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Chapter 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. |
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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? |
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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. |
