Study it in the app“I have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by fighting against me. May YHWH, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.””
Iוְאָנֹכִיhave notלֹאsinnedחָטָאתִיagainst you,לָךְbut youוְאַתָּהare doingעֹשֶׂהmeאִתִּיwrongרָעָהby fightingלְהִלָּחֶםagainst me.בִּיMay YHWH,יְהוָהthe Judge,הַשֹּׁפֵטjudgeיִשְׁפֹּטtodayהַיּוֹםbetweenבֵּיןthe sonsבְּנֵיof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלandוּבֵיןthe sonsבְּנֵיof Ammon.”עַמּוֹן
sin
To do wrong, fail God or another.
Where else “chatati” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “ose” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raa” appearsfight
To struggle against an enemy with weapons and give battle; God also fights for his people.
Where else “hilachem” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsjudge
To judge and do justice, defend the weak.
Where else “shofet” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearsAmmon
See it on the mapWhere else “amon” appearsAmmon
Today: Amman (Rabbah) and surroundings, Jordan
The land east of the Jordan around Rabbah (present-day Amman, Jordan).
The Ammonites came from a son of Lot (Gen 19:38). Jephthah defeated them (Judg 11:32-33) and David took their capital (2 Sam 12:26).
26While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are along the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them at that time?
27 · This verse (above)
28But the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he had sent him.
