28. But the king of Ammon paid no attention to this message from Jephthah.
29. Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah. He went through Gilead and Manasseh and returned to Mizpah in Gilead and went on to Ammon.
30. Jephthah promised the Lord: “If you give me victory over the Ammonites,
31. I will burn as an offering the first person that comes out of my house to meet me, when I come back from the victory. I will offer that person to you as a sacrifice.”
32. So Jephthah crossed the river to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave him victory.
33. He struck at them from Aroer to the area round Minnith, twenty cities in all, and as far as Abel Keramim. There was a great slaughter, and the Ammonites were defeated by Israel.