Judges:12:1-7
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And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together ,
and went northward ,
and said unto Jephthah ,
Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon ,
and didst not call us to go with thee ?
we will burn thine house upon thee with fire .
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And Jephthah said unto them ,
I and my people were at great strife #
H7379with the children of Ammon ;
and when I called you ,
ye delivered me not out of their hands .
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And when I saw that ye delivered me not ,
I put my life in my hands ,
and passed over against the children of Ammon ,
and the LORD delivered them into my hand :
wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day ,
to fight against me ?
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead Gil #
ad #,
and fought with Ephraim :
and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim ,
because they said ,
Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites ,
and among the Manassites .
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And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites :
and it was so ,
that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said ,
Let me go over ;
that the men of Gilead said unto him ,
Art thou an Ephraimite ?
If he said ,
Nay ;
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Then said they unto him ,
Say now Shibboleth :
and he said Sibboleth :
for he could not frame #
to pronounce it right .
Then they took him ,
and slew him at the passages of Jordan :
and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty #
arba #
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and two thousand .
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And Jephthah judged Israel six years .
Then died Jephthah the Gileadite Gil #
adiy #,
and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead Gil #
ad #.