< Judges 11 >

1 There was at that time Jephte the Galaadite, a most valiant man and a warrior, the son of a woman that was a harlot, and his father was Galaad.
and Jephthah [the] Gileadite to be mighty man strength and he/she/it son: child woman to fornicate and to beget Gilead [obj] Jephthah
2 Now Galaad had a wife of whom he had sons: who after they were grown up, thrust out Jephte, saying: Thou canst not inherit in the house of our father, because thou art born of another mother.
and to beget woman: wife Gilead to/for him son: child and to magnify son: child [the] woman: wife and to drive out: divorce [obj] Jephthah and to say to/for him not to inherit in/on/with house: household father our for son: child woman another you(m. s.)
3 Then he fled and avoided them and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered to him needy men, and robbers, and they followed him as their prince.
and to flee Jephthah from face: before brother: male-sibling his and to dwell in/on/with land: country/planet Tob and to gather to(wards) Jephthah human worthless and to come out: come with him
4 In those days the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
and to be from day and to fight son: descendant/people Ammon with Israel
5 And as they pressed hard upon them, the ancients of Galaad went to fetch Jephte out of the land of Tob to help them:
and to be like/as as which to fight son: descendant/people Ammon with Israel and to go: went old: elder Gilead to/for to take: bring [obj] Jephthah from land: country/planet Tob
6 And they said to him: Come thou and be our prince, and fight against the children of Ammon.
and to say to/for Jephthah to go: come! [emph?] and to be to/for us to/for chief and to fight in/on/with son: descendant/people Ammon
7 And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast me out of my father’s house, and now you are come to me constrained by necessity?
and to say Jephthah to/for old: elder Gilead not you(m. p.) to hate [obj] me and to drive out: drive out me from house: household father my and why? to come (in): come to(wards) me now like/as as which distress to/for you
8 And the princes of Galaad said to Jephte: For this cause we are now come to thee, that thou mayst go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be head over all the inhabitants of Galaad.
and to say old: elder Gilead to(wards) Jephthah to/for so now to return: return to(wards) you and to go: went with us and to fight in/on/with son: descendant/people Ammon and to be to/for us to/for head: leader to/for all to dwell Gilead
9 Jephte also said to them: If you be come to me sincerely, that I should fight for you against the children of Ammon, and the Lord shall deliver them into my band, shall I be your prince?
and to say Jephthah to(wards) old: elder Gilead if to return: rescue you(m. p.) [obj] me to/for to fight in/on/with son: descendant/people Ammon and to give: give LORD [obj] them to/for face: before my I to be to/for you to/for head: leader
10 They answered him: The Lord who heareth these things, he himself is mediator and witness that we will do as we have promised.
and to say old: elder Gilead to(wards) Jephthah LORD to be to hear: judge between us if not like/as word your so to make: do
11 Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the people made him their prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before the Lord in Maspha.
and to go: went Jephthah with old: elder Gilead and to set: make [the] people [obj] him upon them to/for head: leader and to/for chief and to speak: speak Jephthah [obj] all word his to/for face: before LORD in/on/with Mizpah
12 And he sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, to say in his name, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me, to waste my land?
and to send: depart Jephthah messenger to(wards) king son: descendant/people Ammon to/for to say what? to/for me and to/for you for to come (in): come to(wards) me to/for to fight in/on/with land: country/planet my
13 And he answered them: I Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the confines of the Arnon unto the Jaboc and the Jordan: now therefore restore the same peaceably to me.
and to say king son: descendant/people Ammon to(wards) messenger Jephthah for to take: take Israel [obj] land: country/planet my in/on/with to ascend: rise he from Egypt from Arnon and till [the] Jabbok and till [the] Jordan and now to return: rescue [emph?] [obj] them in/on/with peace
14 And Jephte again sent word by them, and commanded them to say to the king of Ammon:
and to add: again still Jephthah and to send: depart messenger to(wards) king son: descendant/people Ammon
15 Thus saith Jephte: Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
and to say to/for him thus to say Jephthah not to take: take Israel [obj] land: country/planet Moab and [obj] land: country/planet son: descendant/people Ammon
16 But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert to the Red Sea and came into Cades.
for in/on/with to ascend: rise they from Egypt and to go: went Israel in/on/with wilderness till sea Red (Sea) and to come (in): come Kadesh [to]
17 And he sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying: Suffer me to pass through thy land. But he would not condescend to his request. He sent also to the king of Moab, who likewise refused to give him passage. He abode therefore in Cades,
and to send: depart Israel messenger to(wards) king Edom to/for to say to pass please in/on/with land: country/planet your and not to hear: hear king Edom and also to(wards) king Moab to send: depart and not be willing and to dwell Israel in/on/with Kadesh
18 And went round the land of Edom at the side, and the land of Moab: and came over against the east coast of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon: and he would not enter the bounds of Moab.
and to go: walk in/on/with wilderness and to turn: surround [obj] land: country/planet Edom and [obj] land: country/planet Moab and to come (in): come from east sun to/for land: country/planet Moab and to camp [emph?] in/on/with side: beside Arnon and not to come (in): come in/on/with border: area Moab for Arnon border: boundary Moab
19 So Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and they said to him: Suffer me to pass through thy land to the river.
and to send: depart Israel messenger to(wards) Sihon king [the] Amorite king Heshbon and to say to/for him Israel to pass please in/on/with land: country/planet your till place my
20 But he also despising the words of Israel, suffered him not to pass through his borders: but gathering an infinite multitude, went out against him to Jasa, and made strong opposition.
