Judges 11:13

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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
king	מֶ֨לֶךְ Me.lekh	H4428	a king · noun, common masculine singular construct
children	בְּנֵי be.nei-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Ammon	עַמּ֜וֹן a.Mon	H5983	Ammon · proper noun, a man's name
answered	וַיֹּאמֶר֩ vai.yo.Mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
messengers	מַלְאֲכֵ֣י mal.'a.Khei	H4397	a messenger · noun, common masculine plural construct
Jephthah	יִפְתָּ֗ח yif.Tach	H3316	Jiphtach · proper noun, a man's name
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
away	לָקַ֨ח la.Kach	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
land	אַרְצִי֙ 'ar.Tzi	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 1st person feminine singular
up	בַּעֲלוֹת֣וֹ ba.'a.lo.To	H5927	to ascend · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
Egypt	מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם mi.mitz.Ra.yim	H4714	Mitsrajim · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Arnon	מֵאַרְנ֥וֹן me.'ar.Non	H769	the Arnon · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Jabbok	הַיַּבֹּ֖ק hai.ya.Bok	H2999	Jabbok · definite article + proper noun, a place name
Jordan	הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ן hai.yar.Den	H3383	Jarden · definite article + proper noun, a place name
again	הָשִׁ֥יבָה ha.Shi.vah	H7725	to turn back (hence · verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he
peaceably	בְּשָׁלֽוֹם be.sha.Lom	H7965	safe · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Genesis 32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
Numbers 21:24-26 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the bor…
Deuteronomy 2:37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, n…
Deuteronomy 3:16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the rive…
Proverbs 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Proverbs 19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Judges 11:12-28

We have here the treaty between Jephthah, now judge of Israel, and the king of the Ammonites (who is not named), that the controversy between the two nations might, if possible, be accommodated without the effusion of blood. I. Jephthah, as one having authority, sent to the king of Ammon, who in this war was the aggressor, to demand his reasons for invading the land of Israel: "Why hast thou come to fight against me in my land? Jdg 11:12. Had I come first into thy land to disturb thee in thy possession, this would have been reason enough for fighting against me, for how must force be repelled but by force? but what hast thou to do to come thus in a hostile manner into my land?" so he calls i…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 11:13

the king of Ammon . . ., Because Israel took away my land--(See on Deu 2:19). The subject of quarrel was a claim of right advanced by the Ammonite monarch to the lands which the Israelites were occupying. Jephthah's reply was clear, decisive, and unanswerable;--first, those lands were not in the possession of the Ammonites when his countrymen got them, and that they had been acquired by right of conquest from the Amorites [Jdg 11:21]; secondly, the Israelites had now, by a lapse of three hundred years of undisputed possession, established a prescriptive right to the occupation [Jdg 11:22-23]; and thirdly, having received a grant of them from the Lord, his people were entitled to maintain the…

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John Gill on Judges 11:13

And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah,.... Who this king of Ammon was is not said, however he returned an answer to Jephthah's messengers, which they brought to him, and it was to this purpose; that the reason of his invading the land, and bringing war into it, was: because Israel took away my land when they came out of Egypt; not as soon as they came out of Egypt, for it was thirty nine years afterwards, and upwards, even a little before they entered into the land of Canaan; and the land they took was not theirs, but in the possession of Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites; though indeed, before their conquest of it, it had been in the hands of the…

Dictionary and topics

Ambassador — In the Old Testament the Hebrew word tsir, meaning “one who goes on an errand,” is rendered thus (Josh. 9:4; Prov. 13:17; Isa. 18:2; Jer. 49:14; Obad. 1:1). This is also the rendering of melits,…
Arnon — Swift, the southern boundary of the territory of Israel beyond Jordan, separating it from the land of Moab (Deut. 3:8, 16). This river (referred to twenty-four times in the Bible) rises in the…
Jephthah — Whom God sets free, or the breaker through, a “mighty man of valour” who delivered Israel from the oppression of the Ammonites (Judg. 11:1-33), and judged Israel six years (12:7). He has been…
Ambassadors · Israelites to various nations — Israelites to various nations
Ammonites · Territory of — Territory of
Ammonites, The · Jephthah raised up to deliver Israel from — Jephthah raised up to deliver Israel from
Diplomacy · General references — General references
Jabbok · of the possessions of the Ammonites — of the possessions of the Ammonites
Jephthah · His message to the king of the Ammonites — His message to the king of the Ammonites

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Judges 11:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Judges 11:12-28

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 11:13

John Gill on Judges 11:13

Dictionary and topics

Judges 11:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Judges 11:12-28

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 11:13

John Gill on Judges 11:13

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 11:12-28

Rashi on Judges 11:11