Judges 12:1 says, And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.  The people of Ephraim were angry with Jephthah because he hadn't asked them to go with him to fight, and threatened to burn his house down.  They had the same quarrel with Gideon earlier, all brought about by hurt pride.  It is too bad that God's people often allow pride to cause them to have disputes with each other.  Verse two states, And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.  Jephthah then tells them that he did invite them to join him, but they didn't send even one man to help.  Sometimes, the people who become upset by the success of others, even the success of fellow believers, are those who refused to help to start with.  Verse three adds,  And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?  Jephthah states that when they didn't help, that he took on the battle without them, and that God delivered him.  If they had a problem with his victory, it wasn't with Jephthah but with God.  The same is  true today.  As followers of Christ, our success is due to God and He should be given the credit, then no else should be upset by our success.  Verse four declares, Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.  The men of Gilead fought with the men of Ephraim.  It is a sad situation when those who are called God's people fight among themselves.  The people of Ephraim evidently saw the people of Gilead as being less worthy than they themselves were.  We cannot afford to look at fellow Christians the same way and fight amongst ourselves.  Jephthah and his forces, by God's power, had already defeated the real enemy, and the people of Ephraim should have been celebrating with them instead of fighting against them.  Verse five states, And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;  When the men of Ephraim had been defeated, Jephthah cut off their way to escape back across the Jordan.  Matthew Henry says that maybe this was excessive, but that Jephthah evidently felt it was necessary in order to preserve the peace.  Verse six adds, Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.  If they denied being from Ephraim, they were asked to pronounce a particular word which they couldn't do, probably because of differences in dialect among the tribes.  Forty-two thousand men of Ephraim were killed, all because they were angry with Jephthah because they said he didn't call on them to fight with him against the Ammonites.  Jealousy can lead to great destruction if we allow it to rule us.  Verse seven concludes, And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.  Jephthah ruled Israel for six years, and then he died.  No matter how successful people are in God's kingdom today, they will ultimately die if Christ does not return first.  Verse eight says, And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.  We are told that the next ruler was Ibzan,  Verse nine adds, And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.  Ibzan had sixty children, thirty sons and thirty daughters, whom he arranged marriages for.  He judged, or ruled, Israel for seven years, though he had evidently lived a long life.  Verse ten states, Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.  Verse eleven adds,  And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.  After Ibzan died, Elon from the tribe of Zebulon became the ruler of Israel.  Not all the judges, or rulers, were from the same tribe.  Verse twelve says, And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.  We are told even less about Elon than we were about Ibzan, but he ruled Israel for ten years, then he died.  Verse thirteen states, And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. Then verse fourteen adds, And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.  Abdon was of the tribe of Ephraim, and he had forty sons and thirty nephews that we are told rode on seventy donkeys, either as judges under him or as men of distinction.  Verse fifteen concludes, And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.  Like the others, Abdon died.  We are not told much about Israel during this time, and Matthew Henry points out that we are told nothing about the high priest.  He says that the priesthood was looking forward to the eternal priesthood of Christ.  We do know that the priesthood today is not an office, but a relationship with Christ.  Through our faith in Christ, we are all a part of the royal priesthood.