12 SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12

Ephraimites Quarrel With Jephthah

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:1

  1     ^¶  And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Wherefore passed you over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? we will burn your house upon you with fire.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:2

  2    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.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:3

  3    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 YAHWEH delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are you come up to me this day, to fight against me?

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:4

  4    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.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:5

  5    And the Gileadites took the passages of Yardan 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, Nay;

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:6

  6    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 Yardan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:7

  7    And Jephthah judged Yisrael six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

Ibzan, Elon, And Abdon Judge Yisrael

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:8

  8     ^¶  And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Yisrael.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:9

  9    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 Yisrael seven years.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:10

  10    Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:11

  11    And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Yisrael; and he judged Yisrael ten years.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:12

  12    And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

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  13    And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Yisrael.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:14

  14    And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Yisrael eight years.

SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 12:15

  15    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.