- Michael Rudolf sent us the full chapter on the story of "Shibboleth":
- The Book of Judges
Chapter 12
- And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward,
and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the
children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine
house upon thee with fire.
- And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with
the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of
their hands.
- And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and
passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into
my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against
me?
- Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with
Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye
Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the
Manassites.
- And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites:
and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me
go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he
said, Nay;
- Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for
he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him
at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites
forty and two thousand.
- And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite,
and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
- And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
- And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and
took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel
seven years.
- Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
- And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel
ten years.
- And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country
of Zebulun.
- And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
- And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and
ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
- 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.
-- King James Version
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"Shibboleth"
