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NASB					Judg 11:23 'Since now⁶²⁵⁸ the LORD³⁰⁶⁸, the God⁴³⁰ of Israel³⁴⁷⁸, drove³⁴²³ out the Amorites⁵⁶⁷ from before⁶⁴⁴⁰ His people^5971a Israel³⁴⁷⁸, are you then to possess³⁴²³ it?
AMPLIFIED 2015					Judg 11:23 '¹And now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed and driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, so [why] should you possess it?

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Jephthah's argument illustrates the essence of the conflict between Israel and its neighboring enemies. To a disinterested observer, occupancy of the land of Canaan might simply be a matter of conquest by the stronger warring nation, so no one could claim true ownership and the land would naturally change hands over the course of history. For Israel, however, possession of the land was the will of God, pitting the one true God against the false gods of foreign nations who were being dispossessed. These other nations understandably did not see things Israel's way because they did not recognize the sovereignty of Israel's God, and might have felt just as strongly about their own gods' will for them to possess the land in question. Therefore the struggle for land was not just the result of pragmatism or greed, or even the basic desire to have a secure home and country. It was seamlessly interwoven in the fabric of faith, a non-negotiable element of one's religion--or in Israel's case, of faith in the true God, whom they frequently neglected or abandoned, to their own peril.

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Greek Heb.

430

elohim (43b); pl. of 433; God, god:--divine(1), divine being(1), exceedingly(1), God(2326), god(45), God's(14), goddess(2), godly(1), gods(204), great(2), judges(3), mighty(2), rulers(1), shrine*(1).

567

Emori (57b); from 559; perh. "mountain dwellers," a Canaanite tribe:--Amorite(24), Amorites(63).

3068

Yhvh (i.e.Yehovah or Yahveh) [217d]; from 1933b; the proper name of the God of Israel:--GOD(314), LORD(6399), LORD'S(111).

3423

yarash or
yaresh (439a); a prim. root; to take possession of, inherit, dispossess:--assuredly dispossess(1), become poor(1), cast(1), come to poverty(1), comes into possession(1), destroy(1), dispossess(12), dispossessed(9), dispossessing(1), drive(22), drive them out completely(2), driven(6), driving(3), drove(4), expel(1), given us as an inheritance(1), gives you to possess(1), heir(6), heirs(1), impoverish(1), impoverished(1), inherit(8), leave it as an inheritance(1), makes poor(1), new owners(1), occupy(1), possess(88), possessed(13), possession(2), receive(1), ruler*(1), seize(1), supplants(1), take over(1), take possession(19), take possession of his possessors(1), taken possession(2), takes possession(1), took possession(8), want(1).

3478

Yisrael (975b); from 8280 and 410; "God strives," another name of Jacob and his desc.:--Israel(2485), Israel's(13), Israelites(5), Israelites*(1).

5971a

am or
am (766b); from an unused word; people:--Ammi(1), army(2), army*(1), citizens(3), creatures(1), each people(2), every people(2), fellow*(3), force(1), men(1), nation(1), nations(4), own people(1), people(1614), people's(4), people*(1), peoples(187), public*(1), throng(1), together(1), troops(2).

6258

attah or
attah (773d); prob. from 6030a; now:--already(2), last*(1), now(411), so(1), then(5), this time(6), time(2), whereas(2), yet(1).

6440

panim or
paneh (815d); from 6437; face, faces:--above(1), abroad*(1), accept*(3), accepted*(1), account(1), account*(2), across*(1), adjacent*(1), after*(1), again(1), against(6), against*(2), aged*(1), ahead(15), along*(1), anger(1), another*(1), appearance(2), appease*(1), around(1), attend(1), attend*(1), attended(1), attention(3), attitude(2), awaits(1), battle*(1), because*(80), before(868), before the in front(1), before*(137), condition(1), confront*(1), corresponding*(2), countenance(12), covering*(1), defer*(1), defiance*(1), direction(1), disposal(2), down(1), east(1), east*(1), east*(6), edge(2), entertained*(1), expected*(1), face(259), face to the before(2), face you first(1), face before(1), face*(2), faced(6), faced*(4), faces(49), faces in the presence(1), faces toward(1), faces*(1), facing(7), facing*(4), favor(9), favor*(3), former times(2), formerly(14), forward(3), front(86), front line(1), gaze(1), ground*(1), head(2), headlong(1), honor*(1), honorable*(3), humiliation*(1), insolent*(1), intended(1), kindly(2), land(1), leading(1), led(1), length*(1), lifetime(1), long(2), meet(6), mind(4), mouth(1), old(1), open(15), openly*(1), opposite*(5), ours(1), outer(1), outran*(1), over(3), over*(1), overlooks*(2), own(1), partial*(3), partiality*(11), personal(2), personally(2), preceded(2), presence(131), presence and before(1), presence of the before(1), presence on the before(1), presented*(2), previously(1), prior(1), receive*(2), remain*(1), repulse*(2), request(1), respect(1), respected*(1), served*(4), service*(3), shame*(2), sight(26), sight*(1), straight*(3), stubborn*(1), surface(26), table(1), tops(1), toward*(4), under(1), upside*(1), vanguard(1), whole(1), withstand*(1).

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