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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.

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king james study

JUD 01:01 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that

the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up

for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

JUD 01:02 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have

delivered the land into his hand.

JUD 01:03 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with

me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I

likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

JUD 01:04 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the

Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of

them in Bezek ten thousand men.

JUD 01:05 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought

against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

JUD 01:06 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and

caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

JUD 01:07 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having

their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their meat]

under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And

they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

JUD 01:08 Now the children of Judah had fought against

Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the

sword, and set the city on fire.

JUD 01:09 And afterward the children of Judah went down to

fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in

the south, and in the valley.

JUD 01:10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in

Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba:) and

they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

JUD 01:11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of

Debir: and the name of Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher:

JUD 01:12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and

taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

JUD 01:13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother,

took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

JUD 01:14 And it came to pass, when she came [to him], that she

moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off

[her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

JUD 01:15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou

hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And

Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

JUD 01:16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law,

went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah

into the wilderness of Judah, which [lieth] in the south of Arad;

and they went and dwelt among the people.

JUD 01:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew

the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.

And the name of the city was called Hormah.

JUD 01:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and

Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.

JUD 01:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out [the

inhabitants of] the mountain; but could not drive out the

inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

JUD 01:20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and

he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.

JUD 01:21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the

Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with

the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.

JUD 01:22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against

Bethel: and the LORD [was] with them.

JUD 01:23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now

the name of the city before [was] Luz.)

JUD 01:24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city,

and they said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into

the city, and we will show thee mercy.

JUD 01:25 And when he showed them the entrance into the city,

they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go

the man and all his family.

JUD 01:26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and

built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which [is] the

name thereof unto this day.

JUD 01:27 Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of]

Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the

inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam

and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but

the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

JUD 01:28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that

they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive

them out.

JUD 01:29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that

dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

JUD 01:30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of

Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt

among them, and became tributaries.

JUD 01:31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho,

nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor

of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:

JUD 01:32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the

inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.

JUD 01:33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of

Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt

among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless

the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became

tributaries unto them.

JUD 01:34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the

mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the

valley:

JUD 01:35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in

Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph

prevailed, so that they became tributaries.

JUD 01:36 And the coast of the Amorites [was] from the going up

to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

JUD 02:01 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to

Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have

brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I

said, I will never break my covenant with you.

JUD 02:02 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of

this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not

obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

JUD 02:03 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from

before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and

their gods shall be a snare unto you.

JUD 02:04 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake

these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people

lifted up their voice, and wept.

JUD 02:05 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and

they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

JUD 02:06 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children

of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the

land.

JUD 02:07 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua,

and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had

seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

JUD 02:08 And Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD,

died, [being] an hundred and ten years old.

JUD 02:09 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance

in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of

the hill Gaash.

JUD 02:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their

fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which

knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for

Israel.

JUD 02:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of

the LORD, and served Baalim:

JUD 02:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which

brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods,

of the gods of the people that [were] round about them, and

bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

JUD 02:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and

Ashtaroth.

JUD 02:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and

he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them,

and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so

that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

JUD 02:15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was

against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had

sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

JUD 02:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which

delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

JUD 02:17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but

they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto

them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers

walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; [but] they did

not so.

JUD 02:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the

LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of

their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the

LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed

them and vexed them.

JUD 02:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, [that]

they returned, and corrupted [themselves] more than their

fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down

unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their

stubborn way.

JUD 02:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and

he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant

which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my

voice;

JUD 02:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before

them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

JUD 02:22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they

will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers

did keep [it], or not.

JUD 02:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without

driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the

hand of Joshua.

JUD 03:01 Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to

prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not

known all the wars of Canaan;

JUD 03:02 Only that the generations of the children of Israel

might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew

nothing thereof;

JUD 03:03 [Namely], five lords of the Philistines, and all the

Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in

mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of

Hamath.

JUD 03:04 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know

whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD,

which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

JUD 03:05 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,

Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and

Jebusites:

JUD 03:06 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and

gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

JUD 03:07 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of

the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and

the groves.

JUD 03:08 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against

Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king

of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served

Chushanrishathaim eight years.

JUD 03:09 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD,

the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who

delivered them, [even] Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger

brother.

JUD 03:10 And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he

judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered

Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his

hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.

JUD 03:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the

son of Kenaz died.

JUD 03:12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the

sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of

Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of

the LORD.

JUD 03:13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and

Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of

palm trees.

JUD 03:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of

Moab eighteen years.

JUD 03:15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD,

the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a

Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel

sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

JUD 03:16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a

cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his

right thigh.

JUD 03:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab:

and Eglon [was] a very fat man.

JUD 03:18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he

sent away the people that bare the present.

JUD 03:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that

[were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O

king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out

from him.

JUD 03:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a

summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I

have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of [his]

seat.

JUD 03:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger

from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

JUD 03:22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the

fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger

out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

JUD 03:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the

doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

JUD 03:24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when

they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour [were] locked,

they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.

JUD 03:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold,

he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a

key, and opened [them]: and, behold, their lord [was] fallen

down dead on the earth.

JUD 03:26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed

beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.

JUD 03:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a

trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel

went down with him from the mount, and he before them.

JUD 03:28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD

hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And

they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward

Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.

JUD 03:29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand

men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a

man.

JUD 03:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel.

And the land had rest fourscore years.

JUD 03:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which

slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he

also delivered Israel.

