Judges 11:1

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 11:32 : 32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;
  • Judg 6:12 : 12 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, "Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!"
  • 2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper.

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  • Judg 11:2-12
    11 verses
    86%

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

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

    4It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

    5It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;

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

    7Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Didn't you hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?"

    8The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

    9Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?"

    10The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do."

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

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

  • Judg 11:28-32
    5 verses
    74%

    28However the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

    29Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.

    30Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, "If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

    31then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering."

    32So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.

  • Judg 12:1-5
    5 verses
    72%

    1The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, "Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!"

    2Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't save me out of their hand.

    3When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh 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 are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh."

    5The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No;"

  • Hos 1:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh."

    3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

    4Yahweh said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

  • Judg 11:34-35
    2 verses
    71%

    34Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

    35It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can't go back."

  • Judg 12:7
    70%

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

  • Judg 11:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;

    15and he said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,

  • 1 Chr 7:14
    68%

    14The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead:

  • Judg 11:39-40
    2 verses
    68%

    39It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,

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

  • Gen 19:37
    67%

    37The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

  • Judg 10:4
    67%

    4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

  • Num 26:29-30
    2 verses
    66%

    29The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

    30These are the sons of Gilead: [of] Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;

  • 1 Chr 2:46
    66%

    46Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.

  • Matt 1:6
    66%

    6Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.

  • Judg 8:30
    66%

    30Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.

  • 1 Chr 2:12
    66%

    12and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;

  • Isa 57:3
    66%

    3"But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.

  • 1 Chr 2:22
    66%

    22Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

  • 1 Chr 2:17
    66%

    17Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

  • 1 Chr 4:14
    66%

    14Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.

  • Judg 19:1
    65%

    1It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

  • Matt 1:2
    65%

    2Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

  • Judg 13:2
    65%

    2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.

  • Matt 1:11
    65%

    11Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon.