12. Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites. The messengers asked the king, “What have you got against Israel? Why have you come to attack our land?”
13. The king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah. He said, “We are fighting Israel because you took our land when you came up from Egypt. You took our land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River to the Jordan River. Now tell the people of Israel to give our land back to us in peace.”
14. Jephthah sent the messengers to the Ammonite king again.
15. They took this message:“This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of the people of Moab or Ammon.
16. When the people of Israel came out of Egypt, they went into the desert. They went to the Gulf of Aqaba and then to Kadesh.