0 In Judges 12, 42,000 men were killed for failing to correctly prounounce what word?

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Proverbs 21:19

Trivia: What will those who trouble their own house inherit?

In Judges 12, 42,000 men were killed for failing to correctly prounounce what word?


Shibboleth

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. Judges 12:5
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. Judges 12:5

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