29. Then the Lord's Spirit took control of Jephthah, and Jephthah went through Gilead and Manasseh, raising an army. Finally, he arrived at Mizpah in Gilead, where
30. he promised the Lord, “If you will let me defeat the Ammonites
31. and come home safely, I will sacrifice to you whoever comes out to meet me first.”
32. From Mizpah, Jephthah attacked the Ammonites, and the Lord helped him defeat them.
33. Jephthah and his army destroyed the twenty towns between Aroer and Minnith, and others as far as Abel-Keramim. After that, the Ammonites could not invade Israel any more.