Arbitration Box
Blue v24-29 Ch 11 Jud3rd party settlement
~Jephthah engages political arbitration from a spiritual angle.
v24 Will you not take what your god Chemosh gives you? Likewise, whatever the LORD our God has given us, we will possses.SO...
v25 Are you better than king Balak of Jordan (Moab?) Did he ever argue & fight with Israel? (v26) For 300yrs Israel occupied & settled, why didn't you retake towns during that time? (v27) I have not wronged you but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the LORD, the Judge, decide the dispute between the Israelites & the Jordanians (Ammonites).
v28 The king of Ammon paid no attention to the message Jephthah sent him. v29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah...
v32 and the LORD gave the Ammonites into his hands.
Lk 4:18 ~In the Presence of the Anointing the yoke is destroyed.
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