Judges 12:2-12

²To which he answered, Great strife was to me and to my people against the sons of Ammon, and I called you, that ye should give help to me, and you would not do so.

³Which thing I saw, and putted my life in mine hands; and I passed to the sons of Ammon, and the Lord betook them into mine hands; what have I deserved, that ye rise together against me into battle?

⁴Therefore when all the men of Gilead were called to Jephthah, he fought against Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim; for he said, Gilead is fugitive, either exiled, from Ephraim, and in the midst of Ephraim, and of Manasseh.

⁵And the men of Gilead occupied the fords of Jordan, by which Ephraim should turn again. And when a man, fleeing of the number of Ephraim, had come to the fords, and had said, I beseech, that ye suffer me pass; men of Gilead said to him, Whether thou art a man of Ephraim? And when he had said, I am not,

⁶they asked him, Say thou therefore Shibboleth, which is interpreted, an ear of corn. Which answered, Sibboleth, and he might not bring forth an ear of corn by the same letter. And anon they took and strangled him in that passing over of Jordan; and two and forty thousand men of Ephraim felled down in that time.

⁷And so Jephthah, a man of Gilead, deemed Israel six years; and he died, and was buried in his city Gilead.

⁸Ibzan of Bethlehem, that had thirty sons, and so many daughters, deemed Israel after Jephthah;

⁹which daughters he sent out, and gave them to husbands, and he took wives to his sons of the same number, and he brought them into his house; and Ibzan deemed Israel seven years;

¹⁰and he died, and was buried in Bethlehem.

¹¹Whose successor was Elon of Zebulun; and he deemed Israel ten years;

¹²and he was dead, and buried in Zebulun.