Judges 11:23

So now the LORD, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

In Context

22They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.

24Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the LORD our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

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Cross References

Genesis 48:22Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

2 Chronicles 20:11behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

Matthew Henry on Judges 11:13-29

The War with the Ammonites. ( b. c. 1143.) 12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land? 13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably. 14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children… Read the whole commentary →

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