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Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Richteren 12:5

Nu bezetten de Gileadieten de veren van den Jordaan, om den Efraimieten den overtocht te beletten. Wanneer dan een der ontkomen Efraimieten zeide: Laat mij overtrekken--dan zeiden de Gileadieten tot hem: Zijt gij een Efraimiet? Antwoordde hij: Neen--

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ephraim;   Israel;   Jordan;   Judge;   Strife;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ephraim, Tribe of;   Jordan, the River;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jordan;   Shibboleth;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jephthah;   Palestine;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ford;   Passage;   Shibboleth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ephraim, Wood of;   Manassites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Accent, Galilean;   Ford;   Gilead;   Hebrew;   Judges, Book of;   Rivers and Waterways in the Bible;   Transportation and Travel;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ford;   Levi;   Shibboleth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephraim ;   Ephraimite ;   Ephrathite ;   Forest;   Gileadites ;   Jephthah, Jephthae ;   Passage;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jephthah;   Shibboleth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - E'phra-Imite;   Gli'e-Adites, the,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ford;   Israel, History of the People;   Jephthah;   Judges, Period of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Elkanah;   Jephthah;   Jordan, the;  

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En de Gileadieten namen de overvaart van den Jordaan Vr Efram in. Als nu een vluchteling van Efram sprak: Laat mij overgaan, spraken de mannen van Gilead tot hem: Zijt gij een Eframiet? En als hij antwoordde: Neen,
Staten Vertaling
want de Gileadieten namen den Efraimieten de veren van de Jordaan af; en het geschiedde, als de vluchtelingen van Efraim zeiden: Laat mij overgaan; zo zeiden de mannen van Gilead tot hem: Zijt gij een Efraimiet? wanneer hij zeide: Neen;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 3:28, Judges 7:24, Joshua 2:7, Joshua 22:11

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:1 - Ephrathite

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites,.... Being either swifter of foot, or going a nearer and shorter way, being better acquainted with their own country:

and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, let me go over; the fugitives of Ephraim, as before called, who ran away from the battle, made their escape, and the best of their way to the passages of Jordan, to get over there to their own country:

that the men of Gilead said unto him; to everyone of them, as they came up,

art thou an Ephraimite? or an Ephrathite; for so it seems those of the tribe of Ephraim were called, as Jeroboam, 1 Kings 11:26

if he said, nay; that he was not an Ephraimite;


 
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