The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? we will burn your house on you with fire.
One cannot fail to be amazed at the critical nonsense hurled at this chapter.  Wellhausen, as quoted by Moore, complained that, "This paragraph comes too late.  Jephthah is already at home, and at least two months have passed  (Judges 11:39), and besides, the claim that the help of Ephraim had been sought and refused, does not accord with  Judges 11."[2]