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Read the actual text of Judges 11-12:7 |
| Letter 1: Why |
| Dear King of the Ammonites: |
| What do you have against us that you have attacked our country? |
| Jephthah |
| Response |
| Jephthah: |
| When the Israelites came from Egypt, they took my land. Now give it back peacefully. |
| King of the Ammonites |
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Letter 2: Let's be reasonable! |
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Judges 11:13-27 |
| Dear King of the Ammonites: |
| We Israelites did not take the land of the Moabites. When we were coming out of Egypt, we asked permission to go through your land and you did not give it. So we went around your land. |
| And, we asked for permission to travel through the land of the Ammorites. The king of the Ammonites would not agree. As we were traveling around your land, your king gathered his army and fought against us. God delivered him into our hands and we captured all the land. Since God delivered the land to us, what right do you have to the land. |
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Why don't you just settle for
the land your God Chemosh gives you, and whatever our God gives us, we will
take. Are you better than Balak? He didn't even quarrel with the Israelites.
The Israelites have had this land for over 300 years now. Why didn't you
take it during all those years? I have done nothing wrong to you, but you have done wrong to me. Let's let the Lord decide this matter today! |
| Jephthah |
| No Response |
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