Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gil´e-ad, and Manas´seh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gil´e-ad, and from Mizpeh of Gil´e-ad he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ash´kelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshta´ol in the buryingplace of Mano´ah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshta´ol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount E´phra-im, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the Lord delivered Chu´shan–rishatha´im king of Mesopota´mi-a into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chu´shan–rishatha´im.