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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

Copyright (c) 1985-2007

1:1 Now after thumbs and his

the death of great toes.

Joshua it came to 1:7 And

pass, that the Adonibezek said,

children of Threescore and

Israel asked the ten kings, having

LORD, saying, Who their thumbs and

shall go up for their great toes

us against the cut off, gathered

Canaanites first, [their meat]

to fight against under my table:

them? as I have done,

1:2 And the LORD so God hath

said, Judah shall requited me. And

go up: behold, I they brought him

have delivered to Jerusalem, and

the land into his there he died.

hand. 1:8 Now the

1:3 And Judah children of Judah

said unto Simeon had fought

his brother, Come against

up with me into Jerusalem, and

my lot, that we had taken it, and

may fight against smitten it with

the Canaanites; the edge of the

and I likewise sword, and set

will go with thee the city on fire.

into thy lot. So

Simeon went with 1:9 And

him. afterward the

1:4 And Judah children of Judah

went up; and the went down to

LORD delivered fight against the

the Canaanites Canaanites, that

and the dwelt in the

Perizzites into mountain, and in

their hand: and the south, and in

they slew of them the valley.

in Bezek ten 1:10 And Judah

thousand men. went against the

1:5 And they Canaanites that

found Adonibezek dwelt in Hebron:

in Bezek: and (now the name of

they fought Hebron before

against him, and [was]

they slew the Kirjatharba:) and

Canaanites and they slew

the Perizzites. Sheshai, and

1:6 But Ahiman, and

Adonibezek fled; Talmai.

and they pursued 1:11 And from

after him, and thence he went

caught him, and against the

cut off his inhabitants of

Debir: and the Judah, which

name of Debir [lieth] in the

before [was] south of Arad;

Kirjathsepher: and they went and

1:12 And Caleb dwelt among the

said, He that people.

smiteth 1:17 And Judah

Kirjathsepher, went with Simeon

and taketh it, to his brother, and

him will I give they slew the

Achsah my Canaanites that

daughter to wife. inhabited

Zephath, and

1:13 And Othniel utterly destroyed

the son of Kenaz, it. And the name

Caleb's younger of the city was

brother, took it: called Hormah.

and he gave him 1:18 Also Judah

Achsah his took Gaza with

daughter to wife. the coast

thereof, and

1:14 And it came Askelon with the

to pass, when she coast thereof,

came [to him], and Ekron with

that she moved the coast

him to ask of her thereof.

father a field: 1:19 And the

and she lighted LORD was with

from off [her] Judah; and he

ass; and Caleb drave out [the

said unto her, inhabitants of]

What wilt thou? the mountain; but

1:15 And she could not drive

said unto him, out the

Give me a inhabitants of

blessing: for the valley,

thou hast given because they had

me a south land; chariots of iron.

give me also

springs of water. 1:20 And they

And Caleb gave gave Hebron unto

her the upper Caleb, as Moses

springs and the said: and he

nether springs. expelled thence

1:16 And the the three sons of

children of the Anak.

Kenite, Moses' 1:21 And the

father in law, children of

went up out of Benjamin did not

the city of palm drive out the

trees with the Jebusites that

children of Judah inhabited

into the Jerusalem; but

wilderness of the Jebusites

dwell with the Taanach and her

children of towns, nor the

Benjamin in inhabitants of

Jerusalem unto Dor and her

this day. towns, nor the

1:22 And the inhabitants of

house of Joseph, Ibleam and her

they also went up towns, nor the

against Bethel: inhabitants of

and the LORD Megiddo and her

[was] with them. towns: but the

1:23 And the Canaanites would

house of Joseph dwell in that

sent to descry land.

Bethel. (Now the 1:28 And it came

name of the city to pass, when

before [was] Israel was

Luz.) strong, that they

1:24 And the put the

spies saw a man Canaanites to

come forth out of tribute, and did

the city, and not utterly drive

they said unto them out.

him, Show us, we 1:29 Neither did

pray thee, the Ephraim drive out

entrance into the the Canaanites

city, and we will that dwelt in

show thee mercy. Gezer; but the

1:25 And when he Canaanites dwelt

showed them the in Gezer among

entrance into the them.

city, they smote 1:30 Neither did

the city with the Zebulun drive out

edge of the the inhabitants

sword; but they of Kitron, nor

let go the man the inhabitants

and all his of Nahalol; but

family. the Canaanites

1:26 And the man dwelt among them,

went into the and became

land of the tributaries.

Hittites, and 1:31 Neither did

built a city, and Asher drive out

called the name the inhabitants

thereof Luz: of Accho, nor the

which [is] the inhabitants of

name thereof unto Zidon, nor of

this day. Ahlab, nor of

1:27 Neither did Achzib, nor of

Manasseh drive Helbah, nor of

out [the Aphik, nor of

inhabitants of] Rehob:

Bethshean and her 1:32 But the

towns, nor Asherites dwelt

among the Bochim, and said,

Canaanites, the I made you to go

inhabitants of up out of Egypt,

the land: for and have brought

they did not you unto the land

drive them out. which I sware

1:33 Neither did unto your

Naphtali drive fathers; and I

out the said, I will

inhabitants of never break my

Bethshemesh, nor covenant with

the inhabitants you.

of Bethanath; but 2:2 And ye shall

he dwelt among make no league

the Canaanites, with the

the inhabitants inhabitants of

of the land: this land; ye

nevertheless the shall throw down

inhabitants of their altars: but

Bethshemesh and ye have not

of Bethanath obeyed my voice:

became why have ye done

tributaries unto this?

them. 2:3 Wherefore I

1:34 And the also said, I will

Amorites forced not drive them

the children of out from before

Dan into the you; but they

mountain: for shall be [as

they would not thorns] in your

suffer them to sides, and their

come down to the gods shall be a

valley: snare unto you.

1:35 But the 2:4 And it came

Amorites would to pass, when the

dwell in mount angel of the LORD

Heres in Aijalon, spake these words

and in Shaalbim: unto all the

yet the hand of children of

the house of Israel, that the

Joseph prevailed, people lifted up

so that they their voice, and

became wept.

tributaries. 2:5 And they

1:36 And the called the name

coast of the of that place

Amorites [was] Bochim: and they

from the going up sacrificed there

to Akrabbim, from unto the LORD.

the rock, and 2:6 And when

upward. Joshua had let

2:1 And an angel the people go,

of the LORD came the children of

up from Gilgal to Israel went every

man unto his fathers, which

inheritance to brought them out

possess the land. of the land of

Egypt, and

2:7 And the followed other

people served the gods, of the gods

LORD all the days of the people

of Joshua, and that [were] round

all the days of about them, and

the elders that bowed themselves

outlived Joshua, unto them, and

who had seen all provoked the LORD

the great works to anger.

of the LORD, that 2:13 And they

he did for forsook the LORD,

Israel. and served Baal

2:8 And Joshua, and Ashtaroth.

the son of Nun, 2:14 And the

the servant of anger of the LORD

the LORD, died, was hot against

[being] an Israel, and he

hundred and ten delivered them

years old. into the hands of

2:9 And they spoilers that

buried him in the spoiled them, and

border of his he sold them into

inheritance in the hands of

Timnathheres, in their enemies

the mount of round about, so

Ephraim, on the that they could

north side of the not any longer

hill Gaash. stand before

2:10 And also their enemies.

all that 2:15

generation were Whithersoever

gathered unto they went out,

their fathers: the hand of the

and there arose LORD was against

another them for evil, as

generation after the LORD had

them, which knew said, and as the

not the LORD, nor LORD had sworn

yet the works unto them: and

which he had done they were greatly

for Israel. distressed.

2:11 And the 2:16

children of Nevertheless the

Israel did evil LORD raised up

in the sight of judges, which

the LORD, and delivered them

served Baalim: out of the hand

2:12 And they of those that

forsook the LORD spoiled them.

God of their 2:17 And yet

they would not was hot against

hearken unto Israel; and he

their judges, but said, Because

they went a that this people

whoring after hath transgressed

other gods, and my covenant which

bowed themselves I commanded their

unto them: they fathers, and have

turned quickly not hearkened

out of the way unto my voice;

which their 2:21 I also will

fathers walked not henceforth

in, obeying the drive out any

commandments of from before them

the LORD; [but] of the nations

they did not so. which Joshua left

2:18 And when when he died:

the LORD raised 2:22 That

them up judges, through them I

then the LORD was may prove Israel,

with the judge, whether they will

and delivered keep the way of

them out of the the LORD to walk

hand of their therein, as their

enemies all the fathers did keep

days of the [it], or not.

judge: for it 2:23 Therefore

repented the LORD the LORD left

because of their those nations,

groanings by without driving

reason of them them out hastily;

that oppressed neither delivered

them and vexed he them into the

them. hand of Joshua.

2:19 And it came 3:1 Now these

to pass, when the [are] the nations

judge was dead, which the LORD

[that] they left, to prove

returned, and Israel by them,

corrupted [even] as many

[themselves] more [of Israel] as

than their had not known all

fathers, in the wars of

following other Canaan;

gods to serve 3:2 Only that

them, and to bow the generations

down unto them; of the children

they ceased not of Israel might

from their own know, to teach

doings, nor from them war, at the

their stubborn least such as

way. before knew

2:20 And the nothing thereof;

anger of the LORD 3:3 [Namely],

five lords of the LORD was hot

Philistines, and against Israel,

all the and he sold them

Canaanites, and into the hand of

the Sidonians, Chushanrishathaim

and the Hivites king of

that dwelt in Mesopotamia: and

mount Lebanon, the children of

from mount Israel served

Baalhermon unto Chushanrishathaim

the entering in eight years.

of Hamath. 3:9 And when the

3:4 And they children of

were to prove Israel cried unto

Israel by them, the LORD, the

to know whether LORD raised up a

they would deliverer to the

hearken unto the children of

commandments of Israel, who

the LORD, which delivered them,

he commanded [even] Othniel

their fathers by the son of Kenaz,

the hand of Caleb's younger

Moses. brother.

3:5 And the 3:10 And the

children of spirit of the

Israel dwelt LORD came upon

among the him, and he

Canaanites, judged Israel,

Hittites, and and went out to

Amorites, and war: and the LORD

Perizzites, and delivered

Hivites, and Chushanrishathaim

Jebusites: king of

3:6 And they Mesopotamia into

took their his hand; and his

daughters to be hand prevailed

their wives, and against

gave their Chushanrishatha-

daughters to im.

their sons, and 3:11 And the

served their land had rest

gods. forty years. And

3:7 And the Othniel the son

children of of Kenaz died.

Israel did evil 3:12 And the

in the sight of children of

the LORD, and Israel did evil

forgat the LORD again in the

their God, and sight of the

served Baalim and LORD: and the

the groves. LORD strengthened

3:8 Therefore Eglon the king of

the anger of the Moab against

Israel, because away the people

they had done that bare the

evil in the sight present.

of the LORD. 3:19 But he

3:13 And he himself turned

gathered unto him again from the

the children of quarries that

Ammon and Amalek, [were] by Gilgal,

and went and and said, I have

smote Israel, and a secret errand

possessed the unto thee, O

city of palm king: who said,

trees. Keep silence. And

3:14 So the all that stood by

children of him went out from

Israel served him.

Eglon the king of 3:20 And Ehud

Moab eighteen came unto him;

years. and he was

3:15 But when sitting in a

the children of summer parlour,

Israel cried unto which he had for

the LORD, the himself alone.

LORD raised them And Ehud said, I

up a deliverer, have a message

Ehud the son of from God unto

Gera, a thee. And he

Benjamite, a man arose out of

lefthanded: and [his] seat.

by him the 3:21 And Ehud

children of put forth his

Israel sent a left hand, and

present unto took the dagger

Eglon the king of from his right

Moab. thigh, and thrust

3:16 But Ehud it into his

made him a dagger belly:

which had two 3:22 And the

edges, of a cubit haft also went in

length; and he after the blade;

did gird it under and the fat

his raiment upon closed upon the

his right thigh. blade, so that he

3:17 And he could not draw

brought the the dagger out of

present unto his belly; and

Eglon king of the dirt came

Moab: and Eglon out.

