Then Yiftach went with the elders of Gil`ad, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Yiftach spoke all his words before the LORD in Mitzpah.
The king of the children of `Ammon answered to the messengers of Yiftach, Because Yisra'el took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Yabbok, and to the Yarden: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.