So when I saw that ye delivered me not, [a]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?

Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are runagates of Ephraim [b]among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

Also the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites, and when the Ephraimites that were escaped, said, Let me pass, then the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay,

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 12:3 That is, I ventured my life, and when man’s help failed, I put my trust only in God.
  2. Judges 12:4 Ye ran from us, and chose Gilead, and now in respect of us, ye are nothing.

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