[was] a very fat 3:23 Then Ehud

man. went forth

3:18 And when he through the

had made an end porch, and shut

to offer the the doors of the

present, he sent parlour upon him,

and locked them. after him, and

3:24 When he was took the fords of

gone out, his Jordan toward

servants came; Moab, and

and when they saw suffered not a

that, behold, the man to pass over.

doors of the

parlour [were] 3:29 And they

locked, they slew of Moab at

said, Surely he that time about

covereth his feet ten thousand men,

in his summer all lusty, and

chamber. all men of

3:25 And they valour; and there

tarried till they escaped not a

were ashamed: man.

and, behold, he 3:30 So Moab was

opened not the subdued that day

doors of the under the hand of

parlour; Israel. And the

therefore they land had rest

took a key, and fourscore years.

opened [them]: 3:31 And after

and, behold, him was Shamgar

their lord [was] the son of Anath,

fallen down dead which slew of the

on the earth. Philistines six

3:26 And Ehud hundred men with

escaped while an ox goad: and

they tarried, and he also delivered

passed beyond the Israel.

quarries, and 4:1 And the

escaped unto children of

Seirath. Israel again did

3:27 And it came evil in the sight

to pass, when he of the LORD, when

was come, that he Ehud was dead.

blew a trumpet in 4:2 And the LORD

the mountain of sold them into

Ephraim, and the the hand of Jabin

children of king of Canaan,

Israel went down that reigned in

with him from the Hazor; the

mount, and he captain of whose

before them. host [was]

3:28 And he said Sisera, which

unto them, Follow dwelt in

after me: for the Harosheth of the

LORD hath Gentiles.

delivered your 4:3 And the

enemies the children of

Moabites into Israel cried unto

your hand. And the LORD: for he

they went down had nine hundred

chariots of iron; go: but if thou

and twenty years wilt not go with

he mightily me, [then] I will

oppressed the not go.

children of 4:9 And she

Israel. said, I will

4:4 And Deborah, surely go with

a prophetess, the thee:

wife of Lapidoth, notwithstanding

she judged Israel the journey that

at that time. thou takest shall

4:5 And she not be for thine

dwelt under the honour; for the

palm tree of LORD shall sell

Deborah between Sisera into the

Ramah and Bethel hand of a woman.

in mount Ephraim: And Deborah

and the children arose, and went

of Israel came up with Barak to

to her for Kedesh.

judgment. 4:10 And Barak

4:6 And she sent called Zebulun

and called Barak and Naphtali to

the son of Kedesh; and he

Abinoam out of went up with ten

Kedeshnaphtali, thousand men at

and said unto his feet: and

him, Hath not the Deborah went up

LORD God of with him.

Israel commanded, 4:11 Now Heber

[saying], Go and the Kenite,

draw toward mount [which was] of

Tabor, and take the children of

with thee ten Hobab the father

thousand men of in law of Moses,

the children of had severed

Naphtali and of himself from the

the children of Kenites, and

Zebulun? pitched his tent

4:7 And I will unto the plain of

draw unto thee to Zaanaim, which

the river Kishon [is] by Kedesh.

Sisera, the 4:12 And they

captain of showed Sisera

Jabin's army, that Barak the

with his chariots son of Abinoam

and his was gone up to

multitude; and I mount Tabor.

will deliver him 4:13 And Sisera

into thine hand. gathered together

4:8 And Barak all his chariots,

said unto her, If [even] nine

thou wilt go with hundred chariots

me, then I will of iron, and all

the people that the house of

[were] with him, Heber the Kenite.

from Harosheth of

the Gentiles unto 4:18 And Jael

the river of went out to meet

Kishon. Sisera, and said

4:14 And Deborah unto him, Turn

said unto Barak, in, my lord, turn

Up; for this [is] in to me; fear

the day in which not. And when he

the LORD hath had turned in

delivered Sisera unto her into the

into thine hand: tent, she covered

is not the LORD him with a

gone out before mantle.

thee? So Barak 4:19 And he said

went down from unto her, Give

mount Tabor, and me, I pray thee,

ten thousand men a little water to

after him. drink; for I am

4:15 And the thirsty. And she

LORD discomfited opened a bottle

Sisera, and all of milk, and gave

[his] chariots, him drink, and

and all [his] covered him.

host, with the 4:20 Again he

edge of the sword said unto her,

before Barak; so Stand in the door

that Sisera of the tent, and

lighted down off it shall be, when

[his] chariot, any man doth come

and fled away on and inquire of

his feet. thee, and say, Is

4:16 But Barak there any man

pursued after the here? that thou

chariots, and shalt say, No.

after the host, 4:21 Then Jael

unto Harosheth of Heber's wife took

the Gentiles: and a nail of the

all the host of tent, and took an

Sisera fell upon hammer in her

the edge of the hand, and went

sword; [and] softly unto him,

there was not a and smote the

man left. nail into his

4:17 Howbeit temples, and

Sisera fled away fastened it into

on his feet to the ground: for

the tent of Jael he was fast

the wife of Heber asleep and weary.

the Kenite: for So he died.

[there was] peace 4:22 And,

between Jabin the behold, as Barak

king of Hazor and pursued Sisera,

Jael came out to thou marchedst

meet him, and out of the field

said unto him, of Edom, the

Come, and I will earth trembled,

show thee the man and the heavens

whom thou dropped, the

seekest. And when clouds also

he came into her dropped water.

[tent], behold, 5:5 The

Sisera lay dead, mountains melted

and the nail from before the

[was] in his LORD, [even] that

temples. Sinai from before

4:23 So God the LORD God of

subdued on that Israel.

day Jabin the 5:6 In the days

king of Canaan of Shamgar the

before the son of Anath, in

children of the days of Jael,

Israel. the highways were

4:24 And the unoccupied, and

hand of the the travellers

children of walked through

Israel prospered, byways.

and prevailed 5:7 [The

against Jabin the inhabitants of]

king of Canaan, the villages

until they had ceased, they

destroyed Jabin ceased in Israel,

king of Canaan. until that I

5:1 Then sang Deborah arose,

Deborah and Barak that I arose a

the son of mother in Israel.

Abinoam on that

day, saying, 5:8 They chose

5:2 Praise ye new gods; then

the LORD for the [was] war in the

avenging of gates: was there

Israel, when the a shield or spear

people willingly seen among forty

offered thousand in

themselves. Israel?

5:3 Hear, O ye 5:9 My heart

kings; give ear, [is] toward the

O ye princes; I, governors of

[even] I, will Israel, that

sing unto the offered

LORD; I will sing themselves

[praise] to the willingly among

LORD God of the people. Bless

Israel. ye the LORD.

5:4 LORD, when 5:10 Speak, ye

thou wentest out that ride on

of Seir, when white asses, ye

that sit in 5:15 And the

judgment, and princes of

walk by the way. Issachar [were]

5:11 [They that with Deborah;

are delivered] even Issachar,

from the noise of and also Barak:

archers in the he was sent on

places of drawing foot into the

water, there valley. For the

shall they divisions of

rehearse the Reuben [there

righteous acts of were] great

the LORD, [even] thoughts of

the righteous heart.

acts [toward the 5:16 Why abodest

inhabitants] of thou among the

his villages in sheepfolds, to

Israel: then hear the

shall the people bleatings of the

of the LORD go flocks? For the

down to the divisions of

gates. Reuben [there

5:12 Awake, were] great

awake, Deborah: searchings of

awake, awake, heart.

utter a song: 5:17 Gilead

arise, Barak, and abode beyond

lead thy Jordan: and why

captivity did Dan remain in

captive, thou son ships? Asher

of Abinoam. continued on the

5:13 Then he sea shore, and

made him that abode in his

remaineth have breaches.

dominion over the 5:18 Zebulun and

nobles among the Naphtali [were] a

people: the LORD people [that]

made me have jeoparded their

dominion over the lives unto the

mighty. death in the high

5:14 Out of places of the

Ephraim [was field.

there] a root of 5:19 The kings

them against came [and]

Amalek; after fought, then

thee, Benjamin, fought the kings

among thy people; of Canaan in

out of Machir Taanach by the

came down waters of

governors, and Megiddo; they

out of Zebulun took no gain of

they that handle money.

the pen of the 5:20 They fought

writer. from heaven; the

stars in their off his head,

courses fought when she had

against Sisera. pierced and

5:21 The river stricken through

of Kishon swept his temples.

them away, that 5:27 At her feet

ancient river, he bowed, he

the river Kishon. fell, he lay

O my soul, thou down: at her feet

hast trodden down he bowed, he

strength. fell: where he

5:22 Then were bowed, there he

the horsehoofs fell down dead.

broken by the 5:28 The mother

means of the of Sisera looked

prancings, the out at a window,

prancings of and cried through

their mighty the lattice, Why

ones. is his chariot

5:23 Curse ye [so] long in

Meroz, said the coming? why tarry

angel of the the wheels of his

LORD, curse ye chariots?

bitterly the 5:29 Her wise

inhabitants ladies answered

thereof; because her, yea, she

they came not to returned answer

the help of the to herself,

LORD, to the help 5:30 Have they

of the LORD not sped? have

against the they [not]

mighty. divided the prey;

5:24 Blessed to every man a

above women shall damsel [or] two;

Jael the wife of to Sisera a prey

Heber the Kenite of divers

be, blessed shall colours, a prey

she be above of divers colours

women in the of needlework, of

tent. divers colours of

5:25 He asked needlework on

water, [and] she both sides,

gave [him] milk; [meet] for the

she brought forth necks of [them

butter in a that take] the

lordly dish. spoil?

5:26 She put her 5:31 So let all

hand to the nail, thine enemies

and her right perish, O LORD:

hand to the but [let] them

workmen's hammer; that love him

and with the [be] as the sun

hammer she smote when he goeth

Sisera, she smote forth in his

might. And the both they and

land had rest their camels were

forty years. without number:

6:1 And the and they entered

children of into the land to

Israel did evil destroy it.

in the sight of 6:6 And Israel

the LORD: and the was greatly

LORD delivered impoverished

them into the because of the

hand of Midian Midianites; and

seven years. the children of

6:2 And the hand Israel cried unto

of Midian the LORD.

prevailed against 6:7 And it came

Israel: [and] to pass, when the

because of the children of

Midianites the Israel cried unto

children of the LORD because

Israel made them of the

the dens which Midianites,

[are] in the 6:8 That the

mountains, and LORD sent a

caves, and strong prophet unto the

holds. children of

6:3 And [so] it Israel, which

was, when Israel said unto them,

had sown, that Thus saith the

the Midianites LORD God of

came up, and the Israel, I brought

Amalekites, and you up from

the children of Egypt, and

the east, even brought you forth

they came up out of the house

against them; of bondage;

6:4 And they 6:9 And I

encamped against delivered you out

them, and of the hand of

destroyed the the Egyptians,

increase of the and out of the

earth, till thou hand of all that

come unto Gaza, oppressed you,

and left no and drave them

sustenance for out from before

Israel, neither you, and gave you

sheep, nor ox, their land;

nor ass. 6:10 And I said

6:5 For they unto you, I [am]

came up with the LORD your

their cattle and God; fear not the

their tents, and gods of the

they came as Amorites, in

grasshoppers for whose land ye

multitude; [for] dwell: but ye

have not obeyed Lord, wherewith

my voice. shall I save

6:11 And there Israel? behold,

came an angel of my family [is]

the LORD, and sat poor in Manasseh,

under an oak and I [am] the

which [was] in least in my

Ophrah, that father's house.

[pertained] unto 6:16 And the

Joash the LORD said unto

Abiezrite: and him, Surely I

his son Gideon will be with

threshed wheat by thee, and thou

the winepress, to shalt smite the

hide [it] from Midianites as one

the Midianites. man.

6:12 And the 6:17 And he said

angel of the LORD unto him, If now

appeared unto I have found

him, and said grace in thy

unto him, The sight, then show

LORD [is] with me a sign that

thee, thou mighty thou talkest with

man of valour. me.

