12 6 Jephthah killeth two and forty thousand Ephraimites, 8 After Jephthah succeedeth Ibzan,  11 Elon, 13 and Abdon.

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went [a]Northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore wentest thou to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call [b]us to go with thee? we will therefore burn thine house upon thee with fire.

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.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 12:1 After they had passed Jordan.
  2. Judges 12:1 Thus ambition envieth God’s work in others as they did also against Gideon, Judg. 8:1.

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