7Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in Gilead.


In Context

4 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with E'phraim; and the men of Gilead smote E'phraim, because they said, |You are fugitives of E'phraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of E'phraim and Manas'seh.|

5 And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the E'phraimites. And when any of the fugitives of E'phraim said, |Let me go over,| the men of Gilead said to him, |Are you an E'phraimite?| When he said, |No,|

6 they said to him, |Then say Shibboleth,| and he said, |Sibboleth,| for he could not pronounce it right; then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the E'phraimites.

7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in Gilead.

8 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

9 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

Judges 12:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:7Jephthah led Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in a town in Gilead.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:7And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:7And Jephte the Galaadite judged Israel six years: and he died, and was buried in his city of Galaad.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:7And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:7And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:7And Jephthah judged Israel six years: then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:7Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:7And Jephthah judged Israel six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite dieth, and is buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:7And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.