²³ God stirred up animosity^(A) between Abimelek and the citizens of Shechem so that they acted treacherously against Abimelek.

⁴ Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead^(A) and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.^(B)”

²¹ The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites^(A) on the battlefield that day.

¹⁷ Abijah and his troops inflicted heavy losses on them, so that there were five hundred thousand casualties among Israel’s able men.