Dual Panel1The Ephraimites <0669> <0376> assembled <06817> and crossed over <05674> to Zaphon <06828>. They said <0559> to Jephthah <03316>, “Why <04069> did you go <05674> and fight <03898> with the Ammonites <05983> <01121> without <03808> asking <07121> us to go <01980> with <05973> you? We will burn <08313> your house <01004> down <08313> right over <05921> you!”
2Jephthah <03316> said <0559> to <0413> them, “My people <05971> and I <0589> were <01961> entangled <03966> in controversy <07379> <0376> with the Ammonites <05983> <01121>. I asked <02199> for your help, but you did not <03808> deliver <03467> me from their power <03027>.
3When I saw <07200> that <03588> you were not <0369> going to help <03467>, I risked <07760> my life <05315> and advanced against <05674> the Ammonites <05983> <01121>, and the Lord <03068> handed <03027> <05414> them over <03027> <05414> to me. Why <04100> have you come up <05927> to <0413> fight <03898> with me today <02088> <03117>?”
4Jephthah <03316> assembled <06908> all <03605> the men <0376> of Gilead <01568> and they fought <03898> with <0854> Ephraim <0669>. The men <0376> of Gilead <01568> defeated <05221> Ephraim <0669>, because <03588> the Ephraimites insulted them, saying <0559>, “You <0859> Gileadites <01568> are refugees <06412> in Ephraim <0669>, living within <08432> Ephraim’s <0669> and Manasseh’s <04519> territory <08432>.”
5The Gileadites <01568> captured <03920> the fords <04569> of the Jordan River <03383> opposite Ephraim <0669>. Whenever <03588> <01961> an Ephraimite <0669> fugitive <06412> said <0559>, “Let me cross over <05674>,” the men <0582> of Gilead <01568> asked <0559> him, “Are you <0859> an Ephraimite <0673>?” If he said <0559>, “No <03808>,”
6then they said <0559> to him, “Say <0559> ‘Shibboleth <07641>!’” If he said <0559>, “Sibboleth <05451>” (and could not <03808> pronounce <01696> the word correctly <03651>), they grabbed <0270> him and executed <07819> him <0413> right there at the fords <04569> of the Jordan <03383>. On that <01931> day <06256> forty-two <08147> <0705> thousand <0505> Ephraimites <0669> fell dead <05307>.
7Jephthah <03316> led <08199> Israel <03478> for six <08337> years <08141>; then he died <04191> and was buried <06912> in his city <05892> in Gilead <01568>.
8After <0310> him Ibzan <078> of Bethlehem <01035> led <08199> Israel <03478>.
9He had <01961> thirty <07970> sons <01121>. He arranged <07971> for thirty <07970> of his daughters <01323> to be married <07971> outside <02351> his extended family, and he arranged <0935> for thirty <07970> young women <01323> to be brought <0935> from <04480> outside <02351> as wives for his sons <01121>. Ibzan led <08199> Israel <03478> for seven <07651> years <08141>;
10then he <078> died <04191> and was buried <06912> in Bethlehem <01035>.
11After <0310> him Elon <0356> the Zebulunite <02075> led <08199> Israel <03478> for ten <06235> years <08141>.
12Then Elon the Zebulunite <02075> died <04191> and was buried <06912> in Aijalon <0357> in the land <0776> of Zebulun <02074>.
13After <0310> him Abdon <05658> son <01121> of Hillel <01985> the Pirathonite <06553> led <08199> Israel <03478>.
14He had <01961> forty <0705> sons <01121> and thirty <07970> grandsons <01121> <01121> who rode <07392> on <05921> seventy <07657> donkeys <05895>. He led <08199> Israel <03478> for eight <08083> years <08141>.
15Then Abdon <05658> son <01121> of Hillel <01985> the Pirathonite <06553> died <04191> and was buried <06912> in Pirathon <06552> in the land <0776> of Ephraim <0669>, in the hill country <02022> of the Amalekites <06003>.