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Judges 1

1. Now after <0310> the death <04194> of Joshua < 03091> it came <01961> to pass, that the children <01121> of Israel <03478> asked <07592> the LORD <03068>, saying <0559>, Who <04310> shall go <05927> up for us against the Canaanites <03669> first <08462>, to fight <03898> against them?

2 And the LORD <03068> said <0559>, Judah < 03063> shall go <05927> up: behold <02009>, I have delivered <05414> the land <0776> into his hand <03027>.

3 And Judah <03063> said <0559> unto Simeon < 08095> his brother <0251>, Come <05927> up with me into my lot <01486>, that we may fight <03898> against the Canaanites <03669>; and I likewise <03651> will go <01980> with thee into thy lot <01486>. So Simeon <08095> went <03212> with him.

4 And Judah <03063> went <05927> up; and the LORD <03068> delivered <05414> the Canaanites <03669> and the Perizzites <06522> into their hand <03027>: and they slew < 05221> of them in Bezek <0966> ten <06235> thousand < 0505> men <0376>.

5 And they found <04672> Adonibezek <0137> in Bezek <0966>: and they fought <03898> against him, and they slew < 05221> the Canaanites <03669> and the Perizzites <06522>.

6 But Adonibezek <0137> fled <05127>; and they pursued <07291> after <0310> him, and caught <0270> him, and cut <07112> off his thumbs and his great toes.

7 And Adonibezek <0137> said <0559>, Threescore < 07657> and ten kings <04428>, having their thumbs and their great toes cut <07112> off, gathered <03950> [their meat] under < 08478> my table <07979>: as I have done <06213>, so < 03651> God <0430> hath requited <07999> me. And they brought <0935> him to Jerusalem <03389>, and there < 08033> he died <04191>.

8 Now the children <01121> of Judah <03063> had fought <03898> against Jerusalem <03389>, and had taken < 03920> it, and smitten <05221> it with the edge <06310> of the sword <02719>, and set <07971> the city <05892> on fire <0784>.

9. And afterward <0310> the children <01121> of Judah <03063> went <03381> down <03381> to fight < 03898> against the Canaanites <03669>, that dwelt <03427> in the mountain <02022>, and in the south <05045>, and in the valley <08219>.

10 And Judah <03063> went <03212> against < 0413> the Canaanites <03669> that dwelt <03427> in Hebron <02275>: (now the name <08034> of Hebron <02275> before <06440> [was] Kirjatharba <07153>:) and they slew <05221> Sheshai <08344>, and Ahiman <0289>, and Talmai <08526>.

11 And from thence <08033> he went <03212> against <0413> the inhabitants <03427> of Debir <01688>: and the name <08034> of Debir <01688> before <06440> [was] Kirjathsepher <07158>:

12 And Caleb <03612> said <0559>, He that smiteth <05221> Kirjathsepher <07158>, and taketh <03920> it, to him will I give <05414> Achsah <05919> my daughter < 01323> to wife <0802>.

13 And Othniel <06274> the son <01121> of Kenaz < 07073>, Caleb's <03612> younger <06996> brother <0251> , took <03920> it: and he gave <05414> him Achsah <05919> his daughter <01323> to wife <0802>.

14 And it came <01961> to pass, when she came <0935> [to him], that she moved <05496> him to ask <07592> of her father <01> a field <07704>: and she lighted <06795> from off <05921> [her] ass <02543>; and Caleb <03612> said <0559> unto her, What <04100> wilt thou?

15 And she said <0559> unto him, Give <03051> me a blessing <01293>: for thou hast given <05414> me a south < 05045> land <0776>; give <05414> me also springs < 01543> of water <04325>. And Caleb <03612> gave < 05414> her the upper <05942> springs <01543> and the nether <08482> springs <01543>.

16 And the children <01121> of the Kenite <07017>, Moses <04872>' father <02859> in law <02859>, went < 05927> up out of the city <05892> of palm <08558> trees with the children <01121> of Judah <03063> into the wilderness <04057> of Judah <03063>, which <0834> [lieth] in the south <05045> of Arad <06166>; and they went <03212> and dwelt <03427> among <0854> the people <05971>.

17 And Judah <03063> went <03212> with Simeon < 08095> his brother <0251>, and they slew <05221> the Canaanites <03669> that inhabited <03427> Zephath, and utterly destroyed <02763> it. And the name <08034> of the city < 05892> was called <07121> Hormah <02767>.

18 Also Judah <03063> took <03920> Gaza < 05804> with the coast <01366> thereof, and Askelon <0831> with the coast <01366> thereof, and Ekron <06138> with the coast <01366> thereof.

19 And the LORD <03068> was with Judah <03063>; and he drave <03423> out [the inhabitants of] the mountain <02022>; but could not drive <03423> out the inhabitants <03427> of the valley <06010>, because <03588> they had chariots < 07393> of iron <01270>.

20 And they gave <05414> Hebron <02275> unto Caleb <03612>, as Moses <04872> said <01696>: and he expelled <03423> thence <08033> the three <07969> sons < 01121> of Anak <06061>.

21. And the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> did not drive <03423> out the Jebusites <02983> that inhabited < 03427> Jerusalem <03389>; but the Jebusites <02983> dwell <03427> with the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> in Jerusalem <03389> unto this <02088> day <03117>.

22 And the house <01004> of Joseph <03130>, they also <01571> went <05927> up against Bethel <01008>: and the LORD <03068> [was] with them.

23 And the house <01004> of Joseph <03130> sent to descry <08446> Bethel <01008>. (Now the name <08034> of the city <05892> before <06440> [was] Luz <03870>.)

24 And the spies <08104> saw <07200> a man < 0376> come <03318> forth <03318> out of the city < 05892>, and they said <0559> unto him, Shew <07200> us, we pray <04994> thee, the entrance <03996> into the city < 05892>, and we will shew <06213> thee mercy <02617>.

25 And when he shewed <07200> them the entrance < 03996> into the city <05892>, they smote <05221> the city <05892> with the edge <06310> of the sword <02719>; but they let go <07971> the man <0376> and all <03605> his family <04940>.

26 And the man <0376> went <03212> into the land <0776> of the Hittites <02850>, and built <01129> a city <05892>, and called <07121> the name <08034> thereof Luz <03870>: which <01931> [is] the name <08034> thereof unto this <02088> day <03117>.

27 Neither <03808> did Manasseh <04519> drive < 03423> out [the inhabitants of] Bethshean <01052> and her towns <01323>, nor Taanach <08590> and her towns <01323>, nor the inhabitants <03427> of Dor <01756> and her towns < 01323>, nor the inhabitants <03427> of Ibleam <02991> and her towns <01323>, nor the inhabitants <03427> of Megiddo < 04023> and her towns <01323>: but the Canaanites <03669> would <02974> dwell <03427> in that land <0776>.

28 And it came <01961> to pass, when Israel <03478> was strong <02388>, that they put <07760> the Canaanites < 03669> to tribute <04522>, and did not utterly drive <03423> them out.

29 Neither <03808> did Ephraim <0669> drive < 03423> out the Canaanites <03669> that dwelt <03427> in Gezer <01507>; but the Canaanites <03669> dwelt <03427> in Gezer <01507> among <07130> them.

30 Neither <03808> did Zebulun <02074> drive < 03423> out the inhabitants <03427> of Kitron <07003>, nor the inhabitants <03427> of Nahalol <05096>; but the Canaanites <03669> dwelt <03427> among <07130> them, and became < 01961> tributaries <04522>.

31 Neither <03808> did Asher <0836> drive < 03423> out the inhabitants <03427> of Accho <05910>, nor the inhabitants <03427> of Zidon <06721>, nor of Ahlab < 0303>, nor of Achzib <0392>, nor of Helbah <02462>, nor of Aphik <0663>, nor of Rehob <07340>:

32 But the Asherites <0843> dwelt <03427> among < 07130> the Canaanites <03669>, the inhabitants <03427> of the land <0776>: for they did not drive <03423> them out.

33 Neither <03808> did Naphtali <05321> drive < 03423> out the inhabitants <03427> of Bethshemesh <01053>, nor the inhabitants <03427> of Bethanath <01043>; but he dwelt <03427> among <07130> the Canaanites <03669>, the inhabitants <03427> of the land <0776>: nevertheless the inhabitants <03427> of Bethshemesh <01053> and of Bethanath <01043> became <01961> tributaries <04522> unto them.

34 And the Amorites <0567> forced <03905> the children <01121> of Dan <01835> into the mountain <02022> : for they would not suffer <05414> them to come <03381> down <03381> to the valley <06010>:

35 But the Amorites <0567> would <02974> dwell < 03427> in mount <02022> Heres <02776> in Aijalon < 0357>, and in Shaalbim <08169>: yet the hand <03027> of the house <01004> of Joseph <03130> prevailed <03513>, so that they became <01961> tributaries <04522>.

36 And the coast <01366> of the Amorites <0567> [was] from the going <04608> up to Akrabbim <06137>, from the rock <05553>, and upward <04605>.

Judges 2

1. And an angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> came < 05927> up from Gilgal <01537> to Bochim <01066>, and said <0559>, I made you to go <05927> up out of Egypt <04714>, and have brought <0935> you unto the land <0776> which < 0834> I sware <07650> unto your fathers <01>; and I said <0559>, I will never break <06565> my covenant <01285> with you.

2 And ye shall make <03772> no <03808> league < 01285> with the inhabitants <03427> of this <02063> land <0776>; ye shall throw <05422> down <05422> their altars <04196>: but ye have not obeyed <08085> my voice <06963>: why <04100> have ye done <06213> this <02063>?

3 Wherefore I also <01571> said <0559>, I will not drive <01644> them out from before <06440> you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides <06654>, and their gods <0430> shall be a snare <04170> unto you.

4 And it came <01961> to pass, when the angel < 04397> of the LORD <03068> spake <01696> these <0428> words <01697> unto all <03605> the children <01121> of Israel <03478>, that the people <05971> lifted <05375> up their voice <06963>, and wept <01058>.

5 And they called <07121> the name <08034> of that place <04725> Bochim <01066>: and they sacrificed <02076> there <08033> unto the LORD <03068>.