6:13 And Gideon 6:18 Depart not

said unto him, Oh hence, I pray

my Lord, if the thee, until I

LORD be with us, come unto thee,

why then is all and bring forth

this befallen us? my present, and

and where [be] set [it] before

all his miracles thee. And he

which our fathers said, I will

told us of, tarry until thou

saying, Did not come again.

the LORD bring us 6:19 And Gideon

up from Egypt? went in, and made

but now the LORD ready a kid, and

hath forsaken us, unleavened cakes

and delivered us of an ephah of

into the hands of flour: the flesh

the Midianites. he put in a

6:14 And the basket, and he

LORD looked upon put the broth in

him, and said, Go a pot, and

in this thy brought [it] out

might, and thou unto him under

shalt save Israel the oak, and

from the hand of presented [it].

the Midianites: 6:20 And the

have not I sent angel of God said

thee? unto him, Take

6:15 And he said the flesh and the

unto him, Oh my unleavened cakes,

and lay [them] father's young

upon this rock, bullock, even the

and pour out the second bullock of

broth. And he did seven years old,

so. and throw down

6:21 Then the the altar of Baal

angel of the LORD that thy father

put forth the end hath, and cut

of the staff that down the grove

[was] in his that [is] by it:

hand, and touched 6:26 And build

the flesh and the an altar unto the

unleavened cakes; LORD thy God upon

and there rose up the top of this

fire out of the rock, in the

rock, and ordered place,

consumed the and take the

flesh and the second bullock,

unleavened cakes. and offer a burnt

Then the angel of sacrifice with

the LORD departed the wood of the

out of his sight. grove which thou

shalt cut down.

6:22 And when 6:27 Then Gideon

Gideon perceived took ten men of

that he [was] an his servants, and

angel of the did as the LORD

LORD, Gideon had said unto

said, Alas, O him: and [so] it

Lord GOD! for was, because he

because I have feared his

seen an angel of father's

the LORD face to household, and

face. the men of the

6:23 And the city, that he

LORD said unto could not do [it]

him, Peace [be] by day, that he

unto thee; fear did [it] by

not: thou shalt night.

not die. 6:28 And when

6:24 Then Gideon the men of the

built an altar city arose early

there unto the in the morning,

LORD, and called behold, the altar

it Jehovahshalom: of Baal was cast

unto this day it down, and the

[is] yet in grove was cut

Ophrah of the down that [was]

Abiezrites. by it, and the

6:25 And it came second bullock

to pass the same was offered upon

night, that the the altar [that

LORD said unto was] built.

him, Take thy 6:29 And they

said one to together, and

another, Who hath went over, and

done this thing? pitched in the

And when they valley of

inquired and Jezreel.

asked, they said, 6:34 But the

Gideon the son of spirit of the

Joash hath done LORD came upon

this thing. Gideon, and he

6:30 Then the blew a trumpet;

men of the city and Abiezer was

said unto Joash, gathered after

Bring out thy him.

son, that he may 6:35 And he sent

die: because he messengers

hath cast down throughout all

the altar of Manasseh; who

Baal, and because also was gathered

he hath cut down after him: and he

the grove that sent messengers

[was] by it. unto Asher, and

6:31 And Joash unto Zebulun, and

said unto all unto Naphtali;

that stood and they came up

against him, Will to meet them.

ye plead for 6:36 And Gideon

Baal? will ye said unto God, If

save him? he that thou wilt save

will plead for Israel by mine

him, let him be hand, as thou

put to death hast said,

whilst [it is 6:37 Behold, I

yet] morning: if will put a fleece

he [be] a god, of wool in the

let him plead for floor; [and] if

himself, because the dew be on the

[one] hath cast fleece only, and

down his altar. [it be] dry upon

6:32 Therefore all the earth

on that day he [beside], then

called him shall I know that

Jerubbaal, thou wilt save

saying, Let Baal Israel by mine

plead against hand, as thou

him, because he hast said.

hath thrown down 6:38 And it was

his altar. so: for he rose

6:33 Then all up early on the

the Midianites morrow, and

and the thrust the fleece

Amalekites and together, and

the children of wringed the dew

the east were out of the

gathered fleece, a bowl

full of water. 7:3 Now

6:39 And Gideon therefore go to,

said unto God, proclaim in the

Let not thine ears of the

anger be hot people, saying,

against me, and I Whosoever [is]

will speak but fearful and

this once: let me afraid, let him

prove, I pray return and depart

thee, but this early from mount

once with the Gilead. And there

fleece; let it returned of the

now be dry only people twenty and

upon the fleece, two thousand; and

and upon all the there remained

ground let there ten thousand.

be dew. 7:4 And the LORD

6:40 And God did said unto Gideon,

so that night: The people [are]

for it was dry yet [too] many;

upon the fleece bring them down

only, and there unto the water,

was dew on all and I will try

the ground. them for thee

7:1 Then there: and it

Jerubbaal, who shall be, [that]

[is] Gideon, and of whom I say

all the people unto thee, This

that [were] with shall go with

him, rose up thee, the same

early, and shall go with

pitched beside thee; and of

the well of whomsoever I say

Harod: so that unto thee, This

the host of the shall not go with

Midianites were thee, the same

on the north side shall not go.

of them, by the 7:5 So he

hill of Moreh, in brought down the

the valley. people unto the

7:2 And the LORD water: and the

said unto Gideon, LORD said unto

The people that Gideon, Every one

[are] with thee that lappeth of

[are] too many the water with

for me to give his tongue, as a

the Midianites dog lappeth, him

into their hands, shalt thou set by

lest Israel vaunt himself; likewise

themselves every one that

against me, boweth down upon

saying, Mine own his knees to

hand hath saved drink.

me. 7:6 And the

number of them 7:11 And thou

that lapped, shalt hear what

[putting] their they say; and

hand to their afterward shall

mouth, were three thine hands be

hundred men: but strengthened to

all the rest of go down unto the

the people bowed host. Then went

down upon their he down with

knees to drink Phurah his

water. servant unto the

7:7 And the LORD outside of the

said unto Gideon, armed men that

By the three [were] in the

hundred men that host.

lapped will I 7:12 And the

save you, and Midianites and

deliver the the Amalekites

Midianites into and all the

thine hand: and children of the

let all the east lay along in

[other] people go the valley like

every man unto grasshoppers for

his place. multitude; and

7:8 So the their camels

people took [were] without

victuals in their number, as the

hand, and their sand by the sea

trumpets: and he side for

sent all [the multitude.

rest of] Israel 7:13 And when

every man unto Gideon was come,

his tent, and behold, [there

retained those was] a man that

three hundred told a dream unto

men: and the host his fellow, and

of Midian was said, Behold, I

beneath him in dreamed a dream,

the valley. and, lo, a cake

7:9 And it came of barley bread

to pass the same tumbled into the

night, that the host of Midian,

LORD said unto and came unto a

him, Arise, get tent, and smote

thee down unto it that it fell,

the host; for I and overturned

have delivered it it, that the tent

into thine hand. lay along.

7:10 But if thou 7:14 And his

fear to go down, fellow answered

go thou with and said, This

Phurah thy [is] nothing else

servant down to save the sword of

the host: Gideon the son of

Joash, a man of 7:19 So Gideon,

Israel: [for] and the hundred

into his hand men that [were]

hath God with him, came

delivered Midian, unto the outside

and all the host. of the camp in

the beginning of

7:15 And it was the middle watch;

[so], when Gideon and they had but

heard the telling newly set the

of the dream, and watch: and they

the blew the

interpretation trumpets, and

thereof, that he brake the

worshipped, and pitchers that

returned into the [were] in their

host of Israel, hands.

and said, Arise; 7:20 And the

for the LORD hath three companies

delivered into blew the

your hand the trumpets, and

host of Midian. brake the

7:16 And he pitchers, and

divided the three held the lamps in

hundred men their left hands,

[into] three and the trumpets

companies, and he in their right

put a trumpet in hands to blow

every man's hand, [withal]: and

with empty they cried, The

pitchers, and sword of the

lamps within the LORD, and of

pitchers. Gideon.

7:17 And he said 7:21 And they

unto them, Look stood every man

on me, and do in his place

likewise: and, round about the

behold, when I camp: and all the

come to the host ran, and

outside of the cried, and fled.

camp, it shall be 7:22 And the

[that], as I do, three hundred

so shall ye do. blew the

7:18 When I blow trumpets, and the

with a trumpet, I LORD set every

and all that man's sword

[are] with me, against his

then blow ye the fellow, even

trumpets also on throughout all

every side of all the host: and the

the camp, and host fled to

say, [The sword] Bethshittah in

of the LORD, and Zererath, [and]

of Gideon. to the border of

Abelmeholah, unto wentest to fight

Tabbath. with the

7:23 And the men Midianites? And

of Israel they did chide

gathered with him sharply.

themselves

together out of 8:2 And he said

Naphtali, and out unto them, What

of Asher, and out have I done now

of all Manasseh, in comparison of

and pursued after you? [Is] not the

the Midianites. gleaning of the

7:24 And Gideon grapes of Ephraim

sent messengers better than the

throughout all vintage of

mount Ephraim, Abiezer?

saying, Come down 8:3 God hath

against the delivered into

Midianites, and your hands the

take before them princes of

the waters unto Midian, Oreb and

Bethbarah and Zeeb: and what

Jordan. Then all was I able to do

the men of in comparison of

Ephraim gathered you? Then their

themselves anger was abated

together, and toward him, when

took the waters he had said that.

unto Bethbarah

and Jordan. 8:4 And Gideon

7:25 And they came to Jordan,

took two princes [and] passed

of the over, he, and the

Midianites, Oreb three hundred men

and Zeeb; and that [were] with

they slew Oreb him, faint, yet

upon the rock pursuing [them].

Oreb, and Zeeb 8:5 And he said

they slew at the unto the men of

winepress of Succoth, Give, I

Zeeb, and pursued pray you, loaves

Midian, and of bread unto the

brought the heads people that

of Oreb and Zeeb follow me; for

to Gideon on the they [be] faint,

other side and I am pursuing

Jordan. after Zebah and

8:1 And the men Zalmunna, kings

of Ephraim said of Midian.

unto him, Why 8:6 And the

hast thou served princes of

us thus, that Succoth said,

thou calledst us [Are] the hands

not, when thou of Zebah and

Zalmunna now in the east of Nobah

thine hand, that and Jogbehah, and

we should give smote the host:

bread unto thine for the host was

army? secure.

8:7 And Gideon 8:12 And when

said, Therefore Zebah and

when the LORD Zalmunna fled, he

hath delivered pursued after

Zebah and them, and took

Zalmunna into the two kings of

mine hand, then I Midian, Zebah and

will tear your Zalmunna, and

flesh with the discomfited all

thorns of the the host.

wilderness and 8:13 And Gideon

with briers. the son of Joash

8:8 And he went returned from

up thence to battle before the

Penuel, and spake sun [was up],

unto them 8:14 And caught

likewise: and the a young man of

men of Penuel the men of

answered him as Succoth, and

the men of inquired of him:

Succoth had and he described

answered [him]. unto him the

8:9 And he spake princes of

also unto the men Succoth, and the

of Penuel, elders thereof,

saying, When I [even] threescore

come again in and seventeen

peace, I will men.

break down this 8:15 And he came

tower. unto the men of

8:10 Now Zebah Succoth, and

and Zalmunna said, Behold

[were] in Karkor, Zebah and

and their hosts Zalmunna with

with them, about whom ye did

fifteen thousand upbraid me,

[men], all that saying, [Are] the

were left of all hands of Zebah

the hosts of the and Zalmunna now

children of the in thine hand,

east: for there that we should

fell an hundred give bread unto

and twenty thy men [that

thousand men that are] weary?

drew sword. 8:16 And he took

8:11 And Gideon the elders of the

went up by the city, and thorns

way of them that of the wilderness

dwelt in tents on and briers, and

with them he camels' necks.

taught the men of 8:22 Then the

Succoth. men of Israel

8:17 And he beat said unto Gideon,

down the tower of Rule thou over

Penuel, and slew us, both thou,

the men of the and thy son, and

city. thy son's son

8:18 Then said also: for thou

he unto Zebah and hast delivered us

Zalmunna, What from the hand of

manner of men Midian.

[were they] whom 8:23 And Gideon

ye slew at Tabor? said unto them, I

And they will not rule

answered, As thou over you, neither

[art], so [were] shall my son rule

they; each one over you: the

resembled the LORD shall rule

children of a over you.

king. 8:24 And Gideon

8:19 And he said unto them, I

said, They [were] would desire a

my brethren, request of you,

[even] the sons that ye would

of my mother: give me every man

[as] the LORD the earrings of

liveth, if ye had his prey. (For

saved them alive, they had golden

I would not slay earrings, because

you. they [were]

8:20 And he said Ishmaelites.)

unto Jether his 8:25 And they

firstborn, Up, answered, We will

[and] slay them. willingly give

But the youth [them]. And they

drew not his spread a garment,

sword: for he and did cast

feared, because therein every man

he [was] yet a the earrings of

youth. his prey.

