¹Then the men of Ephraim were called together, and they crossed over to the north, and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight the sons of Ammon, without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house with fire on you.” ²Then Jephthah said to them, “I was a man in contention – I and my people – with the sons of Ammon, to a great extent, and I called out to you, but you did not deliver me out of their hand. ³And when I saw that you were not delivering me, I risked by life, and I went across to the sons of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand. So why have you come up this day to fight against me?” ⁴Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim, and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim down, for the latter had said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, Gilead within Ephraim and within Manasseh.” ⁵And Gilead captured Ephraim's fords of the Jordan, and it came to pass that when the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me cross”, the men of Gilead said, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No”, ⁶then they said to him, “Kindly say, ‘Shibboleth’ ”, and if he said, “Sibboleth”, and he did not articulate to pronounce it correctly, then they took him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. And at that time forty-two thousand men of Ephraim fell. ⁷And Jephthah judged Israel for six years, then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and he was buried in the cities of Gilead. ⁸Then after him, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. ⁹And he had thirty sons and thirty daughters whom he sent out. And he brought thirty daughters from outside for his sons, and he judged Israel for seven years. ¹⁰Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem. ¹¹And after him Elon the Zebulonite judged Israel, and he judged Israel for ten years. ¹²Then Elon the Zebulonite died, and he was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. ¹³Then after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. ¹⁴And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy ass-colts, and he judged Israel for eight years. ¹⁵Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and he was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim at the mount of the Amalekite.