JUD 04:01 And the children of Israel again did evil in the

sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

JUD 04:02 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of

Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host [was]

Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

JUD 04:03 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for

he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he

mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

JUD 04:04 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she

judged Israel at that time.

JUD 04:05 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between

Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel

came up to her for judgment.

JUD 04:06 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out

of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of

Israel commanded, [saying], Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and

take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and

of the children of Zebulun?

JUD 04:07 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera,

the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude;

and I will deliver him into thine hand.

JUD 04:08 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me,

then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will

not go.

JUD 04:09 And she said, I will surely go with thee:

notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for

thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a

woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

JUD 04:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and

he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went

up with him.

JUD 04:11 Now Heber the Kenite, [which was] of the children of

Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the

Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which

[is] by Kedesh.

JUD 04:12 And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam

was gone up to mount Tabor.

JUD 04:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, [even]

nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that [were]

with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of

Kishon.

JUD 04:14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this [is] the

day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is

not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount

Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

JUD 04:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his]

chariots, and all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before

Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled

away on his feet.

JUD 04:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the

host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera

fell upon the edge of the sword; [and] there was not a man left.

JUD 04:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of

Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for [there was] peace between

Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

JUD 04:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him,

Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had

turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.

JUD 04:19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little

water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of

milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

JUD 04:20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent,

and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee,

and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.

JUD 04:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and

took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote

the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for

he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

JUD 04:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out

to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the

man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her [tent], behold,

Sisera lay dead, and the nail [was] in his temples.

JUD 04:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan

before the children of Israel.

JUD 04:24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and

prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had

destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

JUD 05:01 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on

that day, saying,

JUD 05:02 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when

the people willingly offered themselves.

JUD 05:03 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, [even] I,

will sing unto the LORD; I will sing [praise] to the LORD God

of Israel.

JUD 05:04 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou

marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the

heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

JUD 05:05 The mountains melted from before the LORD, [even]

that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

JUD 05:06 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days

of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked

through byways.

JUD 05:07 [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased

in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in

Israel.

JUD 05:08 They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was

there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

JUD 05:09 My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that

offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.

JUD 05:10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in

judgment, and walk by the way.

JUD 05:11 [They that are delivered] from the noise of archers

in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the

righteous acts of the LORD, [even] the righteous acts [toward

the inhabitants] of his villages in Israel: then shall the

people of the LORD go down to the gates.

JUD 05:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song:

arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of

Abinoam.

JUD 05:13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over

the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over

the mighty.

JUD 05:14 Out of Ephraim [was there] a root of them against

Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir

came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen

of the writer.

JUD 05:15 And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even

Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley.

For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great thoughts of heart.

JUD 05:16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the

bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben [there

were] great searchings of heart.

JUD 05:17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in

ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his

breaches.

JUD 05:18 Zebulun and Naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded

their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

JUD 05:19 The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of

Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of

money.

JUD 05:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses

fought against Sisera.

JUD 05:21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient

river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down

strength.

JUD 05:22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the

prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.

JUD 05:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye

bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the

help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

JUD 05:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the

Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

JUD 05:25 He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she

brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

JUD 05:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to

the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she

smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through

his temples.

JUD 05:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her

feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

JUD 05:28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and

cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in

coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

JUD 05:29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned

answer to herself,

JUD 05:30 Have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey;

to every man a damsel [or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers

colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers

colours of needlework on both sides, [meet] for the necks of

[them that take] the spoil?

JUD 05:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let]

them that love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his

might. And the land had rest forty years.

JUD 06:01 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of

the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian

seven years.

JUD 06:02 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel:

[and] because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them

the dens which [are] in the mountains, and caves, and strong

holds.

JUD 06:03 And [so] it was, when Israel had sown, that the

Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the

east, even they came up against them;

JUD 06:04 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the

increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no

sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

JUD 06:05 For they came up with their cattle and their tents,

and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both they and

their camels were without number: and they entered into the land

to destroy it.

JUD 06:06 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the

Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

JUD 06:07 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel

cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,

JUD 06:08 That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of

Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,

I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the

house of bondage;

JUD 06:09 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians,

and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them

out from before you, and gave you their land;

JUD 06:10 And I said unto you, I [am] the LORD your God; fear

not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye

have not obeyed my voice.

JUD 06:11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an

oak which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] unto Joash the

Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress,

to hide [it] from the Midianites.

JUD 06:12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said

unto him, The LORD [is] with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

JUD 06:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be

with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where [be] all

his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the

LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us,

and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

JUD 06:14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this

thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the

Midianites: have not I sent thee?

JUD 06:15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I

save Israel? behold, my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I [am]

the least in my father's house.

JUD 06:16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with

thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

JUD 06:17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in

thy sight, then show me a sign that thou talkest with me.

JUD 06:18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee,

and bring forth my present, and set [it] before thee. And he

said, I will tarry until thou come again.

JUD 06:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and

unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a

basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out unto

him under the oak, and presented [it].

JUD 06:20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh

and the unleavened cakes, and lay [them] upon this rock, and

pour out the broth. And he did so.

JUD 06:21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the

staff that [was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the

unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and

consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of

the LORD departed out of his sight.

JUD 06:22 And when Gideon perceived that he [was] an angel of

the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen

an angel of the LORD face to face.

JUD 06:23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace [be] unto thee;

fear not: thou shalt not die.

JUD 06:24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and

called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it [is] yet in Ophrah of

the Abiezrites.