8:21 Then Zebah 8:26 And the

and Zalmunna weight of the

said, Rise thou, golden earrings

and fall upon us: that he requested

for as the man was a thousand

[is, so is] his and seven hundred

strength. And [shekels] of

Gideon arose, and gold; beside

slew Zebah and ornaments, and

Zalmunna, and collars, and

took away the purple raiment

ornaments that that [was] on the

[were] on their kings of Midian,

and beside the in Ophrah of the

chains that Abiezrites.

[were] about 8:33 And it came

their camels' to pass, as soon

necks. as Gideon was

8:27 And Gideon dead, that the

made an ephod children of

thereof, and put Israel turned

it in his city, again, and went a

[even] in Ophrah: whoring after

and all Israel Baalim, and made

went thither a Baalberith their

whoring after it: god.

which thing 8:34 And the

became a snare children of

unto Gideon, and Israel remembered

to his house. not the LORD

8:28 Thus was their God, who

Midian subdued had delivered

before the them out of the

children of hands of all

Israel, so that their enemies on

they lifted up every side:

their heads no 8:35 Neither

more. And the showed they

country was in kindness to the

quietness forty house of

years in the days Jerubbaal,

of Gideon. [namely], Gideon,

8:29 And according to all

Jerubbaal the son the goodness

of Joash went and which he had

dwelt in his own showed unto

house. Israel.

8:30 And Gideon 9:1 And

had threescore Abimelech the son

and ten sons of of Jerubbaal went

his body to Shechem unto

begotten: for he his mother's

had many wives. brethren, and

8:31 And his communed with

concubine that them, and with

[was] in Shechem, all the family of

she also bare him the house of his

a son, whose name mother's father,

he called saying,

Abimelech. 9:2 Speak, I

8:32 And Gideon pray you, in the

the son of Joash ears of all the

died in a good men of Shechem,

old age, and was Whether [is]

buried in the better for you,

sepulchre of either that all

Joash his father, the sons of

Jerubbaal, [which together, and all

are] threescore the house of

and ten persons, Millo, and went,

reign over you, and made

or that one reign Abimelech king,

over you? by the plain of

remember also the pillar that

that I [am] your [was] in Shechem.

bone and your

flesh. 9:7 And when

9:3 And his they told [it] to

mother's brethren Jotham, he went

spake of him in and stood in the

the ears of all top of mount

the men of Gerizim, and

Shechem all these lifted up his

words: and their voice, and cried,

hearts inclined and said unto

to follow them, Hearken

Abimelech; for unto me, ye men

they said, He of Shechem, that

[is] our brother. God may hearken

unto you.

9:4 And they 9:8 The trees

gave him went forth [on a

threescore and time] to anoint a

ten [pieces] of king over them;

silver out of the and they said

house of unto the olive

Baalberith, tree, Reign thou

wherewith over us.

Abimelech hired 9:9 But the

vain and light olive tree said

persons, which unto them, Should

followed him. I leave my

9:5 And he went fatness,

unto his father's wherewith by me

house at Ophrah, they honour God

and slew his and man, and go

brethren the sons to be promoted

of Jerubbaal, over the trees?

[being] 9:10 And the

threescore and trees said to the

ten persons, upon fig tree, Come

one stone: thou, [and] reign

notwithstanding over us.

yet Jotham the 9:11 But the fig

youngest son of tree said unto

Jerubbaal was them, Should I

left; for he hid forsake my

himself. sweetness, and my

9:6 And all the good fruit, and

men of Shechem go to be promoted

gathered over the trees?

9:12 Then said risen up against

the trees unto my father's house

the vine, Come this day, and

thou, [and] reign have slain his

over us. sons, threescore

9:13 And the and ten persons,

vine said unto upon one stone,

them, Should I and have made

leave my wine, Abimelech, the

which cheereth son of his

God and man, and maidservant, king

go to be promoted over the men of

over the trees? Shechem, because

9:14 Then said he [is] your

all the trees brother;)

unto the bramble, 9:19 If ye then

Come thou, [and] have dealt truly

reign over us. and sincerely

9:15 And the with Jerubbaal

bramble said unto and with his

the trees, If in house this day,

truth ye anoint [then] rejoice ye

me king over you, in Abimelech, and

[then] come [and] let him also

put your trust in rejoice in you:

my shadow: and if 9:20 But if not,

not, let fire let fire come out

come out of the from Abimelech,

bramble, and and devour the

devour the cedars men of Shechem,

of Lebanon. and the house of

9:16 Now Millo; and let

therefore, if ye fire come out

have done truly from the men of

and sincerely, in Shechem, and from

that ye have made the house of

Abimelech king, Millo, and devour

and if ye have Abimelech.

dealt well with 9:21 And Jotham

Jerubbaal and his ran away, and

house, and have fled, and went to

done unto him Beer, and dwelt

according to the there, for fear

deserving of his of Abimelech his

hands; brother.

9:17 (For my 9:22 When

father fought for Abimelech had

you, and reigned three

adventured his years over

life far, and Israel,

delivered you out 9:23 Then God

of the hand of sent an evil

Midian: spirit between

9:18 And ye are Abimelech and the

men of Shechem; the son of Ebed

and the men of said, Who [is]

Shechem dealt Abimelech, and

treacherously who [is] Shechem,

with Abimelech: that we should

9:24 That the serve him? [is]

cruelty [done] to not [he] the son

the threescore of Jerubbaal? and

and ten sons of Zebul his

Jerubbaal might officer? serve

come, and their the men of Hamor

blood be laid the father of

upon Abimelech Shechem: for why

their brother, should we serve

which slew them; him?

and upon the men 9:29 And would

of Shechem, which to God this

aided him in the people were under

killing of his my hand! then

brethren. would I remove

9:25 And the men Abimelech. And he

of Shechem set said to

liers in wait for Abimelech,

him in the top of Increase thine

the mountains, army, and come

and they robbed out.

all that came 9:30 And when

along that way by Zebul the ruler

them: and it was of the city heard

told Abimelech. the words of Gaal

9:26 And Gaal the son of Ebed,

the son of Ebed his anger was

came with his kindled.

brethren, and 9:31 And he sent

went over to messengers unto

Shechem: and the Abimelech

men of Shechem privily, saying,

put their Behold, Gaal the

confidence in son of Ebed and

him. his brethren be

9:27 And they come to Shechem;

went out into the and, behold, they

fields, and fortify the city

gathered their against thee.

vineyards, and 9:32 Now

trode [the therefore up by

grapes], and made night, thou and

merry, and went the people that

into the house of [is] with thee,

their god, and and lie in wait

did eat and in the field:

drink, and cursed 9:33 And it

Abimelech. shall be, [that]

9:28 And Gaal in the morning,

as soon as the the land, and

sun is up, thou another company

shalt rise early, come along by the

and set upon the plain of

city: and, Meonenim.

behold, [when] he 9:38 Then said

and the people Zebul unto him,

that [is] with Where [is] now

him come out thy mouth,

against thee, wherewith thou

then mayest thou saidst, Who [is]

do to them as Abimelech, that

thou shalt find we should serve

occasion. him? [is] not

9:34 And this the people

Abimelech rose that thou hast

up, and all the despised? go out,

people that I pray now, and

[were] with him, fight with them.

by night, and 9:39 And Gaal

they laid wait went out before

against Shechem the men of

in four Shechem, and

companies. fought with

9:35 And Gaal Abimelech.

the son of Ebed 9:40 And

went out, and Abimelech chased

stood in the him, and he fled

entering of the before him, and

gate of the city: many were

and Abimelech overthrown [and]

rose up, and the wounded, [even]

people that unto the entering

[were] with him, of the gate.

from lying in 9:41 And

wait. Abimelech dwelt

9:36 And when at Arumah: and

Gaal saw the Zebul thrust out

people, he said Gaal and his

to Zebul, Behold, brethren, that

there come people they should not

down from the top dwell in Shechem.

of the mountains.

And Zebul said 9:42 And it came

unto him, Thou to pass on the

seest the shadow morrow, that the

of the mountains people went out

as [if they were] into the field;

men. and they told

9:37 And Gaal Abimelech.

spake again and 9:43 And he took

said, See there the people, and

come people down divided them into

by the middle of three companies,

and laid wait in up to mount

the field, and Zalmon, he and

looked, and, all the people

behold, the that [were] with

people [were] him; and

come forth out of Abimelech took an

the city; and he ax in his hand,

rose up against and cut down a

them, and smote bough from the

them. trees, and took

9:44 And it, and laid [it]

Abimelech, and on his shoulder,

the company that and said unto the

[was] with him, people that

rushed forward, [were] with him,

and stood in the What ye have seen

entering of the me do, make

gate of the city: haste, [and] do

and the two as I [have done].

[other] companies

ran upon all [the 9:49 And all the

people] that people likewise

[were] in the cut down every

fields, and slew man his bough,

them. and followed

9:45 And Abimelech, and

Abimelech fought put [them] to the

against the city hold, and set the

all that day; and hold on fire upon

he took the city, them; so that all

and slew the the men of the

people that [was] tower of Shechem

therein, and beat died also, about

down the city, a thousand men

and sowed it with and women.

salt. 9:50 Then went

9:46 And when Abimelech to

all the men of Thebez, and

the tower of encamped against

Shechem heard Thebez, and took

[that], they it.

entered into an 9:51 But there

hold of the house was a strong

of the god tower within the

Berith. city, and thither

9:47 And it was fled all the men

told Abimelech, and women, and

that all the men all they of the

of the tower of city, and shut

Shechem were [it] to them, and

gathered gat them up to

together. the top of the

9:48 And tower.

Abimelech gat him 9:52 And

Abimelech came Jerubbaal.

unto the tower, 10:1 And after

and fought Abimelech there

against it, and arose to defend

went hard unto Israel Tola the

the door of the son of Puah the

tower to burn it son of Dodo, a

with fire. man of Issachar,

9:53 And a and he dwelt in

certain woman Shamir in mount

cast a piece of a Ephraim.

millstone upon 10:2 And he

Abimelech's head, judged Israel

and all to brake twenty and three

his skull. years, and died,

9:54 Then he and was buried in

called hastily Shamir.

unto the young 10:3 And after

man his him arose Jair, a

armourbearer, and Gileadite, and

said unto him, judged Israel

Draw thy sword, twenty and two

and slay me, that years.

men say not of 10:4 And he had

me, A woman slew thirty sons that

him. And his rode on thirty

young man thrust ass colts, and

him through, and they had thirty

he died. cities, which are

9:55 And when called Havothjair

the men of Israel unto this day,

saw that which [are] in

Abimelech was the land of

dead, they Gilead.

departed every 10:5 And Jair

man unto his died, and was

place. buried in Camon.

9:56 Thus God 10:6 And the

rendered the children of

wickedness of Israel did evil

Abimelech, which again in the

he did unto his sight of the

father, in LORD, and served

slaying his Baalim, and

seventy brethren: Ashtaroth, and

the gods of

9:57 And all the Syria, and the

evil of the men gods of Zidon,

of Shechem did and the gods of

God render upon Moab, and the

their heads: and gods of the

upon them came children of

the curse of Ammon, and the

Jotham the son of gods of the

Philistines, and [I deliver you]

forsook the LORD, from the

and served not Egyptians, and

him. from the

10:7 And the Amorites, from

anger of the LORD the children of

was hot against Ammon, and from

Israel, and he the Philistines?

sold them into 10:12 The

the hands of the Zidonians also,

Philistines, and and the

into the hands of Amalekites, and

the children of the Maonites, did

Ammon. oppress you; and

10:8 And that ye cried to me,

year they vexed and I delivered

and oppressed the you out of their

children of hand.

Israel: eighteen 10:13 Yet ye

years, all the have forsaken me,

children of and served other

Israel that gods: wherefore I

[were] on the will deliver you

other side Jordan no more.

in the land of 10:14 Go and cry

the Amorites, unto the gods

which [is] in which ye have

Gilead. chosen; let them

10:9 Moreover deliver you in

the children of the time of your

Ammon passed over tribulation.

