10. And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The Lord is witness between us, if we do not do as you have said.
11. So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah repeated all he had promised before the Lord at Mizpah.
12. And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, What have you to do with me, that you have come against me to fight in my land?
13. The Ammonites' king replied to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land [which was not true] when they came up out of Egypt [300 years before], from the Arnon even to Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore, restore those lands peaceably.
14. And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites
15. And said to him, Thus says Jephthah, Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.