Judges 11:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Judg 1:4 : 4 And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek.
  • Judg 2:18 : 18 And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.
  • Judg 3:10 : 10 And the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord gave up Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hands and he overcame him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 11:27-31
    5 verses
    88%

    27So I have done no wrong against you, but you are doing wrong to me in fighting against me: may the Lord, who is Judge this day, be judge between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

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

    29Then 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.

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

    31Then 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.

  • Judg 12:1-4
    4 verses
    83%

    1Now 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.

    2And 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.

    3So 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?

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

  • Judg 11:1-6
    6 verses
    81%

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

    2And 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.

    3So 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.

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

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

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

  • Judg 11:8-15
    8 verses
    80%

    8And 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.

    9Then 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?

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

    11So 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.

    12Then 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?

    13And 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.

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

    15And 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 11:33-36
    4 verses
    80%

    33And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as Abel-cheramim, and put great numbers to the sword. So the children of Ammon were crushed before the children of Israel.

    34Then 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.

    35And 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.

    36And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon.

  • Judg 10:9
    76%

    9And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.

  • Josh 11:8
    75%

    8And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely.

  • Num 21:24
    73%

    24But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed.

  • 2 Chr 13:16
    73%

    16And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.

  • Judg 11:21
    73%

    21And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them; so all the land of the Amorites, the people of that land, became Israel's.

  • Judg 3:28
    73%

    28And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.

  • Josh 24:11
    73%

    11Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.

  • Judg 10:17
    73%

    17Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.

  • Judg 10:11
    73%

    11And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines

  • Judg 12:7
    72%

    7Now 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.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    72%

    48And he did great things, and overcame the Amalekites, and made Israel safe from the hands of their attackers.

  • Deut 2:33
    72%

    33And the Lord our God gave him into our hands; and we overcame him and his sons and all his people.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
    72%

    11So the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and took you out of the power of those who were fighting against you on every side, and made you safe.

  • Exod 17:8
    72%

    8Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.

  • Deut 31:4
    72%

    4The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.

  • 1 Sam 11:1
    72%

    1Then about a month after this, Nahash the Ammonite came up and put his forces in position for attacking Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make an agreement with us and we will be your servants.

  • Judg 6:33
    71%

    33Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.

  • Exod 17:13
    71%

    13And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.