6. And when Joshua <03091> had let the people <05971> go <07971>, the children <01121> of Israel <03478> went <03212> every man <0376> unto his inheritance <05159> to possess <03423> the land <0776>.

7 And the people <05971> served <05647> the LORD <03068> all <03605> the days <03117> of Joshua < 03091>, and all <03605> the days <03117> of the elders < 02205> that outlived Joshua <03091>, who <0834> had seen <07200> all <03605> the great <01419> works <04639> of the LORD <03068>, that he did <06213> for Israel < 03478>.

8 And Joshua <03091> the son <01121> of Nun < 05126>, the servant <05650> of the LORD <03068>, died < 04191>, [being] an hundred <03967> and ten <06235> years <08141> old <01121>.

9 And they buried <06912> him in the border <01366> of his inheritance <05159> in Timnathheres <08556>, in the mount <02022> of Ephraim <0669>, on the north <06828> side of the hill <02022> Gaash <01608>.

10 And also <01571> all <03605> that generation < 01755> were gathered <0622> unto their fathers <01>: and there arose <06965> another <0312> generation <01755> after <0310> them, which <0834> knew <03045> not the LORD <03068>, nor <01571> yet <01571> the works < 04639> which <0834> he had done <06213> for Israel < 03478>.

11 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> did <06213> evil <07451> in the sight <05869> of the LORD <03068>, and served <05647> Baalim <01168>:

12 And they forsook <05800> the LORD <03068> God <0430> of their fathers <01>, which brought <03318> them out of the land <0776> of Egypt <04714>, and followed other <0312> gods <0430>, of the gods <0430> of the people < 05971> that [were] round <05439> about them, and bowed < 07812> themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD <03068> to anger <03707>.

13 And they forsook <05800> the LORD <03068>, and served <05647> Baal <01168> and Ashtaroth <06252>.

14 And the anger <0639> of the LORD <03068> was hot <02734> against Israel <03478>, and he delivered <05414> them into the hands <03027> of spoilers <08154> that spoiled <08155> them, and he sold <04376> them into the hands < 03027> of their enemies <0341> round <05439> about, so that they could <03201> not any longer <05750> stand <05975> before <06440> their enemies <0341>.

15 Whithersoever they went <03318> out, the hand < 03027> of the LORD <03068> was against them for evil <07451> , as the LORD <03068> had said <01696>, and as the LORD < 03068> had sworn <07650> unto them: and they were greatly < 03966> distressed <03334>.

16 Nevertheless the LORD <03068> raised <06965> up judges <08199>, which delivered <03467> them out of the hand <03027> of those that spoiled <08154> them.

17 And yet <01571> they would not hearken <08085> unto their judges <08199>, but they went a whoring <02181> after <0310> other <0312> gods <0430>, and bowed < 07812> themselves unto them: they turned <05493> quickly < 04118> out of the way <01870> which <0834> their fathers <01> walked <01980> in, obeying <08085> the commandments <04687> of the LORD <03068>; [but] they did <06213> not so <03651>.

18 And when <03588> the LORD <03068> raised < 06965> them up judges <08199>, then the LORD <03068> was with the judge <08199>, and delivered <03467> them out of the hand <03027> of their enemies <0341> all <03605> the days <03117> of the judge <08199>: for it repented < 05162> the LORD <03068> because <06440> of their groanings <05009> by reason of them that oppressed <03905> them and vexed <01766> them.

19 And it came <01961> to pass, when the judge < 08199> was dead <04191>, [that] they returned <07725>, and corrupted <07843> [themselves] more than their fathers <01>, in following other <0312> gods <0430> to serve <05647> them, and to bow <07812> down <07812> unto them; they ceased <05307> not from their own doings <04611>, nor from their stubborn <07186> way <01870>.

20 And the anger <0639> of the LORD <03068> was hot <02734> against Israel <03478>; and he said <0559>, Because <03282> that this <02088> people <01471> hath transgressed <05674> my covenant <01285> which <0834> I commanded <06680> their fathers <01>, and have not hearkened <08085> unto my voice <06963>;

21 I also <01571> will not henceforth <03254> drive <03423> out any from before <06440> them of the nations < 01471> which <0834> Joshua <03091> left <05800> when he died <04191>:

22 That through them I may prove <05254> Israel < 03478>, whether they will keep <08104> the way <01870> of the LORD <03068> to walk <03212> therein, as their fathers < 01> did keep <08104> [it], or not.

23 Therefore the LORD <03068> left <03241> those <0428> nations <01471>, without <01115> driving < 03423> them out hastily <04118>; neither <03808> delivered <05414> he them into the hand <03027> of Joshua <03091>.

Judges 3

1. Now these <0428> [are] the nations <01471> which <0834> the LORD <03068> left <03241>, to prove < 05254> Israel <03478> by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known <03045> all <03605> the wars <04421> of Canaan <03667>;

2 Only <07535> that the generations <01755> of the children <01121> of Israel <03478> might know <03045>, to teach <03925> them war <04421>, at <07535> the least <07535> such as before <06440> knew <03045> nothing < 03808> thereof;

3 [Namely], five <02568> lords <05633> of the Philistines <06430>, and all <03605> the Canaanites < 03669>, and the Sidonians <06722>, and the Hivites <02340> that dwelt <03427> in mount <02022> Lebanon <03844>, from mount <02022> Baalhermon <01179> unto the entering < 0935> in of Hamath <02574>.

4 And they were to prove <05254> Israel <03478> by them, to know <03045> whether they would hearken <08085> unto the commandments <04687> of the LORD <03068>, which < 0834> he commanded <06680> their fathers <01> by the hand <03027> of Moses <04872>.

5 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> dwelt <03427> among <07130> the Canaanites <03669>, Hittites <02850>, and Amorites <0567>, and Perizzites <06522>, and Hivites <02340>, and Jebusites <02983>:

6 And they took <03947> their daughters <01121> to be their wives <0802>, and gave <05414> their daughters < 01121> to their sons <01121>, and served <05647> their gods <0430>.

7 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> did <06213> evil <07451> in the sight <05869> of the LORD <03068>, and forgat <07911> the LORD <03068> their God <0430>, and served <05647> Baalim <01168> and the groves <0842>.

8. Therefore the anger <0639> of the LORD <03068> was hot <02734> against Israel <03478>, and he sold < 04376> them into the hand <03027> of Chushanrishathaim < 03573> king <04428> of Mesopotamia <0763>: and the children <01121> of Israel <03478> served <05647> Chushanrishathaim <03573> eight <08083> years <08141>.

9 And when the children <01121> of Israel <03478> cried <02199> unto the LORD <03068>, the LORD <03068> raised <06965> up a deliverer <03467> to the children < 01121> of Israel <03478>, who delivered <03467> them, [even <0853>] Othniel <06274> the son <01121> of Kenaz < 07073>, Caleb's <03612> younger <06996> brother <0251> .

10 And the Spirit <07307> of the LORD <03068> came <01961> upon him, and he judged <08199> Israel <03478>, and went <03318> out to war <04421>: and the LORD <03068> delivered <05414> Chushanrishathaim <03573> king <04428> of Mesopotamia <0763> into his hand <03027>; and his hand < 03027> prevailed <05810> against <05921> Chushanrishathaim <03573>.

11 And the land <0776> had rest <08252> forty < 0705> years <08141>. And Othniel <06274> the son < 01121> of Kenaz <07073> died <04191>.

12. And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> did <06213> evil <07451> again <03254> in the sight < 05869> of the LORD <03068>: and the LORD <03068> strengthened <02388> Eglon <05700> the king <04428> of Moab <04124> against <05921> Israel <03478>, because they had done <06213> evil <07451> in the sight <05869> of the LORD <03068>.

13 And he gathered <0622> unto him the children < 01121> of Ammon <05983> and Amalek <06002>, and went < 03212> and smote <05221> Israel <03478>, and possessed < 03423> the city <05892> of palm <08558> trees.

14 So the children <01121> of Israel <03478> served <05647> Eglon <05700> the king <04428> of Moab < 04124> eighteen years <08141>.

15 But when the children <01121> of Israel <03478> cried <02199> unto the LORD <03068>, the LORD <03068> raised <06965> them up a deliverer <03467>, Ehud <0261> the son <01121> of Gera <01617>, a Benjamite <01145>, a man <0376> lefthanded: and by him the children <01121> of Israel <03478> sent <07971> a present <04503> unto Eglon <05700> the king <04428> of Moab <04124>.

16 But Ehud <0261> made <06213> him a dagger < 02719> which had two <08147> edges <06366>, of a cubit < 01574> length <0753>; and he did gird <02296> it under < 08478> his raiment <04055> upon his right <03225> thigh < 03409>.

17 And he brought <07126> the present <04503> unto Eglon <05700> king <04428> of Moab <04124>: and Eglon <05700> [was] a very <03966> fat <01277> man <0376> .

18 And when <0834> he had made an end <03615> to offer <07126> the present <04503>, he sent <07971> away the people <05971> that bare <05375> the present <04503>.

19 But he himself <01931> turned <07725> again < 07725> from the quarries <06456> that [were] by Gilgal < 01537>, and said <0559>, I have a secret <05643> errand < 01697> unto thee, O king <04428>: who said <0559>, Keep silence <02013>. And all <03605> that stood <05975> by him went <03318> out from him.

20 And Ehud <0261> came <0935> unto him; and he was sitting <03427> in a summer <04747> parlour <05944>, which <0834> he had for himself alone <0905>. And Ehud < 0261> said <0559>, I have a message <01697> from God < 0430> unto thee. And he arose <06965> out of [his] seat < 03678>.

21 And Ehud <0261> put <07971> forth <07971> his left <08040> hand <03027>, and took <03947> the dagger <02719> from his right <03225> thigh <03409>, and thrust <08628> it into his belly <0990>:

22 And the haft <05325> also <01571> went < 0935> in after <0310> the blade <03851>; and the fat < 02459> closed <05462> upon the blade <03851>, so < 03588> that he could not draw <08025> the dagger <02719> out of his belly <0990>; and the dirt <06574> came < 03318> out.

23 Then Ehud <0261> went <03318> forth <03318> through the porch <04528>, and shut <05462> the doors < 01817> of the parlour <05944> upon him, and locked <05274> them.

