Judges 11:11-13

Living Bible

¹¹ So Jephthah accepted the commission and was made commander-in-chief and king. The contract was ratified before the Lord in Mizpah at a general assembly of all the people. ¹² Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon, demanding to know why Israel was being attacked. ¹³ The king of Ammon replied that the land belonged to the people of Ammon; it had been stolen from them, he said, when the Israelis came from Egypt; the whole territory from the Arnon River to the Jabbok and the Jordan was his, he claimed.

“Give us back our land peaceably,” he demanded.