1And the men of Ephraim came together, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, “Why did you go over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house upon you with fire”.
2And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you did not deliver me out of their hands.
3And when I saw that you did not deliver me, I put my life in my own hands, and crossed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why, then, have you come up to me now, to fight against me?”
4Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they said, “You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites”.
5And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan before the Ephraimites, And it was so, that when those Ephraimites who had escaped said, “Let me go over”; that the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?? If he said, “No”;
6Then they said to him, “Say now, “Shibboleth””: and he said “Sibboleth”; for the Ephraimites could not pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty-two thousand.
7And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah, the Gileadite, died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
8And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
9And 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.
10Then Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
11And after him Elon, a Zebulunite, judged Israel; and judged Israel ten years.
12And Elon, the Zebulunite, died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
13And after him Abdon, the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
14And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons (nephews), who rode on seventy donkey colts; and he judged Israel eight years.
15And Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites. Easy Reader Bible: Purple Letter Edition © 2023 by Jim Musser. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. Bible Hub |
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