Judges

Judges 1 - Israel’s Failure to Complete the Conquest of Canaan

After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the Lord, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against...

Judges 2 - Israel’s Disobedience, Death of Joshua, Israel’s Unfaithfulness

Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, “I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you into the land that I had...

Judges 3 - Nations Remaining in the Land, Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar

Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test all those in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan 2 (it was only that...

Judges 4 - Deborah and Barak

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died. 2 So the Lord sold them into the hand of King Jabin of...

Judges 5 - The Song of Deborah

Then Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying: 2 “When locks are long in Israel, when the people offer themselves...

Judges 6 - Midianite Oppression, Call of Gideon, Gideon Destroys the Altar of Baal, Sign of Fleece

The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 The hand of...

Judges 7 - Gideon Surprises and Routs the Midianites

Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the troops that were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp...

Judges 8 - Gideon’s Triumph and Vengeance, Gideon’s Idolatry, Death of Gideon

Then the Ephraimites said to him, “What have you done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against the Midianites?” And they...

Judges 9 - Abimelech Attempts to Establish a Monarchy, Parable of the Trees, Downfall of Abimelech

Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s kinsfolk and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,...

Judges 10 - Tola and Jair, Oppression by the Ammonites

After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, who lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim, rose to deliver...

Judges 11 - Jephthah, Jephthah’s Vow, Jephthah’s Daughter

Now Jephthah the Gileadite, the son of a prostitute, was a mighty warrior. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. 2 Gilead’s wife also bore...

Judges 12 - Intertribal Dissension, Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon

The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the...

Judges 13 - The Birth of Samson

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years....

Judges 14 - Samson’s Marriage

Once Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw a Philistine woman. 2 Then he came up, and told his father and mother, “I saw a...

Judges 15 - Samson Defeats the Philistines

After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing along a kid. He said, “I want to go into my...

Judges 16 - Samson and Delilah, Samson’s Death

Once Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to her. 2 The Gazites were told,[a] “Samson has come here.” So they...

Judges 17 - Micah and the Levite

There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. 2 He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that...

Judges 18 - The Migration of Dan, The Danites Settle in Laish

In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself a territory to live in; for...

Judges 19 - The Levite’s Concubine, Gibeah’s Crime

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite, residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, took to...

Judges 20 - The Other Tribes Attack Benjamin

Then all the Israelites came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled in one body before...

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