Judges 11:26

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?

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Israel	יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל Yis.ra.'el	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
dwelt	בְּשֶׁ֣בֶת be.She.vet	H3427	properly · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
Heshbon	בְּחֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן be.chesh.Bon	H2809	Cheshbon · preposition + proper noun, a place name
towns	וּבִבְנוֹתֶ֜יהָ u.viv.no.Tei.ha	H1323	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms… · conjunction + preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
Aroer	וּבְעַרְע֣וֹר u.ve.'ar.'or	H6177	Aroer · conjunction + preposition + proper noun, a place name
towns	וּבִבְנוֹתֶ֗יהָ u.viv.no.Tei.ha	H1323	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms… · conjunction + preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
cities	הֶֽעָרִים֙ he.'a.Rim	H5892	a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the wi… · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
coasts	יְדֵ֣י ye.Dei	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · noun, common both genders dual construct
Arnon	אַרְנ֔וֹן 'ar.Non	H769	the Arnon · proper noun, a place name
three	שְׁלֹ֥שׁ she.Losh	H7969	three · noun, common both genders singular construct
hundred	מֵא֖וֹת me.'ot	H3967	a hundred · noun, common feminine plural absolute
years	שָׁנָ֑ה sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
recover	הִצַּלְתֶּ֖ם hi.tzal.Tem	H5337	to snatch away · verb, hiphil perfect, 2nd person masculine plural
time	בָּעֵ֥ת ba.'Et	H6256	time · preposition with the article + noun, common both genders singular absolute

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Cross-references

Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city to…
Numbers 21:25-30 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
Deuteronomy 2:24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and h…
Deuteronomy 3:2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him…
Deuteronomy 3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
Joshua 11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
Joshua 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of th…
Joshua 12:5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the…

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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 11:26

While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns,.... This was the principal city, which formerly belonged to the Moabites, and was taken from them by Sihon; who being conquered by Israel, it fell into their hands, and they inhabited it, and the towns adjacent to it, from that time to the present; see Numbers 21:25. and in Aroer and her towns; another city with its villages, taken at the same time, and ever since inhabited by the Israelites, even by the tribe of Gad, who rebuilt it; it lay near the river Arnon; see Numbers 32:34. and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon; which lay along by the side of that river, which divided Moab from the kingdom of the Amorites; these Israe…

Dictionary and topics

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…
Aroer — Ruins. (1.) A town on the north bank of the Arnon (Deut. 4:48; Judg. 11:26; 2 Kings 10:33), the southern boundary of the kingdom of Sihon (Josh. 12:2). It is now called Arair, 13 miles west of 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, The · Jephthah raised up to deliver Israel from — Jephthah raised up to deliver Israel from
Aroer · .Conquered by Israelites — .Conquered by Israelites
Diplomacy · General references — General references
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 11:26

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 11:26

Dictionary and topics

Judges 11:26

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 11:26

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 11:12-28

Rashi on Judges 11:26