Judges 12:1-3

Lexham English Bible

Tribal Conflict Between Gilead and Ephraim

12 The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over and make war against the Ammonites,^[a] and why did you not call us to go with you? We will burn down your house over you with fire.” ² And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were engaged in great conflict with the Ammonites;^[b] I called you, but you did not deliver me from their hand. ³ I saw that you would not deliver us; I risked my own life,^[c] and I crossed over to the Ammonites,^[d] and Yahweh gave them into my hand. Why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”