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1 The Ephraimites assembled and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, |Why did you go and fight with the Ammonites without asking us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!| 2 Jephthah said to them, |My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. 3 When I saw that you were not going to help, I risked my life and advanced against the Ammonites, and the LORD handed them over to me. Why have you come up to fight with me today?| 4 Jephthah assembled all the men of Gilead and they fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because the Ephraimites insulted them, saying, |You Gileadites are refugees in Ephraim, living within Ephraim's and Manasseh's territory.| Judges 12:1-4, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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