Saturday, March 17, 2007

42,000 Ephraimites killed when they couldn't say "Shibboleth"

Judges 12:4-6 Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, "You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh." The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead asked him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he replied, "No," they said, "All right, say 'Shibboleth.' " He said, "Sibboleth," because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY


Not a very scientific test, was it?

2 comments:

Jason said...

It worked, didn't it?

Unknown said...

Keep up the good work. When do you think that you will get to circumcision?