The Koine Bible

And Jephthah the Gileadite was a man of power, and he himself was the son of a harlot woman, who bore Jephthah to Gilead.

And the wife of Gilead bore him sons, and the sons of the wife grew strong, and they drove out Jephthah and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father’s house, because you are the son of a woman who is a prostitute.

And Jephthah fled from before his brothers, and he dwelt in the land of Tob, and empty men gathered themselves to Jephthah and went out with him

And it came to pass, when the sons of Ammon set themselves in array against Israel, that the elders of Gilead went to take Jephthah from the land of Tob

And they said to Jephthah, Come, and you shall be for us as leader, and let us draw up in battle line against the sons of Ammon.

And Jephthae said to the elders of Gilead, Did not you hate me and drive me out from my father’s house and send me away from you? And why have you come to me now, when you are in need?

And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, For this reason now we have turned back to you, and you shall go with us and fight against the sons of Ammon, and you shall be for us as ruler for all those dwelling in Gilead.

And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you turn me back to fight with the sons of Ammon, and the Lord gives them before me, then I will be to you as ruler

And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us if not according to your word so we will do.

And Jephthae went with the elders of Gilead, and the people appointed him over them as head and as leader, and Jephthae spoke all his words before the Lord in Mizpah.

And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, What is there to me and to you, that you have come against me to draw up in battle in my land?

And the king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, For Israel took my land when he came up out of Egypt, from Arnon and as far as Jabbok and as far as the Jordan; and now return them in peace, and I will go.

And Jephthah again added and sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon

And he said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take the land of Moab and the land of the sons of Ammon.

For when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Sea of Siph and came to Kadesh

And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, I will pass through now in your land; and the king of Edom did not listen. And he sent to the king of Moab also, and he did not consent. And Israel stayed in Kadesh.

And it went in the wilderness and it encircled the land of Edom and the land of Moab and it came from the rising of the sun to the land of Moab, and they encamped beyond Arnon, and it did not enter within the borders of Moab, because Arnon is the border of Moab

And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorrite, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, Let us pass through your land, indeed, as far as our place.

And Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his border, and Sihon gathered all his people, and they encamped at Jasa and drew up in battle array against Israel.

And the Lord God of Israel gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and he struck him, and Israel inherited all the land of the Amorite who was dwelling in that land.

from Arnon and as far as Jabbok and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan

And now the Lord the God of Israel has driven out the Amorite from before his people Israel, and you will inherit him.

Is it not that whatever Chemosh your god gives you to inherit, those you shall inherit, and all whom the Lord our God drove out from before us, them we shall inherit?

And now, are you at all better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, that he should have fought, while not fighting, with Israel, or while warring, have warred against him?

when dwelling in Heshbon and in its borders and in the land of Aroer and in its borders and in all the cities that are beside the Jordan three hundred years, and why did you not deliver them in that time?

And now I have not sinned against you, yet you are doing evil with me, to make war against me. The Lord, judging today between the sons of Israel and between the sons of Ammon, will judge.

And the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah, which he sent to him.

And the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and he passed by the watchpost of Gilead to the side beyond of the sons of Ammon.

And Jephthae vowed a vow to the Lord and said, If by giving you will give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

And it shall be, the one coming out, whoever may come out from the door of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, then he shall be for the Lord, and I will offer him up as a whole burnt offering.

And Jephthah passed over to the sons of Ammon to draw up battle against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand.

And he struck them from Aroer until one comes as far as Arnon, twenty cities in number, and as far as Abel-cheramim, a very great slaughter; and the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel

And Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dances, and she was his only child; there was no other son or daughter to him.

And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he tore his garments and said, Ah, ah, my daughter, you have troubled me with trouble, and you were among my trouble, and I, I have opened my mouth against you to the Lord, and I shall not be able to turn back.

And she said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord; do to me according to what has gone out from your mouth, since the Lord has made vengeance for you from your enemies, from the sons of Ammon.

And she said to her father, Let my father indeed do this word for me: let me alone two months, and I will go and go down upon the mountains and weep over my virginity, I and my companions.

And he said, Go, and he sent her away two months, and she went, she and her companions, and she wept over her virginity upon the mountains

And it came to pass at the end of the two months that she returned to her father, and he did to her his vow which he had vowed; and she had not known a man. And it became a custom in Israel.

From days to days the daughters of Israel went to lament the daughter of Jephthah of Gilead for four days in the year