24 When he was gone <03318> out, his servants < 05650> came <0935>; and when they saw <07200> that, behold <02009>, the doors <01817> of the parlour <05944> [were] locked <05274>, they said <0559>, Surely <0389> he covereth <05526> his feet <07272> in his summer <04747> chamber <02315>.

25 And they tarried <02342> till <05704> they were ashamed <0954>: and, behold <02009>, he opened <06605> not the doors <01817> of the parlour <05944>; therefore they took <03947> a key <04668>, and opened <06605> [them]: and, behold <02009>, their lord <0113> [was] fallen < 05307> down dead <04191> on the earth <0776>.

26 And Ehud <0261> escaped <04422> while < 05704> they tarried <04102>, and passed <05674> beyond < 05674> the quarries <06456>, and escaped <04422> unto Seirath <08167>.

27 And it came <01961> to pass, when he was come < 0935>, that he blew <08628> a trumpet <07782> in the mountain <02022> of Ephraim <0669>, and the children < 01121> of Israel <03478> went <03381> down <03381> with him from the mount <02022>, and he before <06440> them.

28 And he said <0559> unto them, Follow <07291> after <0310> me: for the LORD <03068> hath delivered < 05414> your enemies <0341> the Moabites <04124> into your hand <03027>. And they went <03381> down <03381> after <0310> him, and took <03920> the fords <04569> of Jordan <03383> toward Moab <04124>, and suffered <05414> not a man <0376> to pass <05674> over <05674>.

29 And they slew <05221> of Moab <04124> at that time <06256> about ten <06235> thousand <0505> men < 0376>, all <03605> lusty <08082>, and all <03605> men <0376> of valour <02428>; and there escaped <04422> not a man <0376>.

30 So Moab <04124> was subdued <03665> that day < 03117> under <08478> the hand <03027> of Israel < 03478>. And the land <0776> had rest <08252> fourscore < 08084> years <08141>.

31. And after <0310> him was Shamgar <08044> the son <01121> of Anath <06067>, which slew <05221> of the Philistines <06430> six <08337> hundred <03967> men < 0376> with an ox <01241> goad <04451>: and he also < 01571> delivered <03467> Israel <03478>.

Judges 4

1. And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> again <03254> did <06213> evil <07451> in the sight < 05869> of the LORD <03068>, when Ehud <0261> was dead < 04191>.

2 And the LORD <03068> sold <04376> them into the hand <03027> of Jabin <02985> king <04428> of Canaan < 03667>, that reigned <04427> in Hazor <02674>; the captain <08269> of whose host <06635> [was] Sisera <05516>, which dwelt <03427> in Harosheth <02800> of the Gentiles < 01471>.

3 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> cried <06817> unto the LORD <03068>: for he had nine <08672> hundred <03967> chariots <07393> of iron <01270>; and twenty <06242> years <08141> he mightily <02393> oppressed <03905> the children <01121> of Israel <03478>.

4. And Deborah <01683>, a prophetess <05031>, the wife <0802> of Lapidoth <03941>, she judged <08199> Israel <03478> at that time <06256>.

5 And she dwelt <03427> under <08478> the palm < 08560> tree of Deborah <01683> between <0996> Ramah < 07414> and Bethel <01008> in mount <02022> Ephraim < 0669>: and the children <01121> of Israel <03478> came < 05927> up to her for judgment <04941>.

6 And she sent <07971> and called <07121> Barak < 01301> the son <01121> of Abinoam <042> out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said <0559> unto him, Hath not the LORD < 03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478> commanded <06680>, [saying], Go <03212> and draw <04900> toward mount < 02022> Tabor <08396>, and take <03947> with thee ten < 06235> thousand <0505> men <0376> of the children < 01121> of Naphtali <05321> and of the children <01121> of Zebulun <02074>?

7 And I will draw <04900> unto thee to the river < 05158> Kishon <07028> Sisera <05516>, the captain < 08269> of Jabin's <02985> army <06635>, with his chariots <07393> and his multitude <01995>; and I will deliver < 05414> him into thine hand <03027>.

8 And Barak <01301> said <0559> unto her, If < 0518> thou wilt go <03212> with me, then I will go <01982>: but if <0518> thou wilt not go <03212> with me, [then] I will not go <03212>.

9 And she said <0559>, I will surely go <03212> with thee: notwithstanding <0657> the journey <01870> that thou takest <01980> shall not be for thine honour <08597>; for the LORD <03068> shall sell <04376> Sisera <05516> into the hand <03027> of a woman <0802>. And Deborah <01683> arose <06965>, and went <03212> with Barak <01301> to Kedesh <06943>.

10. And Barak <01301> called <02199> Zebulun < 02074> and Naphtali <05321> to Kedesh <06943>; and he went <05927> up with ten <06235> thousand <0505> men < 0376> at his feet <07272>: and Deborah <01683> went < 05927> up with him.

11 Now Heber <02268> the Kenite <07014>, [which was] of the children <01121> of Hobab <02246> the father < 02859> in law <02859> of Moses <04872>, had severed < 06504> himself from the Kenites <07017>, and pitched <05186> his tent <0168> unto the plain <0436> of Zaanaim, which < 0834> [is] by Kedesh <06943>.

12 And they shewed <05046> Sisera <05516> that Barak <01301> the son <01121> of Abinoam <042> was gone <05927> up to mount <02022> Tabor <08396>.

13 And Sisera <05516> gathered <02199> together all <03605> his chariots <07393>, [even] nine <08672> hundred <03967> chariots <07393> of iron <01270>, and all <03605> the people <05971> that [were] with him, from Harosheth <02800> of the Gentiles <01471> unto the river < 05158> of Kishon <07028>.

14 And Deborah <01683> said <0559> unto Barak < 01301>, Up; for this <02088> [is] the day <03117> in which <0834> the LORD <03068> hath delivered <05414> Sisera <05516> into thine hand <03027>: is not the LORD <03068> gone <03318> out before <06440> thee? So Barak <01301> went <03381> down <03381> from mount <02022> Tabor < 08396>, and ten <06235> thousand <0505> men <0376> after <0310> him.

15 And the LORD <03068> discomfited <02000> Sisera <05516>, and all <03605> [his] chariots <07393>, and all <03605> [his] host <04264>, with the edge <06310> of the sword <02719> before <06440> Barak <01301>; so that Sisera <05516> lighted <03381> down <03381> off < 05921> [his] chariot <04818>, and fled <05127> away on his feet <07272>.

16 But Barak <01301> pursued <07291> after < 0310> the chariots <07393>, and after <0310> the host < 04264>, unto Harosheth <02800> of the Gentiles <01471>: and all <03605> the host <04264> of Sisera <05516> fell < 05307> upon the edge <06310> of the sword <02719>; [and] there was not a man left <07604>.

17. Howbeit Sisera <05516> fled <05127> away on his feet <07272> to the tent <0168> of Jael <03278> the wife <0802> of Heber <02268> the Kenite <07017>: for [there was] peace <07965> between <0996> Jabin <02985> the king <04428> of Hazor <02674> and the house <01004> of Heber <02268> the Kenite <07017>.

18 And Jael <03278> went <03318> out to meet < 07125> Sisera <05516>, and said <0559> unto him, Turn < 05493> in, my lord <03068>, turn <05493> in to me; fear < 03372> not. And when he had turned <05493> in unto her into the tent <0168>, she covered <03680> him with a mantle < 08063>.

19 And he said <0559> unto her, Give me, I pray < 04994> thee, a little <04592> water <04325> to drink < 08248>; for I am thirsty <06770>. And she opened <06605> a bottle <04997> of milk <02461>, and gave him drink < 08248>, and covered <03680> him.

20 Again he said <0559> unto her, Stand <05975> in the door <06607> of the tent <0168>, and it shall be, when < 0518> any man <0376> doth come <0935> and enquire < 07592> of thee, and say <0559>, Is there any man <0376> here <06311>? that thou shalt say <0559>, No <0369>.

21 Then Jael <03278> Heber's <02268> wife < 0802> took <03947> a nail <03489> of the tent <0168>, and took <07760> an hammer <04718> in her hand <03027>, and went <0935> softly <03814> unto him, and smote < 08628> the nail <03489> into his temples <07451>, and fastened <06795> it into the ground <0776>: for he was fast asleep <07290> and weary <05774>. So he died <04191>.

22 And, behold <02009>, as Barak <01301> pursued <07291> Sisera <05516>, Jael <03278> came <03318> out to meet <07125> him, and said <0559> unto him, Come < 03212>, and I will shew <07200> thee the man <0376> whom <0834> thou seekest <01245>. And when he came <0935> into her [tent], behold <02009>, Sisera <05516> lay < 05307> dead <04191>, and the nail <03489> [was] in his temples <07451>.

23 So God <0430> subdued <03665> on that day < 03117> Jabin <02985> the king <04428> of Canaan < 03667> before <06440> the children <01121> of Israel < 03478>.

24 And the hand <03027> of the children <01121> of Israel <03478> prospered <01980>, and prevailed <07186> against <05921> Jabin <02985> the king <04428> of Canaan <03667>, until <05704> they had destroyed <03772> Jabin <02985> king <04428> of Canaan <03667>.

Judges 5

1. Then sang <07891> Deborah <01683> and Barak < 01301> the son <01121> of Abinoam <042> on that day < 03117>, saying <0559>,

2 Praise <01288> ye the LORD <03068> for the avenging of Israel <03478>, when the people <05971> willingly <05068> offered themselves.

3 Hear <08085>, O ye kings <04428>; give ear < 0238>, O ye princes <07336>; I, [even] I, will sing <07891> unto the LORD <03068>; I will sing <02167> [praise] to the LORD <03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478>.

4 LORD <03068>, when thou wentest <03318> out of Seir <08165>, when thou marchedst <06805> out of the field < 07704> of Edom <0123>, the earth <0776> trembled < 07493>, and the heavens <08064> dropped <05197>, the clouds <05645> also <01571> dropped <05197> water <04325>.

5 The mountains <02022> melted <05140> from before <06440> the LORD <03068>, [even] that Sinai <05514> from before <06440> the LORD <03068> God <0430> of Israel < 03478>.

6. In the days <03117> of Shamgar <08044> the son <01121> of Anath <06067>, in the days <03117> of Jael <03278>, the highways <0734> were unoccupied <02308>, and the travellers walked <03212> through byways.

