¹² Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: “What do you have against me that you have attacked my country?”

¹³ The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon^(A) to the Jabbok,^(B) all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.”

²⁴ This is what Moses had given to the tribe of Gad, according to its clans: