And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
Israel had put away its false gods and turned back to the service of God, and in response God raised up Jephthah as a deliverer. His commission was to make war against the Ammonites and to destroy their power over Israel. The declaration that Israel had not taken the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites belongs to that account of Jephthah's divinely appointed conflict.
Israel had put away its false gods and turned back to the service of God, and in response God raised up Jephthah as a deliverer. His commission was to make war against the Ammonites and to destroy their power over Israel. The declaration that Israel had not taken the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites belongs to that account of Jephthah's divinely appointed conflict.