Read Judges 12

World English Bible · 15 verses

1. ¹ The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No;”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org