Quotes about Conflict
Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.
- Judges 10:17
Some time later, when the Ammonites fought against Israel
- Judges 11:4
and made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.
- Judges 11:5
“Come,” they said, “be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites.”
- Judges 11:6
Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
- Judges 11:7
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?”
- Judges 11:12
to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.
- Judges 11:15
But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
- Judges 11:20
I have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
- Judges 11:27
But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.
- Judges 11:28
Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”
- Judges 12:1
But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.
- Judges 12:2