Then Jephthah gathered all of the men of Gilead. They fought and defeated Ephraim, because Ephraim had said, “You Gileadites are Ephraimite fugitives in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”

The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim. Whenever a fugitive from Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites asked him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

After him came Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel 22 years.

Jephthah the Gileadite was a great warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

that four days each year the young women of Israel would commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.