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So Jephthah left[a] his half brothers[b] and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him.[c]

It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel. When the Ammonites attacked,[d] the leaders[e] of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back[f] from the land of Tob.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 11:3 tn Or “fled from.”
  2. Judges 11:3 tn Heb “brothers.”
  3. Judges 11:3 tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”
  4. Judges 11:5 tn Heb “When the Ammonites fought with Israel.”
  5. Judges 11:5 tn Or “elders.”
  6. Judges 11:5 tn Heb “went to take Jephthah.”