Judges 11:7 meaning and explanation

Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”

Judges 11:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Jephthah is speaking to the elders of Gilead, the men who once drove him out because his mother was a prostitute and he could not share the family inheritance. Now the Ammonites are attacking, and those same elders have come to Tob asking him to command their army.

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