Judges 11:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲלֹ֞א אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁ֧ר יוֹרִֽישְׁךָ֛ כְּמ֥וֹשׁ אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ אוֹת֥וֹ תִירָ֑שׁ וְאֵת֩ כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֨ר הוֹרִ֜ישׁ יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵ֛ינוּ מִפָּנֵ֖ינוּ אוֹת֥וֹ נִירָֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

hălōʾ ʾēt which yôrîšĕkā kĕmôš ʾĕlōhêkā it tîrāš and ʾēt all which hôrîš YHWH ʾĕlōhênû from pānênû it nîrāš

Grammar Details

*hălōʾ*: interrogative particle with negative particle - is it not
*ʾēt*: direct object marker
*yôrîšĕkā*: hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - he causes you to possess
*kĕmôš*: proper noun - Chemosh
*ʾĕlōhêkā*: noun masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your god
*tîrāš*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will possess
*hôrîš*: hiphil perfect 3rd singular masculine - he dispossessed
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*ʾĕlōhênû*: noun masculine plural construct with 1st person plural suffix - our God
*pānênû*: noun masculine plural construct with 1st person plural suffix with preposition min - from before us
*nîrāš*: qal imperfect 1st person plural - we will possess

Word Meanings

*yôrîšĕkā*: causes you to possess/gives you to inherit/lets you take
*tîrāš*: you will possess/you will inherit/you will take possession of
*hôrîš*: dispossessed/drove out/disinherited
*pānênû*: our presence/before us/our face
*nîrāš*: we will possess/we will inherit/we will take possession of

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Referenced Verses

Num 21:29 : 29 Woe to thee, Moab! Thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: He hath given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, Unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
1 Kgs 11:7 : 7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
Josh 3:10 : 10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
Deut 18:12 : 12 For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah: and because of these abominations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
Deut 9:4-5 : 4 Speak not thou in thy heart, after that Jehovah thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah doth drive them out from before thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Ps 44:2 : 2 Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.
Ps 78:55 : 55 He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Jer 48:7 : 7 For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Jer 48:46 : 46 Woe unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity.
Mic 4:5 : 5 For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Judg 11:21-23
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21And Jehovah, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
22And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.
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25And now art thou anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
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23then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
24Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.
Deut 11:31
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31For ye are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
Deut 12:29
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29When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;
Neh 9:24
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24So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Josh 23:5
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5And Jehovah your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Jehovah your God spake unto you.
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Deut 9:4-5
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4Speak not thou in thy heart, after that Jehovah thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah doth drive them out from before thee.
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Deut 2:31
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Deut 7:17
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Deut 4:38
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Deut 19:1
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1When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
Deut 31:3-5
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3Jehovah thy God, he will go over before thee; he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
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Deut 6:19
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Deut 7:1
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Deut 2:36
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Deut 2:19
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Josh 2:10
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10For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Deut 9:1
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1Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
Deut 11:8
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Josh 24:13
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Deut 3:7
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Deut 3:2
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Ezek 25:10
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10unto the children of the east, [to go] against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.