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Judges 10
¹⁶ So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.
¹⁷ Then the sons of Ammon were summoned and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together and camped in Mizpah.
¹⁸ The people, the leaders of Gilead, said to one another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
Judges 11
¹ Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, but he was the son of a harlot. And Gilead was the father of Jephthah.
² Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, "You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman."
³ So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows gathered themselves about Jephthah, and they went out with him.
⁴ It came about after a while that the sons of Ammon fought against Israel.
⁵ When the sons of Ammon fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob;
⁶ and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our chief that we may fight against the sons of Ammon."
⁷ Then Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me and drive me from my father’s house? So why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?"
⁸ The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "For this reason we have now returned to you, that you may go with us and fight with the sons of Ammon and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."