A common misinterpretation views this verse as endorsing unchecked imperialism or divine approval of any conquest, ignoring its specific historical context as a legal argument rooted in Israel's covenant with God and the Amorites' prior aggression; others wrongly apply it to justify modern border disputes or ethnic displacements without recognizing the unique theocratic framework of ancient Israel, or overlook that the possession was limited to God's allotted boundaries and not a universal mandate for expansion.
Judges 11:22
King James Version (1769)
22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
Judges 11:22 summarizes Israel's rightful conquest of Amorite territory from the Arnon River to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan, as part of Jephthah's diplomatic defense against Ammon's territorial claims; it emphasizes that God granted this land to Israel through military victory over the Amorites, not through aggression against Ammon, highlighting themes of divine sovereignty, covenant faithfulness, and legitimate possession based on historical conquest rather than inheritance from Moab or Ammon.