en_tn/jdg/11/26.md

General Information:

Jephthah's messengers continue to speak.

three hundred years

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

Heshbon

Translate the name of this city the same way that you did in Judges 11:19.

Aroer

This is the name of a city. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/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/jit/figs-rquestion)