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Today's Bible Reading :: Judges 10 - 12 (KJV)

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Judges 10

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:1 - And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:2 - And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 - And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:4 - And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:5 - And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:6 - And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:10 - And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:12 - The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:13 - Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15 - And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:17 - Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

Judges 11

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1 - Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4 - And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6 - And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:10 - And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:11 - Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14 - And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15 - And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:17 - Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:20 - But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:21 - And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:23 - So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:24 - Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28 - Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Jephthah's Tragic Vow

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:34 - And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:35 - And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38 - And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:40 - That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Judges 12

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:5 - And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 - And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:8 - And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:9 - And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:10 - Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:11 - And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:12 - And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:13 - And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:14 - And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:15 - And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
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