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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!” |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He had thirty sons, as well as thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage to men outside his clan; and for his sons he brought back thirty wives from elsewhere. Ibzan judged Israel seven years. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11After Ibzan, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel ten years. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and he was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. |
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