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

New Living Translation
Jephthah judged Israel for six years. When he died, he was buried in one of the towns of Gilead.

English Standard Version
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.

Berean Standard Bible
Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

King James Bible
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

New King James Version
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried among the cities of Gilead.

New American Standard Bible
Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

NASB 1995
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

NASB 1977
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Amplified Bible
Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Christian Standard Bible
Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

American Standard Version
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Naphthakh judged Israel six years, and Naphthakh the Geladite died, and he was buried in the city of Gelad

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Jephthae judged Israel six years; and Jephthae the Galaadite died, and was buried in his city Galaad.

Contemporary English Version
Jephthah was a leader of Israel for six years, before he died and was buried in his hometown Mizpah in Gilead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jephte the Galaadite judged Israel six years: and he died, and was buried in his city of Galaad.

English Revised Version
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah of Gilead died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Good News Translation
Jephthah led Israel for six years. Then he died and was buried in his hometown in Gilead.

International Standard Version
Jephthah governed Israel for six years. Then Jephthah died and was buried somewhere in the cities of Gilead.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Literal Standard Version
And Jephthah judged Israel [for] six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite dies, and is buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

Majority Standard Bible
Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

New American Bible
Jephthah judged Israel for six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.

NET Bible
Jephthah led Israel for six years; then he died and was buried in his city in Gilead.

New Revised Standard Version
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his town in Gilead.

New Heart English Bible
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in Gilead.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jephthah judged Israel six years: then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

World English Bible
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jephthah judged Israel six years, and Jephthah the Gileadite dieth, and is buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

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Context
Jephthah Defeats Ephraim
6they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed. 7Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Cross References
Judges 12:6
they told him, "Please say Shibboleth." If he said, "Sibboleth," because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.

Judges 12:8
After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.


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Judges 12
1. The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephthah, are slain by the Gileadites
7. Jephthah dies
8. Ibzan, who had thirty sons, and thirty daughters
11. and Elon
13. and Abdon, who had forty sons, and thirty nephews, judge Israel














(7) Judged Israel.--The word implies that he was one of the recognised Shophetim, but there are no details to show in the case of any of the judges either what were the limits of their jurisdiction or what amount of authority it implied.

In one of the cities of Gilead.--The Hebrew only says, "in cities of Gilead." This may, no doubt. mean "one of the cities of Gilead," as in Genesis 19:29 "the cities in the which Lot dwelt" means "in one of which Lot dwelt." But the burial-place of so renowned a hero as Jephthah was not likely to be forgotten, and the reading adopted by the LXX. and Vulg., "in his city, Gilead" (i.e., Ramoth-Gilead or Mizpeh of Gilead), is furnished by a mere change of into The Sebee, in which Josephus says he was buried, may be a corruption of Mizpeh.

Verse 7. - Six years. Perhaps his sorrow for his daughter shortened his life. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite. Better, And Jephthah the Gileadite died. In one of the cities. His exact burial-place was perhaps unknown, and therefore the general phrase in the cities of Judah was used, as in Genesis 13:12. Lot is said to have dwelt in the cities of the plain, and in Nehemiah 6:2 San-ballat asked Nehemiah to meet him in the villages of the plain. Still the phrase is not what you would expect here, and it seems unlikely that Jephthah's burial-place should be unknown. The Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic versions read, "in his city Gilead," as if Gilead had been the name of Jephthah's paternal city. Another conjecture is that there might have been an Ar of Gilead as well as the well-known Ar of Moab, or there might have been a collection of towns called Arey- Gilead (the towns of Gilead), after the analogy of Havoth-jair (Judges 10:4), but there is no evidence in support of these conjectures.

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Jephthah
יִפְתָּ֛ח (yip̄·tāḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3316: Jephthah -- 'He opens', a Gileadite, also a city of Judah

judged
וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט (way·yiš·pōṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

six
שֵׁ֣שׁ (šêš)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 8337: Six (a cardinal number)

years,
שָׁנִ֑ים (šā·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8141: A year

and when he
יִפְתָּח֙ (yip̄·tāḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3316: Jephthah -- 'He opens', a Gileadite, also a city of Judah

died,
וַיָּ֗מָת (way·yā·māṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

he was buried
וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר (way·yiq·qā·ḇêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6912: To inter

in one of the cities
בְּעָרֵ֥י (bə·‘ā·rê)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 5892: Excitement

of Gilead.
גִלְעָֽד׃ (ḡil·‘āḏ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1568: Gilead -- a region in Palestine, also the name of several Israelites


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