Judges 12:3-6

³When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”

⁴Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”

⁵The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

⁶they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42, 000 Ephraimites were killed.

— Judges 12:3-6

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Cross References for Judges 12:3-6

• 1 Samuel 19:5
• 1 Samuel 28:21
• Job 13:14
• Judges 3:28
• Psalm 119:109
• 1 Samuel 25:10
• Joshua 22:11
• Proverbs 15:1
• Galatians 5:15
• Proverbs 17:14

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