Judges 11:28

New King James Version

However, the king of the people of Ammon did not heed the words which Jephthah sent him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But the king of the Ammonites would not listen to Jephthah’s message that he sent him.

Hebrew Names Version
However the king of the children of `Ammon didn't listen to the words of Yiftach which he sent him.

King James Version
Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Lexham English Bible
But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the message that Jephthah sent to him.

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

New Century Version
But the king of the Ammonites ignored this message from Jephthah.

New English Translation
But the Ammonite king disregarded the message sent by Jephthah.

Amplified Bible
But the king of the Ammonites disregarded the message of Jephthah, which he sent to him.

New American Standard Bible
But the king of the sons of Ammon disregarded the message which Jephthah sent him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Howbeit the King of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the wordes of Iphtah, which he had sent him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Maar die koning van die kinders van Ammon het nie geluister na die woorde van Jefta wat hy hom laat weet het nie.

Contemporary English Version
But the king of Ammon paid no attention to Jephthah's message.

Complete Jewish Bible
But the king of the people of ‘Amon paid no attention to the message Yiftach sent him.

Darby Translation
But the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthah that he had sent him.

Easy-to-Read Version
The king of the Ammonites refused to listen to this message from Jephthah.

George Lamsa Translation
But the king of the children of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Good News Translation
But the king of Ammon paid no attention to this message from Jephthah.

Literal Translation
And the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent to him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles the kynge of the children of Ammon wolde not heare ye wordes of Iephthae, which he sent vnto him.

American Standard Version
Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Bible in Basic English
The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howbeit, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the wordes of Iephthah, which he sent him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

King James Version (1611)
Howbeit, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the words of Iephthah which hee sent him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthae, which he sent to him.

English Revised Version
Howbeit the king of the children Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Berean Standard Bible
But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the kyng of the sones of Amon nolde assente to the wordis of Jepte, whiche he sente bi messangeris.

Young's Literal Translation
And the king of the Bene-Ammon hath not hearkened unto the words of Jephthah which he sent unto him,

Update Bible Version
Nevertheless the king of the sons of Ammon didn't listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Webster's Bible Translation
But, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

World English Bible
However the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

New Living Translation
But the king of Ammon paid no attention to Jephthah's message.

New Life Bible
But the king of the people of Ammon would not listen to what Jephthah said

New Revised Standard
But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message that Jephthah sent him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But the king of the sons of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah, which he sent unto him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king of the children of Ammon would not hearken to the words of Jephte, which he sent him by the messengers.

Revised Standard Version
But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message of Jephthah which he sent to him.

THE MESSAGE
But the king of the Ammonites refused to listen to a word that Jephthah had sent him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the king of the sons of Ammon disregarded the message which Jephthah sent him.

Contextual Overview

¹² Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the people of Ammon, saying, "What do you have against me, that you have come to fight against me in my land?" ¹³ And the king of the people of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore, restore those lands peaceably." ¹⁴ So Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the people of Ammon, ¹⁵ and said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: "Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the people of Ammon; ¹⁶ for when Israel came up from Egypt, they walked through the wilderness as far as the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. ¹⁷ Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, "Please let me pass through your land." But the king of Edom would not heed. And in like manner they sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained in Kadesh. ¹⁸ And they went along through the wilderness and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab, came to the east side of the land of Moab, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab. ¹⁹ Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, "Please let us pass through your land into our place." ²⁰ But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people together, encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel. ²¹ And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. Thus Israel gained possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Kings 14:11, Proverbs 16:18

Cross-References

Genesis 11:2
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.

Genesis 15:7
Then He said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it."

Nehemiah 9:7
"You are the LORD God, Who chose Abram, And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, And gave him the name Abraham;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him. He attended not to the arguments Jephthah made use of, and did not choose to seem at least to be convinced by them, nor to regard the awful appeal he had made to the great Jehovah.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Consult the marginal references. If the ark with the copy of the Law Deuteronomy 31:26 was at Mizpeh, it would account for Jephthah’s accurate knowledge of it; and this exact agreement of his message with Numbers and Deuteronomy would give additional force to the expression, “he uttered all his words before the Lord” Judges 11:11.

Judges 11:17

No mention is made of this embassy to Moab in the Pentateuch.

Judges 11:19

Into my place - This expression implies that the trans-Jordanic possessions of Israel were not included in the land of Canaan properly speaking.

Judges 11:21

The title “God of Israel” has a special emphasis here, and in Judges 11:23. in a narrative of transactions relating to the pagan and their gods.

Judges 11:24

Chemosh was the national god of the Moabites (see the marginal references); and as the territory in question was Moabitish territory before the Amorites took it from “the people of Chemosh,” this may account for the mention of Chemosh here rather than of Moloch, or Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. Possibly the king of the children of Ammon at this time may have been a Moabite.

Judges 11:25, Judges 11:26

Jephthah advances another historical argument. Balak, the king of Moab, never disputed the possession of Sihon’s kingdom with Israel.