- Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you."
- Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon; when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.
- "When I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the sons of Ammon, and the LORD gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?"
- Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought Ephraim; and the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, O Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh."
- The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan opposite Ephraim. And it happened when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead would say to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No,"
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- 以法莲人聚集,到了北方,对耶弗他说,你去与亚扪人争战,为什么没有招我们同去呢。我们必用火烧你和你的房屋。
- 耶弗他对他们说,我和我的民与亚扪人大大争战。我招你们来,你们竟没有来救我脱离他们的手。
- 我见你们不来救我,我就拚命前去攻击亚扪人,耶和华将他们交在我手中。你们今日为什么上我这里来攻打我呢。
- 于是耶弗他招聚基列人,与以法莲人争战。基列人击杀以法莲人,是因他们说,你们基列人在以法莲,玛拿西中间,不过是以法莲逃亡的人。
- 基列人把守约旦河的渡口,不容以法莲人过去。以法莲逃走的人若说,容我过去。基列人就问他说,你是以法莲人不是。他若说,不是,
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