14And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:
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If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-28)We have here the treaty between Jephthah, now judge of Israel, and the king of the Ammonites (who is not named), that the controversy between the two nations might, if possible, be accommodated without the effusion of blood. I. Jephthah, as one having authority, sent to the king of Ammon, who in this war was the aggressor, to demand his reasons for invading the land of Israel: “ Why hast thou come…
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