Judges 12
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And the men of E'phra-im 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.
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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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Then Jephthah gathered together all the
men of Gil'e-ad, and fought with E'phra-im: and the men of Gil'e-ad
smote E'phra-im, because they said, Ye Gil'e-adites are fugitives of E'phra-im among the E'phra-imites, and among the
Manas'sites.
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And the Gil'e-adites took the passages of
Jordan before the E'phra-imites: and it was so, that when
those E'phra-imites which were escaped said, Let me go over, that
the men of Gil'e-ad said unto him, Art thou an E'phra-imite?
If he said, Nay;
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then said they unto him, Say now
Shib'boleth: and he said Sib'boleth: 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 E'phra-imites
forty and two thousand.
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And Jephthah judged Israel six years.
Then died Jephthah the Gil'e-adite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gil'e-ad.
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Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon
Judge Israel |
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And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged
Israel.
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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.
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Then died Ibzan, and was buried at
Bethlehem.
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And after him Elon, a Zeb'ulonite,
judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
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And Elon the Zeb'ulonite died, and was
buried in Ai'jalon in the country of Zeb'ulun.
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And after him Abdon the son of Hillel,
a Pira'thonite, judged Israel.
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And he had forty sons and thirty nephews,
that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel
eight years.
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And Abdon the son of Hillel the
Pira'thonite died, and was buried in Pira'thon in the land of
E'phra-im, in the mount of the Amal'ekites.
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