JUD 06:25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD

said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second

bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal

that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it:

JUD 06:26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top

of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock,

and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which

thou shalt cut down.

JUD 06:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as

the LORD had said unto him: and [so] it was, because he feared

his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could

not do [it] by day, that he did [it] by night.

JUD 06:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the

morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove

was cut down that [was] by it, and the second bullock was

offered upon the altar [that was] built.

JUD 06:29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this

thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the

son of Joash hath done this thing.

JUD 06:30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out

thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of

Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that [was] by it.

JUD 06:31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will

ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him,

let him be put to death whilst [it is yet] morning: if he [be] a

god, let him plead for himself, because [one] hath cast down his

altar.

JUD 06:32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying,

Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his

altar.

JUD 06:33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the

children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and

pitched in the valley of Jezreel.

JUD 06:34 But the spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he

blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.

JUD 06:35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who

also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher,

and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet

them.

JUD 06:36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by

mine hand, as thou hast said,

JUD 06:37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor;

[and] if the dew be on the fleece only, and [it be] dry upon all

the earth [beside], then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel

by mine hand, as thou hast said.

JUD 06:38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow,

and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the

fleece, a bowl full of water.

JUD 06:39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot

against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray

thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon

the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

JUD 06:40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the

fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

JUD 07:01 Then Jerubbaal, who [is] Gideon, and all the people

that [were] with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well

of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north

side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

JUD 07:02 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that [are]

with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into

their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying,

Mine own hand hath saved me.

JUD 07:03 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the

people, saying, Whosoever [is] fearful and afraid, let him

return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of

the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten

thousand.

JUD 07:04 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people [are] yet

[too] many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them

for thee there: and it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto thee,

This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of

whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the

same shall not go.

JUD 07:05 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the

LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with

his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself;

likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

JUD 07:06 And the number of them that lapped, [putting] their

hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of

the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

JUD 07:07 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred

men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into

thine hand: and let all the [other] people go every man unto his

place.

JUD 07:08 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their

trumpets: and he sent all [the rest of] Israel every man unto

his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of

Midian was beneath him in the valley.

JUD 07:09 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD

said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have

delivered it into thine hand.

JUD 07:10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy

servant down to the host:

JUD 07:11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward

shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then

went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the

armed men that [were] in the host.

JUD 07:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the

children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers

for multitude; and their camels [were] without number, as the

sand by the sea side for multitude.

JUD 07:13 And when Gideon was come, behold, [there was] a man

that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a

dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of

Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and

overturned it, that the tent lay along.

JUD 07:14 And his fellow answered and said, This [is] nothing

else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel:

[for] into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.

JUD 07:15 And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the

dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and

returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD

hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

JUD 07:16 And he divided the three hundred men [into] three

companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty

pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

JUD 07:17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise:

and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be

[that], as I do, so shall ye do.

JUD 07:18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with

me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp,

and say, [The sword] of the LORD, and of Gideon.

JUD 07:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that [were] with him,

came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle

watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the

trumpets, and brake the pitchers that [were] in their hands.

JUD 07:20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake

the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the

trumpets in their right hands to blow [withal]: and they cried,

The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

JUD 07:21 And they stood every man in his place round about the

camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.

JUD 07:22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD

set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all

the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, [and] to

the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.

JUD 07:23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together

out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and

pursued after the Midianites.

JUD 07:24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount

Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take

before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the

men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters

unto Bethbarah and Jordan.

JUD 07:25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and

Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew

at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the

heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

JUD 08:01 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou

served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to

fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.

JUD 08:02 And he said unto them, What have I done now in

comparison of you? [Is] not the gleaning of the grapes of

Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

JUD 08:03 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of

Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison

of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said

that.

JUD 08:04 And Gideon came to Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and

the three hundred men that [were] with him, faint, yet pursuing

[them].

JUD 08:05 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you,

loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they [be]

faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of

Midian.

JUD 08:06 And the princes of Succoth said, [Are] the hands of

Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread

unto thine army?

JUD 08:07 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath

delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear

your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

JUD 08:08 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them

likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of

Succoth had answered [him].

JUD 08:09 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying,

When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

JUD 08:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their

hosts with them, about fifteen thousand [men], all that were

left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there

fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

JUD 08:11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in

tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for

the host was secure.

JUD 08:12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after

them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and

discomfited all the host.

JUD 08:13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle

before the sun [was up],

JUD 08:14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and

inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of

Succoth, and the elders thereof, [even] threescore and seventeen

men.

JUD 08:15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold

Zebah and Zalmunna with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, [Are]

the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we

should give bread unto thy men [that are] weary?

JUD 08:16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the

wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of

Succoth.

JUD 08:17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the

men of the city.

JUD 08:18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of

men [were they] whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As

thou [art], so [were] they; each one resembled the children of a

king.

JUD 08:19 And he said, They [were] my brethren, [even] the sons

of my mother: [as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive,

I would not slay you.

JUD 08:20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, [and] slay

them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because

he [was] yet a youth.

JUD 08:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall

upon us: for as the man [is, so is] his strength. And Gideon

arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments

that [were] on their camels' necks.

JUD 08:22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou

over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for

thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

JUD 08:23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you,

neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.

JUD 08:24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request

of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey.

(For they had golden earrings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.)

JUD 08:25 And they answered, We will willingly give [them]. And

they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the

earrings of his prey.

