Judges 11:11-13

International Standard Version

¹¹ So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people appointed him head and military commander over them. Jephthah uttered everything he had to say with the solemnity of an oath^[a] in the Lord’s presence at Mizpah.

Jephthah’s Dialogue with the Ammonites

¹² Afterwards, Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites to ask him, “What’s your dispute between us that prompted you to come and attack my land?”

¹³ The king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “We’re here^[b] because Israel took away my land from the Arnon River as far as the Jabbok River and as far as the Jordan River when they came up from Egypt! So restore it as a gesture of good will.”^[c]