In the book of Judges, chapter 12, Jephthah returned home and the people of Ephraim confronted him. They demanded to know why they were not asked to fight the Ammonites alongside him. They added that they were going to burn his house down because of it.
Jephthah advised them that he did indeed ask them to fight but they refused. Then, he gathered up his own people and captured the people of Ephraim, and fought them. He won. To keep them from escaping, he had guards placed on every crossing of the Jordan River. When an Ephraimite tried to cross, he had them tested. They all failed.
42,000 Ephraimites were killed by him.
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