10. “The lord is our witness,” the elders replied. “We promise to do whatever you say.”
11. So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their ruler and commander of the army. At Mizpah, in the presence of the lord, Jephthah repeated what he had said to the elders.
12. Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon, asking, “Why have you come out to fight against my land?”
13. The king of Ammon answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they stole my land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River and all the way to the Jordan. Now then, give back the land peaceably.”