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Text -- Judges 12:1-10 (NET)
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Civil Strife Mars the Victory
12:1 The Ephraimites assembled and crossed over to Zaphon . They said to Jephthah , “Why did you go and fight with the Ammonites without asking us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!”
12:2 Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites . I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power .
12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help , I risked my life and advanced against the Ammonites , and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up to fight with me today ?”
12:4 Jephthah assembled all the men of Gilead and they fought with Ephraim . The men of Gilead defeated Ephraim , because the Ephraimites insulted them, saying , “You Gileadites are refugees in Ephraim , living within Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s territory .”
12:5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Ephraim . Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive said , “Let me cross over ,” the men of Gilead asked him, “Are you an Ephraimite ?” If he said , “No ,”
12:6 then they said to him, “Say ‘Shibboleth !’” If he said , “Sibboleth ” (and could not pronounce the word correctly ), they grabbed him and executed him right there at the fords of the Jordan . On that day forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell dead .
12:7 Jephthah led Israel for six years ; then he died and was buried in his city in Gilead .
Order Restored
12:8 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel .
12:9 He had thirty sons . He arranged for thirty of his daughters to be married outside his extended family, and he arranged for thirty young women to be brought from outside as wives for his sons . Ibzan led Israel for seven years ;
12:10 then he died and was buried in Bethlehem .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Judge |
Jephthah |
Ibzan |
ISRAEL, HISTORY OF, 2 |
Israel |
Shibboleth |
JUDGES, PERIOD OF |
War |
Strife |
Ephraim |
FORD |
Citizenship |
Treason |
Ammonites |
Jordan |
EZBON |
CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT |
BOAZ |
EBEZ |
GILEADITES, THE |
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NET Notes: Jdg 12:3 The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
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NET Notes: Jdg 12:4 Heb “Refugees of Ephraim are you, O Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.” The LXX omits the entire second half of...
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NET Notes: Jdg 12:6 Heb “and could not prepare to speak.” The precise meaning of יָכִין (yakhin) is unclear. Some understa...
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NET Notes: Jdg 12:7 The Hebrew text has “in the cities of Gilead.” The present translation has support from some ancient Greek textual witnesses.
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