Judges 11:7

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But Jephthah said to them, 'Didn’t you hate me and drive me out of my father’s house? Why do you come to me now when you’re in trouble?'

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  • Gen 26:27 : 27 Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"
  • Gen 37:27 : 27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.
  • Gen 45:4-5 : 4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, 'Please come closer to me.' They came closer, and he said, 'I am Joseph, your brother, the one you sold into Egypt.' 5 Now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.
  • Prov 17:17 : 17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
  • Isa 60:14 : 14 The children of those who oppressed you will come and bow down before you; all who despised you will bow at your feet. They will call you the City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Acts 7:9-9 : 9 Because they were jealous of Joseph, the patriarchs sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him. 10 God rescued him from all his troubles, and He granted him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his household. 11 Then a famine came over the entire land of Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress, and our ancestors could not find food. 12 When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there for the first time. 13 On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh. 14 Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in total.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Look, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are not—they are liars—come and bow down before your feet, and they will know that I have loved you.

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  • Judg 11:8-15
    8 verses
    82%

    8The elders of Gilead replied, 'That is why we have now turned to you. Come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.'

    9Jephthah answered, 'If you bring me back to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gives them to me, will I really become your head?'

    10The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, 'The Lord is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.'

    11So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their head and commander. Jephthah repeated all his words before the Lord in Mizpah.

    12Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, asking, 'What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?'

    13The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, 'When Israel came out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and as far as the Jordan. Now return it peacefully.'

    14Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites,

    15Jephthah said to him, 'This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.'

  • Judg 11:1-6
    6 verses
    81%

    1Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was his father.

    2Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they grew up, they drove Jephthah away, saying, 'You will have no inheritance in our father's house because you are the son of another woman.'

    3So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob. Men who were worthless gathered around Jephthah and went out with him.

    4After some time, the Ammonites made war against Israel.

    5When the Ammonites fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

    6They said to Jephthah, 'Come and be our leader so we can fight against the Ammonites.'

  • Judg 12:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

    1The men of Ephraim were called together, crossed northward, and said to Jephthah, "Why did you go to fight against the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down on top of you in fire!"

    2Jephthah replied to them, "I and my people were in a serious struggle with the Ammonites. I called for your help, but you did not save me from their hands.

    3"When I saw that you would not help, I risked my own life and crossed over to fight against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why have you come to fight against me today?"

    4Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim because they had said, "You Gileadites are deserters from Ephraim and Manasseh."

    5The Gileadites seized the fords of the Jordan opposite Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim tried to cross over, they would say, "Let me cross over." The men of Gilead would respond, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No,"

  • Gen 26:27
    72%

    27Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"

  • Judg 8:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1The men of Ephraim said to Gideon, 'What is this thing you have done to us by not calling us when you went to fight against Midian?' And they argued with him forcefully.

    2But Gideon replied to them, 'What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren’t the gleanings of Ephraim’s harvest better than the full harvest of Abiezer?'

  • Judg 11:27-32
    6 verses
    71%

    27I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.

    28But the king of the Ammonites would not listen to the message Jephthah sent to him.

    29Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and he went on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.

    30And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord: 'If you give the Ammonites into my hands,

    31whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites will belong to the Lord, and I will offer it as a burnt offering.'

    32Then Jephthah crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into his hands.

  • Judg 11:35
    69%

    35When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, 'Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me to my knees and made me miserable, for I have made a vow to the Lord that I cannot break.'

  • Judg 6:13
    68%

    13Gideon said to him, 'Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about, saying, ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.'

  • Josh 22:15
    67%

    15When they came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead, they spoke to them, saying:

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    67%

    11'See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance.'

  • 1 Sam 11:3-5
    3 verses
    67%

    3The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days so we can send messengers throughout Israel. If no one comes to save us, we will surrender to you."

    4When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these matters to the people, they all wept loudly.

    5Just then, Saul was coming in from the field, following the oxen. He asked, "What is wrong with the people? Why are they all crying?" They told him what the men of Jabesh had said.

  • Judg 12:7
    67%

    7Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in the towns of Gilead.

  • 1 Sam 11:1
    67%

    1Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-Gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you."

  • 1 Sam 15:19
    66%

    19Why then did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush for the spoil and do what is evil in the eyes of the LORD?

  • Judg 15:10-11
    2 verses
    66%

    10The men of Judah asked, "Why have you come to attack us?" They replied, "We have come to tie up Samson and do to him as he has done to us."

    11Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Don’t you know that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?" He replied, "I only did to them what they did to me."

  • Josh 7:7
    66%

    7Joshua said, "Alas, Sovereign Lord, why did you bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

  • Judg 10:11
    66%

    11The LORD said to the Israelites, 'Did I not rescue you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, and the Philistines?

  • Judg 9:17
    66%

    17'because my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you from the hand of Midian—'

  • Deut 1:27
    66%

    27You grumbled in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, He brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.'

  • Josh 9:11
    66%

    11So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for the journey and go to meet them. Tell them: We are your servants; now make a treaty with us.’

  • Deut 9:28
    66%

    28Otherwise, the land from which you brought us out will say, "The LORD was not able to bring them into the land he promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to kill them in the wilderness."

  • Hos 9:15
    65%

    15All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
    65%

    11Then the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hand of your enemies on every side, so that you lived in safety.

  • Deut 22:16
    65%

    16The father shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, and now he has turned against her.'