JUD 08:26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he

requested was a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold;

beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that [was] on

the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that [were] about

their camels' necks.

JUD 08:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his

city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring

after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his

house.

JUD 08:28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel,

so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was

in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

JUD 08:29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his

own house.

JUD 08:30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body

begotten: for he had many wives.

JUD 08:31 And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also

bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

JUD 08:32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age,

and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah

of the Abiezrites.

JUD 08:33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that

the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after

Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

JUD 08:34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD

their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their

enemies on every side:

JUD 08:35 Neither showed they kindness to the house of

Jerubbaal, [namely], Gideon, according to all the goodness which

he had showed unto Israel.

JUD 09:01 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem

unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all

the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

JUD 09:02 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of

Shechem, Whether [is] better for you, either that all the sons

of Jerubbaal, [which are] threescore and ten persons, reign over

you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I [am] your

bone and your flesh.

JUD 09:03 And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of

all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts

inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He [is] our brother.

JUD 09:04 And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of

silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired

vain and light persons, which followed him.

JUD 09:05 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and

slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, [being] threescore and

ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the

youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

JUD 09:06 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all

the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the

plain of the pillar that [was] in Shechem.

JUD 09:07 And when they told [it] to Jotham, he went and stood

in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried,

and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God

may hearken unto you.

JUD 09:08 The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king

over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.

JUD 09:09 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my

fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be

promoted over the trees?

JUD 09:10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, [and]

reign over us.

JUD 09:11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my

sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the

trees?

JUD 09:12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, [and]

reign over us.

JUD 09:13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine,

which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

JUD 09:14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou,

[and] reign over us.

JUD 09:15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye

anoint me king over you, [then] come [and] put your trust in my

shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour

the cedars of Lebanon.

JUD 09:16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely,

in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well

with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according

to the deserving of his hands;

JUD 09:17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his

life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

JUD 09:18 And ye are risen up against my father's house this

day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon

one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant,

king over the men of Shechem, because he [is] your brother;)

JUD 09:19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with

Jerubbaal and with his house this day, [then] rejoice ye in

Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:

JUD 09:20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and

devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire

come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo,

and devour Abimelech.

JUD 09:21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and

dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

JUD 09:22 When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,

JUD 09:23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and

the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously

with Abimelech:

JUD 09:24 That the cruelty [done] to the threescore and ten

sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon

Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of

Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.

JUD 09:25 And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in

the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along

that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

JUD 09:26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and

went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their

confidence in him.

JUD 09:27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered their

vineyards, and trode [the grapes], and made merry, and went into

the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed

Abimelech.

JUD 09:28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who [is] Abimelech,

and who [is] Shechem, that we should serve him? [is] not [he]

the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of

Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?

JUD 09:29 And would to God this people were under my hand! then

would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase

thine army, and come out.

JUD 09:30 And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words

of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

JUD 09:31 And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying,

Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to

Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.

JUD 09:32 Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that

[is] with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

JUD 09:33 And it shall be, [that] in the morning, as soon as

the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and,

behold, [when] he and the people that [is] with him come out

against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find

occasion.

JUD 09:34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that [were]

with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four

companies.

JUD 09:35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the

entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the

people that [were] with him, from lying in wait.

JUD 09:36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul,

Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains.

And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains

as [if they were] men.

JUD 09:37 And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people

down by the middle of the land, and another company come along

by the plain of Meonenim.

JUD 09:38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where [is] now thy mouth,

wherewith thou saidst, Who [is] Abimelech, that we should serve

him? [is] not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I

pray now, and fight with them.

JUD 09:39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and

fought with Abimelech.

JUD 09:40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and

many were overthrown [and] wounded, [even] unto the entering of

the gate.

JUD 09:41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out

Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

JUD 09:42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people

went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

JUD 09:43 And he took the people, and divided them into three

companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold,

the people [were] come forth out of the city; and he rose up

against them, and smote them.

JUD 09:44 And Abimelech, and the company that [was] with him,

rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the

city: and the two [other] companies ran upon all [the people]

that [were] in the fields, and slew them.

JUD 09:45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day;

and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein,

and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

JUD 09:46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard

[that], they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.

JUD 09:47 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the

tower of Shechem were gathered together.

JUD 09:48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all

the people that [were] with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his

hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid

[it] on his shoulder, and said unto the people that [were] with

him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, [and] do as I [have

done].

JUD 09:49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his

bough, and followed Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and

set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower

of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

JUD 09:50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against

Thebez, and took it.

JUD 09:51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and

thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city,

and shut [it] to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

JUD 09:52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against

it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with

fire.

JUD 09:53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon

Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.

JUD 09:54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his

armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me,

that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man

thrust him through, and he died.

JUD 09:55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was

dead, they departed every man unto his place.

JUD 09:56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which

he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

JUD 09:57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render

upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son

of Jerubbaal.

JUD 10:01 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola

the son of Puah the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he dwelt

in Shamir in mount Ephraim.

JUD 10:02 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died,

and was buried in Shamir.

JUD 10:03 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged

Israel twenty and two years.

JUD 10:04 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts,

and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto

this day, which [are] in the land of Gilead.

JUD 10:05 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

JUD 10:06 And the children of Israel did evil again in the

sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the

gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and

the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the

Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.

JUD 10:07 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and

he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the

hands of the children of Ammon.

JUD 10:08 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children

of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that

[were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites,

which [is] in Gilead.

