07:011:024 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh
thy god giveth thee
to
possess? So whomsoever the lord our God shall
drive out
from
before us, them will we possess.
07:011:025 And now art thou any thing better than
Balak the son of
Zippor,
king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or
did
he ever fight against them,
07:011:026 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns,
and in Aroer and
her
towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts
of
Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not
recover
them within that time?
07:011:027 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee,
but thou doest me
wrong
to war against me: the lord the Judge be
judge this day
between
the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
07:011:028 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon
hearkened not unto
the
words of Jephthah which he sent him.
07:011:029 Then the Spirit of the lord came upon
Jephthah, and he passed
over
Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead,
and
from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children
of
Ammon.
07:011:030 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the lord,
and said, If thou
shalt
without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine
hands,
07:011:031 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh
forth of the doors of
my
house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children
of
Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’s, and I will
offer it up
for
a burnt offering.
07:011:032 So Jephthah passed over unto the children
of Ammon to fight
against
them; and the lord delivered them into his hands.
07:011:033 And he smote them from Aroer, even till
thou come to Minnith,
even
twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards,
with
a
very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon
were
subdued
before the children of Israel.
07:011:034 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house,
and, behold, his
daughter
came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances:
and
she was his only child; beside her he had neither son
nor
daughter.
07:011:035 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that
he rent his
clothes,
and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me
very
low, and thou art one of them that trouble me:
for I have
opened
my mouth unto the lord, and I cannot go back.
07:011:036 And she said unto him, My father, if thou
hast opened thy
mouth
unto the lord, do to me according to that which
hath
proceeded
out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the lord hath taken
vengeance
for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of
Ammon.


