Judges 12:6 meaning and explanation
they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.
Judges 12:6, Berean Standard Bible
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The setting is civil war. The Ephraimites had threatened to burn Jephthah's house and complained they were not called to fight Ammon, though Jephthah says he did call them.
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