Judges 11:10 KJV — MannaFest

And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.

KJV

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ASV

And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Jehovah shall be witness between us; surely according to thy word so will we do.

WEB

And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”

YLT

And the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, `Jehovah is hearkening between us--if according to thy word we do not so.'

DBT

And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Jehovah be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words!

About this book

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Judges — 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

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Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.
Genesis 31:50
If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

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The Lord be a hearer, so the word is. Whatever we speak, it concerns us to remember that God is a hearer, and to speak accordingly. Thus was the original contract ratified between Jephthah and the Gileadites, which all Israel, it should seem, agreed to afterwards, for it is said ( ch. xii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H331630× in canon H1568134× in canon H2205178× in canon

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JDG 11:10EXO 20:7 DEU 5:11
JDG 11:10EXO 20:7 LEV 19:12
JDG 11:10EXO 20:7 JAS 5:12
JDG 11:10EXO 20:7 MAT 5:33-37
JDG 11:10JER 29:23 MAL 3:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 11:10EXO 20:7 PSA 50:14-16
JDG 11:10GEN 31:50 MIC 1:2
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 11:10GEN 31:50 JER 42:5

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