Jordan to fight 10:15 And the

also against children of

Judah, and Israel said unto

against Benjamin, the LORD, We have

and against the sinned: do thou

house of Ephraim; unto us

so that Israel whatsoever

was sore seemeth good unto

distressed. thee; deliver us

10:10 And the only, we pray

children of thee, this day.

Israel cried unto 10:16 And they

the LORD, saying, put away the

We have sinned strange gods from

against thee, among them, and

both because we served the LORD:

have forsaken our and his soul was

God, and also grieved for the

served Baalim. misery of Israel.

10:11 And the

LORD said unto 10:17 Then the

the children of children of Ammon

Israel, [Did] not were gathered

together, and went out with

encamped in him.

Gilead. And the 11:4 And it came

children of to pass in

Israel assembled process of time,

themselves that the children

together, and of Ammon made war

encamped in against Israel.

Mizpeh. 11:5 And it was

10:18 And the so, that when the

people [and] children of Ammon

princes of Gilead made war against

said one to Israel, the

another, What man elders of Gilead

[is he] that will went to fetch

begin to fight Jephthah out of

against the the land of Tob:

children of 11:6 And they

Ammon? he shall said unto

be head over all Jephthah, Come,

the inhabitants and be our

of Gilead. captain, that we

11:1 Now may fight with

Jephthah the the children of

Gileadite was a Ammon.

mighty man of 11:7 And

valour, and he Jephthah said

[was] the son of unto the elders

an harlot: and of Gilead, Did

Gilead begat not ye hate me,

Jephthah. and expel me out

11:2 And of my father's

Gilead's wife house? and why

bare him sons; are ye come unto

and his wife's me now when ye

sons grew up, and are in distress?

they thrust out 11:8 And the

Jephthah, and elders of Gilead

said unto him, said unto

Thou shalt not Jephthah,

inherit in our Therefore we turn

father's house; again to thee

for thou [art] now, that thou

the son of a mayest go with

strange woman. us, and fight

11:3 Then against the

Jephthah fled children of

from his Ammon, and be our

brethren, and head over all the

dwelt in the land inhabitants of

of Tob: and there Gilead.

were gathered 11:9 And

vain men to Jephthah said

Jephthah, and unto the elders

of Gilead, If ye Jordan: now

bring me home therefore restore

again to fight those [lands]

against the again peaceably.

children of 11:14 And

Ammon, and the Jephthah sent

LORD deliver them messengers again

before me, shall unto the king of

I be your head? the children of

11:10 And the Ammon:

elders of Gilead 11:15 And said

said unto unto him, Thus

Jephthah, The saith Jephthah,

LORD be witness Israel took not

between us, if we away the land of

do not so Moab, nor the

according to thy land of the

words. children of

11:11 Then Ammon:

Jephthah went 11:16 But when

with the elders Israel came up

of Gilead, and from Egypt, and

the people made walked through

him head and the wilderness

captain over unto the Red sea,

them: and and came to

Jephthah uttered Kadesh;

all his words 11:17 Then

before the LORD Israel sent

in Mizpeh. messengers unto

11:12 And the king of Edom,

Jephthah sent saying, Let me, I

messengers unto pray thee, pass

the king of the through thy land:

children of but the king of

Ammon, saying, Edom would not

What hast thou to hearken

do with me, that [thereto]. And in

thou art come like manner they

against me to sent unto the

fight in my land? king of Moab: but

he would not

11:13 And the [consent]: and

king of the Israel abode in

children of Ammon Kadesh.

answered unto the 11:18 Then they

messengers of went along

Jephthah, Because through the

Israel took away wilderness, and

my land, when compassed the

they came up out land of Edom, and

of Egypt, from the land of Moab,

Arnon even unto and came by the

Jabbok, and unto east side of the

land of Moab, and Israel hath

pitched on the dispossessed the

other side of Amorites from

Arnon, but came before his people

not within the Israel, and

border of Moab: shouldest thou

for Arnon [was] possess it?

the border of 11:24 Wilt not

Moab. thou possess that

11:19 And Israel which Chemosh thy

sent messengers god giveth thee

unto Sihon king to possess? So

of the Amorites, whomsoever the

the king of LORD our God

Heshbon; and shall drive out

Israel said unto from before us,

him, Let us pass, them will we

we pray thee, possess.

through thy land 11:25 And now

into my place. [art] thou any

11:20 But Sihon thing better than

trusted not Balak the son of

Israel to pass Zippor, king of

through his Moab? did he ever

coast: but Sihon strive against

gathered all his Israel, or did he

people together, ever fight

and pitched in against them,

Jahaz, and fought 11:26 While

against Israel. Israel dwelt in

11:21 And the Heshbon and her

LORD God of towns, and in

Israel delivered Aroer and her

Sihon and all his towns, and in all

people into the the cities that

hand of Israel, [be] along by the

and they smote coasts of Arnon,

them: so Israel three hundred

possessed all the years? why

land of the therefore did ye

Amorites, the not recover

inhabitants of [them] within

that country. that time?

11:22 And they 11:27 Wherefore

possessed all the I have not sinned

coasts of the against thee, but

Amorites, from thou doest me

Arnon even unto wrong to war

Jabbok, and from against me: the

the wilderness LORD the Judge be

even unto Jordan. judge this day

between the

11:23 So now the children of

LORD God of Israel and the

children of them into his

Ammon. hands.

11:28 Howbeit 11:33 And he

the king of the smote them from

children of Ammon Aroer, even till

hearkened not thou come to

unto the words of Minnith, [even]

Jephthah which he twenty cities,

sent him. and unto the

11:29 Then the plain of the

spirit of the vineyards, with a

LORD came upon very great

Jephthah, and he slaughter. Thus

passed over the children of

Gilead, and Ammon were

Manasseh, and subdued before

passed over the children of

Mizpeh of Gilead, Israel.

and from Mizpeh 11:34 And

of Gilead he Jephthah came to

passed over Mizpeh unto his

[unto] the house, and,

children of behold, his

Ammon. daughter came out

11:30 And to meet him with

Jephthah vowed a timbrels and with

vow unto the dances: and she

LORD, and said, [was his] only

If thou shalt child; beside her

without fail he had neither

deliver the son nor daughter.

children of Ammon

into mine hands, 11:35 And it

11:31 Then it came to pass,

shall be, that when he saw her,

whatsoever cometh that he rent his

forth of the clothes, and

doors of my house said, Alas, my

to meet me, when daughter! thou

I return in peace hast brought me

from the children very low, and

of Ammon, shall thou art one of

surely be the them that trouble

LORD'S, and I me: for I have

will offer it up opened my mouth

for a burnt unto the LORD,

offering. and I cannot go

11:32 So back.

Jephthah passed 11:36 And she

over unto the said unto him, My

children of Ammon father, [if] thou

to fight against hast opened thy

them; and the mouth unto the

LORD delivered LORD, do to me

according to that 12:1 And the men

which hath of Ephraim

proceeded out of gathered

thy mouth; themselves

forasmuch as the together, and

LORD hath taken went northward,

vengeance for and said unto

thee of thine Jephthah,

enemies, [even] Wherefore

of the children passedst thou

of Ammon. over to fight

11:37 And she against the

said unto her children of

father, Let this Ammon, and didst

thing be done for not call us to go

me: let me alone with thee? we

two months, that will burn thine

I may go up and house upon thee

down upon the with fire.

mountains, and 12:2 And

bewail my Jephthah said

virginity, I and unto them, I and

my fellows. my people were at

11:38 And he great strife with

said, Go. And he the children of

sent her away Ammon; and when I

[for] two months: called you, ye

and she went with delivered me not

her companions, out of their

and bewailed her hands.

virginity upon 12:3 And when I

the mountains. saw that ye

11:39 And it delivered [me]

came to pass at not, I put my

the end of two life in my hands,

months, that she and passed over

returned unto her against the

father, who did children of

with her Ammon, and the

[according] to LORD delivered

his vow which he them into my

had vowed: and hand: wherefore

she knew no man. then are ye come

And it was a up unto me this

custom in Israel, day, to fight

against me?

11:40 [That] the 12:4 Then

daughters of Jephthah gathered

Israel went together all the

yearly to lament men of Gilead,

the daughter of and fought with

Jephthah the Ephraim: and the

Gileadite four men of Gilead

days in a year. smote Ephraim,

because they Bethlehem judged

said, Ye Israel.

Gileadites [are] 12:9 And he had

fugitives of thirty sons, and

Ephraim among the thirty daughters,

Ephraimites, [whom] he sent

[and] among the abroad, and took

Manassites. in thirty

12:5 And the daughters from

Gileadites took abroad for his

the passages of sons. And he

Jordan before the judged Israel

Ephraimites: and seven years.

it was [so] that 12:10 Then died

when those Ibzan, and was

Ephraimites which buried at

were escaped Bethlehem.

said, Let me go 12:11 And after

over; that the him Elon, a

men of Gilead Zebulonite,

said unto him, judged Israel;

[Art] thou an and he judged

Ephraimite? If he Israel ten years.

said, Nay;

12:6 Then said 12:12 And Elon

they unto him, the Zebulonite

Say now died, and was

Shibboleth: and buried in Aijalon

he said in the country of

Sibboleth: for he Zebulun.

could not frame 12:13 And after

to pronounce [it] him Abdon the son

right. Then they of Hillel, a

took him, and Pirathonite,

slew him at the judged Israel.

passages of 12:14 And he had

Jordan: and there forty sons and

fell at that time thirty nephews,

of the that rode on

Ephraimites forty threescore and

and two thousand. ten ass colts:

and he judged

12:7 And Israel eight

Jephthah judged years.

Israel six years. 12:15 And Abdon

Then died the son of Hillel

Jephthah the the Pirathonite

Gileadite, and died, and was

was buried in buried in

[one of] the Pirathon in the

cities of Gilead. land of Ephraim,

in the mount of

12:8 And after the Amalekites.

him Ibzan of 13:1 And the

children of woman came and

Israel did evil told her husband,

again in the saying, A man of

sight of the God came unto me,

LORD; and the and his

LORD delivered countenance [was]

them into the like the

hand of the countenance of an

Philistines forty angel of God,

years. very terrible:

13:2 And there but I asked him

was a certain man not whence he

of Zorah, of the [was], neither

family of the told he me his

Danites, whose name:

name [was] 13:7 But he said

Manoah; and his unto me, Behold,

wife [was] thou shalt

barren, and bare conceive, and

not. bear a son; and

13:3 And the now drink no wine

angel of the LORD nor strong drink,

appeared unto the neither eat any

woman, and said unclean [thing]:

unto her, Behold for the child

now, thou [art] shall be a

barren, and Nazarite to God

bearest not: but from the womb to

thou shalt the day of his

conceive, and death.

bear a son. 13:8 Then Manoah

13:4 Now entreated the

therefore beware, LORD, and said, O

I pray thee, and my Lord, let the

drink not wine man of God which

nor strong drink, thou didst send

and eat not any come again unto

unclean [thing]: us, and teach us

13:5 For, lo, what we shall do

thou shalt unto the child

conceive, and that shall be

bear a son; and born.

no razor shall 13:9 And God

come on his head: hearkened to the

for the child voice of Manoah;

shall be a and the angel of

Nazarite unto God God came again

from the womb: unto the woman as

and he shall she sat in the

begin to deliver field: but Manoah

Israel out of the her husband [was]

hand of the not with her.

Philistines. 13:10 And the

13:6 Then the woman made haste,

and ran, and angel of the LORD

showed her said unto Manoah,

husband, and said Though thou

unto him, Behold, detain me, I will

the man hath not eat of thy

appeared unto me, bread: and if

that came unto me thou wilt offer a

the [other] day. burnt offering,

13:11 And Manoah thou must offer

arose, and went it unto the LORD.

after his wife, For Manoah knew

and came to the not that he [was]

man, and said an angel of the

unto him, [Art] LORD.

thou the man that 13:17 And Manoah

spakest unto the said unto the

woman? And he angel of the

said, I [am]. LORD, What [is]

13:12 And Manoah thy name, that

said, Now let thy when thy sayings

words come to come to pass we

pass. How shall may do thee

we order the honour?

child, and [how] 13:18 And the

shall we do unto angel of the LORD

him? said unto him,

13:13 And the Why askest thou

angel of the LORD thus after my

said unto Manoah, name, seeing it

Of all that I [is] secret?

said unto the 13:19 So Manoah

woman let her took a kid with a

beware. meat offering,

13:14 She may and offered [it]

not eat of any upon a rock unto

[thing] that the LORD: and

cometh of the [the angel] did

vine, neither let wonderously; and

her drink wine or Manoah and his

strong drink, nor wife looked on.

eat any unclean 13:20 For it

[thing]: all that came to pass,

I commanded her when the flame

let her observe. went up toward

13:15 And Manoah heaven from off

said unto the the altar, that

angel of the the angel of the

LORD, I pray LORD ascended in

thee, let us the flame of the

detain thee, altar. And Manoah

until we shall and his wife

have made ready a looked on [it],

kid for thee. and fell on their

13:16 And the faces to the

ground. Philistines.

