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Judges 12
- 1
- And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and
went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight
against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will
burn thine house upon thee with fire.
- 2
- And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at
great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered
me not out of their hands.
- 3
- And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life
in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD
delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day,
to fight against me?
- 4
- Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead,
and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they
said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among
the Manassites.
- 5
- And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before
the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped
said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an
Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
- 6
- Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said
Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him,
and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the
Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
- 7
- And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah
the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
- 8
- And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
- 9
- And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he
sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he
judged Israel seven years.
- 10
- Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
- 11
- And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he
judged Israel ten years.
- 12
- And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon
in the country of Zebulun.
- 13
- And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite,
judged Israel.
- 14
- And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on
threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
- 15
- And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and
was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
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