Judges 11:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

And 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?

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  • Gen 26:27 : 27 And Isaac said to them, Why do you come to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?
  • Gen 37:27 : 27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers were content.
  • Gen 45:4-5 : 4 And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 Now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
  • Prov 17:17 : 17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
  • Isa 60:14 : 14 Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet, and they shall call you, The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Acts 7:9-9 : 9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him, 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 11 Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance. 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. 13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers; and Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh. 14 Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

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  • Judg 11:8-15
    8 verses
    82%

    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 11:1-6
    6 verses
    81%

    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.

    5And 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:

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

  • Judg 12:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

    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;

  • Gen 26:27
    72%

    27And Isaac said to them, Why do you come to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?

  • Judg 8:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you treated us this way, that you did not call us when you went to fight with the Midianites? And they argued with him sharply.

    2And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison to you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

  • Judg 11:27-32
    6 verses
    71%

    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 11:35
    69%

    35And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me: for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot go back.

  • Judg 6:13
    68%

    13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now the LORD has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

  • Josh 22:15
    67%

    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,

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    67%

    11See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

  • 1 Sam 11:3-5
    3 verses
    67%

    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."

    4Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and told the news in the ears of the people, and all the people lifted up their voices and wept.

    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.

  • Judg 12:7
    67%

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

  • 1 Sam 11:1
    67%

    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."

  • 1 Sam 15:19
    66%

    19Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but flew upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?

  • Judg 15:10-11
    2 verses
    66%

    10The men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? They answered, We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.

    11Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam and said to Samson, Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us? He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

  • Josh 7:7
    66%

    7And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of Jordan!

  • Judg 10:11
    66%

    11And the LORD said to the children of Israel, Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

  • Judg 9:17
    66%

    17(For my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian,

  • Deut 1:27
    66%

    27And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  • Josh 9:11
    66%

    11Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make a treaty with us.

  • Deut 9:28
    66%

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

  • Hos 9:15
    65%

    15All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
    65%

    11And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you dwelled safe.

  • Deut 22:16
    65%

    16And the young woman's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he hates her;