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We will burn your house around you with fire!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No;” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead. </p> <p class="hdg">Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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