Book 07 : NEVIIM - JUDGES - Chapter 012
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And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed
to Zaphon; and they said unto Jephthah: 'Wherefore didst thou pass over to fight
against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will
burn thy house upon thee with fire.
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And Jephthah said unto them: 'I and my people were at great
strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye saved me not out of
their hand
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And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my
hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and HaShem 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, and
fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said: 'Ye
are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the
midst of Manasseh.
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And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the
Ephraimites; and it was so, that when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said: 'Let
me go over,' 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 laid hold
on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of
Ephraim 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 Beth-lehem judged Israel
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And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he sent
abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he
judged Israel seven years
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and Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem
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And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he
judged Israel ten years
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And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in
the land of Zebulun
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And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite
judged Israel
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And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on
threescore 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 hill-country of the Amalekites
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