Judges 11:13

Easy To Read Version

The king of the Ammonite people said to the messengers of Jephthah, “We are fighting Israel because the people of Israel took our land when they came up from Egypt. They took our land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River to the Jordan River. Now tell the people of Israel to give our land back to us in peace.”

Cross References

Genesis 32:22

Later that night, Jacob got up and left that place. Jacob took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven sons with him. Jacob crossed the Jabbok River at the crossing.

Proverbs 19:5

A person who tells a lie against another person will be punished. The person who tells lies will not be safe.

Proverbs 19:9

A lying witness must be punished! The person who tells lies will be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 2:37

But you did not go near the land that belongs to the people of Ammon. You did not go near the shores of the Jabbok River or the cities of the hill country. You did not go near any place that the Lord our God would not let us have.

Deuteronomy 3:16

And to the Reuben family group and the Gad family group, I gave the land that begins at Gilead. This land goes from the Arnon Valley to the Jabbok River. The middle of the valley is one border. The Jabbok River is the border for the Ammonite people.

Judges 11:12

Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites. The messengers gave the king this message: “What is the problem between the Ammonites and the people of Israel? Why have you come to fight in our land?”

Judges 11:14

So the messengers of Jephthah took this message back to Jephthah. [97] Then Jephthah sent the messengers to the king of the Ammonite people again.