Judges 11:23

Since now the Lord, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites from before His people Israel, are you then to possess it?

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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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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 now the Lord, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites from before His people Israel, are you then to possess it?

General references

Deuteronomy 2:32
“Then Sihon with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.