1 Então se convocaram os homens de Efraim, e passaram para o norte, e disseram a Jefté: Por que passaste a combater contra os filhos de Amom, e não nos chamaste para ir contigo? Queimaremos a fogo a tua casa contigo.
2 E Jefté lhes disse: Eu e o meu povo tivemos grande contenda com os filhos de Amom; e chamei-vos, e não me livrastes da sua mão;
3 E, vendo eu que não me livráveis, arrisquei a minha vida, e passei contra os filhos de Amom, e o Senhor mos entregou nas mãos; por que, pois, subistes vós hoje, para combater contra mim?
4 E ajuntou Jefté a todos os homens de Gileade, e combateu contra Efraim; e os homens de Gileade feriram a Efraim; porque este dissera-lhe: Fugitivos sois de Efraim, vós gileaditas que habitais entre Efraim e Manassés,
5 Porque tomaram os gileaditas aos efraimitas os vaus do Jordão; e sucedeu que, quando algum dos fugitivos de Efraim dizia: Deixai-me passar; então os gileaditas perguntavam: És tu efraimita? E dizendo ele: Não,
6 Então lhe diziam: Dize, pois, Chibolete; porém ele dizia: Sibolete; porque não o podia pronunciar bem; então pegavam dele, e o degolavam nos vaus do Jordão; e caíram de Efraim naquele tempo quarenta e dois mil.
7 E Jefté julgou a Israel seis anos; e Jefté, o gileadita, faleceu, e foi sepultado numa das cidades de Gileade.
8 E depois dele julgou a Israel Ibzã de Belém.
9 E tinha este trinta filhos, e trinta filhas que casou fora; e trinta filhas trouxe de fora para seus filhos; e julgou a Israel sete anos.
10 Então faleceu Ibzã, e foi sepultado em Belém.
11 E depois dele julgou a Israel Elom, o zebulonita; e julgou a Israel dez anos.
12 E faleceu Elom, o zebulonita, e foi sepultado em Aijalom, na terra de Zebulom.
13 E depois dele julgou a Israel Abdom, filho de Hilel, o piratonita.
14 E tinha este quarenta filhos, e trinta netos, que cavalgavam sobre setenta jumentos; e julgou a Israel oito anos.
15 Então faleceu Abdom, filho de Hilel, o piratonita; e foi sepultado em Piratom, na terra de Efraim, no monte dos amalequitas.
1 And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward. And they said to Jephthah, Why did thou pass over to fight against the sons of Ammon, and did not call us to go with thee? We will burn thy house upon thee with f
2 And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon, and when I called you, ye did not save me out of their hand.
3 And when I saw that ye did not save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed opposite the sons of Ammon, and LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have ye come up to me this day, to fight against me?
4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Mana
5 And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are thou an Ephraimite? If he said, No,
6 then they said to him, Say now Shibboleth, and he said Sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right, then they laid hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two
7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
9 And he had thirty sons. And he sent abroad thirty daughters, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
10 And Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
11 And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.
12 And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
14 And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who rode on seventy donkey colts, and he judged Israel eight years.
15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.