So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsSo now Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess them?
Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, should you now possess it?
`And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His people Israel, and thou wouldest possess it!
And now Jehovah theGod of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou take possession of it?
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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