Judges:12:1-7

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* And the men of Ephraim were called together and went northward , and said to Jephthah , Why did you go over to fight against the sons of Ammon , and did not call us to go with you ? We will burn your house upon you with fire . * And Jephthah said to them , My people and I were at great strife [with ] the sons of Ammon . And when I called you , you did not deliver me out of their hands . * When I saw that you did not deliver me , I took my life in my hand and passed over against the sons of Ammon , and the LORD delivered them into my hand , and why have you come up against me , to fight against me today ? * And Jephthah called up all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim . And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim , because they said , You Gileadites [are ] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites . * And the Gileadites took the fords of Jordan before the Ephraimites . And it happened that when one of those Ephraimites who had escaped said , Let me go over , the men of Gilead said to him , Are you an Ephraimite ? And he said , No . * And they said to him , Please say Shibboleth . And he said , Sibboleth , for he could not manage to pronounce [it ] right . Then they took him and killed him at the passages of Jordan . And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites . * And Jephthah judged Israel six years . And Jephthah the Gileadite died , and was buried in [one of ] the cities of Gilead .

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