Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon;
WEB
Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites
YLT
And Jephthah addeth yet and sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon,
DBT
And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon,
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
- Author
- Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
- Date
- Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy