JUDGES 11:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.”
Jephthah's subsequent military campaign, moving from Aroer to the region near Minnith and Abel Keramim to devastate Ammonite territory, represents a comprehensive military action designed to prevent the Ammonites from mounting future offensives and to establish Israel's military dominance in the region. The destruction of twenty Ammonite cities suggests that the victory was not merely tactical but strategic, involving substantial territorial conquest and the elimination of Ammonite military capacity. The geographical sweep from Aroer through Minnith to Abel Keramim indicates that Jephthah pursued a strategy of total war designed to devastate Ammonite power completely. Yet the scale of the destruction also raises moral questions about whether such comprehensive annihilation was necessary and whether the campaign extended beyond legitimate military necessity into excessive brutality.
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