1. Judges 11:4 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is the purpose of this verse?

Judges 11:4 (ESV)

4 After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel.

This verse is in effect a summary of Judges 10:7–9 and Judges 10:17–18. We are back at Judges 10:18, to the main storyline, with the news that the Ammonites have now launched their threatened offensive.