Judges Chapter 12

Judges Chapter 12
1 And the men of Ephraim gathered
themselves together, and went
northward, and said unto Jephthah,
Wherefore wentest thou to fight against
the children of Ammon, and didst not
call us to go with thee? We will
therefore burn thine house upon thee
with fire.
2 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.
3 So when I saw that ye delivered me
not, I put my life in mine hands, and went
upon the children of Ammon: so the Lord
delivered them into mine hands.
Wherefore then are ye come upon me
now to fight against me?
4 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of
Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and
the men of Gilead smote Ephraim,
because they said, Ye Gileadites are
runagates of Ephraim among the
Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
5 Also the Gileadites took the passages
of Jordan before the Ephraimites, and
when the Ephraimites that were escaped,
said, Let me pass, then the men of Gilead
said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If
he said, Nay,
6 Then said they unto him, Say now
Shibboleth: and he said, Sibboleth: for
he could not so pronounce: then they
took him, and slew him at the passages
of Jordan: and there fell at that time of
the Ephraimites two and forty thousand.
7 And Jephthah judged Israel six year:
then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and
was buried in one of the cities of
Gilead.
8 After him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged
Israel,
9 Who had thirty sons and thirty
daughters, which he sent out, and took in
thirty daughters from abroad for his
sons. and he judged Israel seven year. 10
Then Ibzan died, and was buried at
Bethlehem.
11 And after him judged Israel Elon, a
Zebulonite, and he judged Israel ten
year.
12 Then Elon the Zebulonite died, and
was buried in Aijalon in the country of
Zebulun.
13 And after him Abdon the son of
Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. 14
And he had forty sons and thirty
nephews that rode on seventy ass colts:
and he judged Israel eight years.
15 Then died Abdon the son of Hillel the
Pirathonite, and was buried in Pirathon,
in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of
the Amalekites.