Judges 11:12

with me i.e. the people represented by Jephthah; see on Judges 11:17.

my land … from Arnon even unto Jabbok The Arnon, now called Wadi el-Môjîb, descends from the E. and flows into the Dead Sea at a point almost in the middle of the eastern shore; it formed the southern boundary of Moab at the time of the Exodus (Judges 11:18; Numbers 21:13). The Jabbok, now Nahr ez-Zerḳâ = -the blueriver," like the Arnon, is a perennial stream; it rises to the S. of -Ammân (Rabbath-ammon), runs northward and hence is called -the border of the sons of Ammon" (Deuteronomy 3:16; Joshua 12:2), curves round to the W., and so winds its way down to the Jordan which it enters 44½ m. due N. of the Arnon. The district between the two rivers naturally lay exposed to the incursions of the Ammonites, who lived to the E. of it (Numbers 21:24); but there is no support for the Ammonites" claim to regard it as my landat the time of the Israelite invasion, when the territory in question was held by the Amorites, Judges 11:21 f., Numbers 21:23 f.

thoselands] Rather, the cities of the district understood (Judges 11:33); lit. them.