Judges 11:12
And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon,.... Being now declared chief and sole governor of the tribes on the other side Jordan, he acted in character, and as such sent…
We have here the treaty between Jephthah, now judge of Israel, and the king of the Ammonites (who is not named), that the controversy between the two nations might, if possible, be accommodated…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
with me i.e. the people represented by Jephthah; see on Jdg 11:11.
my land … from Arnon even unto Jabbok The Arnon, now called Wadi el-Môjîb, descends from the E. and flows into the Dead Sea at a…
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