Judges 12:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:2 : 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  • Ps 69:15 : 15 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
  • Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, Therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
  • Prov 18:19 : 19 A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; And disputes are like the bars of a castle.
  • Eccl 10:12 : 12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
  • Isa 27:12 : 12 It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel.
  • Matt 12:25 : 25 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
  • Matt 26:73 : 73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known."
  • Mark 14:70 : 70 But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 12:1-5
    5 verses
    82%

    1The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? we will burn your house on you with fire.

    2Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't save me out of their hand.

    3When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand: why then are you come up to me this day, to fight against me?

    4Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh.

    5The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No;

  • Judg 12:7
    74%

    7Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

  • Judg 11:32-33
    2 verses
    68%

    32So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.

    33He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

  • Judg 7:24
    68%

    24Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.

  • Judg 3:27-28
    2 verses
    68%

    27It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he before them.

    28He said to them, Follow after me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. They went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow a man to pass over.

  • Judg 11:29
    67%

    29Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.

  • Judg 21:10
    67%

    10The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

  • Judg 11:3
    67%

    3Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.

  • Judg 8:1
    67%

    1The men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you served us thus, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian? They did chide with him sharply.

  • Judg 11:5-6
    2 verses
    66%

    5It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;

    6and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

  • 2 Kgs 10:14
    66%

    14He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

  • 1 Chr 7:21
    66%

    21and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their cattle.

  • Judg 11:11
    66%

    11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.

  • Josh 9:26
    66%

    26So did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they didn't kill them.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    66%

    7The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

  • Josh 11:8
    65%

    8Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.

  • Judg 10:9
    65%

    9The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

  • 2 Sam 2:16
    65%

    16They caught everyone his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: therefore that place was called Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

  • Judg 3:31
    65%

    31After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad: and he also saved Israel.

  • Josh 7:5
    65%

    5The men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they chased them [from] before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

  • Judg 8:4
    65%

    4Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.