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Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior. He was a prostitute's son. Gilead was Jephthah's father, (Judges 11, 1)
but Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and the sons of this wife, when they grew up, drove Jephthah away, saying, 'No share of the paternal heritage for you, since you are a son of another woman.' (Judges 11, 2)
Jephthah fled far from his brothers and settled in the territory of Tob. Jephthah enlisted a group of adventurers who used to go raiding with him. (Judges 11, 3)
And when the Ammonites had attacked Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah from the territory of Tob. (Judges 11, 5)
Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, 'Didn't you hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why come to me now, when you are in trouble?' (Judges 11, 7)
The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, 'That is why we are turning to you now. Come with us; fight the Ammonites and be our chief, chief of all the people living in Gilead.' (Judges 11, 8)
Jephthah then said to the elders of Gilead, 'If you bring me home to fight the Ammonites and Yahweh defeats them for me, I am to be your chief?' (Judges 11, 9)
And the elders of Gilead then said to Jephthah, 'Yahweh be witness between us, if we do not do as you have said!' (Judges 11, 10)
So Jephthah set off with the elders of Gilead. The people put him at their head as chief and commander; and Jephthah repeated all his conditions at Mizpah in Yahweh's presence. (Judges 11, 11)
Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites to say to him, 'What do you have against us, for you to come and make war on my country?' (Judges 11, 12)
The king of the Ammonites replied to Jephthah's messengers, 'The reason is that when Israel came up from Egypt, they seized my country from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; so now restore it to me peacefully.' (Judges 11, 13)
Jephthah sent messengers back to the king of the Ammonites (Judges 11, 14)
