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Judges 11:24 KJV
Judges · chapter 11 · verse 24
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.Judges 11:24 · King James Version
Judges 11:24 in context
22And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
23So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
24Wilt 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.
25And 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,
26While 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?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- possessyârashto occupyH3423 →
- ChemoshKᵉmôwshKemosh, the god of the MoabitesH3645 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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We have here the treaty between Jephthah, now judge of Israel, and the king of the Ammonites (who is not named), that the controversy between the two nations might, if possible, be accommodated without the effusion of blood. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-28