Judges 11:12-14

International Standard Version

Jephthah’s Dialogue with the Ammonites

¹² Afterwards, Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites to ask him, “What’s your dispute between us that prompted you to come and attack my land?”

¹³ The king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “We’re here^[a] because Israel took away my land from the Arnon River as far as the Jabbok River and as far as the Jordan River when they came up from Egypt! So restore it as a gesture of good will.”^[b]

¹⁴ But Jephthah sent additional messengers again to the king of the Ammonites