even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
011:023 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites
from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
011:024 Won't you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess?
So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us,
them will we possess.
011:025 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor,
king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did
he ever fight against them?
011:026 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer
and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side
of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover
them within that time?
011:027 I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong
to war against me: Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day
between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
011:028 However the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen
to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
011:029 Then 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.
011:030 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed
deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
011:031 then 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.
011:032 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight
against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
011:033 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty
cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter.
So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
011:034 Jephthah 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.
011:035 It 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.
011:036 She said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh;
do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth,
because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies,
even on the children of Ammon.
011:037 She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me:
let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on
the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
011:038 He said, Go. He sent her away for two months:
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