27. I have not sinned against you; but you are the one who is doing wrong by making war against me. Let Yahweh judge today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
28. But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the message that Jephthah sent to him.
29. And the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh. He passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed through to the Ammonites.
30. And Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh, and he said, “If indeed you will give the Ammonites into my hand,
31. whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from the Ammonites will be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it as a burnt offering.”
32. And Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to make war against them; and Yahweh gave them into his hand.
33. And he defeated them with a very great blow, from Aroer as far as Minnith, twenty towns, up to Abel Keramim. And the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.