Judges 12:3-5

Living Bible

³ so I risked my life and went to battle without you, and the Lord helped me to conquer the enemy. Is that anything for you to fight us about?”

⁴ Then Jephthah, furious at the taunt of Ephraim that the men of Gilead were mere outcasts^[a] and the scum of the earth, mobilized his army and attacked the army of Ephraim. ⁵ He captured the fords of the Jordan behind the army of Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim tried to cross the river, the Gilead guards challenged him.

“Are you a member of the tribe of Ephraim?” they asked. If the man replied that he was not,