Judges 11:1

11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father.

Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home, he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife.”

Judges 21:18

21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’

tn Heb “Now he was the son of a woman, a prostitute, and Gilead fathered Jephthah.”

tn Heb “and he went up.”

tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”

tn Heb “is cursed.”