12Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: "What do you have against us that you have attacked our country?"


In Context

9 Jephthah answered, "Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me-will I really be your head?"

10 The elders of Gilead replied, "The LORD is our witness; we will certainly do as you say."

11 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.

12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: "What do you have against us that you have attacked our country?"

13 The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah's messengers, "When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably."

14 Jephthah sent back messengers to the Ammonite king,

Judges 11:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:12And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:12And he sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, to say in his name, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me, to waste my land?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:12And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:12Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, |What have you against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:12And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:12And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou hast come against me to fight in my land?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:12Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, |What have you to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:12And Jephthah sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon, saying, 'What — to me and to thee, that thou hast come in unto me, to fight in my land.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:12And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that you are come against me to fight in my land?