English Bible Presentation Sharing - Judges Book, chapter 12, verse All in Ylt Version

Judges 12 : 1 (YLT)

And the men of Ephraim are called together, and pass over northward, and say to Jephthah, `Wherefore has thou passed over to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and on us hast not called to go with thee? thy house we burn over thee with fire.`

Judges 12 : 2 (YLT)

And Jephthah saith unto them, `A man of great strife I have been (I and my people) with the Bene-Ammon, and I call you, and ye have not saved me out of their hand,

Judges 12 : 3 (YLT)

and I see that thou art not a saviour, and I put my life in my hand, and pass over unto the Bene-Ammon, and Jehovah giveth them into my hand -- and why have ye come up unto me this day to fight against me?`

Judges 12 : 4 (YLT)

And Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fighteth with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead smite Ephraim, because they said, `Fugitives of Ephraim *are ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim -- in the midst of Manasseh.`

Judges 12 : 5 (YLT)

And Gilead captureth the passages of the Jordan to Ephraim, and it hath been, when *any of the fugitives of Ephraim say, `Let me pass over,` and the men of Gilead say to him, `An Ephramite thou?` and he saith, `No;`

Judges 12 : 6 (YLT)

that they say to him, `Say, I pray thee, Shibboleth;` and he saith, `Sibboleth,` and is not prepared to speak right -- and they seize him, and slaughter him at the passages of the Jordan, and there fall at that time, of Ephraim, forty and two chiefs.

Judges 12 : 7 (YLT)

And Jephthah judged Israel six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite dieth, and is buried in *one of the cities of Gilead.

Judges 12 : 8 (YLT)

And after him Ibzan of Beth-Lehem judgeth Israel,

Judges 12 : 9 (YLT)

and he hath thirty sons and thirty daughters, he hath sent without and thirty daughters hath brought in to his sons from without; and he judgeth Israel seven years.

Judges 12 : 10 (YLT)

And Ibzan dieth, and is buried in Beth-Lehem.

Judges 12 : 11 (YLT)

And after him Elon the Zebulunite judgeth Israel, and he judgeth Israel ten years,

Judges 12 : 12 (YLT)

and Elon the Zebulunite dieth, and is buried in Aijalon, in the land of Zebulun.

Judges 12 : 13 (YLT)

And after him, Abdon son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, judgeth Israel,

Judges 12 : 14 (YLT)

and he hath forty sons, and thirty grandsons, riding on seventy ass-colts, and he judgeth Israel eight years.

Judges 12 : 15 (YLT)

And Abdon son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, dieth, and is buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekite.