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When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
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Verse 5. Hard. Hebrew “and when the Ammonites made war.” As both armies were encamped near Maspha, they could hardly avoid having some skirmishes. But the Israelites durst not come to a pitched battle till they had Jephte at their head. Bible.—The Ammonites infested them every year with similar incursions, verse 12. Calmet.
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