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When I called you ... - This circumstance is not related in the main narrative. It is likely to have occurred when Jephthah was first chosen…

I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon. —Literally, I was a man of strife, I and my people, …

And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at a great
strife with the children of Ammon

The Ephraimites had the same quarrel with Jephthah as with Gideon. Pride was at the bottom of the quarrel; only by that comes contention. It is wro…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes