Judges Chapter 12

• Judges 12:1
  Judges.
• Judges 12:2
  The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Am...
• Judges 12:3
  Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.
• Judges 12:4
  When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand....
• Judges 12:5
  Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitive...
• Judges 12:6
  The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to ...
• Judges 12:7
  then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and kil...
• Judges 12:8
  Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.
• Judges 12:9
  After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
• Judges 12:10
  He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Is...
• Judges 12:11
  Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
• Judges 12:12
  After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
• Judges 12:13
  Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
• Judges 12:14
  After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
• Judges 12:15
  He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.
• Judges 12:16
  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.