Judges 11:12-14

New Living Translation

¹² Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon, asking, “Why have you come out to fight against my land?”

¹³ The king of Ammon answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they stole my land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River and all the way to the Jordan. Now then, give back the land peaceably.”

¹⁴ Jephthah sent this message back to the Ammonite king: