Judges:12
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And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together ,
and went northward ,
and said to Jephthah ,
Why passed you over to fight against the children of Ammon ,
and did not call us to go with you ?
we will burn your house on you with fire .
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And Jephthah said to them ,
I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon ;
and when I called you ,
you delivered me not out of their hands .
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And when I saw that you 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 :
why then are you come up to me this day ,
to fight against me ?
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead ,
and fought with Ephraim :
and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim ,
because they said ,
You 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 to him ,
Are you an Ephraimite ?
If he said ,
No ;
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Then said they to 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 and two thousand .
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And Jephthah judged Israel six years .
Then died Jephthah the Gileadite ,
and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead .
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And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel .
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And he had thirty sons ,
and thirty daughters ,
whom he sent abroad ,
and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons .
And he judged Israel seven years .
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Then died Ibzan ,
and was buried at Bethlehem .
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And after him Elon ,
a Zebulonite ,
judged Israel ;
and he judged Israel ten years .
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And Elon the Zebulonite died ,
and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun .
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And after him Abdon the son of Hillel ,
a Pirathonite ,
judged Israel .
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And he had forty sons and thirty nephews ,
that rode on three score and ten ass colts :
and he judged Israel eight years .
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And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died ,
and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim ,
in the mount of the Amalekites .