and not be faithful Sihon [obj] Israel to pass in/on/with border: area his and to gather Sihon [obj] all people: soldiers his and to camp in/on/with Jahaz [to] and to fight with Israel
21 And the Lord delivered him with all his army into the hands of Israel, and he slew him, and possessed all the land of the Amorrhite the inhabitant of that country,
and to give: give LORD God Israel [obj] Sihon and [obj] all people: soldiers his in/on/with hand: power Israel and to smite them and to possess: take Israel [obj] all land: country/planet [the] Amorite to dwell [the] land: country/planet [the] he/she/it
22 And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon to the Jaboc, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
and to possess: take [obj] all border: area [the] Amorite from Arnon and till [the] Jabbok and from [the] wilderness and till [the] Jordan
23 So the Lord the God of Israel destroyed the Amorrhite, his people of Israel fighting against him, and wilt thou now possess this land?
and now LORD God Israel to possess: take [obj] [the] Amorite from face: before people his Israel and you(m. s.) to possess: take him
24 Are not those things which thy god Chamos possesseth, due to thee by right? But what the Lord our God hath obtained by conquest, shall be our possession:
not [obj] which to possess: possess you Chemosh God your [obj] him to possess: take and [obj] all which to possess: take LORD God our from face: before our [obj] him to possess: take
25 Unless perhaps thou art better than Balac the son of Sephor king of Moab: or canst shew that he strove against Israel and fought against him,
and now be pleasing be pleasing you(m. s.) from Balak son: child Zippor king Moab to contend to contend with Israel if to fight to fight in/on/with them
26 Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon, and the villages thereof, and in Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan, for three hundred years. Why have you for so long a time attempted nothing about this claim?
in/on/with to dwell Israel in/on/with Heshbon and in/on/with daughter: village her and in/on/with Aroer and in/on/with daughter: village her and in/on/with all [the] city which upon hand: bank Arnon three hundred year and why? not to rescue in/on/with time [the] he/she/it
27 Therefore I do not trespass against thee, but thou wrongest me by declaring an unjust war against me. The Lord be judge and decide this day between Israel and the children of Ammon.
and I not to sin to/for you and you(m. s.) to make: do with me distress: evil to/for to fight in/on/with me to judge LORD [the] to judge [the] day: today between son: descendant/people Israel and between son: descendant/people Ammon
28 And the king of the children of Ammon would not hearken to the words of Jephte, which he sent him by the messengers.
and not to hear: hear king son: descendant/people Ammon to(wards) word Jephthah which to send: depart to(wards) him
29 Therefore the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephte, and going round Galaad, and Manasses, and Maspha of Galaad, and passing over from thence to the children of Ammon,
and to be upon Jephthah spirit LORD and to pass [obj] [the] Gilead and [obj] Manasseh and to pass [obj] Mizpah Gilead and from Mizpah Gilead to pass son: descendant/people Ammon
30 He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,
and to vow Jephthah vow to/for LORD and to say if to give: give to give: give [obj] son: descendant/people Ammon in/on/with hand: power my
31 Whosoever shall first come forth out of the doors of my house, and shall meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, the same will I offer a holocaust to the Lord.
and to be [the] to come out: come which to come out: come from door house: home my to/for to encounter: meet me in/on/with to return: return I in/on/with peace from son: descendant/people Ammon and to be to/for LORD and to ascend: offer up him burnt offering
32 And Jephte passed over to the children of Ammon, to fight against them: and the Lord delivered them into his hands.
and to pass Jephthah to(wards) son: descendant/people Ammon to/for to fight in/on/with them (and to give: give them *L(abh)*) LORD in/on/with hand: power his
33 And he smote them from Aroer till you come to Mennith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel, which is set with vineyards, with a very great slaughter: and the children of Ammon were humbled by the children of Israel.
and to smite them from Aroer and till to come (in): towards you Minnith twenty city and till Abel-keramim Abel-keramim wound great: large much and be humble son: descendant/people Ammon from face: before son: descendant/people Israel
34 And when Jephte returned into Maspha to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other children.
and to come (in): come Jephthah [the] Mizpah to(wards) house: home his and behold daughter his to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet him in/on/with tambourine and in/on/with dance and except he/she/it only nothing to/for him from him son: child or daughter
35 And when he saw her, he rent his garments, and said: Alas! my daughter, thou hast deceived me, and thou thyself art deceived: for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do no other thing.
and to be like/as to see: see he [obj] her and to tear [obj] garment his and to say alas! daughter my to bow to bow me and you(f. s.) to be in/on/with to trouble me and I to open lip my to(wards) LORD and not be able to/for to return: turn back
36 And she answered him: My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth to the Lord, do unto me whatsoever thou hast promised, since the victory hath been granted to thee, and revenge of thy enemies.
and to say to(wards) him father my to open [obj] lip your to(wards) LORD to make: do to/for me like/as as which to come out: speak from lip your after which to make: do to/for you LORD vengeance from enemy your from son: descendant/people Ammon
37 And she said to her father: Grant me only this which I desire: Let me go, that I may go about the mountains for two months, and may bewail my virginity with my companions.
and to say to(wards) father her to make: do to/for me [the] word: thing [the] this to slacken from me two month and to go: went and to go down upon [the] mountain: mount and to weep upon virginity my I (and companion my *Q(K)*)
38 And he answered her: Go. And he sent her away for two months. And when she was gone with her comrades and companions, she mourned her virginity in the mountains.
and to say to go: went and to send: let go [obj] her two month and to go: went he/she/it and companion her and to weep upon virginity her upon [the] mountain: mount
39 And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept:
and to be from end two month and to return: return to(wards) father her and to make: do to/for her [obj] vow his which to vow and he/she/it not to know man and to be statute: decree in/on/with Israel
40 That from year to year the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite for four days.
from day: year day: year [to] to go: went daughter Israel to/for to recount to/for daughter Jephthah [the] Gileadite four day: year in/on/with year

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