Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.” So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of (A)Tob; and worthless fellows gathered themselves [a]about Jephthah, and they went out with him.

It came about after a while that (B)the sons of Ammon fought against Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 11:3 Lit to