Shi Shi Ji_Chapter 12
The Ephraimites gathered in the north and said to Jephthah, “Why didn’t you invite us to go to war with the Ammonites?”? We will burn you and your house with fire.
Jephthah said to them, ‘I and my people are at war with the Ammonites.’. I called for you, but you didn’t come to rescue me from their hands.
I saw that you did not come to save me, so I went with all my might to attack the children of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hands. Why did you come to attack me today?
So Jephthah gathered the Gilead people and fought against the Ephraimites. The Gilead people killed the Ephraimites because they said, ‘You Gilead people are only the fugitives of Ephraim between Ephraim and Manasseh.’.
The Gilead people kept the crossing of the Jordan River and did not allow the Ephraimites to cross. If the fugitives of Ephraim say, Let me go. The Gilead asked him, “Are you an Ephraimite?”. If he says, no,
Then he said to him, “You said Shibo Lie…”.. The people of Ephraim, because they couldn’t pronounce the words correctly, said, “West Borriel.”. The Gilead people captured him and killed him at the crossing of the Jordan River. At that time, forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed.
Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Jephthah the Gilead died and was buried in a city in Gilead.
After Jephthah, Abizan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
He has thirty sons and thirty daughters. My daughters have all been married off. He married his sons thirty daughters from a foreign land. He judged Israel for seven years.
Ibizam died and was buried in Bethlehem.
After Abizan, there was Elon the Zebulonite who judged Israel for ten years.
Elon the Zebulonite died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
After Elon, Abdon the son of Hillel, a Beratonite, judged Israel.
He has forty sons and thirty grandsons, riding seventy donkeys and foals. Abdon judged Israel for eight years.
Abdon, the son of Hillel the Belathonite, died and was buried in Belathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
