they 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. At that time 42,000 from Ephraim died.

Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.[a]

Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon

Ibzan, who was from Bethlehem,(A) judged Israel after Jephthah

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 12:7 LXX reads in his city in Gilead

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