Judges 11:2

American Standard Version (1901)

And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another woman.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 12:10 : 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.
  • Deut 23:2 : 2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
  • Prov 5:20 : 20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
  • Prov 6:24-26 : 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue. 25 Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26 For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
  • Gal 4:30 : 30 Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 11:1
    86%

    1Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

  • Judg 11:3-15
    13 verses
    78%

    3Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.

    4And it came to pass after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

    5And it was so, that, when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob;

    6and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

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

    8And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and thou shalt be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

    9And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Jehovah deliver them before me, shall I be your head?

    10And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Jehovah shall be witness between us; surely according to thy word so will we do.

    11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spake all his words before Jehovah in Mizpah.

    12And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?

    13And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.

    14And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon;

    15and he said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,

  • Judg 12:1-5
    5 verses
    75%

    1And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire.

    2And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye saved me not out of their hand.

    3And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

    4Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh.

    5And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

  • Judg 11:34-35
    2 verses
    72%

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

    35And 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 unto Jehovah, and I cannot go back.

  • Judg 11:28-32
    5 verses
    72%

    28Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

    29Then the Spirit of Jehovah came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

    30And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

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

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

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.

    7And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.

  • Judg 11:39-40
    2 verses
    70%

    39And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew not man. And it was a custom in Israel, [

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

  • Judg 8:30
    69%

    30And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.

  • 1 Chr 7:14
    69%

    14The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bare: she bare Machir the father of Gilead:

  • Judg 12:7
    69%

    7And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

  • Ezek 16:45
    69%

    45Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Hos 1:3
    69%

    3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him a son.

  • Isa 57:3
    68%

    3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

  • Ezra 10:44
    68%

    44All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • Mal 2:11
    68%

    11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Jer 16:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

    3For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land:

  • Deut 21:15
    68%

    15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;

  • Exod 18:2
    68%

    2And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

  • Josh 17:6
    67%

    6because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged unto the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

  • Judg 14:3
    67%

    3Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

  • Judg 10:4
    67%

    4And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

  • Gen 24:38
    67%

    38but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.