Category Archives: Judges

1 And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked of theLord, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them? 2 And theLordsaid, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. 3 And Judah said unto […]

1 And the angel of theLordcame up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he 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: 2 and ye shall make no covenant with […]

1 Now these are the nations which theLordleft, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof; 3 namely, the five lords […]

1 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of theLord, when Ehud was dead. 2 And theLordsold 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. 3 And the children […]

1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, 2 For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, for that the people offered themselves willingly, bless ye theLord. 3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I,evenI, will sing unto theLord; I will sing praise to theLord, […]

1 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of theLord: and theLorddelivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, […]

1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2 And theLordsaid unto Gideon, The people that are with thee […]

1 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 Midian? And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I now done in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the […]

1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and spake with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying, 2 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you that all the sons of […]

1 And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. 2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. 3 And after him arose Jair, […]