⁵ And so it was, when the people of Ammon made war against Israel, that the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

⁶ When the people of Ammon saw that they ^(A)had made themselves repulsive to David, the people of Ammon sent and hired ^(B)the Syrians of ^(C)Beth Rehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand foot soldiers; and from the king of ^(D)Maacah one thousand men, and from ^(E)Ish-Tob twelve thousand men.

⁸ Then the people of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array at the entrance of the gate. And ^(A)the Syrians of Zoba, Beth Rehob, Ish-Tob, and Maacah were by themselves in the field.