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Judges 12

About Judges Judges describes a repeating cycle in Israel: turning from God, oppression, crying out, and rescue by a judge.

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and 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 thine house upon thee with fire.SelectedJudges 12:1Ask

And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.SelectedJudges 12:2Ask

And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?SelectedJudges 12:3Ask

Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.SelectedJudges 12:4Ask

And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan 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 unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;SelectedJudges 12:5Ask

Then said they unto 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 Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.SelectedJudges 12:6Ask

And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.SelectedJudges 12:7Ask

And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.SelectedJudges 12:8Ask

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 Israel seven years.SelectedJudges 12:9Ask

Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.SelectedJudges 12:10Ask

And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.SelectedJudges 12:11Ask

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

And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.SelectedJudges 12:13Ask

And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.SelectedJudges 12:14Ask

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.SelectedJudges 12:15Ask

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