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Judges 12 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - And the men of Ephraim [fn]assembled themselves, and passed on to the north, and said to Jephthae, Wherefore didst thou go over to fight with the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house over thee with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - And Jephthae said to them, [fn]I and my people and the children of Ammon were very much engaged in war; and I called for you, and ye did not save me out of their hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - And I saw that thou [fn]wert no [fn]helper, and I put my life in my hand, and passed on to the sons of Ammon; and the Lord delivered them into my hand: and wherefore are ye come up against me this day to fight with me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - And Jephthae gathered all the men of Galaad, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Galaad smote Ephraim, because they that were escaped of Ephraim said, Ye are of Galaad in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasse.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:5 - And Galaad took the fords of Jordan before Ephraim; and they that escaped of Ephraim said to them, Let us go over: and the men of Galaad said, Art thou an Ephrathite? and he said, No.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - Then they said to him, Say now [fn]Stachys; and he did not rightly pronounce it so: and they took him, and slew him at the fords of Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim two and forty thousand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 - And Jephthae judged Israel six years; and Jephthae the Galaadite died, and was buried in his city Galaad.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:8 - And after him Abaissan of Bethleem judged Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:9 - And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent forth; and he brought in thirty daughters for his sons from without; and he judged Israel seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:10 - And Abaissan died, and was buried in Bethleem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:11 - And after him Ælom of Zabulon judged Israel ten years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:12 - And Ælom of Zabulon died, and was buried in Ælom in the land of Zabulon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:13 - And after him Abdon the son of Ellel, the Pharathonite, judged Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:14 - And he had forty sons, and thirty grandsons, that rode upon seventy colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:15 - And Abdon the son of Ellel, the Pharathonite, died, and was buried in Pharathon in the land of Ephraim in the mount of Amalec.
BES Footnotes
i. e. by calling.
Gr. I was a man, a warrior.
Gr. art.
Gr. saviour or deliverer.
Heb. שבלה, “Shibboleth,” ear of corn. If translated at all, the English may as well be put as the Greek. Alex. σύνθημα, q. d. watchword.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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