Judges 11:7
Good News Translation
But Jephthah answered, "You hated me so much that you forced me to leave my father's house. Why come to me now that you're in trouble?"

New Revised Standard Version
But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Are you not the very ones who rejected me and drove me out of my father’s house? So why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?”

Contemporary English Version
"Didn't you hate me?" Jephthah replied. "Weren't you the ones who forced me to leave my family? You're only coming to me now because you're in trouble."

New American Bible
“Are you not the ones who hated me and drove me from my father’s house?” Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Why do you come to me now, when you are in distress?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast me out of my father's house, and now you are come to me, constrained by necessity?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast me out of my father's house, and now you are come to me, constrained by necessity?

Did not ye hate

Genesis 26:27 Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

Genesis 37:27 It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.

Genesis 45:4,5 And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were come near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. . . .

Proverbs 17:17 He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved in distress.

Isaiah 60:14 And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.

Acts 7:9-14 And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him, . . .

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee.

Context
Jephthah Delivers Israel
6And they said to him: Come thou, and be our prince, and fight against the children of Ammon. 7And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast me out of my father's house, and now you are come to me, constrained by necessity?8And the princes of Galaad said to Jephte: For this cause we are now come to thee, that thou mayst go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be head over all the inhabitants of Galaad.…
Cross References
Genesis 26:27
Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

Judges 11:6
And they said to him: Come thou, and be our prince, and fight against the children of Ammon.

Judges 11:6
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