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Judges chapter 11

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Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
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And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
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Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
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And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
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And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
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And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
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And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
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And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
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And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
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And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
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Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
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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?
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And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
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And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:
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And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
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But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
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Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
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Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
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And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.
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But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
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And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
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And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
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So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
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Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
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And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
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While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
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Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
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Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
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Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
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And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
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Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
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So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
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And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
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And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
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And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
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And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
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And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
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And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
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And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
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That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Judges chapter 12

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And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
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And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
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And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
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And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
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Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
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And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
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And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
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And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
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Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
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And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
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And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
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And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
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And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
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And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

Psalm chapter 50

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The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
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Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
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Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
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He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
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Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
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And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
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Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
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I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
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For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
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I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
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If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
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Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
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And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
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Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
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When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
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Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
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Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
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These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
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Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
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Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

2 Corinthians chapter 1

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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
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Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
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Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
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For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
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And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
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And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
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For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
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Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
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Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
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As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
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And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
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When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
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But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
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For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
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Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
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Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
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Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
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Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

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