Judges 11:30

Contemporary English Version

he promised the Lord , "If you will let me defeat the Ammonites

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jephthah made this vow to the Lord: “If you in fact hand over the Ammonites to me,

Hebrew Names Version
Yiftach vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed deliver the children of `Ammon into my hand,

King James Version
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord , and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

Lexham English Bible
And Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh, and he said, "If indeed you will give the Ammonites into my hand,

English Standard Version
And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, "If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,

New Century Version
Jephthah made a promise to the Lord , saying, "If you will hand over the Ammonites to me,

New English Translation
Jephthah made a vow to the Lord , saying, "If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me,

Amplified Bible
Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, "If You will indeed give the Ammonites into my hand,

New American Standard Bible
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, "If You will indeed hand over to me the sons of Ammon,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iphtah vowed a vowe vnto the Lorde, and said, If thou shalt deliuer the children of Ammon into mine handes,

Legacy Standard Bible
En Jefta het aan die HERE 'n gelofte gedoen en gesê: As U werklik die kinders van Ammon in my hand gee,

Complete Jewish Bible
Yiftach made a vow to Adonai : "If you will hand the people of ‘Amon over to me,

Darby Translation
And Jephthah vowed a vow to Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt without fail give the children of Ammon into my hand,

Easy-to-Read Version
Jephthah made a promise to the Lord . He said, "If you will let me defeat the Ammonites,

George Lamsa Translation
And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If thou wilt surely deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

Good News Translation
Jephthah promised the Lord : "If you will give me victory over the Ammonites,

Literal Translation
And Jephthah vowed a vow to Jehovah, and said, If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Iephthae vowed a vowe vnto the LORDE, and sayde: Yf thou wilt delyuer the childre of Ammon in to my hande,

American Standard Version
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

Bible in Basic English
And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iephthah vowed a vowe vnto ye Lorde, & sayd: If thou shalt deliuer the children of Ammon into my handes,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

King James Version (1611)
And Iephthah vowed a vowe vnto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without faile deliuer the children of Ammon into mine hands,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Jephthae vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

English Revised Version
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into mine hand,

Berean Standard Bible
Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: "If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hands,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and made a vow to the Lord, and seide, If thou schalt bitake the sones of Amon in to myn hondis,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jephthah voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, `If Thou dost at all give the Bene-Ammon into my hand --

Update Bible Version
And Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver the sons of Ammon into my hand,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

World English Bible
Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

New King James Version
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If You will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands,

New Living Translation
And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord . He said, "If you give me victory over the Ammonites,

New Life Bible
Jephthah made a promise to the Lord and said, "You give the people of Ammon into my hand.

New Revised Standard
And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord , and said, "If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Yahweh, and said, - If thou wilt, deliver, the sons of Ammon into my hand,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

Revised Standard Version
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, "If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

Contextual Overview

²⁹ So Jephthah went back to Mizpah with the leaders of Gilead. The people of Gilead gathered at the place of worship and made Jephthah their ruler. Jephthah also made promises to them. 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!" 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." Jephthah sent the messengers back to the king of Ammon, and they told him that Jephthah had said: Israel hasn't taken any territory from Moab or Ammon. When the Israelites came from Egypt, they traveled in the desert to the Red Sea and then to Kadesh. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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, 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. The messengers also told the king of Ammon that Jephthah had said: The Lord God of Israel helped his nation get rid of the Amorites and take their land. Now do you think you're going to take over that same territory? If Chemosh your god takes over a country and gives it to you, don't you have a right to it? And if the Lord takes over a country and gives it to us, the land is ours! Are you better than Balak the son of Zippor? He was the king of Moab, but he didn't quarrel with Israel or start a war with us. For three hundred years, Israelites have been living in Heshbon and Aroer and the nearby villages, and in the towns along the Arnon River gorge. If the land really belonged to you Ammonites, you wouldn't have waited until now to try to get it back. I haven't done anything to you, but it's certainly wrong of you to start a war. I pray that the Lord will show whether Israel or Ammon is in the right. But the king of Ammon paid no attention to Jephthah's message. Then the Lord 's Spirit took control of Jephthah, and Jephthah went through Gilead and Manasseh, raising an army. Finally, he arrived at Mizpah in Gilead, where ³⁰ he promised the Lord , "If you will let me defeat the Ammonites ³¹ and come home safely, I will sacrifice to you whoever comes out to meet me first." ³² From Mizpah, Jephthah attacked the Ammonites, and the Lord helped him defeat them. ³³ Jephthah and his army destroyed the twenty towns between Aroer and Minnith, and others as far as Abel-Keramim. After that, the Ammonites could not invade Israel any more. ³⁴ When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, the first one to meet him was his daughter. She was playing a tambourine and dancing to celebrate his victory, and she was his only child. ³⁵ "Oh!" Jephthah cried. Then he tore his clothes in sorrow and said to his daughter, "I made a sacred promise to the Lord , and I must keep it. Your coming out to meet me has broken my heart." ³⁶ "Father," she said, "you made a sacred promise to the Lord , and he let you defeat the Ammonites. Now, you must do what you promised, even if it means I must die. ³⁷ But first, please let me spend two months, wandering in the hill country with my friends. We will cry together, because I can never get married and have children." ³⁸ "Yes, you may have two months," Jephthah said. She and some other girls left, and for two months they wandered in the hill country, crying because she could never get married and have children.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 28:20, Numbers 30:2-16, 1 Samuel 1:11, Ecclesiastes 5:1, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Ecclesiastes 5:4, Ecclesiastes 5:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 27:2 - When Leviticus 27:28 - no devoted Numbers 21:2 - vowed Numbers 21:34 - for I have Deuteronomy 23:23 - That which Judges 21:1 - There 1 Samuel 14:24 - Cursed Matthew 14:9 - the oath's

Cross-References

Genesis 11:1
At first everyone spoke the same language,

Genesis 11:2
but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia,

Genesis 11:3
they said: Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.

Genesis 11:12
When Arpachshad was thirty-five, he had a son named Shelah.

Genesis 25:21
Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac asked the Lord to let her have a child, and the Lord answered his prayer.

Genesis 29:31
The Lord knew that Jacob loved Rachel more than he did Leah, and so he gave children to Leah, but not to Rachel.

Judges 13:2
Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was not able to have children,

1 Samuel 1:2
Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Although Peninnah had children, Hannah did not have any.

Psalms 113:9
When a wife has no children, he blesses her with some, and she is happy. Shout praises to the Lord !

Luke 1:7
But they did not have children. Elizabeth could not have any, and both Zechariah and Elizabeth were already old.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord,.... Before he set out for the land of the children of Ammon, and to fight with them; hoping that such a religious disposition of mind would be regarded by the Lord, and be acceptable to him, and he should be blessed with success in his enterprise:

and said, if thou shall without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands; though he was assured of the justness of his cause, and of his call to engage in it, he seems to have some little diffidence in his mind about the success of it; at least, was not fully certain of it.