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Judges 12:1
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And the men of Ephraim were gathered together,
and passed northward; and they 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 thy house upon thee with fire. |
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Judges 12:2 |
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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 saved
me not out of their hand. |
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Judges 12:3 |
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And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my
life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered
them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against
me? |
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Judges 12:4 |
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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 are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim,
and in the midst of Manasseh. |
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Judges 12:5 |
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And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan
against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim
said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite?
If he said, Nay; |
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Judges 12:6 |
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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
laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that
time of Ephraim forty and two thousand. |
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Judges 12:7 |
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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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Judges 12:8 |
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And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
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Judges 12:9 |
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And he had thirty sons; and thirty daughters
he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And
he judged Israel seven years. |
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Judges 12:10 |
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And Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
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Judges 12:11 |
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And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel;
and he judged Israel ten years. |
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Judges 12:12 |
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And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried
in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. |
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Judges 12:13 |
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And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite
judged Israel. |
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Judges 12:14 |
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And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons,
that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. |
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Judges 12:15 |
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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 hill-country of
the Amalekites. |
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