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


In Context

4 Then 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.|

5 The 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;|

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

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

8 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

9 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:7Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in 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 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.