Judges 11:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And it happened, when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

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  • Judg 10:9 : 9 Moreover, the children of Ammon crossed over Jordan to fight against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was greatly distressed.
  • Judg 10:17-18 : 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah. 18 And the people and leaders of Gilead said to one another, Who is the man that will begin the fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
  • 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he held his peace.
  • 1 Sam 11:6-7 : 6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was greatly kindled. 7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the territories of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, "Whosoever does not come after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen." And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
  • 1 Sam 11:12 : 12 And the people said to Samuel, "Who is he that said, 'Shall Saul reign over us?' bring the men, that we may put them to death."
  • Ps 118:22-23 : 22 The stone which the builders refused has become the chief cornerstone. 23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
  • Acts 7:35-39 : 35 This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 He brought them out, after he showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. 37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up for you from your brethren, like me; him you shall hear. 38 This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us: 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
  • 1 Cor 1:27-29 : 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

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  • Judg 11:1-4
    4 verses
    85%

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

    2And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of a strange woman.

    3Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

    4And it came to pass, in the process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

  • Judg 11:6-15
    10 verses
    84%

    6And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

    7And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did you not hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?

    8And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore we return to you now, that you may go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

    9And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivers them before me, shall I be your head?

    10And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not do according to your words.

    11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.

    12And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that you have come against me to fight in my land?

    13And the king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and to Jordan: now therefore restore those lands peacefully.

    14And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon:

    15And said to him, Thus says Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

  • Judg 11:27-32
    6 verses
    81%

    27Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do wrong to war against me: let the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

    28However, the king of the children of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

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

    30And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

    31Then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

    32So Jephthah advanced towards the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

  • Judg 12:1-5
    5 verses
    79%

    1And the men of Ephraim gathered together, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.

    2And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you did not deliver me out of their hands.

    3And when I saw that you did not deliver me, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: why then have you come up to 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 struck Ephraim, because they said, You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

    5And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it happened, that when those Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No;

  • Judg 10:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.

    18And the people and leaders of Gilead said to one another, Who is the man that will begin the fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

  • Judg 10:9
    74%

    9Moreover, the children of Ammon crossed over Jordan to fight against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was greatly distressed.

  • 1 Sam 11:1
    73%

    1Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you."

  • Judg 20:14
    71%

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

  • Judg 12:7
    71%

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

  • Josh 11:1
    71%

    1And it happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

  • Josh 22:12
    71%

    12And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh to go up to war against them.

  • Judg 6:3
    71%

    3And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

  • 2 Chr 20:1
    70%

    1It happened after this that the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them others besides the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

  • Judg 6:33
    70%

    33Then all the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east gathered together, went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.

  • 1 Sam 11:3
    70%

    3And the elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers throughout all the territory of Israel, and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you."

  • Judg 11:40
    70%

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

  • Josh 22:15
    70%

    15And they came to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and spoke with them, saying,

  • Josh 10:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4Come up to me and help me, so that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.

    5Therefore the five kings of the Amorites—the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon—gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped before Gibeon and made war against it.

  • 2 Sam 10:6
    70%

    6And when the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.

  • Judg 1:1
    69%

    1Now after the death of Joshua, it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

  • 1 Sam 11:5
    69%

    5And behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field, and Saul said, "What troubles the people, that they weep?" And they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.

  • 1 Chr 19:15
    69%

    15And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 10:8
    69%

    8And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

  • 1 Sam 7:7
    69%

    7And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.