14. Then Jephthah again sent messengers to the Ammonite king
15. and said to him, “Jephthah states: Israel didn’t seize the land of the Moabites or the land of the Ammonites.
16. When they were coming up from Egypt, the Israelites went through the desert to the Reed Sea and came to Kadesh.
17. Then the Israelites sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please allow us to pass through your land’; but the Edomite king refused. They sent the same request to the king of Moab, and he was unwilling. So the Israelites stayed at Kadesh.