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Joshua 14 - The Distribution of Territory West of the Jordan, Hebron Allotted to Caleb

These are the inheritances that the Israelites received in the land of Canaan, which the priest Eleazar, and Joshua son of Nun, and the...

Joshua 15 - The Territory of Judah, Caleb Occupies His Portion, The Towns of Judah

The lot for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of...

Joshua 16 - The Territory of Ephraim

The allotment of the Josephites went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from...

Joshua 17 - The Other Half-Tribe of Manasseh (West), The Tribe of Joseph Protests

Then allotment was made to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of...

Joshua 18 - The Territories of the Remaining Tribes, The Territory of Benjamin

Then the whole congregation of the Israelites assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before...

Joshua 19 - The Territories of Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, Dan, Joshua’s Inheritance

The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of Simeon, according to its families; its inheritance lay within the inheritance of the...

Joshua 20 - The Cities of Refuge

Then the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, 2 “Say to the Israelites, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,...

Joshua 21 - Cities Allotted to the Levites

Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to the priest Eleazar and to Joshua son of Nun and to the heads of the families of the...

Joshua 22 - The Eastern Tribes Return to Their Territory, A Memorial Altar East of the Jordan

Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2 and said to them, “You have observed all that Moses...

Joshua 23 - Joshua Exhorts the People

A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in...

Joshua 24 - The Tribes Renew the Covenant, Death of Joshua and Eleazar

Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and...

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,...

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