Judges 12:1-7
THE DEFEAT OF THE EPHRAIMITES... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEFEAT OF THE EPHRAIMITES... [ Continue Reading ]
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together and went northward, or, marched Zaphon, a town in the tribe of Gad, on the eastern side of the Jordan Valley, AND SAID UNTO JEPHTHAH, WHEREFORE PASSEDST THOU OVER TO FIGHT AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, to attack them in battle, AND DIDST NOT CALL... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jephthah, in an endeavor to make the situation clear to the arrogant meddlers, SAID UNTO THEM, I AND MY PEOPLE WERE AT GREAT STRIFE WITH THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, literally, "A man of war was I, I and my people, and the children of Ammon [on the other side] very"; he and his fellow-citizens were en... [ Continue Reading ]
And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, he staked the most precious possession which he had, AND PASSED OVER AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, in a bold attack upon their army, AND THE LORD DELIVERED THEM INTO MY HAND; WHEREFORE, THEN, ARE YE COME UNTO ME THIS DAY TO FIGHT A... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Jephthah gathered together, mobilized for immediate military duty, ALL THE MEN OF GILEAD AND FOUGHT WITH EPHRAIM, not only in self-defense, but as the judge of the nation putting down rebellion with force of arms; AND THE MEN OF GILEAD, of the entire country east of Jordan, SMOTE EPHRAIM BECAUS... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites, the fords which led to the country of Ephraim; AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN THOSE EPHRAIMITES WHICH WERE ESCAPED, who had not been killed in battle, SAID, LET ME GO OVER, THAT THE MEN OF GILEAD SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU AN EPHRAIMITE?... [ Continue Reading ]
then said they unto him, Say now shibboleth (stream, flood); AND HE SAID SIBBOLETH; FOR HE COULD NOT FRAME (was not able) TO PRONOUNCE IT RIGHT. It was a difference in dialect, and the Ephraimites simply could not get the sound right; their pronunciation betrayed them. THEN THEY TOOK HIM, every Ephr... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jephthah judged Israel six years, his jurisdiction apparently extending chiefly over the country east of Jordan. THEN DIED JEPHTHAH, THE GILEADITE, AND WAS BURIED IN ONE OF THE CITIES OF GILEAD. Rebellions take place also in the midst of God's. people, the Church of Christ, and in more than one... [ Continue Reading ]
And after him (Jephthah) IBZAN OF BETHLEHEM JUDGED ISRAEL. This Bethlehem was that in the tribe of Zebulun, and Ibzan's jurisdiction seems to have extended over the northern tribes only.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE JUDGESHIPS OF IBZAN, ELON, AND ABDON... [ Continue Reading ]
And he had thirty sons and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, saw them well provided for in marriage, AND TOOK IN THIRTY DAUGHTERS FROM ABROAD FOR HIS SONS. AND HE JUDGED ISRAEL SEVEN YEARS, living in princely and happy state in the midst of the people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.... [ Continue Reading ]
And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, in the same part of Cavnaan, JUDGED ISRAEL; AND HE JUDGED ISRAEL TEN YEARS.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Elon, the Zebulonite. died, also after a peaceful and happy judgeship, AND WAS BURIED IN AIJALON, IN THE COUNTRY OF ZEBULUN.... [ Continue Reading ]
And after him Abdon, the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, in the country of Ephraim, JUDGED ISRAEL.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews (grandsons), THAT RODE ON THREESCORE AND TEN ASS COLTS, in itself a mark of princely authority; AND HE JUDGED ISRAEL EIGHT YEARS, keeping the people in discipline and in obedience to God.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites, that section of the mountains formerly occupied by this heathen tribe. If the teachers and rulers called by God will at all times follow the rule of God's Word, the... [ Continue Reading ]