Judges 11:23
Judges 11:14-27 The Message (MSG)
Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites with the message: “Jephthah’s word: Israel took no Moabite land and no Ammonite land. When they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the desert as far as the Red Sea, arriving at Kadesh. There Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom saying, ‘Let us pass through your land, please.’ But the king of Edom wouldn’t let them. Israel also requested permission from the king of Moab, but he wouldn’t let them cross either. They were stopped in their tracks at Kadesh. So they traveled across the desert and circled around the lands of Edom and Moab. They came out east of the land of Moab and set camp on the other side of the Arnon—they didn’t set foot in Moabite territory, for Arnon was the Moabite border. Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites at Heshbon the capital. Israel asked, ‘Let us pass, please, through your land on the way to our country.’ But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to cut across his land; he got his entire army together, set up camp at Jahaz, and fought Israel. But GOD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his troops to Israel. Israel defeated them. Israel took all the Amorite land, all Amorite land from Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan. It was GOD, the God of Israel, who pushed out the Amorites in favor of Israel; so who do you think you are to try to take it over? Why don’t you just be satisfied with what your god Chemosh gives you and we’ll settle for what GOD, our God, gives us? Do you think you’re going to come off better than Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab? Did he get anywhere in opposing Israel? Did he risk war? All this time—it’s been three hundred years now!—that Israel has lived in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the towns along the Arnon, why didn’t you try to snatch them away then? No, I haven’t wronged you. But this is an evil thing that you are doing to me by starting a fight. Today GOD the Judge will decide between the People of Israel and the people of Ammon.”
Judges 11:23 King James Version (KJV)
So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges 11:23 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Since now the LORD, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites from before His people Israel, are you then to possess it?
Judges 11:23 New Century Version (NCV)
“It was the LORD, the God of Israel, who forced out the Amorites ahead of the people of Israel. So do you think you can make them leave?
Judges 11:23 American Standard Version (ASV)
So now Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess them?
Judges 11:23 New International Version (NIV)
“Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over?
Judges 11:23 New King James Version (NKJV)
‘And now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before His people Israel; should you then possess it?
Judges 11:23 Amplified Bible (AMP)
And now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed and driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, so [why] should you possess it?
Judges 11:23 New Living Translation (NLT)
“So you see, it was the LORD, the God of Israel, who took away the land from the Amorites and gave it to Israel. Why, then, should we give it back to you?