Richter 11:26

Lutherbibel

Dieweil nun Israel dreihundert Jahre gewohnt hat in Hesbon und in Aroer und ihren Ortschaften und allen Städten, die am Arnon liegen, warum errettetet ihr's nicht in dieser Zeit?

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Da nun Israel dreihundert Jahre lang in Hesbon und seinen Dörfern, in Aroer und seinen Dörfern und in allen Städten, die am Arnon liegen, gewohnt hat, warum nahmet ihr sie ihnen nicht weg während dieser Zeit?

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
W�hrend Israel in Hesbon wohnte und in seinen Tochterst�dten, und in Aroer und in seinen Tochterst�dten, und in all den St�dten, die l�ngs des Arnon liegen, dreihundert Jahre lang: warum habt ihr sie denn nicht in jener Zeit entrissen?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Heshbon: Numbers 21:25-30, Deuteronomy 2:24, Deuteronomy 3:2, Deuteronomy 3:6, Joshua 12:2, Joshua 12:5, Joshua 13:10

Aroer: Deuteronomy 2:36

three hundred: Judges 3:11, Judges 3:30, Judges 5:31, Judges 8:28, Judges 9:22, Judges 10:2, Judges 10:3, Judges 10:8, Joshua 11:18, Joshua 23:1

Reciprocal: Numbers 32:3 - Heshbon 1 Kings 6:1 - And it came

Gill's Notes on the Bible

While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns,.... This was the principal city, which formerly belonged to the Moabites, and was taken from them by Sihon; who being conquered by Israel, it fell into their hands, and they inhabited it, and the towns adjacent to it, from that time to the present; see Numbers 21:25

and in Aroer and her towns; another city with its villages, taken at the same time, and ever since inhabited by the Israelites, even by the tribe of Gad, who rebuilt it; it lay near the river Arnon; see

Numbers 32:34

and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon; which lay along by the side of that river, which divided Moab from the kingdom of the Amorites; these Israel had dwelt in three hundred years; and during this time, neither Balak king of Moab, nor any of his successors, had ever disputed Israel's title to those cities, or commenced a war with them on account of them; but they had continued in the peaceable enjoyment of them so long as three hundred years; which are thus reckoned in the Jewish chronology z; Joshua governed Israel twenty eight years, Othniel forty, Ehud eighty, Deborah forty, Gideon forty, Abimelech three, Tola twenty three, Jair twenty two, and eighteen years Israel was oppressed by the children of Ammon, which with the six years of Jephthah make just three hundred; so that, according to this computation, there were six years short of it; but being so near, the round number is given:

why therefore did ye not recover them within that time? signifying they ought to have put in their claim sooner, and endeavoured to have recovered them long before this time, if they had any right unto them; wherefore Jephthah pleads prescription, and which in a course of time ought to take place; or otherwise the world would be full of endless contentions and controversies, and kingdoms and states would never be at peace, nor each one know and enjoy for certainty its proper domains.

z Seder Olam Rabba, c. 12. Vid. Jarchium & Kimchium in loc.

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.