7 [The inhabitants of] the villages <06520> ceased < 02308>, they ceased <02308> in Israel <03478>, until < 05704> that I Deborah <01683> arose <06965>, that I arose <06965> a mother <0517> in Israel <03478>.

8 They chose <0977> new <02319> gods <0430>; then <0227> [was] war <03901> in the gates <08179>: was there a shield <04043> or spear <07420> seen <07200> among forty <0705> thousand <0505> in Israel <03478>?

9 My heart <03820> [is] toward the governors <02710> of Israel <03478>, that offered themselves willingly <05068> among the people <05971>. Bless <01288> ye the LORD < 03068>.

10 Speak <07878>, ye that ride <07392> on white < 06715> asses <0860>, ye that sit <03427> in judgment < 04055>, and walk <01980> by the way <01870>.

11 [They that are delivered] from the noise <06963> of archers <02686> in the places of drawing <04857> water, there shall they rehearse <08567> the righteous <06666> acts of the LORD <03068>, [even] the righteous <06666> acts [toward the inhabitants] of his villages <06520> in Israel <03478>: then shall the people <05971> of the LORD <03068> go <03381> down <03381> to the gates <08179>.

12. Awake <05782>, awake <05782>, Deborah < 01683>: awake <05782>, awake <05782>, utter <01696> a song <07892>: arise <06965>, Barak <01301>, and lead thy captivity <07628> captive <07617>, thou son <01121> of Abinoam <042>.

13 Then <0227> he made him that remaineth <08300> have dominion <07287> over the nobles <0117> among the people <05971>: the LORD <03068> made me have dominion <07287> over the mighty <01368>.

14 Out of Ephraim <0669> [was there] a root <08328> of them against Amalek <06002>; after <0310> thee, Benjamin <01144>, among thy people <05971>; out of Machir <04353> came <03381> down <03381> governors <02710>, and out of Zebulun <02074> they that handle <04900> the pen <07626> of the writer <05608>.

15 And the princes <08269> of Issachar <03485> [were] with Deborah <01683>; even Issachar <03485>, and also <03651> Barak <01301>: he was sent <07971> on foot < 07272> into the valley <06010>. For the divisions <06391> of Reuben <07205> [there were] great <01419> thoughts < 02711> of heart <03820>.

16 Why <04100> abodest <03427> thou among < 0996> the sheepfolds <04942>, to hear <08085> the bleatings <08292> of the flocks <05739>? For the divisions <06391> of Reuben <07205> [there were] great <01419> searchings < 02714> of heart <03820>.

17 Gilead <01568> abode <07931> beyond <05676> Jordan <03383>: and why <04100> did Dan <01835> remain <01481> in ships <0591>? Asher <0836> continued < 03427> on the sea <03220> shore <02348>, and abode < 07931> in his breaches <04664>.

18 Zebulun <02074> and Naphtali <05321> [were] a people <05971> [that] jeoparded <02778> their lives < 05315> unto the death <04191> in the high <04791> places of the field <07704>.

19 The kings <04428> came <0935> [and] fought < 03898>, then <0227> fought <03898> the kings <04428> of Canaan <03667> in Taanach <08590> by the waters < 04325> of Megiddo <04023>; they took <03947> no < 03808> gain <01214> of money <03701>.

20 They fought <03898> from heaven <08064>; the stars <03556> in their courses <04546> fought <03898> against <05973> Sisera <05516>.

21 The river <05158> of Kishon <07028> swept < 01640> them away, that ancient <06917> river <05158>, the river <05158> Kishon <07028>. O my soul <05315>, thou hast trodden <01869> down strength <05797>.

22 Then <0227> were the horsehoofs broken <01986> by the means of the pransings <01726>, the pransings <01726> of their mighty <047> ones.

23 Curse <0779> ye Meroz <04789>, said <0559> the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068>, curse <0779> ye bitterly <0779> the inhabitants <03427> thereof; because < 03588> they came <0935> not to the help <05833> of the LORD <03068>, to the help <05833> of the LORD <03068> against the mighty <01368>.

24. Blessed <01288> above women <0802> shall Jael <03278> the wife <0802> of Heber <02268> the Kenite < 07017> be, blessed <01288> shall she be above women <0802> in the tent <0168>.

25 He asked <07592> water <04325>, [and] she gave <05414> [him] milk <02461>; she brought <07126> forth <07126> butter <02529> in a lordly <0117> dish < 05602>.

26 She put <07971> her hand <03027> to the nail < 03489>, and her right <03225> hand <03225> to the workmen's <06001> hammer <01989>; and with the hammer she smote < 01986> Sisera <05516>, she smote <04277> off his head < 07218>, when she had pierced <04272> and stricken <02498> through his temples <07451>.

27 At <0996> her feet <07272> he bowed <03766> , he fell <05307>, he lay <07901> down <07901>: at < 0996> her feet <07272> he bowed <03766>, he fell < 05307>: where <0834> he bowed <03766>, there <08033> he fell <05307> down dead <07703>.

28 The mother <0517> of Sisera <05516> looked < 08259> out at <01157> a window <02474>, and cried < 02980> through <01157> the lattice <0822>, Why <04069> is his chariot <07393> [so] long <0954> in coming <0935> ? why <04069> tarry <0309> the wheels <06471> of his chariots <04818>?

29 Her wise <02450> ladies <08282> answered < 06030> her, yea <0637>, she returned <07725> answer < 0559> to herself,

30 Have they not sped <04672>? have they [not] divided <02505> the prey <07998>; to every <07218> man < 01397> a damsel <07356> [or] two; to Sisera <05516> a prey <07998> of divers <06648> colours <06648>, a prey < 07998> of divers <06648> colours <06648> of needlework < 07553>, of divers <06648> colours <06648> of needlework < 07553> on both sides, [meet] for the necks <06677> of [them that take] the spoil <07998>?

31 So <03651> let all <03605> thine enemies < 0341> perish <06>, O LORD <03068>: but [let] them that love <0157> him [be] as the sun <08121> when he goeth <03318> forth <03318> in his might <01369>. And the land <0776> had rest <08252> forty <0705> years <08141>.

Judges 6

1. And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> did <06213> evil <07451> in the sight <05869> of the LORD <03068>: and the LORD <03068> delivered <05414> them into the hand <03027> of Midian <04080> seven <07651> years <08141>.

2 And the hand <03027> of Midian <04080> prevailed <05810> against <05921> Israel <03478>: [and] because <06440> of the Midianites <04080> the children <01121> of Israel <03478> made <06213> them the dens <04492> which <0834> [are] in the mountains <02022>, and caves < 04631>, and strong <04679> holds <04679>.

3 And [so] it was, when <0518> Israel <03478> had sown <02232>, that the Midianites <04080> came <05927> up, and the Amalekites <06003>, and the children <01121> of the east <06924>, even they came <05927> up against < 05921> them;

4 And they encamped <02583> against <05921> them, and destroyed <07843> the increase <02981> of the earth < 0776>, till <05704> thou come <0935> unto Gaza <05804> , and left <07604> no <03808> sustenance <04241> for Israel <03478>, neither sheep <07716>, nor ox <07794>, nor ass <02543>.

5 For they came <05927> up with their cattle <04735> and their tents <0168>, and they came <0935> as grasshoppers <0697> for multitude <07230>; [for] both they and their camels <01581> were without <0369> number <04557>: and they entered <0935> into the land <0776> to destroy <07843> it.

6 And Israel <03478> was greatly <03966> impoverished <01809> because <06440> of the Midianites < 04080>; and the children <01121> of Israel <03478> cried <02199> unto the LORD <03068>.

7. And it came <01961> to pass, when <03588> the children <01121> of Israel <03478> cried <02199> unto the LORD <03068> because of the Midianites <04080>,

8 That the LORD <03068> sent <07971> a prophet < 05030> unto the children <01121> of Israel <03478>, which said <0559> unto them, Thus <03541> saith <0559> the LORD <03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478>, I brought < 05927> you up from Egypt <04714>, and brought <03318> you forth <03318> out of the house <01004> of bondage <05650> ;

9 And I delivered <05337> you out of the hand < 03027> of the Egyptians <04714>, and out of the hand <03027> of all <03605> that oppressed <03905> you, and drave < 01644> them out from before <06440> you, and gave <05414> you their land <0776>;

10 And I said <0559> unto you, I [am] the LORD < 03068> your God <0430>; fear <03372> not the gods < 0430> of the Amorites <0567>, in whose <0834> land < 0776> ye dwell <03427>: but ye have not obeyed <08085> my voice <06963>.

11. And there came <0935> an angel <04397> of the LORD <03068>, and sat <03427> under <08478> an oak < 0424> which <0834> [was] in Ophrah <06084>, that [pertained] unto Joash <03101> the Abiezrite <033>: and his son <01121> Gideon <01439> threshed <02251> wheat < 02406> by the winepress <01660>, to hide <05127> [it] from the Midianites <04080>.

12 And the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> appeared <07200> unto him, and said <0559> unto him, The LORD <03068> [is] with thee, thou mighty <01368> man of valour < 02428>.

13 And Gideon <01439> said <0559> unto him, Oh < 0994> my Lord <0113>, if the LORD <03068> be with us, why <04100> then is all <03605> this <02063> befallen < 04672> us? and where <0346> [be] all <03605> his miracles <06381> which <0834> our fathers <01> told <05608> us of, saying <0559>, Did <06213> not the LORD <03068> bring <05927> us up from Egypt <04714>? but now <06258> the LORD <03068> hath forsaken <05203> us, and delivered < 05414> us into the hands <03709> of the Midianites <04080>.

14 And the LORD <03068> looked <06437> upon him, and said <0559>, Go <03212> in this <02088> thy might <03581>, and thou shalt save <03467> Israel <03478> from the hand <03709> of the Midianites <04080>: have not I sent <07971> thee?

15 And he said <0559> unto him, Oh <0994> my Lord <0136>, wherewith <04100> shall I save <03467> Israel <03478>? behold <02009>, my family <0504> [is] poor < 01800> in Manasseh <04519>, and I [am] the least <06810> in my father's <01> house <01004>.

