Judges 11:1-7

1Now 1Jephthah the Gileadite was a 2valiant warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. And Gilead had fathered Jephthah. 2Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.” 3So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of 3Tob; and worthless men gathered 4around Jephthah, and they went 5wherever he did.

4Now it came about, after a while, that 6the sons of Ammon fought against Israel. 5When the sons of Ammon fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob; 6and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the sons of Ammon.” 7But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “7Did you not hate me and drive me from my father’s house? So why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?”