JUD 10:09 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to

fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the

house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

JUD 10:10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD,

saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have

forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

JUD 10:11 And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, [Did]

not [I deliver you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites,

from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

JUD 10:12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the

Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered

you out of their hand.

JUD 10:13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods:

wherefore I will deliver you no more.

JUD 10:14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let

them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

JUD 10:15 And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We

have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee;

deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.

JUD 10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among them,

and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of

Israel.

JUD 10:17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together,

and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled

themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.

JUD 10:18 And the people [and] princes of Gilead said one to

another, What man [is he] that will begin to fight against the

children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of

Gilead.

JUD 11:01 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour,

and he [was] the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

JUD 11:02 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons

grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou

shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou [art] the son

of a strange woman.

JUD 11:03 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in

the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah,

and went out with him.

JUD 11:04 And it came to pass in process of time, that the

children of Ammon made war against Israel.

JUD 11:05 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made

war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah

out of the land of Tob:

JUD 11:06 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain,

that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

JUD 11:07 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not

ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are

ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?

JUD 11:08 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah,

Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us,

and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over

all the inhabitants of Gilead.

JUD 11:09 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye

bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and

the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?

JUD 11:10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD

be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.

JUD 11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the

people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered

all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.

JUD 11:12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the

children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that

thou art come against me to fight in my land?

JUD 11:13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto

the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land,

when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and

unto Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.

JUD 11:14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of

the children of Ammon:

JUD 11:15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took

not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

JUD 11:16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked

through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

JUD 11:17 Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom,

saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king

of Edom would not hearken [thereto]. And in like manner they

sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not [consent]: and

Israel abode in Kadesh.

JUD 11:18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and

compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by

the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side

of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon

[was] the border of Moab.

JUD 11:19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the

Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us

pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.

JUD 11:20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his

coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched

in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

JUD 11:21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all

his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so

Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants

of that country.

JUD 11:22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites,

from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto

Jordan.

JUD 11:23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the

Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou

possess it?

JUD 11:24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god

giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall

drive out from before us, them will we possess.

JUD 11:25 And now [art] thou any thing better than Balak the

son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel,

or did he ever fight against them,

JUD 11:26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in

Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that [be] along by

the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye

not recover [them] within that time?

JUD 11:27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou

doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge

this day between the children of Israel and the children of

Ammon.

JUD 11:28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened

not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

JUD 11:29 Then the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and

he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of

Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the

children of Ammon.

JUD 11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If

thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine

hands,

JUD 11:31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the

doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the

children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer

it up for a burnt offering.

JUD 11:32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to

fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

JUD 11:33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to

Minnith, [even] twenty cities, and unto the plain of the

vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of

Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

JUD 11:34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and,

behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with

dances: and she [was his] only child; beside her he had neither

son nor daughter.

JUD 11:35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent

his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me

very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have

opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.

JUD 11:36 And she said unto him, My father, [if] thou hast

opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which

hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath

taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, [even] of the

children of Ammon.

JUD 11:37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done

for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon

the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

JUD 11:38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two

months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her

virginity upon the mountains.

JUD 11:39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that

she returned unto her father, who did with her [according] to

his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a

custom in Israel,

JUD 11:40 [That] the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament

the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

JUD 12:01 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together,

and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst

thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not

call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with

fire.

JUD 12:02 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at

great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you,

ye delivered me not out of their hands.

JUD 12:03 And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, I put my

life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon,

and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye

come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

JUD 12:04 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead,

and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim,

because they said, Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim

among the Ephraimites, [and] among the Manassites.

JUD 12:05 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before

the Ephraimites: and it was [so] that when those Ephraimites

which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead

said unto him, [Art] thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

JUD 12:06 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he

said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right.

Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and

there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two

thousand.

JUD 12:07 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died

Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of

Gilead.

JUD 12:08 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

JUD 12:09 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, [whom]

he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his

sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

JUD 12:10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.

JUD 12:11 And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and

he judged Israel ten years.

JUD 12:12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in

Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

JUD 12:13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite,

judged Israel.

JUD 12:14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode

on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight

years.

JUD 12:15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and

was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of

the Amalekites.

JUD 13:01 And the children of Israel did evil again in the

sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of

the Philistines forty years.

JUD 13:02 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family

of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was]

barren, and bare not.

JUD 13:03 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman,

and said unto her, Behold now, thou [art] barren, and bearest

not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

JUD 13:04 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine

nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing]:

JUD 13:05 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no

razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite

unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out

of the hand of the Philistines.

JUD 13:06 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A

man of God came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the

countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him

not whence he [was], neither told he me his name:

JUD 13:07 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and

bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat

any unclean [thing]: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God

from the womb to the day of his death.

JUD 13:08 Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord,

let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and

teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

JUD 13:09 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the

angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field:

but Manoah her husband [was] not with her.

JUD 13:10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her

husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto

me, that came unto me the [other] day.

JUD 13:11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came

to the man, and said unto him, [Art] thou the man that spakest

unto the woman? And he said, I [am].

JUD 13:12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How

shall we order the child, and [how] shall we do unto him?

JUD 13:13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all

that I said unto the woman let her beware.

JUD 13:14 She may not eat of any [thing] that cometh of the

vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any

unclean [thing]: all that I commanded her let her observe.

JUD 13:15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray

thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid

for thee.

JUD 13:16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though

thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt

offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For

Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the LORD.

JUD 13:17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What [is]

thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee

honour?

