And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsand he said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;
to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.
and saith to him, `Thus said Jephthah, Israel took not the land of Moab, and the land of the Bene-Ammon,
and said to him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon.
About this book
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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