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The messenger reports that the king of Ammon refuses Jephthah’s appeal.
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Judges 11:23-28

The appeal is rejected

Jephthah and His Vow · Judges 11

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23And now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to possess it?

24Will you not possess what Chemosh your god causes you to possess? And all that Yahweh our God has dispossessed before us, that we will possess.

25And now, are you really better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

26While Israel has lived in Heshbon and its daughter towns, and in Aroer and its daughter towns, and in all the cities that are along the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not recover them during that time?

27I have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me. May Yahweh, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.

28But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him.

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