16 And the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto him, Surely <03588> I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite < 05221> the Midianites <04080> as one <0259> man <0376> .

17 And he said <0559> unto him, If <0518> now < 04994> I have found <04672> grace <02580> in thy sight < 05869>, then shew <06213> me a sign <0226> that thou talkest <01696> with me.

18 Depart <04185> not hence <02088>, I pray < 04994> thee, until <05704> I come <0935> unto thee, and bring <03318> forth <03318> my present <04503>, and set <03240> [it] before <06440> thee. And he said <0559>, I will tarry <03427> until <05704> thou come <07725> again <07725>.

19 And Gideon <01439> went <0935> in, and made < 06213> ready a kid, and unleavened <04682> cakes <04682> of an ephah <0374> of flour <07058>: the flesh <01320> he put <07760> in a basket <05536>, and he put <07760> the broth <04839> in a pot <06517>, and brought <03318> [it] out unto him under <08478> the oak <0424>, and presented < 05066> [it].

20 And the angel <04397> of God <0430> said < 0559> unto him, Take <03947> the flesh <01320> and the unleavened <04682> cakes <04682>, and lay <03241> [them] upon this <01975> rock <05553>, and pour <08210> out the broth <04839>. And he did <06213> so <03651>.

21 Then the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> put <07971> forth <07971> the end <07097> of the staff < 04938> that [was] in his hand <03027>, and touched <05060> the flesh <01320> and the unleavened <04682> cakes < 04682>; and there rose <05927> up fire <0784> out of the rock <06697>, and consumed <0398> the flesh <01320> and the unleavened <04682> cakes <02471>. Then the angel < 04397> of the LORD <03068> departed <01980> out of his sight <05869>.

22 And when Gideon <01439> perceived <07200> that he [was] an angel <04397> of the LORD <03068>, Gideon < 01439> said <0559>, Alas <0160>, O Lord <0136> GOD <03069>! for because I have seen <07200> an angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> face <06440> to face <06440>.

23 And the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto him, Peace <07965> [be] unto thee; fear <03372> not: thou shalt not die <04191>.

24 Then Gideon <01439> built <01129> an altar < 04196> there <08033> unto the LORD <03068>, and called < 07121> it Jehovahshalom <03073>: unto this <02088> day < 03117> it [is] yet <05750> in Ophrah <06084> of the Abiezrites <033>.

25. And it came <01961> to pass the same <01931> night <03915>, that the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto him, Take <03947> thy father's <01> young <06499> bullock <06499>, even the second <08145> bullock <06499> of seven <07651> years <08141> old, and throw <02040> down <02040> the altar <04196> of Baal <01168> that thy father <01> hath, and cut <03772> down the grove <0842> that [is] by it:

26 And build <01129> an altar <04196> unto the LORD <03068> thy God <0430> upon the top <07218> of this < 02088> rock <04581>, in the ordered <04634> place < 04634>, and take <03947> the second <08145> bullock < 06499>, and offer <05927> a burnt <05930> sacrifice with the wood <06086> of the grove <0842> which <0834> thou shalt cut <03772> down.

27 Then Gideon <01439> took <03947> ten < 06235> men <0582> of his servants <05650>, and did < 06213> as the LORD <03068> had said <01696> unto him: and [so] it was, because <0834> he feared <03372> his father's < 01> household <01004>, and the men <0582> of the city < 05892>, that he could not do <06213> [it] by day <03119>, that he did <06213> [it] by night <03915>.

28 And when the men <0582> of the city <05892> arose <07925> early <07925> in the morning <01242>, behold <02009>, the altar <04196> of Baal <01168> was cast <05422> down <05422>, and the grove <0842> was cut <03772> down that [was] by it, and the second <08145> bullock <06499> was offered <05927> upon the altar <04196> [that was] built <01129>.

29 And they said <0559> one <0376> to another < 07453>, Who <04310> hath done <06213> this <02088> thing <01697>? And when they enquired <01875> and asked < 01245>, they said <0559>, Gideon <01439> the son < 01121> of Joash <03101> hath done <06213> this <02088> thing <01697>.

30 Then the men <0582> of the city <05892> said < 0559> unto Joash <03101>, Bring <03318> out thy son < 01121>, that he may die <04191>: because <03588> he hath cast <05422> down the altar <04196> of Baal <01168>, and because <03588> he hath cut <03772> down the grove <0842> that [was] by it.

31 And Joash <03101> said <0559> unto all < 03605> that stood <05975> against <05921> him, Will ye plead <07378> for Baal <01168>? will ye save <03467> him? he that will plead <07378> for him, let him be put to death < 04191> whilst <05704> [it is yet] morning <01242>: if < 0518> he [be] a god <0430>, let him plead <07378> for himself, because <03588> [one] hath cast <05422> down < 05422> his altar <04196>.

32 Therefore on that day <03117> he called <07121> him Jerubbaal <03378>, saying <0559>, Let Baal <01168> plead <07378> against him, because <03588> he hath thrown < 05422> down <05422> his altar <04196>.

33. Then all <03605> the Midianites <04080> and the Amalekites <06003> and the children <01121> of the east < 06924> were gathered <0622> together <03162>, and went < 05674> over <05674>, and pitched <02583> in the valley < 06010> of Jezreel <03157>.

34 But the Spirit <07307> of the LORD <03068> came <03847> upon Gideon <01439>, and he blew <08628> a trumpet <07782>; and Abiezer <044> was gathered <02199> after <0310> him.

35 And he sent <07971> messengers <04397> throughout all <03605> Manasseh <04519>; who also <01571> was gathered <02199> after <0310> him: and he sent < 07971> messengers <04397> unto Asher <0836>, and unto Zebulun <02074>, and unto Naphtali <05321>; and they came < 05927> up to meet <07125> them.

36 And Gideon <01439> said <0559> unto God < 0430>, If <0518> thou wilt save <03467> Israel <03478> by mine hand <03027>, as thou hast said <01696>,

37 Behold <02009>, I will put <03322> a fleece < 01492> of wool <06785> in the floor <01637>; [and] if < 0518> the dew <02919> be on <05921> the fleece <01492> only <0905>, and [it be] dry <02721> upon all <03605> the earth <0776> [beside], then shall I know <03045> that thou wilt save <03467> Israel <03478> by mine hand <03027>, as thou hast said <01696>.

38 And it was so <03651>: for he rose <07925> up early <07925> on the morrow <04283>, and thrust <02115> the fleece <01492> together, and wringed <04680> the dew < 02919> out of the fleece <01492>, a bowl <05602> full < 04392> of water <04325>.

39 And Gideon <01439> said <0559> unto God < 0430>, Let not thine anger <0639> be hot <02734> against me, and I will speak <01696> but this once <06471>: let me prove <05254>, I pray <04994> thee, but this once <06471> with the fleece <01492>; let it now <04994> be dry <02721> only <0905> upon the fleece <01492>, and upon all <03605> the ground <0776> let there be dew <02919>.

40 And God <0430> did <06213> so <03651> that night <03915>: for it was dry <02721> upon the fleece < 01492> only <0905>, and there was dew <02919> on < 05921> all <03605> the ground <0776>.

Judges 7

1. Then Jerubbaal <03378>, who <04310> [is] Gideon <01439>, and all <03605> the people <05971> that [were] with him, rose <07925> up early <07925>, and pitched < 02583> beside <05921> the well <05878> of Harod < 05878>: so that the host <04264> of the Midianites <04080> were on the north <06828> side of them, by the hill <01389> of Moreh <04176>, in the valley <06010>.

2 And the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto Gideon < 01439>, The people <05971> that [are] with thee [are] too many <07227> for me to give <05414> the Midianites <04080> into their hands <03027>, lest <06435> Israel <03478> vaunt <06286> themselves against <05921> me, saying < 0559>, Mine own hand <03027> hath saved <03467> me.

3 Now <06288> therefore go <04994> to, proclaim < 07121> in the ears <0241> of the people <05971>, saying < 0559>, Whosoever <04310> [is] fearful <03373> and afraid <02730>, let him return <07725> and depart <06852> early <06852> from mount <02022> Gilead <01568>. And there returned <07725> of the people <05971> twenty <06242> and two <08147> thousand <0505>; and there remained < 07604> ten <06235> thousand <0505>.

4 And the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto Gideon < 01439>, The people <05971> [are] yet <05750> [too] many < 07227>; bring <0338> them down <03381> unto the water < 04325>, and I will try <06884> them for thee there <08033>: and it shall be, [that] of whom <0834> I say <0559> unto thee, This <02088> shall go <03212> with thee, the same <01931> shall go <03212> with thee; and of whomsoever <0834> I say <0559> unto thee, This <02088> shall not go <03212> with thee, the same <01931> shall not go <03212>.

5 So he brought <03381> down <03381> the people < 05971> unto the water <04325>: and the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto Gideon <01439>, Every <03605> one that lappeth <03952> of the water <04325> with his tongue < 03956>, as a dog <03611> lappeth <03952>, him shalt thou set <03322> by himself; likewise every <03605> one that boweth <03766> down upon his knees <01290> to drink <08354>.

6 And the number <04557> of them that lapped <03952> , [putting] their hand <03027> to their mouth <06310>, were three <07969> hundred <03967> men <0376>: but all < 03605> the rest <03499> of the people <05971> bowed < 03766> down upon their knees <01290> to drink <08354> water <04325>.

7 And the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto Gideon < 01439>, By the three <07969> hundred <03967> men < 0376> that lapped <03952> will I save <03467> you, and deliver <05414> the Midianites <04080> into thine hand < 03027>: and let all <03605> the [other] people <05971> go <03212> every man <0376> unto his place <04725>.

8 So the people <05971> took <03947> victuals < 06720> in their hand <03027>, and their trumpets <07782>: and he sent <07971> all <03605> [the rest of] Israel < 03478> every man <0376> unto his tent <0168>, and retained <02388> those three <07969> hundred <03967> men < 0376>: and the host <04264> of Midian <04080> was beneath <08478> him in the valley <06010>.

9. And it came <01961> to pass the same <01931> night <03915>, that the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto him, Arise <06965>, get <03381> thee down <03381> unto the host <04264>; for I have delivered <05414> it into thine hand <03027>.

