The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? we will burn your house on you with fire.
"We will burn thy house upon thee with fire"  (Judges 12:1).  What a horrible price the Ephraimites were determined to exact as remuneration for their injured pride!  "Later a Philistine threat of this kind was made in  Judges 14:15 and fulfilled in  Judges 15:6."[4]