2 But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands. 3 When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?” 4 Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”
Judges 12:2–4
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Judges 11:11–13
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Judges 11:26–28
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Judges 8:1–2
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Judges 10:8–10
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Judges 10:17–18
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Judges 11:3–5
3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him. 4 Some time later, when the Ammonites fought against Israel 5 and made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from th…
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