Thematic Bible
Judges 12:1 (show verse)
The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed [over] to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross [over] and make war against the {Ammonites}, and why did you not call us to go with you? We will burn down your house over you with fire."
Judges 12:2 (show verse)
And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were engaged in great conflict with the {Ammonites}; I called you, but you did not deliver me from their hand.
Judges 12:3 (show verse)
I saw that you would not deliver [us]; {I risked my own life}, and I crossed [over] to the {Ammonites}, and Yahweh gave them into my hand. Why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?"
Judges 12:4 (show verse)
Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and he made war with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim because they said, "You [are] fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh."
Judges 12:5 (show verse)
Then Gilead captured the fords of the Jordan from Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, "Let me cross [over]," the men of Gilead said to him, "[Are] you an Ephraimite?" [When] he said, "No,"
Judges 12:6 (show verse)
they said to him, "Please say Shibboleth," and [if] he said, "Sibboleth"--because he could not {pronounce it} correctly--they grabbed him and executed him at the fords of Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell.
Judges 12:7 (show verse)
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and he was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
Judges 12:8 (show verse)
After him Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.
Judges 12:9 (show verse)
He had thirty sons. He gave his thirty daughters away in marriage outside [his clan] and brought in from outside thirty young women for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years.
Judges 12:10 (show verse)
Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.
Judges 12:11 (show verse)
After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.
Judges 12:12 (show verse)
Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
Judges 12:13 (show verse)
After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
Judges 12:14 (show verse)
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons that rode on seventy male donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.
Judges 12:15 (show verse)
Then 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.