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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!”
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Verse 1. Sedition. Hebrew “the men of Ephraim shouted together” to arms.—North. Septuagint “Sephena.” The Hebrew may either signify north, or some city. Mont.—It is probable that Ephraim went to quarrel with Jepthe at Abel, before he had returned to Maspha. Calmet.—House. Hebrew and Septuagint add, “with or upon thee.” Menochius.
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