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Myles Coverdale Bible

Judges 11:6

and sayde vnto him: Come, and be oure captayne, and fight agaynst the children of Ammon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Jephthah;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jephthah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ammonites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Children;   Jephthah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elder;   Leadership;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Vow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bastard;   Captain;   Jephthah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chief;   Jephthah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Gilead;   Jephthah;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Saviour (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jephtha;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jephthah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Captain;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;   Jephthah;   Testament;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captain;   Courts, Judicial;   Jephthah;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bastard;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jephthah;   King;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They said to him, “Come, be our commander, and let’s fight the Ammonites.”
Hebrew Names Version
and they said to Yiftach, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of `Ammon.
King James Version
And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Lexham English Bible
And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our commander, so that we may make war against the Ammonites."
English Standard Version
And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the Ammonites."
New Century Version
They said to him, "Come and lead our army so we can fight the Ammonites."
New English Translation
They said, "Come, be our commander, so we can fight with the Ammonites."
Amplified Bible
and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, so that we may fight against the Ammonites."
New American Standard Bible
and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the sons of Ammon."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they saide vnto Iphtah, Come and be our captaine, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Legacy Standard Bible
en hulle het vir Jefta gesê: Kom en wees ons aanvoerder, dat ons kan veg teen die kinders van Ammon.
Contemporary English Version
"Please come back to Gilead! If you lead our army, we will be able to fight off the Ammonites."
Complete Jewish Bible
and said to him, "Come and be our chief, so that we can fight the army of ‘Amon."
Darby Translation
And they said to Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight against the children of Ammon.
Easy-to-Read Version
The elders said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader so that we can fight the Ammonites."
George Lamsa Translation
And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our leader, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Good News Translation
They told him, "Come and lead us, so that we can fight the Ammonites."
Literal Translation
And they said to Jephthah, Come, and you shall be our commander, that we may fight against the sons of Ammon.
American Standard Version
and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Bible in Basic English
And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And sayde vnto him: Come, and be our captayne, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they said unto Jephthah: 'Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.'
King James Version (1611)
And they said vnto Iephthah, Come and bee our Captaine, that wee may fight with the children of Ammon.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they said to Jephthae, Come, and be our head, and we will fight with the sons of Ammon.
English Revised Version
and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Berean Standard Bible
"Come," they said, "be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thei seiden to hym, Come thou, and be oure prince, and fiyte ayens the sones of Amon.
Young's Literal Translation
and they say unto Jephthah, `Come, and thou hast been to us for captain, and we fight against the Bene-Ammon.'
Update Bible Version
and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the sons of Ammon.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they said to Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
World English Bible
and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
New King James Version
Then they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our commander, that we may fight against the people of Ammon."
New Living Translation
The elders said, "Come and be our commander! Help us fight the Ammonites!"
New Life Bible
They said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, so we may fight against the men of Ammon."
New Revised Standard
They said to Jephthah, "Come and be our commander, so that we may fight with the Ammonites."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they said to Jephthah, Oh! come and be our commander, - that we may do battle with the sons of Ammon.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they said to him: Come thou, and be our prince, and fight against the children of Ammon.
Revised Standard Version
and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight with the Ammonites."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our chief that we may fight against the sons of Ammon."

Contextual Overview

4 And after a certayne tyme foughte the children of Ammon with Israel. 5 Now wha the childre of Ammon foughte thus with Israel, the Elders wente from Gilead to fetch Iephthae out of the londe of Tob, 6 and sayde vnto him: Come, and be oure captayne, and fight agaynst the children of Ammon. 7 But Iephthae sayde vnto the Eldes of Gilead: Are not ye they that hate me and haue thrust me out of my fathers house, and now come ye to me whan ye are in trouble? 8 The Elders of Gilead sayde: Therfore come we now againe vnto the, that thou mayest go with vs, and fighte agaynst the children of Ammon, and be oure captayne ouer all that dwell in Gilead. 9 Iephthae sayde vnto the Elders of Gilead: Yf ye fetch me agayne to fighte agaynst the childre of Ammon, and the LORDE delyuer them before me shal I then be youre heade? 10 The Elders of Gilead saide vnto Iephthae: The LORDE be hearer betwene vs, yf we do not as thou hast sayde. 11 So Iephthae wete with the Elders of Gilead. And the people made him heade and duke ouer them. And Iephthae spake all this before the LORDE at Mispa.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Isaiah 3:6 - a man

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
And the LORDE God sayde: lo, Adam is become as it were one of vs, & knoweth good & euell. But now lest he stretch his hande, and take also of the tre of life, and eate, and lyue for euer.
Genesis 6:5
But whan the LORDE sawe yt the wickednes of man was increased vpon ye earth, and that all ye thought and imaginacion of their hert was but onely euell contynually,
Genesis 8:21
And ye LORDE smelled the swete sauor, & sayde in his hert: I wyl hence forth curse the earth nomore for mas sake, for the ymaginacion of mans hert is euell, euen from the very youth of him. Therfore from hece forth I wil nomore smyte all that lyueth, as I haue done.
Genesis 9:19
These are Noes thre sonnes, of whom all londes were ouerspred.
Genesis 11:1
Morouer all the worlde had one tonge & language.
Genesis 11:4
And sayde: Come, let vs buylde a cite & a tower, whose toppe maye reach vnto heaue, yt we maye make vs a name, afore we be scatred abrode in all londes.
Judges 10:14
Go youre waye, and crye vpon the goddes whom ye haue chosen, let them helpe you in the tyme of youre trouble.
1 Kings 18:27
Now whan it was noone daye, Elias mocked them, and sayde: Crye loude. For he is a god, peradueture he is musynge, or hath somwhat to do, or is gone some iourneye, or happlye he slepeth, so that he wolde be waked vp.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Be glad then (O thou yonge man) in thy youth, and lat thine hert be mery in thy yonge dayes: folowe the wayes of thine owne hert, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shal bringe the in to iudgment for all these thinges.
Luke 1:51
He sheweth strength with his arme, and scatreth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hert.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they said unto Jephthah, come and be our captain,.... The general of their army, to conduct and lead on their forces; they did not propose him to be their king, being convinced by Abimelech's conduct that such a step would be wrong; nor did they say anything of his being their judge, having no other view than to serve their present exigence; besides, a judge was not one chosen by the people, but raised up of God, and which honour was conferred on Jephthah afterwards:

that we may fight with the children of Ammon; with judgment, courage, and success; they did not make this proposal to him to save themselves from being engaged in the war, but that they might have one skilful in military affairs at the head of them, to instruct them in the art of war, and lead them on in a regular manner, and animate them by his brave example.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 11:6. Come, and be our captain — The Israelites were assembled in Mizpeh, but were without a captain to lead them against the Ammonites. And we find, from the conclusion of the preceding chapter, that they offered the command to any that would accept it.


 
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