Judges 12:7
Hebrew Text— Judges 12:7Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.
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The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”
Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”
The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”
They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.