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Summary

So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

Jephthah shews that the israelites did not take the land of the moabites or ammonites, but that of the amorites, which they had conquered from sihon their king; and although the amorites had taken the lands in question from the ammonites, yet the title by which israel held them was good, because they took them, not from the ammonites, but from the amorites

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Bible References

Jephthah shews that the israelites did not take the land of the moabites or ammonites, but that of the amorites, which they had conquered from sihon their king; and although the amorites had taken the lands in question from the ammonites, yet the title by which israel held them was good, because they took them, not from the ammonites, but from the amorites

Judges 11:23
Since the Lord God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?

General references

Deuteronomy 2:32
When Sihon and all his troops emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz,

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