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And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands. And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me? Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.-Judges 12:1-6***In the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants, the Israelites fought the idol worshiping inhabitants and sometimes fought each other. One of the fights among the Israelites involved the tribe of Ephraim and the tribe of Manasseh, specifically descendants of Manasseh's grandson Gilead. Years earlier, men from Ephraim had angrily asked Gideon, from the tribe of Manasseh, why they hadn't been invited to fight alongside Gideon in his battle against the Midianites and their allies. The descendants of those Ephraimites asked Jephthah why they hadn't been invited to fight alongside Jephthah when he fought against enemy Ammonites. Moreover, the Ephraimites taunted Jephthah and the Gileadites about their heritage, inasmuch as 1/2 the tribe of Manasseh, which included some Gileadites, had settled with the tribe of Reuben and the tribe of Gad on the other side of the Jordan River, across from the Promised Land. Moreover, there was apparently a dialectal difference.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 26:1-37, 27:12-23, 32:1-42, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 13:1-33, 17:1-18, 22:1-24:33, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 5:1-26, 7:20-29, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26