*“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]]
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