10 But if <0518> thou fear <03373> to go < 03381> down <03381>, go <03381> thou with Phurah < 06513> thy servant <05288> down <03381> to the host < 04264>:

11 And thou shalt hear <08085> what <04100> they say <01696>; and afterward <0310> shall thine hands < 03027> be strengthened <02388> to go <03381> down < 03381> unto the host <04264>. Then went <03381> he down < 03381> with Phurah <06513> his servant <05288> unto the outside <07097> of the armed <02571> men that [were] in the host <04264>.

12 And the Midianites <04080> and the Amalekites < 06003> and all <03605> the children <01121> of the east < 06924> lay <05307> along in the valley <06010> like grasshoppers <0697> for multitude <07230>; and their camels <01581> [were] without <0369> number <04557>, as the sand <02344> by the sea <03220> side <08193> for multitude <07230>.

13 And when Gideon <01439> was come <0935>, behold <02009>, [there was] a man <0376> that told <05608> a dream <02472> unto his fellow <07453>, and said <0559>, Behold <02009>, I dreamed <02492> a dream <02472>, and, lo <02009>, a cake <06742> of barley <08184> bread < 03899> tumbled <02015> into the host <04264> of Midian < 04080>, and came <0935> unto a tent <0168>, and smote < 05221> it that it fell <05307>, and overturned <02015> it, that the tent <0168> lay <05307> along.

14 And his fellow <07453> answered <06030> and said <0559>, This <02063> [is] nothing <0369> else save the sword <02719> of Gideon <01439> the son <01121> of Joash <03101>, a man <0376> of Israel <03478>: [for] into his hand <03027> hath God <0430> delivered <05414> Midian <04080>, and all <03605> the host <04264>.

15 And it was [so], when Gideon <01439> heard < 08085> the telling <04557> of the dream <02472>, and the interpretation <07667> thereof, that he worshipped <07812>, and returned <07725> into <0413> the host <04264> of Israel <03478>, and said <0559>, Arise <06965>; for the LORD <03068> hath delivered <05414> into your hand < 03027> the host <04264> of Midian <04080>.

16. And he divided <02673> the three <07969> hundred <03967> men <0376> [into] three <07969> companies < 07218>, and he put <05414> a trumpet <07782> in every < 03605> man's hand <03027>, with empty <07385> pitchers < 03537>, and lamps <03940> within <08432> the pitchers < 03537>.

17 And he said <0559> unto them, Look <07200> on me, and do <06213> likewise <03651>: and, behold <02009>, when I come <0935> to the outside <07097> of the camp < 04264>, it shall be [that], as I do <06213>, so <03651> shall ye do <06213>.

18 When I blow <08628> with a trumpet <07782>, I and all <03605> that [are] with me, then blow <08628> ye the trumpets <07782> also <01571> on every <03605> side < 05439> of all <03605> the camp <04264>, and say <0559> , [The sword] of the LORD <03068>, and of Gideon <01439>.

19 So Gideon <01439>, and the hundred <03967> men <0376> that [were] with him, came <0935> unto the outside < 07097> of the camp <04264> in the beginning <07218> of the middle <08484> watch <0821>; and they had but newly < 06965> set <06965> the watch <08104>: and they blew < 08628> the trumpets <07782>, and brake <05310> the pitchers <03537> that [were] in their hands <03027>.

20 And the three <07969> companies <07218> blew < 08628> the trumpets <07782>, and brake <07665> the pitchers <03537>, and held <02388> the lamps <03940> in their left <08040> hands <03027>, and the trumpets <07782> in their right <03225> hands <03027> to blow <08628> [withal]: and they cried <07121>, The sword <02719> of the LORD <03068>, and of Gideon <01439>.

21 And they stood <05975> every man <0376> in his place <08478> round <05439> about the camp <04264>: and all <03605> the host <04264> ran <07323>, and cried < 07321>, and fled <05127>.

22 And the three <07969> hundred <03967> blew < 08628> the trumpets <07782>, and the LORD <03068> set < 07760> every man's <0376> sword <02719> against his fellow <07453>, even throughout all <03605> the host <04264>: and the host <04264> fled <05127> to Bethshittah <01029> in Zererath, [and] to the border <08193> of Abelmeholah <065>, unto Tabbath <02888>.

23. And the men <0376> of Israel <03478> gathered <06817> themselves together out of Naphtali <05321>, and out of Asher <0836>, and out of all <03605> Manasseh <04519>, and pursued <07291> after <0310> the Midianites <04080>.

24 And Gideon <01439> sent <07971> messengers < 04397> throughout all <03605> mount <02022> Ephraim < 0669>, saying <0559>, Come <03381> down <03381> against <07125> the Midianites <04080>, and take <03920> before them the waters <04325> unto Bethbarah <01012> and Jordan <03383>. Then all <03605> the men <0376> of Ephraim <0669> gathered <06817> themselves together, and took <03920> the waters <04325> unto Bethbarah <01012> and Jordan <03383>.

25 And they took <03920> two <08147> princes < 08269> of the Midianites <04080>, Oreb <06157> and Zeeb < 02062>; and they slew <02026> Oreb <06157> upon the rock <06697> Oreb <06157>, and Zeeb <02062> they slew < 02026> at the winepress <03342> of Zeeb <02062>, and pursued <07291> Midian <04080>, and brought <0935> the heads <07218> of Oreb <06157> and Zeeb <02062> to Gideon <01439> on the other <05676> side <05676> Jordan < 03383>.

Judges 8

1. And the men <0376> of Ephraim <0669> said < 0559> unto him, Why <04100> hast thou served <06213> us thus, that thou calledst <07121> us not, when <03588> thou wentest <01980> to fight <03898> with the Midianites < 04080>? And they did chide <07378> with him sharply <02394>.

2 And he said <0559> unto them, What <04100> have I done <06213> now <06288> in comparison of you? [Is] not the gleaning <05955> of the grapes of Ephraim <0669> better < 02896> than the vintage <01210> of Abiezer <044>?

3 God <0430> hath delivered <05414> into your hands <03027> the princes <08269> of Midian <04080>, Oreb < 06157> and Zeeb <02062>: and what <04100> was I able < 03201> to do <06213> in comparison of you? Then <0227> their anger <07307> was abated <07503> toward him, when he had said <01696> that.

4. And Gideon <01439> came <0935> to Jordan < 03383>, [and] passed <05674> over <05674>, he, and the three <07969> hundred <03967> men <0376> that [were] with him, faint <05889>, yet pursuing <07291> [them].

5 And he said <0559> unto the men <0582> of Succoth <05523>, Give <05414>, I pray <04994> you, loaves < 03603> of bread <03899> unto the people <05971> that follow <07272> me; for they [be] faint <05889>, and I am pursuing < 07291> after <0310> Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759> , kings <04428> of Midian <04080>.

6 And the princes <08269> of Succoth <05523> said <0559>, [Are] the hands <03709> of Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759> now <06258> in thine hand <03027>, that we should give <05414> bread <03899> unto thine army < 06635>?

7 And Gideon <01439> said <0559>, Therefore when the LORD <03068> hath delivered <05414> Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759> into mine hand <03027>, then I will tear <01758> your flesh <01320> with the thorns <06975> of the wilderness <04057> and with briers <01303>.

8 And he went <05927> up thence <08033> to Penuel <06439>, and spake <01696> unto them likewise <02063>: and the men <0582> of Penuel <06439> answered <06030> him as the men <0582> of Succoth <05523> had answered < 06030> [him].

9 And he spake <0559> also <01571> unto the men < 0582> of Penuel <06439>, saying <0559>, When I come < 07725> again <07725> in peace <07965>, I will break < 05422> down <05242> this tower <04026>.

10 Now Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759> [were] in Karkor <07174>, and their hosts <04264> with them, about fifteen <06240> thousand <0505> [men], all <03605> that were left <03498> of all <03605> the hosts <04264> of the children <01121> of the east <06924>: for there fell < 05307> an hundred <03967> and twenty <06242> thousand < 0505> men <0376> that drew <08025> sword <02719>.

11 And Gideon <01439> went <05927> up by the way <01870> of them that dwelt <07931> in tents <0168> on the east <06924> of Nobah <05025> and Jogbehah <03011>, and smote <05221> the host <04264>: for the host <04264> was secure <0983>.

12 And when Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759> fled <05127>, he pursued <07291> after <0310> them, and took <03920> the two <08147> kings <04428> of Midian < 04080>, Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759>, and discomfited <02729> all <03605> the host <04264>.

13 And Gideon <01439> the son <01121> of Joash < 03101> returned <07725> from battle <04421> before < 04608> the sun <02775> [was up],

14 And caught <03920> a young <05288> man of the men <0582> of Succoth <05523>, and enquired <07592> of him: and he described <03789> unto him the princes <08269> of Succoth <05523>, and the elders <02205> thereof, [even] threescore <07657> and seventeen <07657> men <0376>.

15 And he came <0935> unto the men <0582> of Succoth <05523>, and said <0559>, Behold <02009> Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759>, with whom <0834> ye did upbraid <02778> me, saying <0559>, [Are] the hands < 03709> of Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759> now < 06258> in thine hand <03027>, that we should give <05414> bread <03899> unto thy men <0582> [that are] weary < 03286>?

16 And he took <03947> the elders <02205> of the city <05892>, and thorns <06975> of the wilderness < 04057> and briers <01303>, and with them he taught <03045> the men <0582> of Succoth <05523>.

17 And he beat <05422> down <05242> the tower < 04026> of Penuel <06439>, and slew <02026> the men < 0582> of the city <05892>.

18. Then said <0559> he unto Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759>, What <0375> manner of men <0582> [were they] whom <0834> ye slew <02026> at Tabor <08396>? And they answered <0559>, As thou [art], so <01992> [were] they; each one <0259> resembled <08389> the children <01121> of a king <04428>.

19 And he said <0559>, They [were] my brethren < 0251>, [even] the sons <01121> of my mother <0517>: [as] the LORD <03068> liveth <02416>, if <03863> ye had saved <02421> them alive <02421>, I would not slay <02026> you.

20 And he said <0559> unto Jether <03500> his firstborn <01060>, Up, [and] slay <02026> them. But the youth <05288> drew <08025> not his sword <02719>: for he feared <03372>, because <03588> he [was] yet <05750> a youth <05288>.

