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Judges 11:28

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However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

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Judges 11:28 in other translations

Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Judges 11:28 · American Standard Version

Judges 11:28 in context

  1. 26Israel 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?
  2. 27Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
  3. 28However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
  4. 29Then Yahweh’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.
  5. 30Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,