Judges 12:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

frame. take heed, give attention.

forty and two thousand. 40. 2,000. 2,040. The whole tribe numbered only 32,500 at previous census (Numbers 26:37. see note on Judges 7:3), and that was less than the first numbering (Numbers 1:33). Only 1,000 from each tribe formed the army. Numbers 31:4; Numbers 31:6.

Judges 12:6

6 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.