13:21 But the 14:2 And he came

angel of the LORD up, and told his

did no more father and his

appear to Manoah mother, and said,

and to his wife. I have seen a

Then Manoah knew woman in Timnath

that he [was] an of the daughters

angel of the of the

LORD. Philistines: now

13:22 And Manoah therefore get her

said unto his for me to wife.

wife, We shall 14:3 Then his

surely die, father and his

because we have mother said unto

seen God. him, [Is there]

13:23 But his never a woman

wife said unto among the

him, If the LORD daughters of thy

were pleased to brethren, or

kill us, he would among all my

not have received people, that thou

a burnt offering goest to take a

and a meat wife of the

offering at our uncircumcised

hands, neither Philistines? And

would he have Samson said unto

showed us all his father, Get

these [things], her for me; for

nor would as at she pleaseth me

this time have well.

told us [such 14:4 But his

things] as these. father and his

mother knew not

13:24 And the that it [was] of

woman bare a son, the LORD, that he

and called his sought an

name Samson: and occasion against

the child grew, the Philistines:

and the LORD for at that time

blessed him. the Philistines

13:25 And the had dominion over

spirit of the Israel.

LORD began to 14:5 Then went

move him at times Samson down, and

in the camp of his father and

Dan between Zorah his mother, to

and Eshtaol. Timnath, and came

14:1 And Samson to the vineyards

went down to of Timnath: and,

Timnath, and saw behold, a young

a woman in lion roared

Timnath of the against him.

daughters of the 14:6 And the

spirit of the brought thirty

LORD came companions to be

mightily upon with him.

him, and he rent 14:12 And Samson

him as he would said unto them, I

have rent a kid, will now put

and [he had] forth a riddle

nothing in his unto you: if ye

hand: but he told can certainly

not his father or declare it me

his mother what within the seven

he had done. days of the

14:7 And he went feast, and find

down, and talked [it] out, then I

with the woman; will give you

and she pleased thirty sheets and

Samson well. thirty change of

14:8 And after a garments:

time he returned 14:13 But if ye

to take her, and cannot declare

he turned aside [it] me, then

to see the shall ye give me

carcase of the thirty sheets and

lion: and, thirty change of

behold, [there garments. And

was] a swarm of they said unto

bees and honey in him, Put forth

the carcase of thy riddle, that

the lion. we may hear it.

14:9 And he took 14:14 And he

thereof in his said unto them,

hands, and went Out of the eater

on eating, and came forth meat,

came to his and out of the

father and strong came forth

mother, and he sweetness. And

gave them, and they could not in

they did eat: but three days

he told not them expound the

that he had taken riddle.

the honey out of 14:15 And it

the carcase of came to pass on

the lion. the seventh day,

14:10 So his that they said

father went down unto Samson's

unto the woman: wife, Entice thy

and Samson made husband, that he

there a feast; may declare unto

for so used the us the riddle,

young men to do. lest we burn thee

14:11 And it and thy father's

came to pass, house with fire:

when they saw have ye called us

him, that they to take that we

have? [is it] not him, and he went

[so]? down to Ashkelon,

14:16 And and slew thirty

Samson's wife men of them, and

wept before him, took their spoil,

and said, Thou and gave change

dost but hate me, of garments unto

and lovest me them which

not: thou hast expounded the

put forth a riddle. And his

riddle unto the anger was

children of my kindled, and he

people, and hast went up to his

not told [it] me. father's house.

And he said unto 14:20 But

her, Behold, I Samson's wife was

have not told [given] to his

[it] my father companion, whom

nor my mother, he had used as

and shall I tell his friend.

[it] thee? 15:1 But it came

14:17 And she to pass within a

wept before him while after, in

the seven days, the time of wheat

while their feast harvest, that

lasted: and it Samson visited

came to pass on his wife with a

the seventh day, kid; and he said,

that he told her, I will go in to

because she lay my wife into the

sore upon him: chamber. But her

and she told the father would not

riddle to the suffer him to go

children of her in.

people. 15:2 And her

14:18 And the father said, I

men of the city verily thought

said unto him on that thou hadst

the seventh day utterly hated

before the sun her; therefore I

went down, What gave her to thy

[is] sweeter than companion: [is]

honey? and what not her younger

[is] stronger sister fairer

than a lion? And than she? take

he said unto her, I pray thee,

them, If ye had instead of her.

not plowed with 15:3 And Samson

my heifer, ye had said concerning

not found out my them, Now shall I

riddle. be more blameless

14:19 And the than the

spirit of the Philistines,

LORD came upon though I do them

a displeasure. top of the rock

15:4 And Samson Etam.

went and caught 15:9 Then the

three hundred Philistines went

foxes, and took up, and pitched

firebrands, and in Judah, and

turned tail to spread themselves

tail, and put a in Lehi.

firebrand in the 15:10 And the

midst between two men of Judah

tails. said, Why are ye

15:5 And when he come up against

had set the us? And they

brands on fire, answered, To bind

he let [them] go Samson are we

into the standing come up, to do to

corn of the him as he hath

Philistines, and done to us.

burnt up both the 15:11 Then three

shocks, and also thousand men of

the standing Judah went to the

corn, with the top of the rock

vineyards [and] Etam, and said to

olives. Samson, Knowest

15:6 Then the thou not that the

Philistines said, Philistines [are]

Who hath done rulers over us?

this? And they what [is] this

answered, Samson, [that] thou hast

the son in law of done unto us? And

the Timnite, he said unto

because he had them, As they did

taken his wife, unto me, so have

and given her to I done unto them.

his companion.

And the 15:12 And they

Philistines came said unto him, We

up, and burnt her are come down to

and her father bind thee, that

with fire. we may deliver

15:7 And Samson thee into the

said unto them, hand of the

Though ye have Philistines. And

done this, yet Samson said unto

will I be avenged them, Swear unto

of you, and after me, that ye will

that I will not fall upon me

cease. yourselves.

15:8 And he 15:13 And they

smote them hip spake unto him,

and thigh with a saying, No; but

great slaughter: we will bind thee

and he went down fast, and deliver

and dwelt in the thee into their

hand: but surely called on the

we will not kill LORD, and said,

thee. And they Thou hast given

bound him with this great

two new cords, deliverance into

and brought him the hand of thy

up from the rock. servant: and now

shall I die for

15:14 [And] when thirst, and fall

he came unto into the hand of

Lehi, the the

Philistines uncircumcised?

shouted against 15:19 But God

him: and the clave an hollow

spirit of the place that [was]

LORD came in the jaw, and

mightily upon there came water

him, and the thereout; and

cords that [were] when he had

upon his arms drunk, his spirit

became as flax came again, and

that was burnt he revived:

with fire, and wherefore he

his bands loosed called the name

from off his thereof

hands. Enhakkore, which

15:15 And he [is] in Lehi unto

found a new this day.

jawbone of an 15:20 And he

ass, and put judged Israel in

forth his hand, the days of the

and took it, and Philistines

slew a thousand twenty years.

men therewith. 16:1 Then went

15:16 And Samson Samson to Gaza,

said, With the and saw there an

jawbone of an harlot, and went

ass, heaps upon in unto her.

heaps, with the 16:2 [And it was

jaw of an ass told] the

have I slain a Gazites, saying,

thousand men. Samson is come

15:17 And it hither. And they

came to pass, compassed [him]

when he had made in, and laid wait

an end of for him all night

speaking, that he in the gate of

cast away the the city, and

jawbone out of were quiet all

his hand, and the night,

called that place saying, In the

Ramathlehi. morning, when it

15:18 And he was is day, we shall

sore athirst, and kill him.

16:3 And Samson they bind me with

lay till seven green withs

midnight, and that were never

arose at dried, then shall

midnight, and I be weak, and be

took the doors of as another man.

the gate of the 16:8 Then the

city, and the two lords of the

posts, and went Philistines

away with them, brought up to her

bar and all, and seven green withs

put [them] upon which had not

his shoulders, been dried, and

and carried them she bound him

up to the top of with them.

an hill that [is] 16:9 Now [there

before Hebron. were] men lying

16:4 And it came in wait, abiding

to pass with her in the

afterward, that chamber. And she

he loved a woman said unto him,

in the valley of The Philistines

Sorek, whose name [be] upon thee,

[was] Delilah. Samson. And he

16:5 And the brake the withs,

lords of the as a thread of

Philistines came tow is broken

up unto her, and when it toucheth

said unto her, the fire. So his

Entice him, and strength was not

see wherein his known.

great strength 16:10 And

[lieth], and by Delilah said unto

what [means] we Samson, Behold,

may prevail thou hast mocked

against him, that me, and told me

we may bind him lies: now tell

to afflict him: me, I pray thee,

and we will give wherewith thou

thee every one of mightest be

us eleven hundred bound.

[pieces] of 16:11 And he

silver. said unto her, If

16:6 And Delilah they bind me fast

said to Samson, with new ropes

Tell me, I pray that never were

thee, wherein thy occupied, then

great strength shall I be weak,

[lieth], and and be as another

wherewith thou man.

mightest be bound 16:12 Delilah

to afflict thee. therefore took

16:7 And Samson new ropes, and

said unto her, If bound him

therewith, and him daily with

said unto him, her words, and

The Philistines urged him, [so]

[be] upon thee, that his soul was

Samson. And vexed unto death;

[there were]

liers in wait 16:17 That he

abiding in the told her all his

chamber. And he heart, and said

brake them from unto her, There

off his arms like hath not come a

a thread. razor upon mine

16:13 And head; for I [have

Delilah said unto been] a Nazarite

Samson, Hitherto unto God from my

thou hast mocked mother's womb: if

me, and told me I be shaven, then

lies: tell me my strength will

wherewith thou go from me, and I

mightest be shall become

bound. And he weak, and be like

said unto her, If any [other] man.

thou weavest the 16:18 And when

seven locks of my Delilah saw that

head with the he had told her

web. all his heart,

16:14 And she she sent and

fastened [it] called for the

with the pin, and lords of the

said unto him, Philistines,

The Philistines saying, Come up

[be] upon thee, this once, for he

Samson. And he hath showed me

awaked out of his all his heart.

sleep, and went Then the lords of

away with the pin the Philistines

of the beam, and came up unto her,

with the web. and brought money

16:15 And she in their hand.

said unto him, 16:19 And she

How canst thou made him sleep

say, I love thee, upon her knees;

when thine heart and she called

[is] not with me? for a man, and

thou hast mocked she caused him to

me these three shave off the

times, and hast seven locks of

not told me his head; and she

wherein thy great began to afflict

strength [lieth]. him, and his

strength went

16:16 And it from him.

came to pass, 16:20 And she

when she pressed said, The

Philistines [be] 16:25 And it

upon thee, came to pass,

Samson. And he when their hearts

awoke out of his were merry, that

sleep, and said, they said, Call

I will go out as for Samson, that

at other times he may make us

before, and shake sport. And they

myself. And he called for Samson

wist not that the out of the prison

LORD was departed house; and he

from him. made them sport:

16:21 But the and they set him

Philistines took between the

him, and put out pillars.

his eyes, and 16:26 And Samson

brought him down said unto the lad

to Gaza, and that held him by

bound him with the hand, Suffer

fetters of brass; me that I may

and he did grind feel the pillars

in the prison whereupon the

house. house standeth,

16:22 Howbeit that I may lean

the hair of his upon them.

head began to 16:27 Now the

grow again after house was full of

he was shaven. men and women;

16:23 Then the and all the lords

lords of the of the

Philistines Philistines

gathered them [were] there; and

together for to [there were] upon

offer a great the roof about

sacrifice unto three thousand

Dagon their god, men and women,

and to rejoice: that beheld while

for they said, Samson made

Our god hath sport.

delivered Samson 16:28 And Samson

our enemy into called unto the

our hand. LORD, and said, O

16:24 And when Lord GOD,

the people saw remember me, I

him, they praised pray thee, and

their god: for strengthen me, I

they said, Our pray thee, only

god hath this once, O God,

delivered into that I may be at

our hands our once avenged of

enemy, and the the Philistines

destroyer of our for my two eyes.

country, which 16:29 And Samson

slew many of us. took hold of the

two middle thou cursedst,

pillars upon and spakest of

which the house also in mine

stood, and on ears, behold, the

which it was silver [is] with

borne up, of the me; I took it.

one with his And his mother

right hand, and said, Blessed [be

of the other with thou] of the

his left. LORD, my son.

