12Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”
Jephthah acts in a king-like fashion, speaking to the king of the Ammonites as an equal, claiming that the land of Gilead was his own personal property (“my land”).
12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”