Judges 11:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What is there between you and me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, What have you to do with me, that you have come against me to fight in my land?

American Standard Version (1901)

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 unto me to fight against my land?

Common English Bible

¹² Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king, saying, “What is the problem between us that you’ve come against me to make war in my land?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And he sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, who said on his behalf, "What is there between you and me, that you would approach against me, so that you might lay waste to my land?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And he sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, to say in his name: What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me, to waste my land?

Judges 11:12 Cross References

Numbers 20:14

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the adversity that has befallen us,

Numbers 21:21

Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,

Matthew 8:29

Suddenly they shouted, “What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Deuteronomy 2:26

“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following terms of peace:

Judges 11:11

So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them, and Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 11:13

The king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel, on coming from Egypt, took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

Judges 12:2

Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were engaged in conflict with the Ammonites who oppressed us severely. But when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.