JUD 13:18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest

thou thus after my name, seeing it [is] secret?

JUD 13:19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and

offered [it] upon a rock unto the LORD: and [the angel] did

wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

JUD 13:20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward

heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended

in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on

[it], and fell on their faces to the ground.

JUD 13:21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to

Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he [was] an angel

of the LORD.

JUD 13:22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die,

because we have seen God.

JUD 13:23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased

to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a

meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all

these [things], nor would as at this time have told us [such

things] as these.

JUD 13:24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson:

and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

JUD 13:25 And the spirit of the LORD began to move him at times

in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

JUD 14:01 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in

Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

JUD 14:02 And he came up, and told his father and his mother,

and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the

Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

JUD 14:03 Then his father and his mother said unto him, [Is

there] never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or

among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the

uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get

her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

JUD 14:04 But his father and his mother knew not that it [was]

of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines:

for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

JUD 14:05 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother,

to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a

young lion roared against him.

JUD 14:06 And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him,

and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and [he had]

nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother

what he had done.

JUD 14:07 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she

pleased Samson well.

JUD 14:08 And after a time he returned to take her, and he

turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, [there

was] a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

JUD 14:09 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating,

and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they

did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of

the carcase of the lion.

JUD 14:10 So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson

made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

JUD 14:11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they

brought thirty companions to be with him.

JUD 14:12 And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a

riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the

seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you

thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

JUD 14:13 But if ye cannot declare [it] me, then shall ye give

me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said

unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.

JUD 14:14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth

meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could

not in three days expound the riddle.

JUD 14:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they

said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare

unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house

with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? [is it] not

[so]?

JUD 14:16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou

dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a

riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told [it] me.

And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told [it] my father

nor my mother, and shall I tell [it] thee?

JUD 14:17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their

feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he

told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle

to the children of her people.

JUD 14:18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh

day before the sun went down, What [is] sweeter than honey? and

what [is] stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had

not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

JUD 14:19 And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went

down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their

spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the

riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his

father's house.

JUD 14:20 But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom

he had used as his friend.

JUD 15:01 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time

of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and

he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her

father would not suffer him to go in.

JUD 15:02 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst

utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: [is]

not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee,

instead of her.

JUD 15:03 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more

blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

JUD 15:04 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and

took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in

the midst between two tails.

JUD 15:05 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them]

go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both

the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and]

olives.

JUD 15:06 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And

they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he

had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the

Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

JUD 15:07 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this,

yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

JUD 15:08 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great

slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock

Etam.

JUD 15:09 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah,

and spread themselves in Lehi.

JUD 15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against

us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to

him as he hath done to us.

JUD 15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of

the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the

Philistines [are] rulers over us? what [is] this [that] thou

hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me,

so have I done unto them.

JUD 15:12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee,

that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And

Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon

me yourselves.

JUD 15:13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind

thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will

not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and

brought him up from the rock.

JUD 15:14 [And] when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted

against him: and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him,

and the cords that [were] upon his arms became as flax that was

burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.

JUD 15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth

his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

JUD 15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps

upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

JUD 15:17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of

speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and

called that place Ramathlehi.

JUD 15:18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and

said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of

thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the

hand of the uncircumcised?

JUD 15:19 But God clave an hollow place that [was] in the jaw,

and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit

came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof

Enhakkore, which [is] in Lehi unto this day.

JUD 15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines

twenty years.

JUD 16:01 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot,

and went in unto her.

JUD 16:02 [And it was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come

hither. And they compassed [him] in, and laid wait for him all

night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night,

saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

JUD 16:03 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight,

and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts,

and went away with them, bar and all, and put [them] upon his

shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that [is]

before Hebron.

JUD 16:04 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman

in the valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah.

JUD 16:05 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her,

and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great

strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him,

that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee

every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.

JUD 16:06 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee,

wherein thy great strength [lieth], and wherewith thou mightest

be bound to afflict thee.

JUD 16:07 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven

green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be

as another man.

JUD 16:08 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her

seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him

with them.

JUD 16:09 Now [there were] men lying in wait, abiding with her

in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon

thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is

broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

JUD 16:10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast

mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith

thou mightest be bound.

JUD 16:11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new

ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as

another man.

JUD 16:12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him

therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee,

Samson. And [there were] liers in wait abiding in the chamber.

And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

JUD 16:13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast

mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be

bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of

my head with the web.

JUD 16:14 And she fastened [it] with the pin, and said unto him,

The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of

his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the

web.

JUD 16:15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love

thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me

these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great

strength [lieth].

JUD 16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with

her words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed unto

death;

JUD 16:17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her,

There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I [have been] a

Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my

strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like

any [other] man.

JUD 16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his

heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines,

saying, Come up this once, for he hath showed me all his heart.

Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought

money in their hand.

JUD 16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called

for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of

his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went

from him.

JUD 16:20 And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson.

And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at

other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the

LORD was departed from him.

JUD 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes,

and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of

brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

JUD 16:22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again

after he was shaven.

JUD 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them

together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god,

and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our

enemy into our hand.

JUD 16:24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god:

for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy,

and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.

JUD 16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry,

that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And

they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them

sport: and they set him between the pillars.

JUD 16:26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the

hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house

standeth, that I may lean upon them.

JUD 16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the

lords of the Philistines [were] there; and [there were] upon the

roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while

Samson made sport.

