1So Jephthah, the Gilead dude, was a total legend, like a warrior, and his mom was a harlot. Gilead straight up had Jephthah.

2Gilead's wifey popped out some sons, but when they grew up, they were like, "Nah, Jephthah, you ain't getting any of this inheritance 'cause you’re the son of a sus woman."

3Jephthah dipped from his fam and chilled in Tob, where some wild dudes gathered around him and rolled out together.

4Time passed, and the Ammon kids were like, "Let’s pop off and start a war against Israel."

5So when the Ammon crew went to war with Israel, the Gilead elders were like, "We gotta go get Jephthah from Tob."

6They hit up Jephthah and were like, "Yo, come be our captain so we can throw down with the Ammon kids."

7Jephthah was like, "Didn’t you guys kick me out of my dad’s house? Why you coming back to me now when you’re in trouble?"

8The Gilead elders were like, "We’re sorry, but we need you to roll with us, fight the Ammon crew, and be the boss of Gilead."

9Jephthah was like, "If you bring me back to fight the Ammon kids and God helps us win, will I be your leader?"

10The Gilead elders replied, "God's our witness, we’ll do exactly what you say, no cap."

11So Jephthah rolled with the elders of Gilead, and the squad made him the boss and captain; then he dropped all his words to the Lord in Mizpeh, no cap.

12Jephthah hit up the king of Ammon, like, "What's the deal? Why you tryna fight me in my territory?"

13The king of Ammon replied to Jephthah's messengers, saying, "Israel snatched my land when they bounced from Egypt, from Arnon to Jabbok, and to Jordan; so give those lands back, fr."

14Then Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of Ammon:

15He was like, "Listen up, Jephthah's saying Israel didn't take Moab's land or Ammon's land, periodt."

16When Israel dipped from Egypt and cruised through the wilderness to the Red Sea, they hit up Kadesh.

17Israel sent messengers to Edom's king, saying, "Yo, can we pass through your land?" But the king of Edom ghosted them. They also reached out to Moab's king, but he wasn't down either, so Israel chilled in Kadesh.

18They trekked through the wilderness, skirted Edom and Moab, and set up camp on the east side of Moab, but stayed clear of Moab's border since Arnon was the line.

19Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, in Heshbon, asking, "Can we roll through your land to our spot?"

20But Sihon didn't trust Israel to roll through; he rallied his crew, set up in Jahaz, and threw down against Israel, savage style.

21And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his crew into Israel’s hands, and they took them out: so Israel claimed all the land of the Amorites, no cap.

22They owned all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon to Jabbok, and from the wild to Jordan.

23So now the Lord God of Israel kicked the Amorites outta the way for His peeps, and you gonna claim that land?

24Aren’t you gonna take what Chemosh your god gives you? Whoever the Lord our God drives out, that’s who we’ll claim.

25So are you really better than Balak, the king of Moab? Did he ever come for Israel, or try to throw hands?

26While Israel was chilling in Heshbon and her towns, and Aroer and her towns, and all the cities by Arnon for three hundred years? Why didn’t you get them back then?

27I haven’t done you dirty, but you’re coming at me wrong: the Lord the Judge better settle this beef today between Israel and Ammon.

28But the king of Ammon didn’t listen to what Jephthah was saying.

29Then the Spirit of the Lord hit Jephthah, and he rolled through Gilead and Manasseh, and crossed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh he went to the kids of Ammon.

30And Jephthah made a promise to the Lord, saying, If you totally deliver the kids of Ammon into my hands,

31So, whatever pops outta my house when I roll back home chillin' from the Ammon squad, that's straight up for the Lord, and I'm gonna offer it as a burnt vibe.

32Jephthah dipped over to the Ammon crew to throw down, and the Lord totally had his back.

33He wrecked them from Aroer to Minnith, like twenty cities deep, and the vineyards were lit with all that chaos. The Ammon peeps got schooled by the Israelites.

34Jephthah rolled up to his crib, and guess what? His daughter came out with the vibes, dancing and all. She was his one and only, no siblings in sight.

35When he saw her, he was like, "No cap, my daughter! You got me feeling all kinds of ways, and I can't backtrack 'cause I made a promise to the Lord."

36She told him, "Dad, if you made that promise to the Lord, just do what you gotta do; the Lord's got your back against the Ammon peeps."

37She was like, "Let me have two months to vibe out on the mountains and mourn my single life with my girls."

38He said, "Bet." So he let her go for two months, and she went up to the mountains to mourn her virginity with her squad.

39After two months, she came back to her dad, and he did what he promised. She stayed single and it became a whole thing in Israel.

40The daughters of Israel would vibe out every year for four days to mourn Jephthah's daughter, keeping her memory alive.

1Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

2And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

3Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

4And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

5And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

6And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

7And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?

8And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

9And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliver them before me, shall I be your head?

10And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.

11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh.

12And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?

13And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.

14And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:

15And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

16But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

17Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.

18Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.

19And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.

20But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

21And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

22And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

23So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

24Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

25And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,

26While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?

27Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the Lord the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

28Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

29Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

30And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

31Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

32So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands.

33And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

34And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

35And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.

36And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.

37And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

38And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

39And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

40That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.