# General Information:

Jephthah's messengers continue to speak.

# three hundred years

"300 years" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

# Heshbon

Translate the name of this city the same way that you did in [Judges 11:19](../11/19.md).

# Aroer

This is the name of a city. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

# why then did you not take them back during that time?

Jephthah is rebuking the king of the Ammonites with a rhetorical question. This question can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "you should have taken them back during that time." or "now it is too late; you should have taken them back long ago." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])