27. I have not done you wrong, but you are doing wrong by attacking me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!’”
28. But the Ammonite king disregarded the message sent by Jephthah.
29. The Lord’s spirit empowered Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh and went to Mizpah in Gilead. From there he approached the Ammonites.
30. Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, saying, “If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me,
31. then whoever is the first to come through the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites – he will belong to the Lord and I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.”
32. Jephthah approached the Ammonites to fight with them, and the Lord handed them over to him.
33. He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites.