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11:1Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. And he was the son of a harlot, and Gilead had begotten Jephthah. Compare
11:2And Gilead's wife bore him sons. And when the woman's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, You shall not have an inheritance in the house of our father, for you are the son of some other woman. Compare
11:3So Jephthah fled from his brothers and dwelt in the land of Tob. And worthless men collected around Jephthah, and they went out with him. Compare
11:4And after some time the children of Ammon fought with Israel. Compare
11:5And when the children of Ammon fought with Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob. Compare
11:6And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, and we will fight against the children of Ammon. Compare
11:7And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Are you not the ones who hated me and drove me out from the house of my father? Why then do you come to me now that you are in distress? Compare
11:8And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, This is the reason we have turned now to you, that you would come with us and fight against the children of Ammon and be for us the head of all the inhabitants of Gilead. Compare
11:9And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you are bringing me back to fight against the children of Ammon and Jehovah delivers them up before me, will I be your head? Compare
11:10And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Let Jehovah be a Witness between us: As you have spoken, so shall we surely do. Compare
11:11So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before Jehovah in Mizpah. Compare
11:12And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What is there between me and you, that you have come to me to fight against my land? Compare
11:13And the king of the children of Ammon said to Jephthah's messengers, Because Israel took my land when they came up from Egypt, from the Arnon as far as Jabbok and the Jordan. Now therefore restore it peacefully. Compare
11:14And Jephthah yet again sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon. Compare
11:15And he said to him, Thus says Jephthah, Israel did not take the land of Moab nor the land of the children of Ammon. Compare
11:16But when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh, Compare
11:17Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, May we please pass through your land? But the king of Edom would not hear of it. And they also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he would not allow it. So Israel remained in Kadesh. Compare
11:18And they went through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab; and they went to the east of the land of Moab and encamped beyond the Arnon. Thus they did not go through the territory of Moab, for the Arnon is the border of Moab. Compare
11:19Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon the king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, May we please pass through your land to our place? Compare
11:20But Sihon did not trust Israel to cross through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped in Jahaz; and he fought with Israel. Compare
11:21And Jehovah the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. And Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that land. Compare
11:22And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan. Compare
11:23So now Jehovah the God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites for the sake of His people Israel. Should you then dispossess them? Compare
11:24Will you not take possession of that which Chemosh your god has dispossessed for you? Thus we will take possession of all that Jehovah our God dispossesses for our sake. Compare
11:25And now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab? Did he ever strive with Israel, or did he ever fight against them? Compare
11:26While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time? Compare
11:27So I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong in fighting against me. Jehovah the Judge will judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. Compare
11:28But the king of the children of Ammon would not listen to the words of Jephthah, which he sent him. Compare
11:29And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon Jephthah. And he passed through Gilead and through Manasseh; and he passed on to Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed on to the children of Ammon. Compare
11:30And Jephthah made a vow to Jehovah, and he said, If You will really deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, Compare
11:31Whoever comes out through the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon will be Jehovah's, and I will offer him up as a burnt offering. Compare
11:32And Jephthah passed on to the children of Ammon to fight against them, and Jehovah delivered them into his hand. Compare
11:33And he struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, twenty cities, and to Abel-keramim, with a very great stroke. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. Compare
11:34Then Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, and there came his daughter out to meet him, with timbrels and with dances. Now she was an only child; he had no son or daughter besides her. Compare
11:35And when he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, Ah, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me. For I have opened my mouth to Jehovah, and I cannot retract it. Compare
11:36And she said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Jehovah; do with me according to what has gone forth from your mouth, seeing that Jehovah has executed vengeance for you on your enemies, on the children of Ammon. Compare
11:37And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: Let me be alone for two months that I may depart and descend upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions. Compare
11:38And he said, Go; and he sent her away for two months. And she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. Compare
11:39And at the end of two months she returned to her father, and he did with her according to the vow that he had vowed; and she had never known a man. And it became a custom in Israel Compare
11:40That each year the daughters of Israel would go to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in the year. Compare

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