Bible verse
“Come,” they said, “be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites.”
Judges 11:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from Judges 11.
2 And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”
3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.
4 Some time later, when the Ammonites fought against Israel
5 and made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.
6 “Come,” they said, “be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites.”
7 Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
8 They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”
9 But Jephthah asked them, “If you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, will I really be your leader?”
10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”
KJV
And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
ASV
and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
ERV
and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
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