Judges 11:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

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.

Judges 11:12

12 And 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?