⁷ Then the men pursued them by the road to the Jordan, to the fords. And as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

²⁸ Then he said to them, “Follow me, for ^(A)the Lord has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they went down after him, seized the ^(B)fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.

²³ saying, “Indeed we found the prison shut securely, and the guards standing ^[a]outside before the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

⁵ The Gileadites seized the ^(A)fords of the Jordan before the Ephraimites arrived. And when any Ephraimite who escaped said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead would say to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

⁵ And it happened as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.”