JUD 16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD,

remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only

this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the

Philistines for my two eyes.

JUD 16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon

which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one

with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

JUD 16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And

he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon

the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the

dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which he

slew in his life.

JUD 16:31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father

came down, and took him, and brought [him] up, and buried him

between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his

father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

JUD 17:01 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name

[was] Micah.

JUD 17:02 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred

[shekels] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou

cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver

[is] with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed [be thou]

of the LORD, my son.

JUD 17:03 And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels]

of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated

the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a

graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it

unto thee.

JUD 17:04 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his

mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to

the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image:

and they were in the house of Micah.

JUD 17:05 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an

ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became

his priest.

JUD 17:06 In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but]

every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.

JUD 17:07 And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of

the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.

JUD 17:08 And the man departed out of the city from

Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find [a place]: and he

came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

JUD 17:09 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he

said unto him, I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to

sojourn where I may find [a place].

JUD 17:10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto

me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of

silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So

the Levite went in.

JUD 17:11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and

the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

JUD 17:12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man

became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

JUD 17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me

good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest.

JUD 18:01 In those days [there was] no king in Israel: and in

those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance

to dwell in; for unto that day [all their] inheritance had not

fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

JUD 18:02 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men

from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol,

to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them,

Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the

house of Micah, they lodged there.

JUD 18:03 When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the

voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither,

and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou

in this [place]? and what hast thou here?

JUD 18:04 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah

with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

JUD 18:05 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of

God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be

prosperous.

JUD 18:06 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before

the LORD [is] your way wherein ye go.

JUD 18:07 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and

saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless,

after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there

was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame

in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had

no business with [any] man.

JUD 18:08 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and

Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?

JUD 18:09 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them:

for we have seen the land, and, behold, it [is] very good: and

[are] ye still? be not slothful to go, [and] to enter to possess

the land.

JUD 18:10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and

to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place

where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.

JUD 18:11 And there went from thence of the family of the

Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men

appointed with weapons of war.

JUD 18:12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in

Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day:

behold, [it is] behind Kirjathjearim.

JUD 18:13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came

unto the house of Micah.

JUD 18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the

country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that

there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven

image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have

to do.

JUD 18:15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of

the young man the Levite, [even] unto the house of Micah, and

saluted him.

JUD 18:16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons

of war, which [were] of the children of Dan, stood by the

entering of the gate.

JUD 18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went

up, [and] came in thither, [and] took the graven image, and the

ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest

stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that

were] appointed with weapons of war.

JUD 18:18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the

carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image.

Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

JUD 18:19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine

hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a

priest: [is it] better for thee to be a priest unto the house of

one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in

Israel?

JUD 18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the

ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the

midst of the people.

JUD 18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones

and the cattle and the carriage before them.

JUD 18:22 [And] when they were a good way from the house of

Micah, the men that [were] in the houses near to Micah's house

were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

JUD 18:23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they

turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that

thou comest with such a company?

JUD 18:24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made,

and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and

what [is] this [that] ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

JUD 18:25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy

voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and

thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

JUD 18:26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when

Micah saw that they [were] too strong for him, he turned and

went back unto his house.

JUD 18:27 And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and

the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people

[that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the

edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

JUD 18:28 And [there was] no deliverer, because it [was] far

from Zidon, and they had no business with [any] man; and it was

in the valley that [lieth] by Bethrehob. And they built a city,

and dwelt therein.

JUD 18:29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the

name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the

name of the city [was] Laish at the first.

JUD 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and

Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his

sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the

captivity of the land.

JUD 18:31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he

made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

JUD 19:01 And it came to pass in those days, when [there was]

no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on

the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of

Bethlehemjudah.

JUD 19:02 And his concubine played the whore against him, and

went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah,

and was there four whole months.

JUD 19:03 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak

friendly unto her, [and] to bring her again, having his servant

with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her

father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he

rejoiced to meet him.

JUD 19:04 And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained

him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink,

and lodged there.

JUD 19:05 And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they

arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the

damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart

with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.

JUD 19:06 And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them

together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be

content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart

be merry.

JUD 19:07 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law

urged him: therefore he lodged there again.

JUD 19:08 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to

depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I

pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat

both of them.

JUD 19:09 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his

concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's

father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward

evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to

an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow

get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.

JUD 19:10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose

up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which [is]

Jerusalem; and [there were] with him two asses saddled, his

concubine also [was] with him.

JUD 19:11 [And] when they [were] by Jebus, the day was far

spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee,

and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in

it.

JUD 19:12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside

hither into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the

children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

JUD 19:13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw

near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in

Ramah.

JUD 19:14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun

went down upon them [when they were] by Gibeah, which

[belongeth] to Benjamin.

JUD 19:15 And they turned aside thither, to go in [and] to

lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a

street of the city: for [there was] no man that took them into

his house to lodging.

JUD 19:16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out

of the field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he

sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] Benjamites.

JUD 19:17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a

wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said,

Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

JUD 19:18 And he said unto him, We [are] passing from

Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence

[am] I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to

the house of the LORD; and there [is] no man that receiveth me

to house.

JUD 19:19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses;

and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid,

and for the young man [which is] with thy servants: [there is]

no want of any thing.

JUD 19:20 And the old man said, Peace [be] with thee; howsoever

[let] all thy wants [lie] upon me; only lodge not in the street.

JUD 19:21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender

unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and

drink.

