Judges 12:5 - Forerunner Commentary

Judges 12:5

3 So when I saw that you would not deliver me, I ^atook my life in my hands and crossed over against the people of Ammon; and the Lord delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”

4 Now Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they said, “You Gileadites ^aare fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites.”

5 The Gileadites seized the ^afords 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,”

6 then they would say to him, “Then say, ^a‘Shibboleth’!” And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they would take him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites.

7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in among the cities of Gilead.

Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon

8 After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

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Definitions of words in Judges 12:5:

Before {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Cross {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Cross {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Ephraimite {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Gileadites {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

He {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Jordan {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Jordan {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Jordan {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Let {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

No {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
No {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
No {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Gilead {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Gilead {Hitchcock's Bible Names}

Other definition entries containing Judges 12:5:

Judges, Book of {Easton's}
Ford {I.S.B.E.}
Jephthah {I.S.B.E.}
Judges, Period Of {I.S.B.E.}

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