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He judged Israel for twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.

Jair the Gileadite came after him. He judged Israel for twenty-two years.

They made it very hard for the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they made it very hard for all the people of Israel in Gilead in the land of the Amorites on the other side of the Jordan.

When the Sidonians and Amalekites and Maonites made it hard for you, you cried out to Me. And I took you away from their hands.

The men of Ammon were gathered together for war. They set up their tents in Gilead. The men of Israel gathered together, and set up their tents in Mizpah.

Gilead's wife gave birth to his sons. And when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah away. They told him, "You will not have any share in our father's house. For you are the son of another woman."

The leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The Lord is listening to what we say. For sure we will do as you have said."

'Then Israel went through the desert and around the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab. There they set up their tents on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not go into the land of Moab. For the Arnon flowed along the side of Moab.

'So the Lord, the God of Israel, drove the Amorites away from His people Israel. Now are you to take the land for your own?

Do you not keep for your own what your god Chemosh gives you? We will keep the land of the people the Lord our God drove away for us.

While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns and Aroer and its towns and in all the cities beside the Arnon for 300 years, why did you not take them again during that time?

When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "It is bad, my daughter! You have made me very sad. You have brought much trouble to me. For I have made a promise to the Lord, and I must keep it."

But do this for me. Let me alone for two months. So I and my friends may go to the mountains and cry because I will never have a man."

Jephthah said, "Go." He sent her away for two months with her friends. And they cried on the mountains because she would never have a man.

that the daughters of Israel went to have sorrow for the daughter of Jephthah for four days each year.

Then the men of Ephraim got ready for war. They crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight the men of Ammon without calling us to go with you? With fire we will burn down your house with you in it."

they would say to him, "Then say ‘Shibboleth.'" But he would say, "Sibboleth," for he could not say it right. So they would take hold of him and kill him at the crossing places of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 men of Ephraim were killed.

Jephthah ruled Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died. He was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

He had thirty sons and thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage outside the family. And he brought in thirty daughters from outside the family for his sons. He ruled Israel for seven years.

Elon the Zebulunite ruled Israel after him. He ruled Israel for ten years.