Judges 11:1
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.
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Judges 11:1
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.
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Judges 11:2
And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.
Judges 11:3
So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of good-for-nothing men, joining Jephthah, went out with him on his undertakings.
Judges 11:4
Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
Judges 11:5
And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;
Judges 11:6
And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.
Judges 11:7
But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?
Judges 11:8
And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead.
Judges 11:9
Then Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, If you take me back to make war against the children of Ammon, and if with the help of the Lord I overcome them, will you make me your head?
Judges 11:10
And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.
Hebrews 11:32
What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:
Judges 6:12
And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.
Deuteronomy 23:2
One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.
Judges 11:30
And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands,
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1 Chronicles 7:14
The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;
1 Chronicles 7:15
(And Gilead took a wife, whose name was Maacah, and his sister's name was Hammoleketh;) and the name of his brother was Zelophehad, who was the father of daughters.
1 Chronicles 7:16
And Maacah, the wife of Gilead, gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Peresh; and his brother was named Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
1 Chronicles 7:17
And the son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir the son of Manasseh.
Judges 8:31
And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.
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Joshua 2:1
Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a loose woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.
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John 1:12
To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:
John 1:13
Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
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