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1Now Jephthah of Gilead was a great warrior. He was the son of Gilead, but his mother was a prostitute.

2Gilead’s wife also had several sons, and when these half brothers grew up, they chased Jephthah off the land. "You will not get any of our father’s inheritance," they said, "for you are the son of a prostitute."

3So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Soon he had a large band of rebels following him.

4At about this time, the Ammonites began their war against Israel.

5When the Ammonites attacked, the leaders of Gilead sent for Jephthah in the land of Tob. They said,

6"Come and be our commander! Help us fight the Ammonites!"

7But Jephthah said to them, "Aren’t you the ones who hated me and drove me from my father’s house? Why do you come to me now when you’re in trouble?"

8"Because we need you," they replied. "If you will lead us in battle against the Ammonites, we will make you ruler over all the people of Gilead."

9Jephthah said, "If I come with you and if the LORD gives me victory over the Ammonites, will you really make me ruler over all the people?"

10"The LORD is our witness," the leaders replied. "We promise to do whatever you say."

11So Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead, and he became their ruler and commander of the army. At Mizpah, in the presence of the LORD, Jephthah repeated what he had said to the leaders.

12Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon, demanding to know why Israel was being attacked.

13The 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."

14Jephthah sent this message back to the Ammonite king:

15"This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not steal any land from Moab or Ammon.

16When the people of Israel arrived at Kadesh on their journey from Egypt after crossing the Red Sea,

17they sent messengers to the king of Edom asking for permission to pass through his land. But their request was denied. Then they asked the king of Moab for similar permission, but he wouldn’t let them pass through either. So the people of Israel stayed in Kadesh.

18"Finally, they went around Edom and Moab through the wilderness. They traveled along Moab’s eastern border and camped on the other side of the Arnon River. But they never once crossed the Arnon River into Moab.

19"Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled from Heshbon, asking for permission to cross through his land to get to their destination.

20But King Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his land. Instead, he mobilized his army at Jahaz and attacked them.

21But the LORD, the God of Israel, gave his people victory over King Sihon. So Israel took control of all the land of the Amorites, who lived in that region,

22from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

23"So you see, it was the LORD, the God of Israel, who took away the land from the Amorites and gave it to Israel. Why, then, should we give it to you?

24You keep whatever your god Chemosh gives you, and we will keep whatever the LORD our God gives us.

25Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he try to make a case against Israel for disputed land? Did he go to war? No, of course not.

26But now after three hundred years you make an issue of this! Israel has been living here all this time, spread across the land from Heshbon to Aroer and in all the towns along the Arnon River. Why have you made no effort to recover it before now?

27I have not sinned against you. Rather, you have wronged me by attacking me. Let the LORD, who is judge, decide today which of us is right––Israel or Ammon."

28But the king of Ammon paid no attention to Jephthah’s message.

29At that time the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he went throughout the land of Gilead and Manasseh, including Mizpah in Gilead, and led an army against the Ammonites.

30And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, "If you give me victory over the Ammonites,

31I will give to the LORD the first thing coming out of my house to greet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering."

32So Jephthah led his army against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave him victory.

33He thoroughly defeated the Ammonites from Aroer to an area near Minnith––twenty towns––and as far away as Abel–keramim. Thus Israel subdued the Ammonites.

34When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter––his only child––ran out to meet him, playing on a tambourine and dancing for joy.

35When he saw her, he tore his clothes in anguish. "My daughter!" he cried out. "My heart is breaking! What a tragedy that you came out to greet me. For I have made a vow to the LORD and cannot take it back."

36And she said, "Father, you have made a promise to the LORD. You must do to me what you have promised, for the LORD has given you a great victory over your enemies, the Ammonites.

37But first let me go up and roam in the hills and weep with my friends for two months, because I will die a virgin."

38"You may go," Jephthah said. And he let her go away for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never have children.

39When she returned home, her father kept his vow, and she died a virgin. So it has become a custom in Israel

40for young Israelite women to go away for four days each year to lament the fate of Jephthah’s daughter.


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