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they told him, ‘Please say Shibboleth.’ If he said, ‘Sibboleth,’ because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and executed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim died.

Jephthah judged Israel for 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. 12:7 LXX reads in his city in Gilead