Judges 12:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
12 6 Jephthah killeth two and forty thousand Ephraimites, 8 After Jephthah succeedeth Ibzan, 11 Elon, 13 and Abdon.
1 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.
2 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.
3 So when I saw that ye delivered me not, [c]I put my life in mine hands, and went upon the children of Ammon: so the Lord delivered them into mine hands. Wherefore then are ye come upon me now to fight against me?
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- Judges 12:1 After they had passed Jordan.
- Judges 12:1 Thus ambition envieth God’s work in others as they did also against Gideon, Judg. 8:1.
- Judges 12:3 That is, I ventured my life, and when man’s help failed, I put my trust only in God.
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