JUD 19:22 [Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold,

the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house

round about, [and] beat at the door, and spake to the master of

the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came

into thine house, that we may know him.

JUD 19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto

them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, [nay], I pray you,

do not [so] wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine

house, do not this folly.

JUD 19:24 Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his

concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do

with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not

so vile a thing.

JUD 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took

his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew

her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when

the day began to spring, they let her go.

JUD 19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and

fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was],

till it was light.

JUD 19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the

doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the

woman his concubine was fallen down [at] the door of the house,

and her hands [were] upon the threshold.

JUD 19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But

none answered. Then the man took her [up] upon an ass, and the

man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

JUD 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife,

and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, [together] with

her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts

of Israel.

JUD 19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was

no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of

Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider

of it, take advice, and speak [your minds].

JUD 20:01 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the

congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to

Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.

JUD 20:02 And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the

tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the

people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

JUD 20:03 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children

of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of

Israel, Tell [us], how was this wickedness?

JUD 20:04 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was

slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that [belongeth] to

Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

JUD 20:05 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the

house round about upon me by night, [and] thought to have slain

me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

JUD 20:06 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and

sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel:

for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

JUD 20:07 Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here

your advice and counsel.

JUD 20:08 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will

not any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn

into his house.

JUD 20:09 But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to

Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it;

JUD 20:10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all

the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a

thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people,

that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin,

according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

JUD 20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the

city, knit together as one man.

JUD 20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the

tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is

done among you?

JUD 20:13 Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of

Belial, which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death,

and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin

would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of

Israel:

JUD 20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves

together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle

against the children of Israel.

JUD 20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that

time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew

sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered

seven hundred chosen men.

JUD 20:16 Among all this people [there were] seven hundred

chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair

[breadth], and not miss.

JUD 20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered

four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men

of war.

JUD 20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the

house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us

shall go up first to the battle against the children of

Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah [shall go up] first.

JUD 20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning,

and encamped against Gibeah.

JUD 20:20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against

Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight

against them at Gibeah.

JUD 20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah,

and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day

twenty and two thousand men.

JUD 20:22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged

themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place

where they put themselves in array the first day.

JUD 20:23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before

the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying,

Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin

my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)

JUD 20:24 And the children of Israel came near against the

children of Benjamin the second day.

JUD 20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah

the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children

of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

JUD 20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people,

went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there

before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered

burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

JUD 20:27 And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for

the ark of the covenant of God [was] there in those days,

JUD 20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron,

stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out

to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall

I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver

them into thine hand.

JUD 20:29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

JUD 20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the

children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in

array against Gibeah, as at other times.

JUD 20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the

people, [and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to

smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the

highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the

other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

JUD 20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten

down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said,

Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

JUD 20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place,

and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait

of Israel came forth out of their places, [even] out of the

meadows of Gibeah.

JUD 20:34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men

out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not

that evil [was] near them.

JUD 20:35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the

children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty

and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

JUD 20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were

smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites,

because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set

beside Gibeah.

JUD 20:37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah;

and the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the

city with the edge of the sword.

JUD 20:38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of

Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great

flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

JUD 20:39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle,

Benjamin began to smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about

thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down

before us, as [in] the first battle.

JUD 20:40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city

with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and,

behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

JUD 20:41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of

Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

JUD 20:42 Therefore they turned [their backs] before the men of

Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook

them; and them which [came] out of the cities they destroyed in

the midst of them.

JUD 20:43 [Thus] they enclosed the Benjamites round about,

[and] chased them, [and] trode them down with ease over against

Gibeah toward the sunrising.

JUD 20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all

these [were] men of valour.

JUD 20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto

the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways

five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and

slew two thousand men of them.

JUD 20:46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were

twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these

[were] men of valour.

JUD 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness

unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

JUD 20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children

of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well

the men of [every] city, as the beast, and all that came to hand:

also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

JUD 21:01 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying,

There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to

wife.

JUD 21:02 And the people came to the house of God, and abode

there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept

sore;

JUD 21:03 And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to

pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in

Israel?

JUD 21:04 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people

rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt

offerings and peace offerings.

JUD 21:05 And the children of Israel said, Who [is there] among

all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation

unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him

that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely

be put to death.

JUD 21:06 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin

their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel

this day.

JUD 21:07 How shall we do for wives for them that remain,

seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of

our daughters to wives?

JUD 21:08 And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of

Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold,

there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

JUD 21:09 For the people were numbered, and, behold, [there

were] none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.

JUD 21:10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men

of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the

inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the

women and the children.

JUD 21:11 And this [is] the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall

utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by

man.

JUD 21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead

four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with

any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which

[is] in the land of Canaan.

JUD 21:13 And the whole congregation sent [some] to speak to

the children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock Rimmon, and to

call peaceably unto them.

JUD 21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave

them wives which they had saved alive of the women of

Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

JUD 21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because

that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

JUD 21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall

we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are

destroyed out of Benjamin?

JUD 21:17 And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for

them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed

out of Israel.

JUD 21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters:

for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he

that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

JUD 21:19 Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the

LORD in Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the north side

of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from

Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

JUD 21:20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin,

saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

JUD 21:21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come

out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and

catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go

to the land of Benjamin.

JUD 21:22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren

come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be

favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to

each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at

this time, [that] ye should be guilty.

JUD 21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them]

wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they

caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and

repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

JUD 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.

JUD 21:25 In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every

man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.