Judges 12:6

they would tell him, “Say Shibboleth.” If he was from Ephraim he would say “Sibboleth” because he couldn't pronounce it right, and they'd grab him and kill him there at the Jordan fords. A total of 42,000 were killed at that time.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5The Gileadites took control of the fords over the Jordan River that led to Ephraim's territory, and when an Ephraimite escapee from the battle would come and ask, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would question him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

7Jephthah led Israel as judge for six years. Then he died and was buried in one of Gilead's towns.

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Cross References

Psalms 69:15Don't let the flood waters wash over me. Don't let the deep waters pull me down. Don't let the grave close over me.

Proverbs 18:19A brother you've offended is harder to win back than a fortified town. Arguments keep people apart like bars on the doors of a fortress.

Isaiah 27:12At that time the Lord will thresh the grain harvested from the Euphrates River to the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered up one by one.

Matthew 26:73A little while later the people standing there came up to Peter and said, “You definitely are one of them. Your accent gives you away.”

Galatians 5:15But if you attack and tear into one another, watch out that you don't completely destroy yourselves!

Matthew Henry on Judges 12:2-8

Displeasure of the Ephraimites; Punishment of the Ephraimites. ( b. c. 1143.) 1 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. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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