And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon. ] Being willing to give him all the satisfaction he could, and if possible live peaceably with him, and prevent the effusion of blood.
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Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, "What is there between you and me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?"
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The king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel, on coming from Egypt, took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably."
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Once again Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites
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and said to him: "Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,
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but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
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