But the mountain shall be thine; for it[ is] a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots,[ and] though they[ be] strong.
And Joshua answered them, If thou[ be] a great people,[ then] get thee up to the wood[ country], and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites[ are] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites,[ and] among the Manassites.And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was[ so], that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him,[ Art] thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce[ it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
