War in Ammon - Judges 12

Judges 12:1 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. 

Judges 12:2 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. 

Judges 12:3 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? 

Judges 12:4 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. 

Judges 12:5 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; 

Judges 12:6 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. 

Judges 12:7 And  Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the  Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.  

Judges 12:8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.  

Judges 12:9 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. 

Judges 12:10 Then  died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.

Judges 12:11 And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel;  and he judged Israel ten years. 

Judges 12:12 And Elon the  Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of  Zebulun.  

Judges 12:13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a  Pirathonite, judged Israel. 

Judges 12:14 And he had forty sons  and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass  colts: and he judged Israel eight years. 

Judges 12:15 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.   KJV

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