Judges 11:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ And as they pressed hard upon them, the ancients of Galaad went to fetch Jephte out of the land of Tob to help them:

⁶ And they said to him: Come thou and be our prince, and fight against the children of Ammon.

⁷ And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast me out of my father's house, and now you are come to me constrained by necessity?