Judges 12:2

Jdg 12:2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.

Ver. 2. And Jephthah said unto them. ] Apologies are lawful, and in stone cases needful: the primitive Christians, as Tertullian, Athenagoras, and others, offered their apologies to the Roman emperors to very good purpose.

And when I called you. ] Which yet they denied. Jdg 12:1 Proud and spiteful people make little of a lie. See Judges 11:13 .