This passage is often misinterpreted as a blanket biblical endorsement for any nation's aggressive land grabs or modern geopolitical claims, ignoring its specific historical context as Jephthah's diplomatic defense based on God's unique covenant with Israel; it is also wrongly used to promote ethnocentric superiority without acknowledging the broader scriptural themes of divine justice, mercy, and eventual judgment on unfaithful possession.
Judges 11:23
King James Version (1769)
23 So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Jephthah declares to the king of Ammon that the Lord sovereignly dispossessed the Amorites before Israel, granting them the land they now possess, emphasizing God's supreme authority over territories and nations in fulfilling His promises to His people rather than human conquest or theft from Ammon.