The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Judges 11:29 (NASB)
[SUP]29 [/SUP] Now the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, so that he passed through Gilead and Manasseh; then he passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he went on to the sons of Ammon.

 

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Judges 11:30 (KJV)
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

 

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[FONT=&quot]Judges 11:31
I will burn as an offering the first person that comes out of my house to meet me, when I come back from the victory. I will offer that person to you as a sacrifice.[/FONT]

 

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Judges 11:32
New International Version (NIV)

Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands.

 

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Jdg 11:33 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.

 

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Judges 11:34
King James Version(KJV)

34.)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.

 

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Judges 11:35 (CJB)
35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Oh, no, my daughter! You’re breaking my heart! Why must you be the cause of such pain to me? I made a vow to Adonai, and I can’t go back on my word.”

 

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Judges 11:36 (NASB)
[SUP]36 [/SUP] So she said to him, "My father, you have given your word to the LORD; do to me as you have said, since the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the sons of Ammon."

 

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Judges 11:37 (KJV)
And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

 

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Judges 11:38 (NASB)
[SUP]38 [/SUP] Then he said, "Go." So he sent her away for two months; and she left with her companions, and wept on the mountains because of her virginity.

 

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Judges 11:39
New International Version (NIV)

After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin. From this comes the Israelite tradition

 

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Judges 11:40 (NASB)
[SUP]40 [/SUP] that the daughters of Israel went yearly to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

 

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A fitting picture for the last verses (30-40):

Jdg 12:1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.

 

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Judges 12:2 (NASB)
[SUP]2 [/SUP] Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon; when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.

 

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Judges 12:3 (KJV)
And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

 

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Judges 12:4
New International Version (NIV)

Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.”

 

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Judges 12:5 (NASB)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan opposite Ephraim. And it happened when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead would say to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No,"

 

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Jdg 12:6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

 

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Judges 12:7
King James Version( KJV)

7.)And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

 

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Judges 12:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] Now Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.