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We will burn your house on you with fire." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/judges/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had a dispute, and the people of Ammon were oppressing me greatly; and when I called you, you did not save me out of their hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/judges/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When I saw that you did not save me, I put my life in my own hands, and passed over against the people of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/judges/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/judges/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when any of the fugitives 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="//biblehub.com/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 right: then they seized him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/judges/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in Gilead.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/judges/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/judges/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/judges/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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="//biblehub.com/judges/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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="//biblehub.com/judges/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkey colts. And he judged Israel eight years. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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