Catholic Public Domain Version
"In those days, the sons of Ammon fought against Israel. "
— Judges 11:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.”
“And it came to pass after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel. ”
“It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.”
“It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel.”
“In those days the children of Ammon made war against Israel.”
“Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.”
“And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.”
At that time, there was a Gileadite, Jephthah, a very strong man and a fighter, the son of a kept woman, and he was born of Gilead.
Now Gilead had a wife, from whom he received sons. And they, after growing up, cast out Jephthah, saying, “You cannot inherit in the house of our father, because you were born of another mother.”
And so, fleeing and avoiding them, he lived in the land of Tob. And men who were indigent and robbers joined with him, and they followed him as their leader.
In those days, the sons of Ammon fought against Israel.
And being steadfastly attacked, the elders of Gilead traveled so that they might obtain for their assistance Jephthah, from the land of Tob.
And they said to him, “Come and be our leader, and fight against the sons of Ammon.”
But he answered them: “Are you not the ones who hated me, and who cast me out of my father’s house? And yet now you come to me, compelled by necessity?”