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Judges 12:3

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Judges 12:3

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”

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KJV

King James Version

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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WEB

World English Bible

When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”

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ASV

American Standard Version

And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Judges 12

1 Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”

2 But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.

3 When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”

4 Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”

5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

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Berean Standard Bible · Public domain
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King James Version · Public domain outside the United Kingdom
King James (Authorized) Version, standardized 1769 text, provided by the CrossWire Bible Society and eBible.org. Square brackets indicate supplied words; ¶ marks a paragraph in this source.

World English Bible · Public domain
Protestant edition, 66 books, American spelling; uses LORD/GOD for the divine name. Text supplied by eBible.org.

American Standard Version · Public domain
American Standard Version (1901). Text supplied by eBible.org.

Berean Literal Bible · Public domain
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