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What should a child notice in Judges 12?
Judges 12 opens with these words: “The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the…” The line to keep is Judges 12:2: “Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.” Carry the word “jephthah” from that verse into the rest of the day. A sentence to keep is Judges 12:2: “Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.” What happens first in Judges 12?
Judges 12:2
“Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.”
Judges 12:3
“When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?””
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Practice Judges 12:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
tothem,“IandmypeopleatgreatstrifewiththechildrenofAmmon;andwhenIcalledyou,youdidn’tsavemeoutoftheirhand.