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Joshua 2

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¹ Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed and crushed you, you cried out to Me, and I rescued you from their hands.

² Yet you have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer rescue you.

³ Go, cry out to the gods you have chosen; let them rescue you in your time of distress."

⁴ The Israelites said to the LORD, "We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to You; only please rescue us this day."

⁵ So they removed the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.

⁶ Then the Ammonites were assembled together and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel assembled and camped at Mizpah.

⁷ The people, the leaders of Gilead (Israel) said to one another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

⁸ Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.

⁹ Gilead's wife bore him sons, and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, "You shall not have an inheritance in our father's house, because you are the son of another woman."

¹⁰ Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless and unprincipled men gathered around Jephthah, and went out [on raids] with him.

¹¹ Now it happened after a while that the Ammonites fought against Israel.

¹² When the Ammonites fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob;

¹³ and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, so that we may fight against the Ammonites."

¹⁴ But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me and drive me from the house of my father? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?"

¹⁵ The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "This is why we have turned to you now: that you may go with us and fight the Ammonites and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

¹⁶ So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you take me back [home] to fight against the Ammonites and the LORD gives them over to me, will I [really] become your head?"

¹⁷ The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD is[1] the witness between us; be assured that we will do as you have said."

¹⁸ So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah[2] repeated everything that he had promised before the LORD at Mizpah.

¹⁹ Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, "What is [the problem] between you and me, that you have come against me to fight in my land?"

²⁰ The Ammonites' king replied to the messengers of Jephthah, "It is because Israel took away[3] my land when they came up from Egypt, from the [river] Arnon as far as the Jabbok and [east of] the Jordan; so now, return those lands peaceably."

²¹ But Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites,

²² and they said to him, "This is what Jephthah says: 'Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.

²³ For when they came up from Egypt, Israel walked through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;

²⁴ then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, "Please let us pass through your land," but the king of Edom would not listen. Also they sent word to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

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1	Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed and crushed you, you cried out to Me, and I rescued you from their hands.
2	Yet you have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer rescue you.
3	Go, cry out to the gods you have chosen; let them rescue you in your time of distress."
4	The Israelites said to the LORD, "We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to You; only please rescue us this day."
5	So they removed the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.
6	Then the Ammonites were assembled together and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel assembled and camped at Mizpah.
7	The people, the leaders of Gilead (Israel) said to one another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
8	Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.
9	Gilead's wife bore him sons, and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, "You shall not have an inheritance in our father's house, because you are the son of another woman."
10	Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless and unprincipled men gathered around Jephthah, and went out [on raids] with him.
11	Now it happened after a while that the Ammonites fought against Israel.
12	When the Ammonites fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob;
13	and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, so that we may fight against the Ammonites."
14	But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me and drive me from the house of my father? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?"
15	The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "This is why we have turned to you now: that you may go with us and fight the Ammonites and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
16	So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you take me back [home] to fight against the Ammonites and the LORD gives them over to me, will I [really] become your head?"
17	The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD is[1] the witness between us; be assured that we will do as you have said."
18	So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah[2] repeated everything that he had promised before the LORD at Mizpah.
19	Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, "What is [the problem] between you and me, that you have come against me to fight in my land?"
20	The Ammonites' king replied to the messengers of Jephthah, "It is because Israel took away[3] my land when they came up from Egypt, from the [river] Arnon as far as the Jabbok and [east of] the Jordan; so now, return those lands peaceably."
21	But Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites,
22	and they said to him, "This is what Jephthah says: 'Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.
23	For when they came up from Egypt, Israel walked through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;
24	then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, "Please let us pass through your land," but the king of Edom would not listen. Also they sent word to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

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