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Hebrew Names Version

Judges 12:7

Yiftach judged Yisra'el six years. Then died Yiftach the Gil`adite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gil`ad.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel;   Jephthah;   Judge;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jephthah;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jephthah;   Judges, book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gilead;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Judges (1);   Levi;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gileadites ;   Jephthah, Jephthae ;   Judges, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jephthah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Israel, History of the People;   Judges, Book of:;   Judges, Period of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jephthah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
King James Version
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
Lexham English Bible
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
English Standard Version
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.
New Century Version
Jephthah was a judge for Israel for six years. Then Jephthah, the man from Gilead, died and was buried in a town in Gilead.
New English Translation
Jephthah led Israel for six years; then he died and was buried in his city in Gilead.
Amplified Bible
Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
New American Standard Bible
Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iphtah iudged Israel sixe yeere: then dyed Iphtah the Gileadite, and was buryed in one of the cities of Gilead.
Legacy Standard Bible
En Jefta het Israel ses jaar lank gerig; en Jefta, die Gileadiet, het gesterwe en is begrawe in een van die stede van Gílead.
Contemporary English Version
Jephthah was a leader of Israel for six years, before he died and was buried in his hometown Mizpah in Gilead.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yiftach judged Isra'el for six years. Then Yiftach from Gil‘ad died, and he was buried in one of the cities of Gil‘ad.
Darby Translation
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jephthah was a judge for the Israelites for six years. Then Jephthah from Gilead died and was buried in his town in Gilead.
George Lamsa Translation
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.
Good News Translation
Jephthah led Israel for six years. Then he died and was buried in his hometown in Gilead.
Literal Translation
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iephthae iudged Israel sixe yeares. And Iephthae ye Gileadite dyed, & was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
American Standard Version
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
Bible in Basic English
Now Jephthah was judge of Israel for six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in his town, Mizpeh of Gilead.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iephthah iudged Israel six yeres, then died Iephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] ye cities of Gilead.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
King James Version (1611)
And Iephthah iudged Israel sixe yeeres: then died Iephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Jephthae judged Israel six years; and Jephthae the Galaadite died, and was buried in his city Galaad.
English Revised Version
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
Berean Standard Bible
Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And so Jepte, `a man of Galaad, demyde Israel sixe yeer; and he `was deed, and biried in his citee Galaad.
Young's Literal Translation
And Jephthah judged Israel six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite dieth, and is buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
Update Bible Version
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in his city, in Zepheh of Gilead.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Jephthah judged Israel six years: then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
World English Bible
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
New King James Version
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried among the cities of Gilead.
New Living Translation
Jephthah judged Israel for six years. When he died, he was buried in one of the towns of Gilead.
New Life Bible
Jephthah ruled Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died. He was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
New Revised Standard
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his town in Gilead.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when Jephthah had judged Israel six years, then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jephte, the Galaadite, judged Israel six years: and he died, and was buried in his city of Galaad.
Revised Standard Version
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in Gilead.
THE MESSAGE
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city, Mizpah of Gilead.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Contextual Overview

1 The men of Efrayim were gathered together, and crossed Tzafon; and they said to Yiftach, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of `Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? we will burn your house on you with fire. 2 Yiftach said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of `Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't save me out of their hand. 3 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 are you come up to me this day, to fight against me? 4 Then Yiftach gathered together all the men of Gil`ad, and fought with Efrayim; and the men of Gil`ad struck Efrayim, because they said, You are fugitives of Efrayim, you Gil`adi, in the midst of Efrayim, [and] in the midst of Menashsheh. 5 The Gil`adi took the fords of the Yarden against the Efrayim. It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Efrayim said, Let me go over, the men of Gil`ad said to him, Are you an Efratite? If he said, No; 6 then said they to him, Say now Shibbolet; and he said Sibboleth; for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Yarden. There fell at that time of Efrayim forty-two thousand. 7 Yiftach judged Yisra'el six years. Then died Yiftach the Gil`adite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gil`ad.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Judges 10:18 - he shall be Hebrews 11:32 - Jephthae

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Noach built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 12:8
He left from there to the mountain on the east of Beit-El, and pitched his tent, having Beit-El on the west, and `Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 12:9
Avram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
Genesis 12:12
It will happen, when the Mitzrim will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Avram called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13:15
for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
Genesis 13:18
Avram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hevron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
Genesis 15:18
In that day the LORD made a covenant with Avram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Mitzrayim to the great river, the river Perat:
Genesis 17:1
When Avram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Avram, and said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.
Genesis 17:3
Avram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jephthah judged Israel six years,.... After the affair of the Ephraimites, he was acknowledged by all Israel as their judge and supreme governor, but did not live long; being perhaps depressed and worn away with grief, on account of his daughter, and other troubles that attended him:

then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead: it is not said in what city he was buried, but very probably it was in his own city Mizpeh, where he dwelt. Josephus w says it was in his own country, Sebee, a city of Gilead.

w Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 12.


 
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