Judges 11:2 “And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and s…”

Judges 11:2

And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

World English Bible

Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

American Standard Version

And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of another woman.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Gileads wife bare him sonnes, and when the womans children were come to age, they thrust out Iphtah, and sayd vnto him, Thou shalt not inherite in our fathers house: for thou art the sonne of a strange woman.

Darby Translation

And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons were grown, they expelled Jephthah, and said to him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another woman.

Young's Literal Translation

and the wife of Gilead beareth to him sons, and the wife's sons grow up and cast out Jephthah, and say to him, 'Thou dost not inherit in the house of our father; for son of another woman [art] thou.'

Bible in Basic English

And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.

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Cross references

“thrust out”

Genesis 12:10 Deuteronomy 23:2 Galatians 4:30

Genesis 12:10 · BSB

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Deuteronomy 23:2 · BSB

No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

Galatians 4:30 · BSB

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

“a strange”

Proverbs 2:16 Proverbs 5:3 Proverbs 5:20 Proverbs 6:24–26

Proverbs 2:16 · BSB

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Proverbs 5:3 · BSB

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 5:20 · BSB

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 6:24–26 · BSB

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

3So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.

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