Text: Judges 11:15-27
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 2:13
Subject: Jephthah's appeal to wilderness itinerary
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In Judges 11:15-27, Jephthah delivers an extended diplomatic speech recounting Israel's wilderness journey, drawing heavily on Deuteronomy 2's record of the crossing of the Brook Zered (נַחַל זֶרֶד). His retelling of Moses' account demonstrates that Israel bypassed Moab and Ammon, taking only Amorite territory that YHWH explicitly gave them. Jephthah's appeal to Torah-based historical precedent shows the Judges-era awareness and authoritative use of the Pentateuchal traditions as the basis for Israel's territorial legitimacy in Transjordan.
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Text: Deuteronomy 2:13
OT Text Referred to: Judges 11:15-27
Subject: Jephthah's appeal to conquest history
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression
Significance: Deuteronomy 2:13 records God's command to cross the Brook of Zered as Israel bypassed Moabite and Ammonite territory, and Jephthah cites this same itinerary in Judges 11:15-27 when defending Israel's territorial claims against the Ammonite king. Jephthah's diplomatic message systematically rehearses the Deuteronomic account—Israel's respectful avoidance of Edom, Moab, and Ammon's lands—to prove that Israel's Transjordanian holdings were taken from Sihon the Amorite, not from Ammon. The judge functions as a historian of Deuteronomy's narrative, using Moses's own account of the journey as legal evidence for Israel's right to the land God gave them through military conquest of Sihon's kingdom.