Juges 11:17

La Bible David Martin

Et qu'il eut envoyé des messagers au Roi d'Edom, pour lui dire : Que je passe, je te prie, par ton pays; à quoi le Roi d'Edom ne voulut point entendre; et qu'il eut aussi envoyé au Roi de Moab, qui ne le voulut point non plus [entendre]; et après qu'Israël ayant demeuré à Kadès,

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et envoya des d�put�s au roi d'�dom, pour lui dire: Laisse-moi passer par ton pays. Mais le roi d'�dom n'y consentit pas. Et il en envoya de m�me au roi de Moab, qui refusa, et Isra�l resta � Kad�s.

Darby's French Translation
et Isra�l envoya des messagers au roi d'�dom, disant: Laisse-moi passer par ton pays; mais le roi d'�dom n'�couta pas. Et il envoya aussi au roi de Moab; mais il ne voulut pas. Et Isra�l demeura � Kad�s.

Louis Segond (1910)
Alors Isra�l envoya des messagers au roi d'Edom, pour lui dire: Laisse-moi passer par ton pays. Mais le roi d'Edom n'y consentit pas. Il en envoya aussi au roi de Moab, qui refusa. Et Isra�l resta � Kad�s.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sent messengers: Numbers 20:14-21, Deuteronomy 2:4-8, Deuteronomy 2:29

the king: Deuteronomy 2:9

abode: Numbers 20:1, Numbers 20:16

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:20 - Thou shalt Deuteronomy 1:46 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom,.... The history of which may be read in Numbers 20:14, c.

saying, let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land the land of Edom, from the south to the north of it, according to Jarchi, which was the nearest and shortest way to the land of Canaan; so far were the Israelites from invading and seizing upon the properties of others, that they would not attempt to set their foot in another's country without leave; which they asked in an humble manner, promising to do no injury to any, but pay for whatever they ate and drank in their passage:

but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto; or grant their request, but refused them passage through his country:

and in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab, but he would not consent; that they should pass through his country, which lay, as Jarchi says, at the end of the land of Edom, to the west of it, and to the south of Canaan; and though we nowhere else read of their sending messengers to the king of Moab, and of the denial he made them, it is not at all to be doubted of, and the Jewish commentators observe, that it is clearly intimated by Moses, Deuteronomy 2:29

as the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, and the Moabites which dwelt in Ar, did unto me; which they interpret thus, as the children of Esau would not suffer Israel to pass through their land, when desired of them, so neither would the Moabites, when the same request was made to them:

and Israel abode in Kadesh; quietly and peaceably, and did not attempt to force their way through either country, but continued in Kadesh some little time to consider what way they should take, and to wait for divine direction.

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.