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And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward , and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon , and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire .
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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 .
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And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands , and passed over against the children of Ammon , and the LORD delivered them into my hand : wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day , to fight against me?
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead , and fought with Ephraim : and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim , because they said , Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites , and among the Manassites.
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And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites : and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said , Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said , Nay;
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Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan : and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand .
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And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead .
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And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel .
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And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters , whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
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Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem .
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And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel ; and he judged Israel ten years.
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And Elon the Zebulonite died , and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun .
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And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel .
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And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
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And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died , and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim , in the mount of the Amalekites.