Bible Cross References
the king of the Ammonites
2 Chronicles 20:1
And it came about after this, [that] the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them [some] of the Mineans, came up against Jehoshaphat to battle.
Judges 11:4-33
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And it came to pass when the children of Ammon prepared to fight with Israel,
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that the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah from the land of Tob.
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And they said to Jephthah, Come, and be our head, and we will fight with the sons of Ammon.
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And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did you not hate me, and cast me out of my father's house, and banish me from you? And why have you come to me now when you want me?
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And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore have we now turned to you, that you should go with us, and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
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And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you turn me back to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord should deliver them before me, then will I be your head.
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And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we shall not do according to your word.
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And Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and ruler over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord in Mizpah.
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And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have I to do with you, that you have come against me to fight in my land?
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And the king of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took my land when he went up out of Egypt, from Arnon to Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now then return them peaceably and I will depart.
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And Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon,
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and said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel took not the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;
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for in their going up out of Egypt Israel went in the wilderness as far as the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh.
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And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, I will pass, if it please you, by your land; and the king of Edom would not consent. And [Israel] also sent to the king of Moab, and he did not consent; and Israel sojourned in Kadesh.
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And [they] journeyed in the wilderness, and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. And they came by the east of the land of Moab, an encamped in the country beyond Arnon, and did not enter the borders of Moab, for Arnon is the border of Moab.
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And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorite, king of Hesbron, and Israel said to him, Let us pass through your land to our place.
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And Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; and Sihon gathered all his people, and they encamped at Jahaz; and he set the battle in array against Israel.
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And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck him; and Israel inherited all the land of the Amorite who dwelt in that land,
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from Arnon and to Jabbok, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
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And now the Lord God of Israel has removed the Amorite from before His people Israel, and shall you inherit his [land]?
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Will you not inherit those possessions which Chemosh your god shall cause you to inherit; and shall not we inherit the [land of] all those whom the Lord our God has removed from before you?
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And now are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he indeed fight with Israel, or indeed make war with him,
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when Israel dwelt in Hesbron and in its coasts, and in the land of Aroer and in its coasts, and in all the cities by the Jordan, three hundred years? And why did you not recover them in that time?
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And now I have not sinned against you, but you wronged me in preparing war against me: may the Lord, the Judge, render judgment this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
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But the king of the children of Ammon did not heed the words of Jephthah, which he sent to him.
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And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed by the watchtower of Gilead to the other side of the children of Ammon.
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And Jephthah vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If You will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
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then it shall come to pass that whosoever shall first come out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, he shall be the Lord's: I will offer him up for a whole burnt offering.
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And Jephthah advanced to meet the sons of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hand.
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And he smote them from Aroer till [one] comes to Arnon, twenty cities in number, and as far as Abel-Keramim, with a very great destruction. And the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
2 Samuel 10:1-14
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And it came to pass after this that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
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And David said, I will show mercy to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt mercifully with me. And David sent to comfort him concerning his father by the hand of his servants; and the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon.
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And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, [Is it] to honor your father before you that David has sent comforters to you? Has not David rather sent his servants to you that they should search the city, and spy it out and examine it?
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And Hanun took the servants of David, and shaved their beards, and cut off their garments in the midst as far as their haunches, and sent them away.
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And they brought David word concerning the men; and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly dishonored. And the king said, Remain in Jericho till your beards have grown, and [then] you shall return.
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And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed; and the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, and Rehob, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Amelek with a thousand men, and Ish-Tob with twelve thousand men.
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And David heard, and sent Joab and all of his army, [even] the mighty men.
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And the children of Ammon went forth, and set the battle in array by the door of the gate. [Those] of Syria- Zobah, Rehob, Ish-Tob, and Amelek, being by themselves in the field.
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And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him from that which was opposed in front and from behind, and he chose out [some] of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against Syria.
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And the rest of the people he gave into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set the battle in array opposite to the children of Ammon.
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And he said, If Syria is too strong for me, then shall you help me: and if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then will we be ready to help you.
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Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the sake of the cities of our God, and the Lord shall do that which is good in His eyes.
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And Joab and his people with him advanced to battle against Syria, and they fled from before him.
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And the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, and they fled from before Abishai, and entered into the city. And Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 49:1-6
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Concerning the sons of Ammon, thus says the Lord: Are there no sons in Israel? Or have they no one to succeed [them]? Why has Milcom inherited Gilead, and why shall their people dwell in their cities?
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Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause a tumult of wars to be heard in Rabbah; and they shall become a waste and ruined place, and her altars shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel succeed to his dominion.
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Howl, O Heshbron, for Ai has perished; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament; for Milcom shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.
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Why do you boast in the plains of the Enakim, you haughty daughter, that trust in [your] treasures, that say, Who shall come in to me?
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Behold, I [will] bring terror upon you, says the Lord, from all the country round about you; and you shall be scattered, everyone right before him, and there is none to gather you.
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[This translation omits this verse.]