Judges 12 Scofield
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12:8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
“Ibzan”
He seems to have been only a civil judge in northeast Israel.
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12:6 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.
“Shibboleth”
Signifying a stream or flood.