Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 263
The History of the People of Israel
Have you not the Mitzerites} and the Amorites, and the Beni·Amc>n, and the Philis- tines, and the Zidonians, as refugee from oppression for yourselves ? that you call to Me to save you from their hand, when you have forsaken Me, and served other gods? Therefore I will not continue to save you! Go, and call the gods whom you have chosen for yourselves :··—Let them save you in the period of your dis~ (B.c. 1143.) ®ly2 Qizirzszzh muh 16 18 Qepzniani £niiun rzirult smh seek a Eznhzr. The Children of Israel, however,
We have sinned! Do to us all that is good in Your sight! Oh! save us now, to- And they put away the foreign gods from amongst them, and served the EVER-LIVING, and He stayed His auger against Israel. Then the Aimonites assembled and
encamped in Gilad, and the Children of Israel collected and encamped in Mizphah. But the army said to the We have not a man to lead us. Let the man who is able to tight with the Amonites be the head of all the inhabitants of Gilad!
(ac. 1143.) 3apl;tI3nl) rbuzzrt as 11 Ember nf ®ilab. Now japhthah the Giladite was a
heroic man ;———but he was the son of a foreigner who bore japhthah to Gilad. His Giladite wife also bore him sons, and that womarfs sons grew up, and drove japhthah out, You shall not inherit with the family of our father,··—for you are japhthah consequently fied from the presence of his brothers, and lived in the country of Tob, where japhthah collected vagabond fellows who came to him. 3u (Errtbuxsg sent in .$ap!;t!;al;. 4 This was in the time when the Amonites were at war with the
5 Children of Israel. So the judges of I Egyptians. -—F. F. Gilad went to bring japhthah from the district of Tob. And they said to Come and be our Leader, and fight for us with the Amonitesf But japhthah replied to the judges
Did you not hate me, and drive me from the house of my father? Then why should you come to me now that you are in distress ? ’ The judges of Gilad, however,
In spite of that, return now with us, and iight the Amonites, and you shall be the chief of all the inhabitants of Gilad. Then japhthah said to the judges of
If I return with you to fight the Amonites, and the EvER·L1v1NG gives them to my advance, am I to be your chief? ’ And the judges of Gilad answered
Let the Evan - Liviivo decide between us, if it is not done as you say l ’ IO
iinpljibnly nrrrpis tbz Glhizfiainzlyip nf (liiiah. japhthah thereupon went with the 11 judges of Gilad, and the people appointed hirn over themselves asa chief and leader, and japhthah took the oaths before them in Mizphah. in lytlyab zzxthz u jtlessa z in the P 9 Ziing nf Qlmun. Then japhthah sent Messengers to
the king of the Amonites, to say ; ‘ What is there between me and you, that you have come to fight me in my country ? ’ When the king of Amon answered
Because Israel when coming up from the Mitzeraimi seized my country from Arnon to the jabok, and the jordan. But you can go back to them in I2
Swank llinrlrnzsg sent hg Qlnplyilyaly. But japhthah sent Messengers again
to the king of the Beni—Amon and said to him, ‘]aphthah replied thus ; ‘ Israel did
not seize the country of Moab and the country of the Beni—Amon, for in the coming up from the Mitzeraim,1 Israel went in the desert by the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh, when Israel sent Messengers to the king of Edom I wish to pass over by your 1 Egypt.·——F. F. `l;»·. 16
