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Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when her sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out. "You will inherit nothing in our father's house," they told him, "for you are the son of another woman."
So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob. There worthless men gathered around him and went out with him.
But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Weren't you the ones who hated me and drove me out of my father's house? Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?"
The elders of Gilead answered, "That is why we have turned to you now. Come with us and fight the Ammonites, and you shall be head over all of us who live in Gilead."
Jephthah said to them, "If you bring me back to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, then I will be your head."
The elders of Gilead replied, "The LORD is our witness: we will surely do as you say."
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their head and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his words before the LORD at Mizpah.
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, asking, "What do you have against me, that you have come to make war in my land?"
The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah's messengers, "When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan. Now give those lands back peaceably."
Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let us pass through your land.' But the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent to the king of Moab, and he refused. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.
Then they journeyed through the wilderness, went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, where they camped on the far side of the Arnon. They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was Moab's border.
Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to our own place.'
But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He mustered all his troops, camped at Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his troops into Israel's hand, and they struck them down. So Israel took possession of the whole land of the Amorites who lived in that country.
They took possession of all Amorite territory, from the Arnon to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
Will you not take possession of whatever Chemosh your god gives you? So we will take possession of whatever the LORD our God has driven out before us.
Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel or go to war against them?
For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the towns along the Arnon. Why did you not reclaim them in all that time?
I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by making war on me. Let the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites."
But the king of the Ammonites paid no attention to the message Jephthah sent him.
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He crossed through Gilead and Manasseh, passed by Mizpah of Gilead, and from there advanced against the Ammonites.
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: "If you give the Ammonites into my hand,
then whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from the Ammonites shall belong to the LORD, and I will offer him up as a burnt offering.
He struck them down from Aroer to the outskirts of Minnith—twenty towns—and as far as Abel Keramim. It was a crushing blow, and the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.
When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing. She was his only child; he had no other son or daughter.
When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, "Oh, my daughter! You have brought me to my knees; you have become the cause of my ruin. I have opened my mouth to the LORD and I cannot take it back."
She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD. Do to me as you have vowed, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, the Ammonites.
She said to her father, "Grant me this one request: give me two months to go and wander the hills with my friends and weep, because I will never marry."
"Go," he said, and he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.
After the two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She had never known a man. And so it became a custom in Israel
that year after year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.[^1] [^1]: Or "to lament for"; the Hebrew verb is rare and may mean either to recount or to mourn.
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