1Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute. And Gilead became the father of Jephthah.

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

2Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman."

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

3Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they 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

4It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

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Judges 10:9, Judges 10:9

5It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah 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 said to Jephthah, "Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon."

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7Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? And why have you come to me now when you are in distress?"

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

8The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

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

9Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivers them before me, shall I be your head?"

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

10The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The Lord shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do."

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

11Then 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 Lord in Mizpah.

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

12Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, "What have you to do with me, that you are come to me to fight against my land?"

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

13The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore it peaceably."

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

14Jephthah sent messengers again to 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 he said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: 'Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land 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 they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

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

17then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let me pass through your land.' But the king of Edom did not listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not. So Israel stayed 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 wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they did not come within the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

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

19Israel 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 land.'

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

20But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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

21The Lord, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

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22They possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.

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Deuteronomy 2:36, Deuteronomy 2:36

23So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?

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24Won't you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the Lord our God has driven out from before us, we will possess.

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

25And now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

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

26While 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 recover them within that time?

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

27I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong by making war against me. The Lord, the Judge, be judge this day between 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

28However the king of the children of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

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

29Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.

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

30Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, "If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

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

31then it shall be that whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering."

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

32So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hand.

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

33He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

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

34Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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

35It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the Lord, and I can't break it."

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

36She said to him, "My father, since you have given your word to the Lord; do to me as you promised, because the Lord has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon."

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

37She said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and weep because of my virginity, I and my companions."

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

38He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and wept because of her virginity on the mountains.

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39It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to what he had vowed. And she was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel,

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

40that the daughters of Israel went yearly four days in a year to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

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