Judges 12:1
Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”
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.
Note gathered…: Heb. were called
The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”
And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they 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 thy house upon thee with fire.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- gathered
- Heb. were called. Wherefore.
- Judges 8:1; 2 Samuel 19:41–43; Psalm 109:4; Ecclesiastes 4:4; John 10:32
- we will burn
- Judges 14:15; Judges 15:6; Proverbs 27:3, 4; James 3:16; James 4:1, 2