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Contemporary English Version

Judges 11:22

from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and from the desert in the east to the Jordan River in the west.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ambassadors;   Amorites;   Diplomacy;   Jabbok;   Jephthah;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ammonites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Edom;   Palestine;   War;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Vow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jephthah;   Plain;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amorite (the);   Jabbok;   Jephthah;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arnon;   Heshbon;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Gilead;   Jabbok;   Jephthah;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Sihon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Arnon ;   Jabbok ;   Sihon ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jephtha;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Coast;   Jabbok;   Jephthah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Am'orite, the Am'orites;   Ar'non;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Amorites;   War;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ammon, Ammonites;   Jabbok;   Jephthah;   Sihon;   War;   Wilderness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
Hebrew Names Version
They possessed all the border of the Amori, from the Arnon even to the Yabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Yarden.
King James Version
And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
Lexham English Bible
They occupied all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon up to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness up to the Jordan.
English Standard Version
And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
New Century Version
So Israel took all the land of the Amorites from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River, from the desert to the Jordan River.
New English Translation
They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west.
Amplified Bible
'They took possession of all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness [westward] as far as the Jordan.
New American Standard Bible
'So they possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they possessed all the coast of the Amorites, from Arnon vnto Iabbok, and from the wildernesse euen vnto Iorden.
Legacy Standard Bible
And on some, who are doubting, have mercy;
Complete Jewish Bible
They took possession of all the territory of the Emori from the Arnon to the Yabok and from the desert to the Yarden.
Darby Translation
And they possessed all the borders of the Amorites, from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness unto the Jordan.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites got all the land of the Amorites from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. The land also went from the desert to the Jordan River.
George Lamsa Translation
And they possessed all their territory, from Arnon as far as Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
Good News Translation
They occupied all the Amorite territory from the Arnon in the south to the Jabbok in the north and from the desert on the east to the Jordan on the west.
Literal Translation
And they took possession of all the border of the Amorites from Arnon and to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and to the Jordan.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they toke possessio of all the borders of the Amorites, from Arnon vnto Iabok, & from ye wyldernesse vnto Iordane.
American Standard Version
And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.
Bible in Basic English
All the limit of the Amorites was theirs, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the waste land even to Jordan.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they possessed al the coastes of the Amorites, from Arnon vnto Iabok, & from the wildernesse vnto Iordane.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.
King James Version (1611)
And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon euen vnto Iabbok, and from the wildernesse euen vnto Iordan.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
from Arnon and to Jaboc, and from the wilderness to Jordan.
English Revised Version
And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
Berean Standard Bible
seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
dwellere of that cuntrey, and al the coostis therof fro Arnon `til to Jaboch, and fro the wildirnesse `til to Jordan.
Young's Literal Translation
and they possess all the border of the Amorite from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and unto the Jordan.
Update Bible Version
And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they possessed all the borders of the Amorites, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan.
World English Bible
They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
New King James Version
They took possession of all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
New Living Translation
from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River, and from the eastern wilderness to the Jordan.
New Life Bible
They took all the land of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the desert as far as the Jordan.
New Revised Standard
They occupied all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites, - from Arnon, even as far as the Jabbok, and from the desert, even as far as the Jordan.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon to the Jaboc, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
Revised Standard Version
And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'So they possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan.

Contextual Overview

12 After the ceremony, Jephthah sent messengers to say to the king of Ammon, "Are you trying to start a war? You have invaded my country, and I want to know why!" 13 The king of Ammon replied, "Tell Jephthah that the land really belongs to me, all the way from the Arnon River in the south, to the Jabbok River in the north, and west to the Jordan River. When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they stole it. Tell Jephthah to return it to me, and there won't be any war." 14 Jephthah sent the messengers back to the king of Ammon, 15 and they told him that Jephthah had said: Israel hasn't taken any territory from Moab or Ammon. 16 When the Israelites came from Egypt, they traveled in the desert to the Red Sea and then to Kadesh. 17 They sent messengers to the king of Edom and said, "Please, let us go through your country." But the king of Edom refused. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he wouldn't let them cross his country either. And so the Israelites stayed at Kadesh. 18 A little later, the Israelites set out into the desert, going east of Edom and Moab, and camping on the eastern side of the Arnon River gorge. The Arnon is the eastern border of Moab, and since the Israelites didn't cross it, they didn't even set foot in Moab. 19 The Israelites sent messengers to the Amorite King Sihon of Heshbon. "Please," they said, "let our people go through your country to get to our own land." 20 Sihon didn't think the Israelites could be trusted, so he called his army together. They set up camp at Jahaz, then they attacked the Israelite camp. 21 But the Lord God helped Israel defeat Sihon and his army. Israel took over all of the Amorite land where Sihon's people had lived,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And they: Deuteronomy 2:36

from the wilderness: From Arabia Deserta on the east, to Jordan on the west.

Reciprocal: Joshua 12:2 - Jabbok

Cross-References

Joshua 24:2
Then Joshua told everyone to listen to this message from the Lord , the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River, and they worshiped other gods. This continued until the time of your ancestor Terah and his two sons, Abraham and Nahor.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites,.... Peaceably and quietly, nor did any pretend to call their right in question, or dispute their title, or give them any disturbance:

from Arnon unto Jabbok: which was the length of the country, and the direction was from south to north, and reached from the river Arnon, the border of Moab, to the river Jabbok, the border of Ammon; so that it included no part of what was at this time in the possession of either:

and from the wilderness even unto Jordan; which was the breadth of it, and its direction was from the west to the east, reaching from the wilderness of Arabia to the river Jordan.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Consult the marginal references. If the ark with the copy of the Law Deuteronomy 31:26 was at Mizpeh, it would account for Jephthah’s accurate knowledge of it; and this exact agreement of his message with Numbers and Deuteronomy would give additional force to the expression, “he uttered all his words before the Lord” Judges 11:11.

Judges 11:17

No mention is made of this embassy to Moab in the Pentateuch.

Judges 11:19

Into my place - This expression implies that the trans-Jordanic possessions of Israel were not included in the land of Canaan properly speaking.

Judges 11:21

The title “God of Israel” has a special emphasis here, and in Judges 11:23. in a narrative of transactions relating to the pagan and their gods.

Judges 11:24

Chemosh was the national god of the Moabites (see the marginal references); and as the territory in question was Moabitish territory before the Amorites took it from “the people of Chemosh,” this may account for the mention of Chemosh here rather than of Moloch, or Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. Possibly the king of the children of Ammon at this time may have been a Moabite.

Judges 11:25, Judges 11:26

Jephthah advances another historical argument. Balak, the king of Moab, never disputed the possession of Sihon’s kingdom with Israel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 11:22. From the wilderness even unto Jordan. — From Arabia Deserta on the east to Jordan on the west.


 
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