Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah. Heb 11:32Jdg 6:122Ki 5:1 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.” Deu 23:2Gen 12:10Pro 2:16Gal 4:30Pro 5:20Pro 5:3Pro 6:24-26 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him. Jdg 9:41Sa 22:21Sa 27:22Sa 10:62Sa 10:8Job 30:1-101Sa 30:22-24Act 17:5
After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel. Jdg 10:9 When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob. 1Co 1:27-291Sa 11:12Act 7:35-39Psa 118:22-231Sa 10:271Sa 11:6-7Jdg 10:17-18Jdg 10:9 They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?” Gen 45:4-5Pro 17:17Rev 3:9Act 7:9-14Isa 60:14Gen 26:27Gen 37:27
The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.” Jdg 10:18Exo 10:17Exo 9:281Ki 13:6Exo 8:28Exo 8:8Luk 17:3-4
Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivers them before me, will I be your head?” Num 32:20-29
The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.” Jer 42:5Gen 31:50Gen 16:5Jer 29:231Sa 12:51Sa 24:122Co 11:31Deu 1:16
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpah. 1Sa 10:17Jdg 20:1Jas 1:5Jdg 10:171Sa 11:15Jas 1:171Ki 3:7-91Sa 23:9-12
Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?” Mat 18:15-16Deu 2:26Pro 25:8-92Ki 14:8-12Deu 20:10-11Num 20:14Num 21:21
The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.” Gen 32:22Num 21:24-26Deu 2:37Deu 3:16Pro 19:5Pro 19:9
Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon; 1Pe 3:11Heb 12:14Psa 120:7Rom 12:18 and he said to him, “Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon; Deu 2:19Deu 2:92Ch 20:10Act 24:12-13Num 21:13-15Num 21:27-30 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh, Deu 1:40Num 14:25Num 13:26Num 20:1Deu 1:46Gen 14:7Jos 5:6 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. Deu 2:4-9Num 20:1Num 20:14-21Deu 2:29Jos 24:9 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. Deu 2:1-8Num 21:4-13Num 22:36Num 33:37-44Num 20:22 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.’ Deu 2:26-36Deu 3:1-17Jos 13:8-12Num 21:21-35 But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel. Psa 135:10-12Deu 2:32-34Jos 13:15-32Neh 9:22Num 21:23-25Psa 136:17-21 The LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan. Deu 2:36 So now the LORD, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them? Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the LORD our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess. Mic 4:5Num 21:29Psa 78:551Ki 11:7Jos 3:10Deu 18:12Deu 9:4-5Jer 48:46 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them? Mic 6:5Jos 24:9-10Deu 23:3-4Num 22:2-21 Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time? Deu 2:36Deu 2:24Deu 3:2Deu 3:6Jdg 10:2-3Jdg 10:8Jdg 3:11Jdg 3:30 Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May the LORD the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.” 1Sa 24:121Sa 24:15Gen 16:5Gen 18:25Gen 31:53Rom 14:10-12Ecc 11:9Psa 75:7
However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him. 2Ki 14:11Pro 16:18 Then the LORD’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. Num 11:25Jdg 13:25Jdg 3:101Ch 12:181Sa 10:101Sa 16:13-15Jdg 10:17Jdg 6:34
Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, Gen 28:201Sa 1:11Ecc 5:1-2Ecc 5:4-5Num 30:2-16 then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.” Psa 66:13-141Sa 1:111Sa 1:281Sa 14:241Sa 14:441Sa 2:18Deu 23:18Isa 66:3
So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hand. Jdg 1:4Jdg 2:18Jdg 3:10 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. Ezk 27:17Deu 2:36
Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter. Exo 15:20Jer 31:4Jdg 10:17Jdg 11:11Psa 150:4Psa 68:251Sa 18:6-7Jdg 5:1-31 When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I can’t go back.” Gen 42:36-38Mat 14:7-91Sa 14:44-452Sa 13:30-312Sa 18:33Ecc 5:2-6Gen 37:29-30Gen 37:34-35
She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because the LORD has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.” Act 21:132Sa 18:19Php 2:30Rom 16:42Sa 18:312Sa 19:30Jdg 16:28-30Act 20:24 Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.” Luk 1:251Sa 1:6
He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains. At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel Isa 66:3Jdg 11:311Sa 2:18Lev 27:28-291Sa 1:111Sa 1:241Sa 1:28Deu 12:31 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. 1Ki 9:25Jdg 5:11