Judges 11:18

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
along	יָלַךְ yâlak	H3212	to walk (literally or figuratively)
wilderness	בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר ba.mid.Bar	H4057	a pasture (i.e. open field · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
compassed	וַיָּ֜סָב vai.Ya.sov	H5437	to revolve · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
land	אֶ֤רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular construct
Edom	אֱדוֹם֙ 'e.dOm	H123	Edom · proper noun, a man's name
land	אֶ֣רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular construct
Moab	מוֹאָ֔ב mo.'Av	H4124	Moab · proper noun, a place name
came	וַיָּבֹ֤א vai.ya.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
side	מִמִּזְרַח mi.miz.rach-	H4217	sunrise · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
land	לְאֶ֣רֶץ le.'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
Moab	מוֹאָ֔ב mo.'Av	H4124	Moab · proper noun, a place name
pitched	וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּן vai.ya.cha.Nun	H2583	properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun
side	בְּעֵ֣בֶר be.'E.ver	H5676	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
Arnon	אַרְנ֑וֹן 'ar.Non	H769	the Arnon · proper noun, a place name
came	בָ֙אוּ֙ va.'u	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
border	בִּגְב֣וּל big.Vul	H1366	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
Moab	מוֹאָ֔ב mo.'Av	H4124	Moab · proper noun, a place name
Arnon	אַרְנ֖וֹן 'ar.Non	H769	the Arnon · proper noun, a place name
border	גְּב֥וּל ge.Vul	H1366	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct
Moab	מוֹאָֽב mo.'Av	H4124	Moab · proper noun, a place name

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

Numbers 21:4-13 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged be…
Deuteronomy 2:1-8 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir m…
Numbers 22:36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utm…
Numbers 33:37-44 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
Numbers 20:22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.

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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 11:18

Then they went along the wilderness,.... The wilderness of Paran, which lay along the borders of Edom; they went, according to Jarchi, from the west to the east on the south border of Edom and Moab: and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab; all the south of the land of Edom, and all the south of the land of Moab; towards the sunrising, as in Numbers 21:11. and pitched on the other side of Arnon; the river Arnon, which, according to Jarchi, was at the east end of the land of Moab, where began the country of Sihon and Og: but came not within the border of Moab; so far were they from attempting to take away any part of that land from the king of it, though ill treated by him: fo…

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,…
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…
Moab — The seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam.…
Moabite — The designation of a tribe descended from Moab, the son of Lot (Gen. 19:37). From Zoar, the cradle of this tribe, on the south-eastern border of the Dead Sea, they gradually spread over the region on…
Ambassadors · Israelites to various nations — Israelites to various nations
Ammonites, The · Jephthah raised up to deliver Israel from — Jephthah raised up to deliver Israel from
Diplomacy · General references — General references
Jephthah · His message to the king of the Ammonites — His message to the king of the Ammonites
Moabites · by the Arnon River — by the Arnon River

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 11:18

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 11:18

Dictionary and topics

Judges 11:18

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 11:18

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 11:12-28

Rashi on Judges 11:18