Study it in the app“When I saw that you were not saving, I put my life in my hand and crossed over to the sons of Ammon, and YHWH gave them into my hand. So why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?””
When I sawוָאֶרְאֶהthatכִּיyou were notאֵינְךָsaving,מוֹשִׁיעI putוָאָשִׂימָהmy lifeנַפְשִׁיin my handבְכַפִּיand crossed overוָאֶעְבְּרָהtoאֶלthe sonsבְּנֵיof Ammon,עַמּוֹןand YHWHוַ יְהוָהgave themיִּתְּנֵםinto my hand.בְּיָדִיSoוְwhyלָמָהhave you come upעֲלִיתֶםto meאֵלַיthisהַזֶּהdayהַיּוֹםto fightלְהִלָּחֶםagainst me?”בִּי
realize
To realize: "he saw that it was good".
Where else “ere” appearssave
To rescue someone from danger.
Where else “moshi” appearsput
To put something somewhere.
Where else “asima” appearslife
Life, when it is at stake.
Where else “nafshi” appearspalm
The flat, hollow part of the hand; also what someone does or can do with it.
Where else “chapi” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “ebra” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appearsAmmon
See it on the mapWhere else “amon” 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” appearshand over
To hand someone over to another's power, giving that one victory.
Where else “yitne” appearspower
Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.
Where else “yadi” appearsgo up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “alitem” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearsfight
To struggle against an enemy with weapons and give battle; God also fights for his people.
Where else “hilachem” appears“I put my life in my hand” means that he risked it (1 Samuel 19:5).
Ammon
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).
2Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were in a great quarrel with the sons of Ammon, and I cried out to you, but you did not save me from their hand.
3 · This verse (above)
4Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they had said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim, in the midst of Manasseh.”
