Judges 11:9-11

International Standard Version

⁹ Then Jephthah asked the elders of Gilead, “If you all send me to fight against the Ammonites and the Lord hands them over right in front of me, will I really become your head?”

¹⁰ The elders of Gilead responded to Jephthah, “May the Lord serve^[a] as a witness that we’re making this agreement between ourselves to do as we’ve said.” ¹¹ So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people appointed him head and military commander over them. Jephthah uttered everything he had to say with the solemnity of an oath^[b] in the Lord’s presence at Mizpah.