Judges 11:23
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New International Version (©2011)
"Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over?

New Living Translation (©2007)
"So you see, it was the LORD, the God of Israel, who took away the land from the Amorites and gave it to Israel. Why, then, should we give it back to you?

English Standard Version (©2001)
So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Since now the LORD, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites from before His people Israel, are you then to possess it?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The LORD God of Israel has now driven out the Amorites before His people Israel, and will you now force us out?

International Standard Version (©2012)
Now then, since the LORD God of Israel expelled the Amorites right in front of his people Israel, are you going to control their territory?

NET Bible (©2006)
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?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"The LORD God of Israel forced the Amorites out of the way of his people Israel. So what right do you have to take it back?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So now the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it?

American King James Version
So now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it?

American Standard Version
So now Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess them?

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the Lord the God of Israel destroyed the Amorrhite, his people of Israel fighting against him, and wilt thou now possess this land?

Darby Bible Translation
So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldst thou possess it?

World English Bible
So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?

Young's Literal Translation
'And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His people Israel, and thou wouldest possess it!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:12-28 One instance of the honour and respect we owe to God, as our God, is, rightly to employ what he gives us to possess. Receive it from him, use it for him, and part with it when he calls for it. The whole of this message shows that Jephthah was well acquainted with the books of Moses. His argument was clear, and his demand reasonable. Those who possess the most courageous faith, will be the most disposed for peace, and the readiest to make advances to obtain; but rapacity and ambition often cloak their designs under a plea of equity, and render peaceful endeavours of no avail.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel,.... It is his doing, and not the work of the Israelites; it is he that dispossessed the Amorites, and put the Israelites into the possession of their land, and therefore they enjoy it by a good tenure:

and shouldest thou possess it? what through the blessing of God on their arms they have obtained by conquest, and he has settled them in; did they conquer, that thou should possess what they conquered? did their God put it into their hands to deliver it into thine? did they fight to recover for thee what thou hadst lost, and to put thee into the possession of it? did not they fight in their own defence, and their enemies and their land fell into their hands, and by the laws and right of nations became theirs? and canst thou expect to possess it? what reason is there for it?

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Jephthah Delivers Israel
…22And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan. 23So now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it? 24Will not you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess. …

Judges 11:22 capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan.
Judges 11:24 Will you not take what your god Chemosh gives you? Likewise, whatever the LORD our God has given us, we will possess.