Judges 11:2

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Gilead’s wife also gave birth to sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they threw Jephthah out. They told him, “You’ll get no inheritance from our father. You’re the son of that other woman.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

There was a famine in the land. Abram went to Egypt to stay awhile because the famine was severe.

Genesis 21:10

She said to Abraham, “Get rid of this slave and her son, because this slave’s son must never share the inheritance with my son Isaac.”

Proverbs 2:16

⌞Wisdom will⌟ also save you from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk,

Proverbs 5:20

Why should you, my son, be intoxicated with an adulterous woman and fondle a loose woman’s breast?

Proverbs 5:3

The lips of an adulterous woman drip with honey. Her kiss is smoother than oil,

Galatians 4:30

But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, because the son of the slave woman must never share the inheritance with the son of the free woman.”

Deuteronomy 23:2

A man born from an illicit union may not join the assembly of the Lord. No descendant of his may join the assembly of the Lord for ten generations.

Judges 11:1

Jephthah was a soldier from the region of Gilead. Jephthah’s father was named Gilead. His mother was a prostitute.

Judges 11:3

Jephthah fled from his brothers. He went to live in the land of Tob. Worthless men gathered around Jephthah and went out ⌞on raids⌟ with him.