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Gilead is named as the father of Jephthah in Judges.
Gilead in the Bible is the Judges person identified as Jephthah’s father in Judges 11:1. The verse calls Jephthah “the Gileadite” and states that Gilead begot him; it also describes Jephthah as a mighty man of valor and says he was the son of a woman who fornicated. Gilead is named in at least one verse, in Judges alone. This page concerns this Gilead, first named at Judges 11:1.
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Judges 11:1
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