24. If Chemosh thy god should expel anyone for you, would thou not possess it? So whoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
25. Art thou better now in any thing than Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Peradventure did he ever strive against Israel? Peradventure did he ever fight against them?
26. Furthermore, Israel has dwelt in Heshbon and her towns and in Aroer and her towns and in all the cities that are along by the coasts of Arnon, for three hundred years. Why, therefore, did ye not recover them within that time?
27. Therefore, I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me; let the Lord, who is the Judge, judge this day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.
28. But the king of the sons of Ammon did not hear the reasons of Jephthah which he sent him.
29. Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed through Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he went unto the sons of Ammon.
30. And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the sons of Ammon into my hands,