╩─╟ 11:1 ╬OW ╩EPHTHAH THE ╟ILEADITE WAS A MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR, AND HE WAS THE SON OF AN HARLOT: AND ╟ILEAD BEGAT ╩EPHTHAH.
╩─╟ 11:2 ┴ND ╟ILEAD'S WIFE BARE HIM SONS; AND HIS WIFE'S SONS GREW UP, AND THEY THRUST OUT ╩EPHTHAH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HOU SHALT NOT INHERIT IN OUR FATHER'S HOUSE; FOR THOU ART THE SON OF A STRANGE WOMAN.
╩─╟ 11:3 ╘HEN ╩EPHTHAH FLED FROM HIS BRETHREN, AND DWELT IN THE LAND OF ╘OB: AND THERE WERE GATHERED VAIN MEN TO ╩EPHTHAH, AND WENT OUT WITH HIM.
╩─╟ 11:4 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS IN PROCESS OF TIME, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON MADE WAR AGAINST ╔SRAEL.
╩─╟ 11:5 ┴ND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON MADE WAR AGAINST ╔SRAEL, THE ELDERS OF ╟ILEAD WENT TO FETCH ╩EPHTHAH OUT OF THE LAND OF ╘OB:
╩─╟ 11:6 ┴ND THEY SAID UNTO ╩EPHTHAH, ├OME, AND BE OUR CAPTAIN, THAT WE MAY FIGHT WITH THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON.
╩─╟ 11:7 ┴ND ╩EPHTHAH SAID UNTO THE ELDERS OF ╟ILEAD, ─ID 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?
╩─╟ 11:8 ┴ND THE ELDERS OF ╟ILEAD SAID UNTO ╩EPHTHAH, ╘HEREFORE WE TURN AGAIN TO THEE NOW, THAT THOU MAYEST GO WITH US, AND FIGHT AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON, AND BE OUR HEAD OVER ALL THE INHABITANTS OF ╟ILEAD.
╩─╟ 11:9 ┴ND ╩EPHTHAH SAID UNTO THE ELDERS OF ╟ILEAD, ╔F YE BRING ME HOME AGAIN TO FIGHT AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON, AND THE ╠╧╥─ DELIVER THEM BEFORE ME, SHALL ╔ BE YOUR HEAD?
╩─╟ 11:10 ┴ND THE ELDERS OF ╟ILEAD SAID UNTO ╩EPHTHAH, ╘HE ╠╧╥─ BE WITNESS BETWEEN US, IF WE DO NOT SO ACCORDING TO THY WORDS.
╩─╟ 11:11 ╘HEN ╩EPHTHAH WENT WITH THE ELDERS OF ╟ILEAD, AND THE PEOPLE MADE HIM HEAD AND CAPTAIN OVER THEM: AND ╩EPHTHAH UTTERED ALL HIS WORDS BEFORE THE ╠╧╥─ IN ═IZPEH.
╩─╟ 11:12 ┴ND ╩EPHTHAH SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON, SAYING, ╫HAT HAST THOU TO DO WITH ME, THAT THOU ART COME AGAINST ME TO FIGHT IN MY LAND?
╩─╟ 11:13 ┴ND THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON ANSWERED UNTO THE MESSENGERS OF ╩EPHTHAH, ┬ECAUSE ╔SRAEL TOOK AWAY MY LAND, WHEN THEY CAME UP OUT OF ┼GYPT, FROM ┴RNON EVEN UNTO ╩ABBOK, AND UNTO ╩ORDAN: NOW THEREFORE RESTORE THOSE LANDS AGAIN PEACEABLY.
╩─╟ 11:14 ┴ND ╩EPHTHAH SENT MESSENGERS AGAIN UNTO THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON:
╩─╟ 11:15 ┴ND SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HUS SAITH ╩EPHTHAH, ╔SRAEL TOOK NOT AWAY THE LAND OF ═OAB, NOR THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON:
╩─╟ 11:16 ┬UT WHEN ╔SRAEL CAME UP FROM ┼GYPT, AND WALKED THROUGH THE WILDERNESS UNTO THE ╥ED SEA, AND CAME TO ╦ADESH;
╩─╟ 11:17 ╘HEN ╔SRAEL SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE KING OF ┼DOM, SAYING, ╠ET ME, ╔ PRAY THEE, PASS THROUGH THY LAND: BUT THE KING OF ┼DOM WOULD NOT HEARKEN THERETO. ┴ND IN LIKE MANNER THEY SENT UNTO THE KING OF ═OAB: BUT HE WOULD NOT CONSENT: AND ╔SRAEL ABODE IN ╦ADESH.
╩─╟ 11:18 ╘HEN THEY WENT ALONG THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, AND COMPASSED THE LAND OF ┼DOM, AND THE LAND OF ═OAB, AND CAME BY THE EAST SIDE OF THE LAND OF ═OAB, AND PITCHED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ┴RNON, BUT CAME NOT WITHIN THE BORDER OF ═OAB: FOR ┴RNON WAS THE BORDER OF ═OAB.
╩─╟ 11:19 ┴ND ╔SRAEL SENT MESSENGERS UNTO ╙IHON KING OF THE ┴MORITES, THE KING OF ╚ESHBON; AND ╔SRAEL SAID UNTO HIM, ╠ET US PASS, WE PRAY THEE, THROUGH THY LAND INTO MY PLACE.
╩─╟ 11:20 ┬UT ╙IHON TRUSTED NOT ╔SRAEL TO PASS THROUGH HIS COAST: BUT ╙IHON GATHERED ALL HIS PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND PITCHED IN ╩AHAZ, AND FOUGHT AGAINST ╔SRAEL.
