Thematic Bible: Fordable in some places

And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the E'phraimites. And when any of the fugitives of E'phraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an E'phraimite?" When he said, "No," they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right; then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the E'phraimites.

And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan, to the fords; and when they who pursued after them had gone out, they closed the gate. Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsPursuing PeopleShutting GatesFords