Jealousy of Ephraim Judges 12

 

Judges 12. Jealousy of Ephraim

 

The men of Ephraim demanded that Jephthah give them the reason why he did not ask their help in the battle of the Ammonites. Jealousy was the problem here. Jephthah had to protect himself.  The men of Ephraim were going to burn his house down right over his head.

 

The Gileadites were successful in defeating the Ephramites.  Then they selected a password that would be difficult to pronounce because it contained a consonant which was not in the Ephramite dialect. The word was Shibboleth. It was a difficult word for the Ephramites to say because they could not put the “h” in it. Jephthah’s death ended six eventful years.

 

After Jephthah, the tenth judge was Ibzan. He was from Bethlehem. He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. Ibzan was a man who gave all his time to his family. There is nothing wrong with that, but it was not what he was called to do. Elon, the Eleventh judge did nothing- he didn’t even have a large family. Abdon, the twelfth judge had forty sons and forty nephews. All three of these judges apparently did nothing constructive as judges.

 

 

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