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1 The men of Ephraim were summoned to fight. They crossed [the Jordan River] to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, |Why did you fight against Ammon without inviting us to go with you? Now we're going to burn your house down with you in it.| 2 Jephthah answered, |My people and I were involved in a legal dispute with Ammon. I asked you for help, but you didn't rescue me from them. 3 When I saw that you would not rescue me, I risked my life and went to fight the people of Ammon. The LORD handed them over to me. So why did you come to fight against me today?| 4 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought Ephraim. The men of Gilead defeated Ephraim. [They did this because] Ephraim had said, |You people from Gilead are nothing but fugitives from Ephraim and Manasseh.| Judges 12:1-4, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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