Jephthah

Hebrews vowed a vow to God and said If thou wilt indeed deliver this People into my hand

then I will utterly destroy their cities.

God hearkened to the voice of Hebrews and delivered up the enemy and

they utterly destroyed them and their cities and he called the name of the place Hormah.

In process of time that the Children of Ammon made war against Hebrews.

When Children of Ammon made war against Israel the elders of Gilead

went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

They said to Jephthah Come and be our Captain that we may fight with

the Children of Ammon.

Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead Did not ye hate me and

Expel me out of my father's house? Why are ye come to me now when ye are in distress?

Elders of Gilead said to Jephthah Therefore we turn again to thee now

that thou mayest go with us and fight against the Children of Ammon and

be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead If ye bring me home again to fight

against the Children of Ammon and God deliver them before me shall I be your head?

The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah God be witness between us if we do not so

according to thy words.

Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead the People made him head and captain

over them and Jephthah uttered all his words before God in Mizpeh.

Jephthah sent messengers to the King of the Children of Ammon saying

What hast thou to do with me that thou art come against me to fight in my land?

The King of the Children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah

Because Hebrews took away my land when they came up out of Egypt

From Arnon even to Jabbok and to Jordan.

Now therefore restore those lands again Peaceably.

Jephthah sent messengers again to the King of the Children of Ammon:

Said to him Thus saith Jephthah Israel took not away the land of Moab

nor the land of the Children of Ammon:

When Hebrews came up from Egypt and walked through the wilderness

to the Red sea and came to Kadesh.

Then Israel sent messengers to the King of Edom saying

Let me I pray thee pass through thy land the King of Edom would not hearken thereto.

In like manner they sent to the King of Moab

He would not consent an Hebrew abode in Kadesh.

They went along through the wilderness and compassed land of Edom and

Land of Moab and came by east side of The Land of Moab and

pitched on other side of Arnon but came not within border of Moab

for Amrnon was border of Moab.

Hebrews sent messengers to Sihon King of Amorites the King of Heshbon and

Israel said to him Let us pass we pray thee through thy land into my place.

Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: Sihon gathered all his People together .. and pitched in Jahaz and fought against Hebrews.

God delivered Sihon and all his People into the hand of Hebrews and they smote them so Hebrews possessed all the Land of the Amorites inhabitants of that country.

They possessed all the coasts of Amorites from Arnon even to Jabbok and from the wilderness even to Jordan.

So now God of Hebrews hath dispossessed Amorites from before his People

Hebrews and shouldest thou possess it?

Wilt not thou possess that Chemosh thy God giveth thee to possess?

So whomsoever God shall drive out from before us them will we possess.

Now art thou any thing better than Balak son of Zippor.

Sihon King of Heshbon would not let us pass by him

for thy God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate that he might deliver him

into thy hand as appeareth this day.

God said to me Behold I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee

begin to possess that thou mayest inherit his land.

Sihon Came Out Against Us - he and all his People to fight at Jahaz.

God Delivered Him Before Us - and we smote him and his sons and all his People.

We Took All His Cities - at that time and utterly destroyed

Men and Women - and little ones of every City we left none to remain.

Only Cattle We Took - for a prey to ourselves and spoil of the Cities we took.

From Aroe That Is By Brink - of the River of Arnon and from the City that is by the river

Even To Gilead - there was not one City too strong for us God delivered all to us.

Only To The Land - of Children of Ammon thou camest not

Nor To Any Place - of the River Jabbok

Nor To The Cities In The Mountains - nor to whatsoever God forbad us.

Children of Ammon were subdued before Children of Hebrews -

God be the Judge - be judge this day between Children of Hebrews and Children of Ammon.

Howbeit King of Children of Ammon hearkened not to words of Jephthah that he sent him.

Spirit of God came upon Jephthah he passed over Gilead Manasseh and

passed over Mizpeh of Gilead from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to Children of Ammon.

Jephthah vowed a vow to God and said.

If thou shalt without fail deliver - Children of Ammon into mine hands.

Jephthah passed over - to Children of Ammon to fight against them

God delivered them into his hands.

He Smote Them From Aroer - even till thou come to Minnith

Even Twenty Cities - to The Plain of The Vineyards with a very great slaughter.

Jephthah came to Mizpeh to his house and behold his daughter came out to meet him

With Timbrels and With Dances - she was his only child

Beside Her He Had Neither - son nor daughter.

Kings Daughter

Kings Daughter - It came to pass when he saw her that he rent his clothes and said Alas my daughter! thou hast brought me very low and thou art one of them that trouble me for I have opened my mouth to God and I cannot go back. She said to him My father if thou hast opened thy mouth to God do to me according to that hath proceeded out of thy mouth forasmuch as God hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies even of the Children of Ammon. She said to her father Let this thing be done for me let me alone two months that I may go up and down upon the mountains and bewail my virginity I and my fellows. He said Go and he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. It came to pass at end of two months that she returned to her father who did with her according to his vow he had vowed and she knew no Man. It was a custom in Hebrews that the daughters of Hebrews went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

When he saw her that he rent his clothes - and said Alas my daughter! thou hast brought me very low and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth to God and I cannot go back.

She said to him - My father if thou hast opened thy mouth to God do to me according to that that hath proceeded out of thy mouth for as much as God hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies even of the Children of gods.

She said to her father Let this thing be done - for me let me alone two months that I may go up and down upon the mountains and bewail my virginity I and my fellows. He said Go and he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. It came to pass at end of two months that she returned to her father who did with her according to his vow he had vowed and she knew no Man. It was a custom in Hebrews that the daughters of Hebrews went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Jephthah Came to Mizpeh - to His House - and

Behold His Daughter - came out to meet him

With Timbrels - and with dances and

She Was His Only Child - beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

When I return in Peace - from the Children of gods.

Shall Surely Be God's - and I will offer it up offering.

So Jephthah Passed Over - to The Children of Ammon

To Fight Against Them - God delivered them into his hands.

Howbeit The King of The Children of gods.

Hearkened Not - to the words of Jephthah that he sent him.

Then The Spirit of God - came upon Jephthah.

He Passed Over Gilead - and Manasseh and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead and

From Mizpeh of Gilead - he passed over to The Children of gods.

Jephthah Vowed A Vow To God - and said.

If Thou Shalt Without Fail Deliver - the Children of gods into mine hands.