Jephthah sent messengers That is, ambassadors, to prevent bloodshed, that so the Israelites might be acquitted before God and men from all the sad consequences of the war; and herein he showed great prudence, and no less piety. What hast thou to do with me, &c. What reasonable cause hast thou for this invasion? To fight in my land He speaks this in the name of all the people.

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