21 Then Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759> said < 0559>, Rise <06965> thou, and fall <06293> upon us: for as the man <0376> [is, so is] his strength <01369>. And Gideon <01439> arose <06965>, and slew <02026> Zebah < 02078> and Zalmunna <06759>, and took <03947> away the ornaments <07720> that [were] on their camels <01581>' necks <06677>.

22. Then the men <0376> of Israel <03478> said < 0559> unto Gideon <01439>, Rule <04910> thou over us, both <01571> thou, and thy son <01121>, and thy son's <01121> son <01121> also <01571>: for thou hast delivered <03467> us from the hand <03027> of Midian <04080>.

23 And Gideon <01439> said <0559> unto them, I will not rule <04910> over you, neither <03808> shall my son < 01121> rule <04910> over you: the LORD <03068> shall rule <04910> over you.

24 And Gideon <01439> said <0559> unto them, I would desire <07592> a request <07596> of you, that ye would give <05414> me every man <0376> the earrings <05141> of his prey <07998>. (For they had golden <02091> earrings < 05141>, because <03588> they [were] Ishmaelites <03459>.)

25 And they answered <0559>, We will willingly < 05414> give <05414> [them]. And they spread <06566> a garment <08071>, and did cast <07993> therein <08033> every man <0376> the earrings <05141> of his prey <07998> .

26 And the weight <04948> of the golden <02091> earrings <05141> that he requested <07592> was a thousand < 0505> and seven <07651> hundred <03967> [shekels] of gold <02091>; beside <0905> ornaments <07720>, and collars <05188>, and purple <0713> raiment <0899> that [was] on <05921> the kings <04428> of Midian <04080>, and beside <0905> the chains <06060> that [were] about their camels < 01581>' necks <06677>.

27 And Gideon <01439> made <06213> an ephod < 0646> thereof, and put <03322> it in his city <05892>, [even] in Ophrah <06084>: and all <03605> Israel <03478> went thither <08033> a whoring <02181> after <0310> it: which thing became <01961> a snare <04170> unto Gideon < 01439>, and to his house <01004>.

28 Thus was Midian <04080> subdued <03665> before <06440> the children <01121> of Israel <03478>, so that they lifted <05375> up their heads <07218> no <03808> more <03254>. And the country <0776> was in quietness < 08252> forty <0705> years <08141> in the days <03117> of Gideon <01439>.

29. And Jerubbaal <03378> the son <01121> of Joash <03101> went <03212> and dwelt <03427> in his own house <01004>.

30 And Gideon <01439> had threescore <07657> and ten sons <01121> of his body <03409> begotten <03318>: for he had <01961> many <07227> wives <0802>.

31 And his concubine <06370> that [was] in Shechem < 07927>, she also <01571> bare <03205> him a son < 01121>, whose <0853> name <08034> he called <07760> Abimelech <040>.

32 And Gideon <01439> the son <01121> of Joash < 03101> died <04191> in a good <02896> old <07872> age <07872>, and was buried <06912> in the sepulchre <06913> of Joash <03101> his father <01>, in Ophrah <06084> of the Abiezrites <033>.

33 And it came <01961> to pass, as soon <0834> as Gideon <01439> was dead <04191>, that the children < 01121> of Israel <03478> turned <07725> again <07725>, and went a whoring <02181> after <0310> Baalim <01168>, and made <07760> Baalberith <01170> their god <0430>.

34 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> remembered <02142> not the LORD <03068> their God <0430>, who had delivered <05337> them out of the hands <03027> of all <03605> their enemies <0341> on every <05437> side <05439>:

35 Neither <03808> shewed <06213> they kindness < 02617> to the house <01004> of Jerubbaal <03378>, [namely], Gideon <01439>, according to all <03605> the goodness < 02896> which <0835> he had shewed <06213> unto Israel < 03478>.

Judges 9

1. And Abimelech <040> the son <01121> of Jerubbaal <03378> went <03212> to Shechem <07927> unto his mother's <0517> brethren <0251>, and communed <01696> with them, and with all <03605> the family <04940> of the house <01004> of his mother's <0517> father <01>, saying <0559>,

2 Speak <01696>, I pray <04994> you, in the ears <0241> of all <03605> the men <01167> of Shechem < 07927>, Whether <04100> [is] better <02896> for you, either that all <03605> the sons <01121> of Jerubbaal <03378>, [which are] threescore <07657> and ten persons <0376>, reign <04910> over you, or that one <0259> reign <04910> over you? remember <02142> also that I [am] your bone <06106> and your flesh <01320>.

3 And his mother's <0517> brethren <0251> spake < 01696> of him in the ears <0241> of all <03605> the men < 01167> of Shechem <07927> all <03605> these <0428> words <01697>: and their hearts <03820> inclined <05186> to follow Abimelech <040>; for they said <0559>, He [is] our brother <0251>.

4 And they gave <05414> him threescore <07657> and ten [pieces] of silver <03701> out of the house <01004> of Baalberith <01170>, wherewith Abimelech <040> hired < 07936> vain <07386> and light <06348> persons <0582>, which followed him.

5 And he went <0935> unto his father's <01> house <01004> at Ophrah <06084>, and slew <02026> his brethren <0251> the sons <01121> of Jerubbaal <03378>, [being] threescore <07657> and ten persons <0376>, upon one < 0259> stone <068>: notwithstanding yet Jotham <03147> the youngest <06996> son <01121> of Jerubbaal <03378> was left <03498>; for he hid <02244> himself.

6 And all <03605> the men <01167> of Shechem < 07927> gathered <0622> together, and all <03605> the house <01004> of Millo <04407>, and went <03212>, and made Abimelech <040> king <04428>, by the plain <0436> of the pillar <05324> that [was] in Shechem <07927>.

7. And when they told <05046> [it] to Jotham <03147>, he went <03212> and stood <05975> in the top <07218> of mount <02022> Gerizim <01630>, and lifted <05375> up his voice <06963>, and cried <07121>, and said <0559> unto them, Hearken <08085> unto me, ye men <01167> of Shechem < 07927>, that God <0430> may hearken <08085> unto you.

8 The trees <06086> went <01980> forth [on a time] to anoint <04886> a king <04428> over <05921> them; and they said <0559> unto the olive <02132> tree, Reign < 04427> thou over <05921> us.

9 But the olive <02132> tree said <0559> unto them, Should I leave <02308> my fatness <01880>, wherewith < 0834> by me they honour <03513> God <0430> and man < 0376>, and go <01980> to be promoted <05128> over < 05921> the trees <06086>?

10 And the trees <06086> said <0559> to the fig < 08384> tree <06086>, Come <03212> thou, [and] reign < 04427> over <05921> us.

11 But the fig <08384> tree <06086> said < 0559> unto them, Should I forsake <02308> my sweetness < 04987>, and my good <02896> fruit <08270>, and go < 01980> to be promoted <05128> over <05921> the trees < 06086>?

12 Then said <0559> the trees <06086> unto the vine <01612>, Come <03212> thou, [and] reign <04427> over < 05921> us.

13 And the vine <01612> said <0559> unto them, Should I leave <02308> my wine <08492>, which cheereth < 08055> God <0430> and man <0376>, and go <01980> to be promoted <05128> over <05921> the trees <06086>?

14 Then said <0559> all <03605> the trees < 06086> unto the bramble <0329>, Come <03212> thou, [and] reign <04427> over <05921> us.

15 And the bramble <0329> said <0559> unto the trees <06086>, If <0518> in truth <0571> ye anoint < 04886> me king <04428> over <05921> you, [then] come < 0935> [and] put your trust <02620> in my shadow <06738>: and if <0518> not, let fire <0784> come <03318> out of the bramble <0329>, and devour <0398> the cedars <0730> of Lebanon <03844>.

16 Now <06258> therefore, if <0518> ye have done <06213> truly <0571> and sincerely <08549>, in that ye have made Abimelech <040> king <04427>, and if <0518> ye have dealt <06213> well <02895> with Jerubbaal <03378> and his house <01004>, and have done <06213> unto him according to the deserving <01576> of his hands <03027>;

17 (For my father <01> fought <03898> for you, and adventured <07993> his life <05315> far <05048>, and delivered <05337> you out of the hand <03027> of Midian < 04080>:

18 And ye are risen <06965> up against <05921> my father's <01> house <01004> this day <03117>, and have slain <02026> his sons <01121>, threescore <07657> and ten persons <0376>, upon one <0259> stone <068>, and have made Abimelech <040>, the son <01121> of his maidservant <0519>, king <04427> over <05921> the men <01167> of Shechem <07927>, because <03588> he [is] your brother < 0251>;)

19 If <0518> ye then have dealt <06213> truly < 0571> and sincerely <08549> with Jerubbaal <03378> and with his house <01004> this <02088> day <03117>, [then] rejoice <08055> ye in Abimelech <040>, and let him also < 01571> rejoice <08055> in you:

20 But if <0518> not, let fire <0784> come < 03318> out from Abimelech <040>, and devour <0398> the men <01167> of Shechem <07927>, and the house <01004> of Millo <04407>; and let fire <0784> come <03318> out from the men <01167> of Shechem <07927>, and from the house < 01004> of Millo <04407>, and devour <0398> Abimelech < 040>.

21 And Jotham <03147> ran <07323> away, and fled <01272>, and went <03212> to Beer <0876>, and dwelt < 03427> there <08033>, for fear <06440> of Abimelech < 040> his brother <0251>.

22. When Abimelech <040> had reigned <07786> three <07969> years <08141> over <05921> Israel <03478>,

23 Then God <0430> sent <07971> an evil < 07451> spirit <07307> between <0996> Abimelech <040> and the men <01167> of Shechem <07927>; and the men < 01167> of Shechem <07927> dealt treacherously <0898> with Abimelech <040>:

24 That the cruelty <02555> [done] to the threescore < 07657> and ten sons <01121> of Jerubbaal <03378> might come <0935>, and their blood <01818> be laid <07760> upon Abimelech <040> their brother <0251>, which <0834> slew <02026> them; and upon the men <01167> of Shechem <07927> , which <0834> aided him in the killing <02026> of his brethren <0251>.

