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Judges 11:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh. "

Judges 11:17

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15 and he said to him, “Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;

16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,

17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh.

18 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’

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Numbers 20:21

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"Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him."

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Numbers 20:14

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"Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;"

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2 Kings 3:24

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"When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites."

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Deuteronomy 2:29

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"as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me, until I pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.”"

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Deuteronomy 1:19

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"We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea."

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2 Kings 3:26

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"When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not."

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Judges 11:1

"Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah."

Judges 11:2

"Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”"

Judges 11:3

"Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him."

Judges 11:4

"After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel."

Judges 11:5

"When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob."

Judges 11:6

"They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”"

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