Judges 11:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 12:10 : 10 And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.
  • Deut 23:2 : 2 One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
  • Prov 5:20 : 20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
  • Prov 6:24-26 : 24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman. 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner. 26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
  • Gal 4:30 : 30 What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 11:1
    86%

    1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.

  • Judg 11:3-15
    13 verses
    78%

    3 So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of good-for-nothing men, joining Jephthah, went out with him on his undertakings.

    4 Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

    5 And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;

    6 And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.

    7 But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?

    8 And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead.

    9 Then Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, If you take me back to make war against the children of Ammon, and if with the help of the Lord I overcome them, will you make me your head?

    10 And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.

    11 So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah said all these things before the Lord in Mizpah.

    12 Then Jephthah sent men to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you against me that you have come to make war against my land?

    13 And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.

    14 And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon,

    15 And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the children of Ammon;

  • Judg 12:1-5
    5 verses
    75%

    1 Now the men of Ephraim came together and took up arms and went over to Zaphon; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you go over to make war against the children of Ammon without sending for us to go with you? Now we will put your house on fire over you.

    2 And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in danger, and the children of Ammon were very cruel to us, and when I sent for you, you gave me no help against them.

    3 So when I saw that there was no help to be had from you, I put my life in my hand and went over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hands: why then have you come up to me this day to make war on me?

    4 Then Jephthah got together all the men of Gilead and made war on Ephraim; and the men of Gilead overcame Ephraim.

    5 And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites; and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over; the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No;

  • Judg 11:34-35
    2 verses
    72%

    34 Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.

    35 And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow, and it is you who are the chief cause of my trouble; for I have made an oath to the Lord and I may not take it back.

  • Judg 11:28-32
    5 verses
    72%

    28 The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him.

    29 Then the spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he went through Gilead and Manasseh, and came to Mizpeh of Gilead; and from Mizpeh of Gilead he went over to the children of Ammon.

    30 And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands,

    31 Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering.

    32 So Jephthah went over to the children of Ammon to make war on them; and the Lord gave them into his hands.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    70%

    6 And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.

    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

  • Judg 11:39-40
    2 verses
    70%

    39 And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,

    40 For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.

  • Judg 8:30
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    30 Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

  • 1 Chr 7:14
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    14 The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;

  • Judg 12:7
    69%

    7 Now Jephthah was judge of Israel for six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in his town, Mizpeh of Gilead.

  • Ezek 16:45
    69%

    45 You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

  • Hos 1:3
    69%

    3 So he took as his wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she gave birth to a son.

  • Isa 57:3
    68%

    3 But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

  • Ezra 10:44
    68%

    44 All these had taken strange wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had offspring.

  • Mal 2:11
    68%

    11 Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.

  • Jer 16:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

    3 For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

  • Deut 21:15
    68%

    15 If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

  • Exod 18:2
    68%

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

  • Josh 17:6
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    6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had a heritage among his sons, and the land of Gilead was the property of the other sons of Manasseh.

  • Judg 14:3
    67%

    3 Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me.

  • Judg 10:4
    67%

    4 And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.

  • Gen 24:38
    67%

    38 But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.