╩─╟ 11:21 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL DELIVERED ╙IHON AND ALL HIS PEOPLE INTO THE HAND OF ╔SRAEL, AND THEY SMOTE THEM: SO ╔SRAEL POSSESSED ALL THE LAND OF THE ┴MORITES, THE INHABITANTS OF THAT COUNTRY.
╩─╟ 11:22 ┴ND THEY POSSESSED ALL THE COASTS OF THE ┴MORITES, FROM ┴RNON EVEN UNTO ╩ABBOK, AND FROM THE WILDERNESS EVEN UNTO ╩ORDAN.
╩─╟ 11:23 ╙O NOW THE ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL HATH DISPOSSESSED THE ┴MORITES FROM BEFORE HIS PEOPLE ╔SRAEL, AND SHOULDEST THOU POSSESS IT?
╩─╟ 11:24 ╫ILT NOT THOU POSSESS THAT WHICH ├HEMOSH THY GOD GIVETH THEE TO POSSESS? ╙O WHOMSOEVER THE ╠╧╥─ OUR ╟OD SHALL DRIVE OUT FROM BEFORE US, THEM WILL WE POSSESS.
╩─╟ 11:25 ┴ND NOW ART THOU ANY THING BETTER THAN ┬ALAK THE SON OF ┌IPPOR, KING OF ═OAB? DID HE EVER STRIVE AGAINST ╔SRAEL, OR DID HE EVER FIGHT AGAINST THEM,
╩─╟ 11:26 ╫HILE ╔SRAEL DWELT IN ╚ESHBON AND HER TOWNS, AND IN ┴ROER AND HER TOWNS, AND IN ALL THE CITIES THAT BE ALONG BY THE COASTS OF ┴RNON, THREE HUNDRED YEARS? WHY THEREFORE DID YE NOT RECOVER THEM WITHIN THAT TIME?
╩─╟ 11:27 ╫HEREFORE ╔ HAVE NOT SINNED AGAINST THEE, BUT THOU DOEST ME WRONG TO WAR AGAINST ME: THE ╠╧╥─ THE ╩UDGE BE JUDGE THIS DAY BETWEEN THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL AND THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON.
╩─╟ 11:28 ╚OWBEIT THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON HEARKENED NOT UNTO THE WORDS OF ╩EPHTHAH WHICH HE SENT HIM.
╩─╟ 11:29 ╘HEN THE ╙PIRIT OF THE ╠╧╥─ CAME UPON ╩EPHTHAH, AND HE PASSED OVER ╟ILEAD, AND ═ANASSEH, AND PASSED OVER ═IZPEH OF ╟ILEAD, AND FROM ═IZPEH OF ╟ILEAD HE PASSED OVER UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON.
╩─╟ 11:30 ┴ND ╩EPHTHAH VOWED A VOW UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, AND SAID, ╔F THOU SHALT WITHOUT FAIL DELIVER THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON INTO MINE HANDS,
╩─╟ 11:31 ╘HEN IT SHALL BE, THAT WHATSOEVER COMETH FORTH OF THE DOORS OF MY HOUSE TO MEET ME, WHEN ╔ RETURN IN PEACE FROM THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON, SHALL SURELY BE THE ╠╧╥─'S, AND ╔ WILL OFFER IT UP FOR A BURNT OFFERING.
╩─╟ 11:32 ╙O ╩EPHTHAH PASSED OVER UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON TO FIGHT AGAINST THEM; AND THE ╠╧╥─ DELIVERED THEM INTO HIS HANDS.
╩─╟ 11:33 ┴ND HE SMOTE THEM FROM ┴ROER, EVEN TILL THOU COME TO ═INNITH, EVEN TWENTY CITIES, AND UNTO THE PLAIN OF THE VINEYARDS, WITH A VERY GREAT SLAUGHTER. ╘HUS THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON WERE SUBDUED BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL.
╩─╟ 11:34 ┴ND ╩EPHTHAH CAME TO ═IZPEH 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.
╩─╟ 11:35 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE SAW HER, THAT HE RENT HIS CLOTHES, AND SAID, ┴LAS, MY DAUGHTER! THOU HAST BROUGHT ME VERY LOW, AND THOU ART ONE OF THEM THAT TROUBLE ME: FOR ╔ HAVE OPENED MY MOUTH UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, AND ╔ CANNOT GO BACK.
╩─╟ 11:36 ┴ND SHE SAID UNTO HIM, ═Y FATHER, IF THOU HAST OPENED THY MOUTH UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, DO TO ME ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH HATH PROCEEDED OUT OF THY MOUTH; FORASMUCH AS THE ╠╧╥─ HATH TAKEN VENGEANCE FOR THEE OF THINE ENEMIES, EVEN OF THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON.
╩─╟ 11:37 ┴ND SHE SAID UNTO HER FATHER, ╠ET THIS THING BE DONE FOR ME: LET ME ALONE TWO MONTHS, THAT ╔ MAY GO UP AND DOWN UPON THE MOUNTAINS, AND BEWAIL MY VIRGINITY, ╔ AND MY FELLOWS.
╩─╟ 11:38 ┴ND HE SAID, ╟O. ┴ND HE SENT HER AWAY FOR TWO MONTHS: AND SHE WENT WITH HER COMPANIONS, AND BEWAILED HER VIRGINITY UPON THE MOUNTAINS.
╩─╟ 11:39 ┴ND 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. ┴ND IT WAS A CUSTOM IN ╔SRAEL,
╩─╟ 11:40 ╘HAT THE DAUGHTERS OF ╔SRAEL WENT YEARLY TO LAMENT THE DAUGHTER OF ╩EPHTHAH THE ╟ILEADITE FOUR DAYS IN A YEAR.