Jud 12:1
12:1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and
     went {a} northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore
     passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon,
     and didst not call {b} us to go with thee? we will burn
     thine house upon thee with fire.

     (a) After they had passed Jordan.
     (b) Thus ambition envies God's work in others as they did
         against Gideon, @Jud 8:1.

Jud 12:3
12:3 And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, {c} I put my
     life in my hands, and passed over against the children of
     Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore
     then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

     (c) That is, I ventured my life, and when man's help
         failed, I put my trust only in God.

Jud 12:4
12:4 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
     {d} among the Ephraimites, [and] among the Manassites.

     (d) You ran from us, and chose Gilead, and now in respect
         to us you are nothing.

Jud 12:6
12:6 Then said they unto him, Say now {e} 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.

     (e) Which signifies the fall of waters, or an ear of corn.

Jud 12:8
12:8 And after him {f} Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

     (f) Some think that this was Boaz the husband of Ruth.