16:30 And Samson 17:3 And when he

said, Let me die had restored the

with the eleven hundred

Philistines. And [shekels] of

he bowed himself silver to his

with [all his] mother, his

might; and the mother said, I

house fell upon had wholly

the lords, and dedicated the

upon all the silver unto the

people that LORD from my hand

[were] therein. for my son, to

So the dead which make a graven

he slew at his image and a

death were more molten image: now

than [they] which therefore I will

he slew in his restore it unto

life. thee.

16:31 Then his 17:4 Yet he

brethren and all restored the

the house of his money unto his

father came down, mother; and his

and took him, and mother took two

brought [him] up, hundred [shekels]

and buried him of silver, and

between Zorah and gave them to the

Eshtaol in the founder, who made

buryingplace of thereof a graven

Manoah his image and a

father. And he molten image: and

judged Israel they were in the

twenty years. house of Micah.

17:1 And there 17:5 And the man

was a man of Micah had an

mount Ephraim, house of gods,

whose name [was] and made an

Micah. ephod, and

17:2 And he said teraphim, and

unto his mother, consecrated one

The eleven of his sons, who

hundred [shekels] became his

of silver that priest.

were taken from 17:6 In those

thee, about which days [there was]

no king in the young man was

Israel, [but] unto him as one

every man did of his sons.

[that which was] 17:12 And Micah

right in his own consecrated the

eyes. Levite; and the

17:7 And there young man became

was a young man his priest, and

out of was in the house

Bethlehemjudah of of Micah.

the family of 17:13 Then said

Judah, who [was] Micah, Now know I

a Levite, and he that the LORD

sojourned there. will do me good,

17:8 And the man seeing I have a

departed out of Levite to [my]

the city from priest.

Bethlehemjudah to 18:1 In those

sojourn where he days [there was]

could find [a no king in

place]: and he Israel: and in

came to mount those days the

Ephraim to the tribe of the

house of Micah, Danites sought

as he journeyed. them an

17:9 And Micah inheritance to

said unto him, dwell in; for

Whence comest unto that day

thou? And he said [all their]

unto him, I [am] inheritance had

a Levite of not fallen unto

Bethlehemjudah, them among the

and I go to tribes of Israel.

sojourn where I

may find [a 18:2 And the

place]. children of Dan

17:10 And Micah sent of their

said unto him, family five men

Dwell with me, from their

and be unto me a coasts, men of

father and a valour, from

priest, and I Zorah, and from

will give thee Eshtaol, to spy

ten [shekels] of out the land, and

silver by the to search it; and

year, and a suit they said unto

of apparel, and them, Go, search

thy victuals. So the land: who

the Levite went when they came to

in. mount Ephraim, to

17:11 And the the house of

Levite was Micah, they

content to dwell lodged there.

with the man; and 18:3 When they

[were] by the shame in [any]

house of Micah, thing; and they

they knew the [were] far from

voice of the the Zidonians,

young man the and had no

Levite: and they business with

turned in [any] man.

thither, and said 18:8 And they

unto him, Who came unto their

brought thee brethren to Zorah

hither? and what and Eshtaol: and

makest thou in their brethren

this [place]? and said unto them,

what hast thou What [say] ye?

here? 18:9 And they

18:4 And he said said, Arise, that

unto them, Thus we may go up

and thus dealeth against them: for

Micah with me, we have seen the

and hath hired land, and,

me, and I am his behold, it [is]

priest. very good: and

18:5 And they [are] ye still?

said unto him, be not slothful

Ask counsel, we to go, [and] to

pray thee, of enter to possess

God, that we may the land.

know whether our 18:10 When ye

way which we go go, ye shall come

shall be unto a people

prosperous. secure, and to a

18:6 And the large land: for

priest said unto God hath given it

them, Go in into your hands;

peace: before the a place where

LORD [is] your [there is] no

way wherein ye want of any thing

go. that [is] in the

18:7 Then the earth.

five men 18:11 And there

departed, and went from thence

came to Laish, of the family of

and saw the the Danites, out

people that of Zorah and out

[were] therein, of Eshtaol, six

how they dwelt hundred men

careless, after appointed with

the manner of the weapons of war.

Zidonians, quiet 18:12 And they

and secure; and went up, and

[there was] no pitched in

magistrate in the Kirjathjearim, in

land, that might Judah: wherefore

put [them] to they called that

place Mahanehdan ephod, and the

unto this day: teraphim, and the

behold, [it is] molten image: and

behind the priest stood

Kirjathjearim. in the entering

18:13 And they of the gate with

passed thence the six hundred

unto mount men [that were]

Ephraim, and came appointed with

unto the house of weapons of war.

Micah. 18:18 And these

18:14 Then went into Micah's

answered the five house, and

men that went to fetched the

spy out the carved image, the

country of Laish, ephod, and the

and said unto teraphim, and the

their brethren, molten image.

Do ye know that Then said the

there is in these priest unto them,

houses an ephod, What do ye?

and teraphim, and 18:19 And they

a graven image, said unto him,

and a molten Hold thy peace,

image? now lay thine hand

therefore upon thy mouth,

consider what ye and go with us,

have to do. and be to us a

18:15 And they father and a

turned priest: [is it]

thitherward, and better for thee

came to the house to be a priest

of the young man unto the house of

the Levite, one man, or that

[even] unto the thou be a priest

house of Micah, unto a tribe and

and saluted him. a family in

18:16 And the Israel?

six hundred men 18:20 And the

appointed with priest's heart

their weapons of was glad, and he

war, which [were] took the ephod,

of the children and the teraphim,

of Dan, stood by and the graven

the entering of image, and went

the gate. in the midst of

18:17 And the the people.

five men that 18:21 So they

went to spy out turned and

the land went up, departed, and put

[and] came in the little ones

thither, [and] and the cattle

took the graven and the carriage

image, and the before them.

18:22 [And] when back unto his

they were a good house.

way from the 18:27 And they

house of Micah, took [the things]

the men that which Micah had

[were] in the made, and the

houses near to priest which he

Micah's house had, and came

were gathered unto Laish, unto

together, and a people [that

overtook the were] at quiet

children of Dan. and secure: and

18:23 And they they smote them

cried unto the with the edge of

children of Dan. the sword, and

And they turned burnt the city

their faces, and with fire.

said unto Micah, 18:28 And [there

What aileth thee, was] no

that thou comest deliverer,

with such a because it [was]

company? far from Zidon,

18:24 And he and they had no

said, Ye have business with

taken away my [any] man; and it

gods which I was in the valley

made, and the that [lieth] by

priest, and ye Bethrehob. And

are gone away: they built a

and what have I city, and dwelt

more? and what therein.

[is] this [that] 18:29 And they

ye say unto me, called the name

What aileth thee? of the city Dan,

after the name of

18:25 And the Dan their father,

children of Dan who was born unto

said unto him, Israel: howbeit

Let not thy voice the name of the

be heard among city [was] Laish

us, lest angry at the first.

fellows run upon 18:30 And the

thee, and thou children of Dan

lose thy life, set up the graven

with the lives of image: and

thy household. Jonathan, the son

18:26 And the of Gershom, the

children of Dan son of Manasseh,

went their way: he and his sons

and when Micah were priests to

saw that they the tribe of Dan

[were] too strong until the day of

for him, he the captivity of

turned and went the land.

18:31 And they him; and he abode

set them up with him three

Micah's graven days: so they did

image, which he eat and drink,

made, all the and lodged there.

time that the

house of God was 19:5 And it came

in Shiloh. to pass on the

19:1 And it came fourth day, when

to pass in those they arose early

days, when [there in the morning,

was] no king in that he rose up

Israel, that to depart: and

there was a the damsel's

certain Levite father said unto

sojourning on the his son in law,

side of mount Comfort thine

Ephraim, who took heart with a

to him a morsel of bread,

concubine out of and afterward go

Bethlehemjudah. your way.

19:2 And his 19:6 And they

concubine played sat down, and did

the whore against eat and drink

him, and went both of them

away from him together: for the

unto her father's damsel's father

house to had said unto the

Bethlehemjudah, man, Be content,

and was there I pray thee, and

four whole tarry all night,

months. and let thine

19:3 And her heart be merry.

husband arose, 19:7 And when

and went after the man rose up

her, to speak to depart, his

friendly unto father in law

her, [and] to urged him:

bring her again, therefore he

having his lodged there

servant with him, again.

and a couple of 19:8 And he

asses: and she arose early in

brought him into the morning on

her father's the fifth day to

house: and when depart: and the

the father of the damsel's father

damsel saw him, said, Comfort

he rejoiced to thine heart, I

meet him. pray thee. And

19:4 And his they tarried

father in law, until afternoon,

the damsel's and they did eat

father, retained both of them.

19:9 And when [is] not of the

the man rose up children of

to depart, he, Israel; we will

and his pass over to

concubine, and Gibeah.

his servant, his 19:13 And he

father in law, said unto his

the damsel's servant, Come,

father, said unto and let us draw

him, Behold, now near to one of

the day draweth these places to

toward evening, I lodge all night,

pray you tarry in Gibeah, or in

all night: Ramah.

behold, the day 19:14 And they

groweth to an passed on and

end, lodge here, went their way;

that thine heart and the sun went

may be merry; and down upon them

to morrow get you [when they were]

early on your by Gibeah, which

way, that thou [belongeth] to

mayest go home. Benjamin.

19:10 But the 19:15 And they

man would not turned aside

tarry that night, thither, to go in

but he rose up [and] to lodge in

and departed, and Gibeah: and when

came over against he went in, he

Jebus, which [is] sat him down in a

Jerusalem; and street of the

[there were] with city: for [there

him two asses was] no man that

saddled, his took them into

concubine also his house to

[was] with him. lodging.

19:11 [And] when 19:16 And,

they [were] by behold, there

Jebus, the day came an old man

was far spent; from his work out

and the servant of the field at

said unto his even, which [was]

master, Come, I also of mount

pray thee, and Ephraim; and he

let us turn in sojourned in

into this city of Gibeah: but the

the Jebusites, men of the place

and lodge in it. [were]

19:12 And his Benjamites.

master said unto 19:17 And when

him, We will not he had lifted up

turn aside hither his eyes, he saw

into the city of a wayfaring man

a stranger, that in the street of

the city: and the they were making

old man said, their hearts

Whither goest merry, behold,

thou? and whence the men of the

comest thou? city, certain

19:18 And he sons of Belial,

said unto him, We beset the house

[are] passing round about,

from [and] beat at the

Bethlehemjudah door, and spake

toward the side to the master of

of mount Ephraim; the house, the

from thence [am] old man, saying,

I: and I went to Bring forth the

Bethlehemjudah, man that came

but I [am now] into thine house,

going to the that we may know

house of the him.

