Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
"Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house"  (Judges 11:2). Jephthah was, "a half-Canaanite and was not acknowledged by his father's clan."[4]  In  Judges 11:7, below, it is learned that the expulsion of Jephthah from his father's house by his brothers was backed up and enforced by all the Gileadites.