Judges 11:2

Judges chapter 11 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of another woman.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of another woman.

Context

v.1Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

v.2This passage

v.3Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 23:2

    A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

  • Proverbs 6:24

    To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.

  • Galatians 4:30

    Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman.

  • Proverbs 5:20

    For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

  • Genesis 12:10

    And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

  • Proverbs 5:3

    For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: