the spirit: Judges 3:10, Judges 6:34, Judges 13:25; Numbers 11:25; 1 Samuel 10:10, 1 Samuel 16:13-15; 1 Chronicles 12:18
Jephthah: "Jephthah seems to have been judge only of north-east Israel."
over Mizpeh: Judges 10:17
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Judges 11:29
Judges 11:29
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