12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king, saying, "What is the problem between us that you’ve come against me to make war in my land?"
13 The Ammonite king responded to Jephthah’s messengers, "When the Israelites were coming up from Egypt, they seized my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peacefully!"
14 Then Jephthah again sent messengers to the Ammonite king
15 and said to him, “Jephthah states: Israel didn’t seize the land of the Moabites or the land of the Ammonites.
16 When they were coming up from Egypt, the Israelites went through the desert to the Reed Sea and came to Kadesh.
17 Then the Israelites sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please allow us to pass through your land’; but the Edomite king refused. They sent the same request to the king of Moab, and he was unwilling. So the Israelites stayed at Kadesh.
18 “Later they journeyed into the desert but went around the lands of Edom and Moab, arriving on the east side of the land of Moab and setting up camp on the other side of the Arnon. They never entered Moabite territory, because the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.