4 And so be it, after days, the sons of Ammon fight Yisra El:
5 and so be it, the sons of Ammon fight Yisra El; and the elders of Gilad go to take Yiphtach from the land of Tob:
6 and they say to Yiphtach, Come and be our commander to fight the sons of Ammon.
7 And Yiphtach says to the elders of Gilad, Did not you hate me and expel me from the house of my father? Why come to me now when you tribulate?
8 And the elders of Gilad say to Yiphtach, So now, we turn back to you; to go with us and fight the sons of Ammon: and be our head over all the settlers of Gilad.
9 And Yiphtach says to the elders of Gilad, If you turn me back to fight the sons of Ammon and Yah Veh gives them at my face, become I your head?
10 And the elders of Gilad say to Yiphtach, Yah Veh hearken between us, if we work not thus according to your word.
11 And Yiphtach goes with the elders of Gilad; and the people set him their head and commander: and Yiphtach words all his words at the face of Yah Veh in Mispeh.
12 And Yiphtach sends angels to the sovereign of the sons of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that you are come to me to fight me in my land?
13 And the sovereign of the sons of Ammon says to the angels of Yiphtach, Because Yisra El took away my land, when they ascended from Misrayim, from Arnon to Yabboq and to Yarden: now restore them in shalom.
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JUDGE YIPHTACH DEFENDS THE HONOR OF YISRA EL
And Yiphtach adds to send angels to the sovereign of the sons of Ammon:
15 and says to him, Thus says Yiphtach, Yisra El took neither the land of Moab nor the land of the sons of Ammon:
16 for in ascending from Misrayim Yisra El walked through the wilderness to the Reed sea and came to Qadesh.
17 And Yisra El sent angels to the sovereign of Edom, saying, Let me, I beseech you, pass through your land? And the sovereign of Edom hearkened not thereto: and also the sovereign of Moab; and he willed not: and Yisra El settled in Qadesh.
18 And he went through the wilderness and surrounded the land of Edom and the land of Moab and came by the rising of the sun of the land of Moab and encamped beyond Arnon; but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon is the border of Moab.
19 And Yisra El sent angels to Sichon sovereign of the Emoriy the sovereign of Heshbon; and Yisra El said to him, Let us pass, we beseech you, through your land to my place?
20 And Sichon trusted not Yisra El to pass through his border: but Sichon gathered all his people together and encamped in Yahsah and fought Yisra El:
21 and Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El gave Sichon and all his people into the hand of Yisra El; and they smote them: so Yisra El possesses all the land of the Emoriy - the settlers of that land.
22 And they possess all the borders of the Emoriy from Arnon to Yabboq and from the wilderness to Yarden.
23 And now Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El dispossesses the Emoriy from the face of his people Yisra El - that you possess it?
24 Possess you not what Kemosh your elohim gave you to possess? So whomever Yah Veh our Elohim dispossesses from our face, them we possess.
25 And now are you any better than Balaq the son of Sippor sovereign of Moab? in striving, strives he against Yisra El? or in fighting, fights he against them
26 - while Yisra El settles in Heshbon and her daughters and in Aroer and her daughters and in all the cities along by the hand of Arnon for three hundred years? Why rescue you not them within that time?
27 I - I sin not against you; but you work me evil to fight me: Yah Veh the Judge judges this day between the sons of Yisra El and between the sons of Ammon.
28 The sovereign of the sons of Ammon hearkens not to the words Yiphtach sends him:
29 and the Spirit of Yah Veh comes on Yiphtach: and he passes over Gilad and Menash Sheh and passes over Mispeh of Gilad; and from Mispeh of Gilad he passes over the sons of Ammon.
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THE VOW OF JUDGE YIPHTACH
And Yiphtach vows a vow to Yah Veh and says, If in giving you give the sons of Ammon into my hands,
31 then so be it, whatever comes from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in shalom from the sons of Ammon becomes to Yah Veh; and I holocaust it for a holocaust.
32 So Yiphtach passes over to the sons of Ammon to fight them; and Yah Veh gives them into his hands:
33 he smites them from Aroer until you come to Minnith - twenty cities and to Abel Keramin with a mighty great stroke. Thus he subdues the sons of Ammon at the face of the sons of Yisra El.