LORD; and there 19:23 And the

[is] no man that man, the master

receiveth me to of the house,

house. went out unto

19:19 Yet there them, and said

is both straw and unto them, Nay,

provender for our my brethren,

asses; and there [nay], I pray

is bread and wine you, do not [so]

also for me, and wickedly; seeing

for thy handmaid, that this man is

and for the young come into mine

man [which is] house, do not

with thy this folly.

servants: [there 19:24 Behold,

is] no want of [here is] my

any thing. daughter a

19:20 And the maiden, and his

old man said, concubine; them I

Peace [be] with will bring out

thee; howsoever now, and humble

[let] all thy ye them, and do

wants [lie] upon with them what

me; only lodge seemeth good unto

not in the you: but unto

street. this man do not

19:21 So he so vile a thing.

brought him into 19:25 But the

his house, and men would not

gave provender hearken to him:

unto the asses: so the man took

and they washed his concubine,

their feet, and and brought her

did eat and forth unto them;

drink. and they knew

19:22 [Now] as her, and abused

her all the night saw it said,

until the There was no such

morning: and when deed done nor

the day began to seen from the day

spring, they let that the children

her go. of Israel came up

19:26 Then came out of the land

the woman in the of Egypt unto

dawning of the this day:

day, and fell consider of it,

down at the door take advice, and

of the man's speak [your

house where her minds].

lord [was], till 20:1 Then all

it was light. the children of

19:27 And her Israel went out,

lord rose up in and the

the morning, and congregation was

opened the doors gathered together

of the house, and as one man, from

went out to go Dan even to

his way: and, Beersheba, with

behold, the woman the land of

his concubine was Gilead, unto the

fallen down [at] LORD in Mizpeh.

the door of the 20:2 And the

house, and her chief of all the

hands [were] upon people, [even] of

the threshold. all the tribes of

19:28 And he Israel, presented

said unto her, themselves in the

Up, and let us be assembly of the

going. But none people of God,

answered. Then four hundred

the man took her thousand footmen

[up] upon an ass, that drew sword.

and the man rose 20:3 (Now the

up, and gat him children of

unto his place. Benjamin heard

19:29 And when that the children

he was come into of Israel were

his house, he gone up to

took a knife, and Mizpeh.) Then

laid hold on his said the children

concubine, and of Israel, Tell

divided her, [us], how was

[together] with this wickedness?

her bones, into 20:4 And the

twelve pieces, Levite, the

and sent her into husband of the

all the coasts of woman that was

Israel. slain, answered

19:30 And it was and said, I came

so, that all that into Gibeah that

[belongeth] to the tribes of

Benjamin, I and Israel, and an

my concubine, to hundred of a

lodge. thousand, and a

20:5 And the men thousand out of

of Gibeah rose ten thousand, to

against me, and fetch victual for

beset the house the people, that

round about upon they may do, when

me by night, they come to

[and] thought to Gibeah of

have slain me: Benjamin,

and my concubine according to all

have they forced, the folly that

that she is dead. they have wrought

in Israel.

20:6 And I took 20:11 So all the

my concubine, and men of Israel

cut her in were gathered

pieces, and sent against the city,

her throughout knit together as

all the country one man.

of the 20:12 And the

inheritance of tribes of Israel

Israel: for they sent men through

have committed all the tribe of

lewdness and Benjamin, saying,

folly in Israel. What wickedness

20:7 Behold, ye [is] this that is

[are] all done among you?

children of 20:13 Now

Israel; give here therefore deliver

your advice and [us] the men, the

counsel. children of

20:8 And all the Belial, which

people arose as [are] in Gibeah,

one man, saying, that we may put

We will not any them to death,

[of us] go to his and put away evil

tent, neither from Israel. But

will we any [of the children of

us] turn into his Benjamin would

house. not hearken to

20:9 But now the voice of

this [shall be] their brethren

the thing which the children of

we will do to Israel:

Gibeah; [we will 20:14 But the

go up] by lot children of

against it; Benjamin gathered

20:10 And we themselves

will take ten men together out of

of an hundred the cities unto

throughout all Gibeah, to go out

to battle against Israel rose up in

the children of the morning, and

Israel. encamped against

20:15 And the Gibeah.

children of 20:20 And the

Benjamin were men of Israel

numbered at that went out to

time out of the battle against

cities twenty and Benjamin; and the

six thousand men men of Israel put

that drew sword, themselves in

beside the array to fight

inhabitants of against them at

Gibeah, which Gibeah.

were numbered 20:21 And the

seven hundred children of

chosen men. Benjamin came

20:16 Among all forth out of

this people Gibeah, and

[there were] destroyed down to

seven hundred the ground of the

chosen men Israelites that

lefthanded; every day twenty and

one could sling two thousand men.

stones at an hair

[breadth], and 20:22 And the

not miss. people the men of

20:17 And the Israel encouraged

men of Israel, themselves, and

beside Benjamin, set their battle

were numbered again in array in

four hundred the place where

thousand men that they put

drew sword: all themselves in

these [were] men array the first

of war. day.

20:18 And the 20:23 (And the

children of children of

Israel arose, and Israel went up

went up to the and wept before

house of God, and the LORD until

asked counsel of even, and asked

God, and said, counsel of the

Which of us shall LORD, saying,

go up first to Shall I go up

the battle again to battle

against the against the

children of children of

Benjamin? And the Benjamin my

LORD said, Judah brother? And the

[shall go up] LORD said, Go up

first. against him.)

20:19 And the 20:24 And the

children of children of

Israel came near LORD said, Go up;

against the for to morrow I

children of will deliver them

Benjamin the into thine hand.

second day. 20:29 And Israel

20:25 And set liers in wait

Benjamin went round about

forth against Gibeah.

them out of 20:30 And the

Gibeah the second children of

day, and Israel went up

destroyed down to against the

the ground of the children of

children of Benjamin on the

Israel again third day, and

eighteen thousand put themselves in

men; all these array against

drew the sword. Gibeah, as at

20:26 Then all other times.

the children of 20:31 And the

Israel, and all children of

the people, went Benjamin went out

up, and came unto against the

the house of God, people, [and]

and wept, and sat were drawn away

there before the from the city;

LORD, and fasted and they began to

that day until smite of the

even, and offered people, [and]

burnt offerings kill, as at other

and peace times, in the

offerings before highways, of

the LORD. which one goeth

20:27 And the up to the house

children of of God, and the

Israel inquired other to Gibeah

of the LORD, (for in the field,

the ark of the about thirty men

covenant of God of Israel.

[was] there in 20:32 And the

those days, children of

20:28 And Benjamin said,

Phinehas, the son They [are]

of Eleazar, the smitten down

son of Aaron, before us, as at

stood before it the first. But

in those days,) the children of

saying, Shall I Israel said, Let

yet again go out us flee, and draw

to battle against them from the

the children of city unto the

Benjamin my highways.

brother, or shall 20:33 And all

I cease? And the the men of Israel

rose up out of drew [themselves]

their place, and along, and smote

put themselves in all the city with

array at the edge of the

Baaltamar: and sword.

the liers in wait 20:38 Now there

of Israel came was an appointed

forth out of sign between the

their places, men of Israel and

[even] out of the the liers in

meadows of wait, that they

Gibeah. should make a

20:34 And there great flame with

came against smoke rise up out

Gibeah ten of the city.

thousand chosen 20:39 And when

men out of all the men of Israel

Israel, and the retired in the

battle was sore: battle, Benjamin

but they knew not began to smite

that evil [was] [and] kill of the

near them. men of Israel

20:35 And the about thirty

LORD smote persons: for they

Benjamin before said, Surely they

Israel: and the are smitten down

children of before us, as

Israel destroyed [in] the first

of the Benjamites battle.

that day twenty 20:40 But when

and five thousand the flame began

and an hundred to arise up out

men: all these of the city with

drew the sword. a pillar of

20:36 So the smoke, the

children of Benjamites looked

Benjamin saw that behind them, and,

they were behold, the flame

smitten: for the of the city

men of Israel ascended up to

gave place to the heaven.

Benjamites, 20:41 And when

because they the men of Israel

trusted unto the turned again, the

liers in wait men of Benjamin

which they had were amazed: for

set beside they saw that

Gibeah. evil was come

20:37 And the upon them.

liers in wait 20:42 Therefore

hasted, and they turned

rushed upon [their backs]

Gibeah; and the before the men of

liers in wait Israel unto the

way of the in the rock

wilderness; but Rimmon four

the battle months.

overtook them; 20:48 And the

and them which men of Israel

[came] out of the turned again upon

cities they the children of

destroyed in the Benjamin, and

midst of them. smote them with

20:43 [Thus] the edge of the

they enclosed the sword, as well

Benjamites round the men of

about, [and] [every] city, as

chased them, the beast, and

[and] trode them all that came to

down with ease hand: also they

over against set on fire all

Gibeah toward the the cities that

sunrising. they came to.

20:44 And there 21:1 Now the men

fell of Benjamin of Israel had

eighteen thousand sworn in Mizpeh,

men; all these saying, There

[were] men of shall not any of

valour. us give his

20:45 And they daughter unto

turned and fled Benjamin to wife.

toward the

wilderness unto 21:2 And the

the rock of people came to

Rimmon: and they the house of God,

gleaned of them and abode there

in the highways till even before

five thousand God, and lifted

men; and pursued up their voices,

hard after them and wept sore;

unto Gidom, and 21:3 And said, O

slew two thousand LORD God of

men of them. Israel, why is

20:46 So that this come to pass

all which fell in Israel, that

that day of there should be

Benjamin were to day one tribe

twenty and five lacking in

thousand men that Israel?

drew the sword; 21:4 And it came

all these [were] to pass on the

men of valour. morrow, that the

20:47 But six people rose

hundred men early, and built

turned and fled there an altar,

to the wilderness and offered burnt

unto the rock offerings and

Rimmon, and abode peace offerings.

21:5 And the there.

children of 21:10 And the

Israel said, Who congregation sent

[is there] among thither twelve

all the tribes of thousand men of

Israel that came the valiantest,

not up with the and commanded

congregation unto them, saying, Go

the LORD? For and smite the

they had made a inhabitants of

great oath Jabeshgilead with

concerning him the edge of the

that came not up sword, with the

to the LORD to women and the

Mizpeh, saying, children.

He shall surely 21:11 And this

be put to death. [is] the thing

21:6 And the that ye shall do,

children of Ye shall utterly

Israel repented destroy every

them for Benjamin male, and every

their brother, woman that hath

and said, There lain by man.

is one tribe cut 21:12 And they

off from Israel found among the

this day. inhabitants of

21:7 How shall Jabeshgilead four

we do for wives hundred young

for them that virgins, that had

remain, seeing we known no man by

have sworn by the lying with any

LORD that we will male: and they

not give them of brought them unto

our daughters to the camp to

wives? Shiloh, which

21:8 And they [is] in the land

said, What one of Canaan.

[is there] of the 21:13 And the

tribes of Israel whole

that came not up congregation sent

to Mizpeh to the [some] to speak

LORD? And, to the children

behold, there of Benjamin that

came none to the [were] in the

camp from rock Rimmon, and

Jabeshgilead to to call peaceably

the assembly. unto them.

21:9 For the 21:14 And

people were Benjamin came

numbered, and, again at that

behold, [there time; and they

were] none of the gave them wives

inhabitants of which they had

Jabeshgilead saved alive of

the women of highway that

Jabeshgilead: and goeth up from

yet so they Bethel to

sufficed them Shechem, and on

not. the south of

21:15 And the Lebonah.

people repented 21:20 Therefore

them for they commanded

Benjamin, because the children of

that the LORD had Benjamin, saying,

made a breach in Go and lie in

the tribes of wait in the

Israel. vineyards;

21:16 Then the 21:21 And see,

elders of the and, behold, if

congregation the daughters of

said, How shall Shiloh come out

we do for wives to dance in

for them that dances, then come

remain, seeing ye out of the

the women are vineyards, and

destroyed out of catch you every

Benjamin? man his wife of

21:17 And they the daughters of

said, [There must Shiloh, and go to

be] an the land of

inheritance for Benjamin.

them that be 21:22 And it

escaped of shall be, when

Benjamin, that a their fathers or

tribe be not their brethren

destroyed out of come unto us to

Israel. complain, that we

21:18 Howbeit we will say unto

may not give them them, Be

wives of our favourable unto

daughters: for them for our

the children of sakes: because we

Israel have reserved not to

sworn, saying, each man his wife

Cursed [be] he in the war: for

that giveth a ye did not give

wife to Benjamin. unto them at this

time, [that] ye

21:19 Then they should be guilty.

said, Behold,

[there is] a 21:23 And the

feast of the LORD children of

in Shiloh yearly Benjamin did so,

[in a place] and took [them]

which [is] on the wives, according

north side of to their number,

Bethel, on the of them that

east side of the danced, whom they

caught: and they

went and returned

unto their

inheritance, and

repaired the

cities, and dwelt

in them.

21:24 And the

children of

Israel departed

thence at that

time, every man

to his tribe and

to his family,

and they went out

from thence every

man to his

inheritance.

21:25 In those

days [there was]

no king in

Israel: every man

did [that which

was] right in his

own eyes.

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