And so it was, when the people of Ammon made war against Israel, that the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob. 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?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 11:7 trouble

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