07:011:037 And she said unto her father, Let this
thing be done for me:
let
me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon
the
mountains,
and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
07:011:038 And he said, Go. And he sent her away
for two months: and she
went
with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon
the
mountains.
07:011:039 And it came to pass at the end of two months,
that she
returned
unto her father, who did with her according to his
vow
which he had vowed: and she knew no man.
And it was a
custom
in Israel,
07:011:040 That the daughters of Israel went yearly
to lament the
daughter
of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
07:012:001 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.
07:012:002 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.
07:012:003 And when I saw that ye delivered me not,
I put my life in my
hands,
and passed over against the children of Ammon, and
the
lord
delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are
ye come
up
unto me this day, to fight against me?
07:012:004 Then Jephthah gathered together all the
men of Gilead, and
fought
with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim,
because
they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim
among
the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
07:012:005 And the Gileadites took the passages of
Jordan before the
Ephraimites:
and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which
were
escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead
said
unto
him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
07:012:006 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.
07:012:007 And Jephthah judged Israel six years.
Then died Jephthah the
Gileadite,
and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
07:012:008 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
07:012:009 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters,
whom he sent
abroad,
and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons.
And
he judged Israel seven years.


