And Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and clear [the land] for yourself, if Mount Ephraim is too small for you.

For you shall have the wood, for there is a wood, and you shall clear it, and [the land] shall be yours; even when you shall have utterly destroyed the Canaanite, for he has chosen cavalry; yet you are stronger than he.

And Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they that had escaped of Ephraim said, You [are] of Gilead in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.

Then they said to him, Say now Stachys. And he did not correctly pronounce it. So they took him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.