26, Matthew 18:15

13And the King of the children of Ammon answered vnto the messengers of Iphtah, Because Israel tooke my lande, when they came vp from Egypt, from Arnon vnto Iabbok, and vnto Iorden: now therefore restore those lands quietly.

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Genesis 32:22, Genesis 32:22, Numbers 21:24, Numbers 21:26, Numbers 21:24

14Yet Iphtah sent messengers againe vnto the King of the children of Ammon,

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Romans 12:18, Psalms 120:7, 1 Peter 3:11, Hebrews 12:14, Romans 12:18

15And said vnto him, Thus saith Iphtah, Israel tooke not the lande of Moab, nor the lande of the children of Ammon.

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Deuteronomy 2:9, Deuteronomy 2:19, Deuteronomy 2:9, Deuteronomy 2:19, Numbers 21:27

16But when Israel came vp from Egypt, and walked through the wildernesse vnto the redde Sea, then they came to Kadesh.

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Numbers 14:25, Deuteronomy 1:40, Numbers 14:25, Deuteronomy 1:40, Numbers 20:1

17And Israel sent messengers vnto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, goe thorowe thy lande: but the King of Edom woulde not consent: and also they sent vnto the King of Moab, but he would not: therefore Israel abode in Kadesh.

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Numbers 20:14, Numbers 20:21, Numbers 20:1, Numbers 20:14, Numbers 20:21

18Then they went through the wildernesse, and compassed the lande of Edom, and the lande of Moab, and came by the Eastside of the lande of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, and came not within the coast of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.

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Deuteronomy 2:1, Deuteronomy 2:8, Deuteronomy 2:1, Deuteronomy 2:8, Numbers 33:37

19Also Israel sent messengers vnto Sihon, King of the Amorites, the King of Heshbon, and Israel said vnto him, Let vs passe, we pray thee, by thy lande vnto our place.

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Joshua 13:8, Joshua 13:12, Deuteronomy 2:26, Deuteronomy 2:36, Numbers 21:21

20But Sihon consented not to Israel, that he shoulde goe through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Iahaz, and fought with Israel.

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Joshua 13:15, Joshua 13:32, Psalms 136:17, Psalms 136:21, Nehemiah 9:22

21And the Lord God of Israel gaue Sihon and all his folke into the handes of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the lande of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that countrey:

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22And they possessed all the coast of the Amorites, from Arnon vnto Iabbok, and from the wildernesse euen vnto Iorden.

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Deuteronomy 2:36, Deuteronomy 2:36

23Nowe therefore the Lord God of Israel hath cast out the Amorites before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possesse it?

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24Wouldest not thou possesse that which Chemosh thy god giueth thee to possesse? So whomesoeuer the Lord our God driueth out before vs, them will we possesse.

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Numbers 21:29, Numbers 21:29, Micah 4:5, Psalms 78:55, 1 Kings 11:7

25And art thou nowe farre better then Balak the sonne of Zippor King of Moab? did he not striue with Israel and fight against them,

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Micah 6:5, Micah 6:5, Joshua 24:9, Joshua 24:10, Joshua 24:9

26When Israel dwelt in Heshbon and in her townes, and in Aroer and in her townes, and in all the cities that are by the coastes of Arnon, three hundreth yeeres? why did ye not then recouer them in that space?

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Deuteronomy 2:36, Deuteronomy 2:36, Judges 3:11, Deuteronomy 2:24, Numbers 21:25

27Wherefore, I haue not offended thee: but thou doest me wrong to warre against me. The Lord the Iudge be iudge this day betweene the children of Israel, and the children of Ammon.

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1 Samuel 24:15, 1 Samuel 24:12, Genesis 18:25, Genesis 16:5, 1 Samuel 24:15

28Howbeit the King of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the wordes of Iphtah, which he had sent him.

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2 Kings 14:11, 2 Kings 14:11, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 16:18

29Then the Spirite of the Lord came vpon Iphtah, and he passed ouer to Gilead and to Manasseh, and came to Mizpeh in Gilead, and from Mizpeh in Gilead he went vnto the children of Ammon.

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Numbers 11:25, Numbers 11:25, Judges 3:10, Judges 3:10, Judges 13:25

30And Iphtah vowed a vowe vnto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt deliuer the children of Ammon into mine handes,

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Genesis 28:20, Genesis 28:20, 1 Samuel 1:11, 1 Samuel 1:11, Ecclesiastes 5:4

31Then that thing that commeth out of the doores of mine house to meete me, when I come home in peace from the children of Ammon, shall be the Lordes, and I will offer it for a burnt offering.

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Psalms 66:13, Psalms 66:14, Psalms 66:13, Psalms 66:14, Isaiah 66:3

32And so Iphtah went vnto the children of Ammon to fight against them, and the Lord deliuered them into his handes.

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Judges 2:18, Judges 1:4, Judges 3:10, Judges 2:18, Judges 1:4

33And he smote them from Aroer euen till thou come to Minnith, twentie cities, and so foorth to Abel of the vineyardes, with an exceeding great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were humbled before the children of Israel.

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Ezekiel 27:17, Ezekiel 27:17, Deuteronomy 2:36, Deuteronomy 2:36

34Nowe when Iphtah came to Mizpeh vnto his house, beholde, his daughter came out to meete him with timbrels and daunces, which was his onely childe: he had none other sonne, nor daughter.

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Jeremiah 31:4, Exodus 15:20, Jeremiah 31:4, Exodus 15:20, Judges 11:11

35And when hee sawe her, hee rent his clothes, and saide, Alas my daughter, thou hast brought me lowe, and art of them that trouble me: for I haue opened my mouth vnto the Lord, and can not goe backe.

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Genesis 37:34, Genesis 37:35, Judges 21:1, Judges 21:7, Matthew 14:7

36And she said vnto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth vnto the Lord, doe with me as thou hast promised, seeing that the Lord hath auenged thee of thine enemies the children of Ammon.

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Romans 16:4, 2 Samuel 18:19, Philippians 2:30, Acts 21:13, Romans 16:4

37Also she saide vnto her father, Doe thus much for me: suffer me two moneths, that I may goe to the mountaines, and bewaile my virginitie, I and my fellowes.

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Luke 1:25, Luke 1:25, 1 Samuel 1:6, 1 Samuel 1:6

38And he sayde, Goe: and he sent her away two moneths: so she went with her companions, and lamented her virginitie vpon the moutaines.

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39And after the ende of two moneths, she turned againe vnto her father, who did with her according to his vowe which he had vowed, and she had knowen no man. and it was a custome in Israel:

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Judges 11:31, Judges 11:31, 1 Samuel 2:18, 1 Samuel 1:28, Leviticus 27:28

40The daughters of Israel went yere by yere to lament the daughter of Iphtah the Gileadite, foure dayes in a yeere.

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1 Kings 9:25, Judges 5:11, 1 Kings 9:25, Judges 5:11