07:011:010 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah,
The lord be
witness
between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
07:011:011 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead,
and the people
made
him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered
all
his
words before the lord in Mizpeh.
07:011:012 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king
of the children of
Ammon,
saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art
come
against me to fight in my land?
07:011:013 And the king of the children of Ammon answered
unto the
messengers
of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when
they
came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok,
and
unto
Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again
peaceably.
07:011:014 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto
the king of the
children
of Ammon:
07:011:015 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah,
Israel took not away
the
land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
07:011:016 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and
walked through the
wilderness
unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
07:011:017 Then Israel sent messengers unto the king
of Edom, saying, Let
me,
I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king
of Edom
would
not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent
unto
the
king of Moab: but he would not consent: and
Israel abode
in
Kadesh.
07:011:018 Then they went along through the wilderness,
and compassed the
land
of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east
side
of
the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of
Arnon,
but
came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon
was the
border
of Moab.
07:011:019 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king
of the Amorites,
the
king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass,
we
pray
thee, through thy land into my place.
07:011:020 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through
his coast: but
Sihon
gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz,
and
fought against Israel.
07:011:021 And the lord God of Israel delivered
Sihon and all his people
into
the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel
possessed
all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of
that
country.
07:011:022 And they possessed all the coasts of the
Amorites, from Arnon
even
unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
07:011:023 So now the lord God of Israel hath
dispossessed the Amorites
from
before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess
it?


