Judges:12

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* And the men of Ephraim were called together , and went northward , and said unto Yiphthach , Wherefore didst thou pass over to fight against the children of ‘Ammon , and didst not call for us to go with thee ? thy house will we burn over thee with fire . * And Yiphthach said unto them , I and my people were greatly engaged in strife with the children of ‘Ammon ; and I called you , but ye helped me not out of their hand . * And when I saw that ye helped me not , I put my life in my hand , and passed over to the children of ‘Ammon , and the Lord delivered them into my hand ; and why then are ye come up unto me this day , to fight against me ? * Then Yiphthach gathered together all the men of Gil ’ad , and fought with Ephraim ; and the men of Gil ’ad smote Ephraim , because they said , Ye are fugitives of Ephraim : Gil ’ad is in the midst , between Ephraim and Menasseh . * And the Gil ’adites seized on the passages of the Jordan before the Ephraimites : and it came to pass , when the Ephraimites who had escaped said , Let me pass over ; that the men of Gil ’ad said unto him , Art thou an Ephrathite ? and if he said , No ; * Then said they unto him , Do say , Shibboleth ; but when he said , Sibboleth , and was not able to pronounce it correctly , they laid hold of him and slew him on the passages of the Jordan ; and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand . * And Yiphthach judged Israel six years ; and then died Yiphthach the Gil ’adite , and was buried in the cities of Gil ’ad . * And after him there judged Israel Ibzan of Beth –lechem . * And he had thirty sons ; and thirty daughters he sent abroad , and thirty daughters he brought in for his sons from abroad : and he judged Israel seven years . * Then died Ibzan , and was buried at Beth –lechem . * And after him there judged Israel Elon the Zebulonite ; and he judged Israel ten years . * Then died Elon the Zebulonite , and was buried in Ayalon in the country of Zebulun . * And after him there judged Israel ‘Abdon the son of Hillel the Pir ’athonite . * And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons , that rode on seventy ass –colts ; and he judged Israel eight years . * Then died ‘Abdon the son of Hillel the Pir ’athonite , and was buried in Pir ’athon in the land of Ephraim , in the mountain of the ‘Amalekites .

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