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Legacy Standard Bible

Judges 11:28

Maar die koning van die kinders van Ammon het nie geluister na die woorde van Jefta wat hy hom laat weet het nie.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - War;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Vow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jephthah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arnon;   Heshbon;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Gilead;   Jephthah;   Judges (1);   Levi;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jephtha;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Aroer;   Jephthah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - War;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jephthah;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But the king of the Ammonites would not listen to Jephthah’s message that he sent him.
Hebrew Names Version
However the king of the children of `Ammon didn't listen to the words of Yiftach which he sent him.
King James Version
Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Lexham English Bible
But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the message that Jephthah sent to him.
English Standard Version
But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him.
New Century Version
But the king of the Ammonites ignored this message from Jephthah.
New English Translation
But the Ammonite king disregarded the message sent by Jephthah.
Amplified Bible
But the king of the Ammonites disregarded the message of Jephthah, which he sent to him.
New American Standard Bible
But the king of the sons of Ammon disregarded the message which Jephthah sent him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howbeit the King of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the wordes of Iphtah, which he had sent him.
Contemporary English Version
But the king of Ammon paid no attention to Jephthah's message.
Complete Jewish Bible
But the king of the people of ‘Amon paid no attention to the message Yiftach sent him.
Darby Translation
But the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthah that he had sent him.
Easy-to-Read Version
The king of the Ammonites refused to listen to this message from Jephthah.
George Lamsa Translation
But the king of the children of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Good News Translation
But the king of Ammon paid no attention to this message from Jephthah.
Literal Translation
And the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent to him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles the kynge of the children of Ammon wolde not heare ye wordes of Iephthae, which he sent vnto him.
American Standard Version
Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Bible in Basic English
The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howbeit, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the wordes of Iephthah, which he sent him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
King James Version (1611)
Howbeit, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the words of Iephthah which hee sent him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthae, which he sent to him.
English Revised Version
Howbeit the king of the children Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Berean Standard Bible
But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the kyng of the sones of Amon nolde assente to the wordis of Jepte, whiche he sente bi messangeris.
Young's Literal Translation
And the king of the Bene-Ammon hath not hearkened unto the words of Jephthah which he sent unto him,
Update Bible Version
Nevertheless the king of the sons of Ammon didn't listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Webster's Bible Translation
But, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
World English Bible
However the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
New King James Version
However, the king of the people of Ammon did not heed the words which Jephthah sent him.
New Living Translation
But the king of Ammon paid no attention to Jephthah's message.
New Life Bible
But the king of the people of Ammon would not listen to what Jephthah said
New Revised Standard
But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message that Jephthah sent him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But the king of the sons of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah, which he sent unto him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king of the children of Ammon would not hearken to the words of Jephte, which he sent him by the messengers.
Revised Standard Version
But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message of Jephthah which he sent to him.
THE MESSAGE
But the king of the Ammonites refused to listen to a word that Jephthah had sent him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the king of the sons of Ammon disregarded the message which Jephthah sent him.

Contextual Overview

12These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; 13wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. 14But Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, also prophesied about these men, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, 15to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." 16These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of their own benefit. 17But you, beloved, must remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18that they were saying to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts." 19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, not having the Spirit. 20But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Kings 14:11, Proverbs 16:18

Cross-References

Genesis 11:2
And it happened as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
Genesis 11:31
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.
Genesis 15:7
And He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it."
Nehemiah 9:7
You are Yahweh God,Who chose AbramAnd brought him out from Ur of the Chaldees,And gave him the name Abraham.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him. He attended not to the arguments Jephthah made use of, and did not choose to seem at least to be convinced by them, nor to regard the awful appeal he had made to the great Jehovah.

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.


 
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