*“Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.”* The resistance of Sihon then and the desires of Ammon here did not turn on a plea for divine justice, but rather the service they offered to the idol-god, Chemosh. Jephthah exposed by his words the underlying, spiritual enmity between the two peoples that energized their age-long conflict. Scripture: [[Judges 11#^7debb2]] #jot