And it was so, that, when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob;
and whanne þei contynueden scharpli, þe grettere men in birþe  of Galaad, yeden to take in to þe help of hem silf Jepte fro þe lond of Tob;