However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Then the LORD’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,