Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
Then
the men of Ephraim assembled
and crossed
the
Jordan
to
Zaphon.
They said to
Jephthah, “Why
have
you
crossed
over to fight the Ammonites
without
calling
us to go with you
? We will burn your
house down
with you
inside!”
And
the men of Ephraim were
gathered
together,
and passed
northward;
and
they 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 thy
house upon
thee
with fire.
But
Jephthah replied
, “
My people and
I
had
a
serious
conflict
with the Ammonites,
and when I called ,
you did
not
save
me out of their hands
.
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
.
When I saw that you
would
not
save
me, I risked
my life and crossed
over to
the Ammonites
, and the
LORD
delivered them into my hand .
Why
then have
you
come today
to fight against me? ”
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 Jehovah
delivered them into my hand :
wherefore
then are
ye
come up
unto
me
this
day,
to fight against me?
Jephthah
then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against
Ephraim .
And the men of Gilead struck
them
down
because the
Ephraimites
had
said, “You
Gileadites
are fugitives in
Ephraim, living
in the territories
of Ephraim and Manasseh. ”
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.
The Gileadites captured
the fords of the Jordan leading
to
Ephraim,
and whenever
a
fugitive
from
Ephraim would
say
, “
Let me cross
over, ”
the Gileadites
would
ask
him, “Are
you
an Ephraimite? ”
If he answered,
“No
, ”
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;
they told
him, “Please
say Shibboleth .”
If
he said ,
“
Sibboleth ,”
because
he could not pronounce it correctly,
they seized
him and killed
him at the fords of the Jordan. So
at that time 42,000
Ephraimites
were
killed
.
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
.
Jephthah judged Israel six years ,
and
when
he
died, he
was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
And
Jephthah judged Israel six years .
Then
died Jephthah
the
Gileadite
, and
was buried in `
one of '
the cities of Gilead.
After Jephthah,
Ibzan of Bethlehem
judged Israel.
And
after him
Ibzan of Beth-lehem
judged Israel.
He had thirty sons, as
well
as
thirty daughters whom
he gave
in marriage
to
men
outside
his
clan;
and
for his sons he
brought
back
thirty
wives
from
elsewhere
. Ibzan
judged Israel seven years.
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.
Then
Ibzan died, and he
was buried in
Bethlehem
.
And
Ibzan died, and was buried at
Beth-lehem
.
After Ibzan,
Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel ten years.
And
after him
Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel ;
and
he
judged
Israel
ten years.
Then
Elon the Zebulunite died, and he
was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
And
Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
After Elon,
Abdon son of Hillel ,
from
Pirathon,
judged Israel.
And
after him
Abdon the
son of Hillel the
Pirathonite
judged Israel.
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons
, who
rode on seventy
donkeys.
And he judged Israel eight years.
And
he had forty sons and thirty sons'
sons
, that
rode on threescore
and ten
ass
colts:
and
he judged Israel eight years.
Then
Abdon son of Hillel ,
from
Pirathon,
died, and he
was buried at
Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
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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