What Does Judges 11:27 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse places both the claim of innocence and the claim of injury before a Judge neither person can control.
THE MEANING
A claim of innocence and a claim of injury can stand in the same sentence without either becoming the verdict. What is between you and another is held before the LORD’s judgment, beyond either person’s account alone.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
An accusation is not the verdict, and feeling wronged does not make your own account the final word.
THE ROOT
הַשֹּׁפֵט
hashofet
GROWS FROM
שפט
sh-p-t
To judge, decide a case, or render a verdict.
The phrase names the LORD as הַשֹּׁפֵט (hashofet, “the Judge”) and then uses יִשְׁפֹּט (yishpot, “may he judge”) from the same root. The role and the act share one seed: judgment is not an added title here, but what the Judge does between the two claims.
ALSO GROWS
yishpot: He will judge; may he judge.
יִשְׁפֹּט
This verb appears in the verse’s appeal for the LORD to judge between the two peoples, making the root’s action explicit.
mishpat: Judgment, a verdict, or a just decision.
מִשְׁפָּט
This branch names the decision that follows the act of judging, showing how the root moves from weighing a dispute to its verdict.
shofet: A judge, one who decides a case.
שֹׁפֵט
This noun names the one who carries out the action expressed by yishpot; the verse places both parties before that shared root.
THE PATTERN
When two accounts of wrong conflict, the final judgment belongs to the LORD, who weighs beyond either party’s claim.
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.THE THREAD
The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.Both verses use יִשְׁפֹּט (yishpot, “may he judge”), from שפט (sh-p-t), in an appeal for the LORD to judge between two sides. The verse in 1 Samuel pairs that appeal with a hand withheld, showing the dispute placed under judgment beyond the speaker’s own force.
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