They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader so that we may fight the Ammonites.”
When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father saying, “You have clothing; be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your power,”
The Ammonites had been called out and set up camp in Gilead. The Israelites assembled and set up camp in Mizpah.
When the Ammonites waged war with Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah back from the land of Tob.
Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now that you are in trouble?”