12. Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon. They asked the king, “Why did you invade my land and wage war against me?”
13. The king of Ammon answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When the people of Israel left Egypt, they took my land. It stretched from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River and the Jordan River. Now give it back peacefully.”
14. Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of Ammon.
15. They said, “This is what Jephthah says: The people of Israel didn’t take away the land belonging to Moab or Ammon.
16. When the people of Israel left Egypt, they went through the desert to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
17. The people of Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom. They said, ‘Please let us go through your country.’ But the king of Edom wouldn’t listen to them. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab. But he wouldn’t allow it, either. So the people of Israel remained at Kadesh.
18. “Then they went through the desert, by-passing Edom and Moab. They camped east of Moab—east of the Arnon River. They did not cross the Arnon River because it was Moab’s border.