14. Jephthah sent the messengers to the Ammonite king again.
15. They said:“This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of the people of Moab or Ammon.
16. When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they went into the desert to the Red Sea and then to Kadesh.
17. Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Let the people of Israel go across your land.’ But the king of Edom refused. We sent the same message to the king of Moab, but he also refused. So the Israelites stayed at Kadesh.
18. “Then the Israelites went into the desert around the borders of the lands of Edom and Moab. Israel went east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River, the border of Moab. They did not cross it to go into the land of Moab.