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13 The Ammonites’ king replied to the messengers of Jephthah, “It is because Israel took away [a]my land when they came up from Egypt, from the [river] Arnon as far as the Jabbok and [east of] the Jordan; so now, return those lands peaceably.” 14 But Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites, 15 and they said to him, “This is what Jephthah says: ‘Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 11:13 The land under discussion was actually Amorite territory when Israel entered and took possession of it three hundred years earlier.

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