Thematic Bible: Fordable in some places

And the Gileadites took the fords of Jordan before the Ephraimites. And it happened that when one of those Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And he said, No. And they said to him, Please say Shibboleth. And he said, Sibboleth, for he could not manage to pronounce it right. Then they took him and killed him at the passages of Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites.

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