Then they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our commander, that we may fight against the people of Ammon.”

So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, (A)“Did you not hate me, and expel me from my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in [a]distress?”

(B)And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have (C)turned[b] again to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the people of Ammon, and be (D)our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 11:7 trouble
  2. Judges 11:8 returned

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