5. The army of Gilead also posted guards at all the places where the soldiers from Ephraim could cross the River Jordan to return to their own land.Whenever one of the men from Ephraim would try to cross the river, the guards would say, “Are you from Ephraim?”“No,” the man would answer, “I'm not from Ephraim.”
6. The guards would then tell them to say “Shibboleth”, because they knew that people of Ephraim could say “Sibboleth”, but not “Shibboleth”.If the man said “Sibboleth”, the guards would grab him and kill him there. Altogether, forty-two thousand men from Ephraim were killed in the battle and at the Jordan.
7. Jephthah was a leader of Israel for six years, before he died and was buried in his home town Mizpah in Gilead.
8. Ibzan, the next leader of Israel, came from Bethlehem.
9. He had thirty daughters and thirty sons, and he let them all marry outside his clan.Ibzan was a leader for seven years,
10. before he died and was buried in Bethlehem.
11. Elon from the Zebulun tribe was the next leader of Israel. He was a leader for ten years,
12. before he died and was buried in Aijalon that belonged to the Zebulun tribe.
13-15. Abdon the son of Hillel was the next leader of Israel. He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, and each one of them had his own donkey. Abdon was a leader for eight years, before he died and was buried in his home town of Pirathon, which is in the part of the hill country of Ephraim where Amalekites used to live.