Judges 12:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim. Whenever a fugitive from Ephraim said, ‘Let me cross over,’ the Gileadites asked him, ‘Are you an Ephraimite? ’ If he answered, ‘No,’

Cross References

Judges 3:28

He told them, ‘Follow me, because the Lord has handed over your enemies, the Moabites, to you.’ So they followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.

Joshua 22:11

Then the Israelites heard it said, ‘Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the frontier of the land of Canaan at the region of  the Jordan, on the Israelite side.’

Judges 7:24

Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim with this message: ‘Come down to intercept the Midianites and take control of the watercourses ahead of them as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.’ So all the men of Ephraim  were called out, and they took control of the watercourses as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.

Joshua 2:7

The men pursued them along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left to pursue them, the city gate was shut.

Judges 12:4

Then Jephthah gathered all of the men of Gilead. They fought and defeated Ephraim, because Ephraim had said, ‘You Gileadites are Ephraimite fugitives in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.’

Judges 12:6

they told him, ‘Please say Shibboleth.’ If he said, ‘Sibboleth,’ because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and executed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim died.

Judges 17:7

There was a young man, a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who was staying within the clan of Judah.

1 Samuel 1:1

There was a man from Ramathaim-zophim  in  the hill country of Ephraim.  His name was Elkanah  son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

1 Kings 11:26

Now Solomon’s servant,  Jeroboam son of Nebat, was an Ephraimite from Zeredah. His widowed mother’s name was Zeruah. Jeroboam rebelled  against Solomon,