the Lord sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.

Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.

and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,