2 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.
3 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?
4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gil´e-ad, and fought with E´phra-im: and the men of Gil´e-ad smote E´phra-im, because they said, Ye Gil´e-adites are fugitives of E´phra-im among the E´phra-imites, and among the Manas´sites.
5 And the Gil´e-adites took the passages of Jordan before the E´phra-imites: and it was so, that when those E´phra-imites which were escaped said, Let me go over, that the men of Gil´e-ad said unto him, Art thou an E´phra-imite? If he said, Nay;
6 then said they unto him, Say now Shib´boleth: and he said Sib´boleth: 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 E´phra-imites forty and two thousand.
7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gil´e-adite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gil´e-ad.
8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.