⁷ Jephthah said to the elders, “Did you not shun me and drive me out from the house of my father? Why do you come to me now when you have trouble?” ⁸ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That being so, we have now returned to you, that you may go with us to fight^[a] against the Ammonites^[b] and become for us as head of all the inhabitants of Gilead.” ⁹ So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me back to fight^[c] against the Ammonites,^[d] and Yahweh gives them over to me,^[e] will I be your head?”