The Book of Judges (WEB)
12: 1The 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. 12:2Jephthah said to them, I and my people
were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't save me out of
their hand. 12:3When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over
against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand: why then are you
come up to me this day, to fight against me? 12:4Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of
Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You
are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.
12:5The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when any of
the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an
Ephraimite? If he said, No; 12:6then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth;
for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and killed him at the
fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand. 12:7Jephthah judged
Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
12:8After him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel. 12:9He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent
abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.
12:10Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem. 12:11After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and
he judged Israel ten years. 12:12Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of
Zebulun. 12:13After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. 12:14He had forty sons
and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
12:15Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim,
in the hill-country of the Amalekites.
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