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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.
02 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.
03 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?
04 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.
05 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;
06 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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07 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then
died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in
one of the cities of Gilead.
08 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged
Israel.
09 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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