25 And the men <01167> of Shechem <07927> set < 07760> liers in wait <0693> for him in the top <07218> of the mountains <02022>, and they robbed <01497> all < 03605> that came <05674> along that way <01870> by them: and it was told <05046> Abimelech <040>.

26 And Gaal <01603> the son <01121> of Ebed < 05651> came <0935> with his brethren <0251>, and went < 05674> over <05674> to Shechem <07927>: and the men < 01167> of Shechem <07927> put their confidence <0982> in him.

27 And they went <03318> out into the fields <07704> , and gathered <01219> their vineyards <03754>, and trode < 01869> [the grapes], and made <06213> merry <01974>, and went <0935> into the house <01004> of their god <0430>, and did eat <0398> and drink <08354>, and cursed <07043> Abimelech <040>.

28 And Gaal <01603> the son <01121> of Ebed < 05651> said <0559>, Who <04310> [is] Abimelech <040>, and who <04310> [is] Shechem <07927>, that we should serve < 05647> him? [is] not [he] the son <01121> of Jerubbaal < 03378>? and Zebul <02083> his officer <06496>? serve < 05647> the men <0582> of Hamor <02544> the father <01> of Shechem <07927>: for why <04100> should we serve < 05647> him?

29 And would to God this <02088> people <05971> were under my hand <03027>! then would I remove <05493> Abimelech <040>. And he said <0559> to Abimelech <040>, Increase <07239> thine army <06635>, and come <03318> out.

30 And when Zebul <02083> the ruler <08269> of the city <05892> heard <08085> the words <01697> of Gaal < 01603> the son <01121> of Ebed <05651>, his anger < 0639> was kindled <02734>.

31 And he sent <07971> messengers <04397> unto Abimelech <040> privily <08649>, saying <0559>, Behold <02009>, Gaal <01603> the son <01121> of Ebed < 05651> and his brethren <0251> be come <0935> to Shechem <07927>; and, behold <02009>, they fortify <06696> the city <05892> against <05921> thee.

32 Now <06258> therefore up by night <03915>, thou and the people <05971> that [is] with thee, and lie in wait < 0693> in the field <07704>:

33 And it shall be, [that] in the morning <01242>, as soon as the sun <08121> is up, thou shalt rise <07925> early <07925>, and set <06584> upon the city <05892>: and, behold <02009>, [when] he and the people <05971> that [is] with him come <03318> out against <0413> thee, then mayest thou do <06213> to them as thou shalt find <04672> occasion <04672>.

34 And Abimelech <040> rose <06965> up, and all < 03605> the people <05971> that [were] with him, by night < 03915>, and they laid wait <0693> against <05921> Shechem <07927> in four <0702> companies <07218>.

35 And Gaal <01603> the son <01121> of Ebed < 05651> went <03318> out, and stood <05975> in the entering <06607> of the gate <08179> of the city <05892>: and Abimelech <040> rose <06965> up, and the people <05971> that [were] with him, from lying in wait <03993>.

36 And when Gaal <01603> saw <07200> the people < 05971>, he said <0559> to Zebul <02083>, Behold < 02009>, there come <03381> people <05971> down <03381> from the top <07218> of the mountains <02022>. And Zebul < 02083> said <0559> unto him, Thou seest <07200> the shadow <06738> of the mountains <02022> as [if they were] men < 0582>.

37 And Gaal <01603> spake <01696> again and said <0559>, See <02009> there come <03381> people < 05971> down <03381> by the middle <02872> of the land < 0776>, and another <0259> company <07218> come <0935> along by the plain <0436> of Meonenim <06049>.

38 Then said <0559> Zebul <02083> unto him, Where <0346> [is] now <0645> thy mouth <06310>, wherewith < 0834> thou saidst <0559>, Who <04310> [is] Abimelech < 040>, that we should serve <05647> him? [is] not this < 02088> the people <05971> that thou hast despised <03988>? go <03318> out, I pray <04994> now <06258>, and fight <03898> with them.

39 And Gaal <01603> went <03318> out before < 06440> the men <01167> of Shechem <07927>, and fought < 03898> with Abimelech <040>.

40 And Abimelech <040> chased <07291> him, and he fled <05127> before <06440> him, and many <07227> were overthrown <05307> [and] wounded <02491>, [even] unto the entering <06607> of the gate <08179>.

41 And Abimelech <040> dwelt <03427> at Arumah < 0725>: and Zebul <02083> thrust <01644> out Gaal < 01603> and his brethren <0251>, that they should not dwell < 03427> in Shechem <07927>.

42 And it came <01961> to pass on the morrow <04283> , that the people <05971> went <03318> out into the field < 07704>; and they told <05046> Abimelech <040>.

43 And he took <03947> the people <05971>, and divided <02673> them into three <07969> companies <07218> , and laid wait <0693> in the field <07704>, and looked < 07200>, and, behold <02009>, the people <05971> [were] come <03318> forth <03318> out of the city <05892>; and he rose <06965> up against <05921> them, and smote <05221> them.

44 And Abimelech <040>, and the company <07218> that [was] with him, rushed <06584> forward <06584>, and stood <05975> in the entering <06607> of the gate <08179> of the city <05892>: and the two <08147> [other] companies < 07218> ran <06584> upon all <03605> [the people] that [were] in the fields <07704>, and slew <05221> them.

45 And Abimelech <040> fought <03898> against the city <05892> all <03605> that day <03117>; and he took <03920> the city <05892>, and slew <02026> the people <05971> that [was] therein, and beat <05422> down <05422> the city <05892>, and sowed <02232> it with salt <04417> .

46 And when all <03605> the men <01167> of the tower <04026> of Shechem <07927> heard <08085> [that], they entered <0935> into <0413> an hold <06877> of the house <01004> of the god <0410> Berith <01286>.

47 And it was told <05046> Abimelech <040>, that all <03605> the men <01167> of the tower <04026> of Shechem <07927> were gathered <06908> together.

48 And Abimelech <040> gat <05927> him up to mount <02022> Zalmon <06756>, he and all <03605> the people <05971> that [were] with him; and Abimelech <040> took < 03947> an axe <07134> in his hand <03027>, and cut < 03772> down <03381> a bough <07754> from the trees < 06086>, and took <05375> it, and laid <07760> [it] on < 05921> his shoulder <07926>, and said <0559> unto the people <05971> that [were] with him, What <04100> ye have seen <07200> me do <06213>, make haste <04116>, [and] do < 06213> as I [have done].

49 And all <03605> the people <05971> likewise < 01571> cut <03772> down <03381> every man <0376> his bough <07754>, and followed Abimelech <040>, and put < 07760> [them] to the hold <06877>, and set the hold <06877> on fire <0784> upon them; so that all <03605> the men < 0582> of the tower <04026> of Shechem <07927> died < 04191> also <01571>, about a thousand <0505> men < 0376> and women <0802>.

50. Then went <03212> Abimelech <040> to Thebez < 08405>, and encamped <02583> against <0413> Thebez < 08405>, and took <03920> it.

51 But there was a strong <05797> tower <04026> within <08432> the city <05892>, and thither <08033> fled <05127> all <03605> the men <0582> and women < 0802>, and all <03605> they of the city <05892>, and shut <05462> [it] to them, and gat <05927> them up to the top < 01406> of the tower <04026>.

52 And Abimelech <040> came <0935> unto the tower <04026>, and fought <03898> against it, and went <05066> hard <05066> unto the door <06607> of the tower <04026> to burn <08313> it with fire <0784>.

53 And a certain <0259> woman <0802> cast < 07993> a piece <06400> of a millstone <07393> upon Abimelech's <040> head <07218>, and all to brake <07533> his skull <01538>.

54 Then he called <07121> hastily <04120> unto the young <05288> man his armourbearer <03627>, and said < 0559> unto him, Draw <08025> thy sword <02719>, and slay <04191> me, that men say <0559> not of me, A woman <0802> slew <02026> him. And his young <05288> man thrust < 01856> him through, and he died <04191>.

55 And when the men <0376> of Israel <03478> saw <07200> that Abimelech <040> was dead <04191>, they departed <03212> every man <0376> unto his place <04725>.

56 Thus God <0430> rendered <07725> the wickedness <07451> of Abimelech <040>, which <0834> he did < 06213> unto his father <01>, in slaying <02026> his seventy <07657> brethren <0251>:

57 And all <03605> the evil <07451> of the men < 0582> of Shechem <07927> did God <0430> render <07725> upon their heads <07218>: and upon them came <0935> the curse <07045> of Jotham <03147> the son <01121> of Jerubbaal <03378>.

Judges 10

1. And after <0310> Abimelech <040> there arose < 06965> to defend <03467> Israel <03478> Tola <08439> the son <01121> of Puah <06312>, the son <01121> of Dodo <01734>, a man <0376> of Issachar <03485>; and he dwelt <03427> in Shamir <08069> in mount <02022> Ephraim < 0669>.

2 And he judged <08199> Israel <03478> twenty < 06242> and three <07969> years <08141>, and died < 04191>, and was buried <06912> in Shamir <08069>.

3 And after <0310> him arose <06965> Jair < 02971>, a Gileadite <01569>, and judged <08199> Israel < 03478> twenty <06242> and two <08147> years <08141>.

4 And he had <01961> thirty <07970> sons < 01121> that rode <07392> on <05921> thirty <07970> ass <05895> colts <05895>, and they had thirty <07970> cities <05892>, which are called <07121> Havothjair < 02334> unto this <02088> day <03117>, which <0834> [are] in the land <0776> of Gilead <01568>.

5 And Jair <02971> died <04191>, and was buried < 06912> in Camon <07056>.

6. And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> did <06213> evil <07451> again <03254> in the sight < 05869> of the LORD <03068>, and served <05647> Baalim < 01168>, and Ashtaroth <06252>, and the gods <0430> of Syria <0758>, and the gods <0430> of Zidon <06721>, and the gods <0430> of Moab <04124>, and the gods <0430> of the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>, and the gods <0430> of the Philistines <06430>, and forsook <05800> the LORD < 03068>, and served <05647> not him.

7 And the anger <0639> of the LORD <03068> was hot <02734> against Israel <03478>, and he sold <04376> them into the hands <03027> of the Philistines <06430>, and into the hands <03027> of the children <01121> of Ammon < 05983>.

8 And that year <08141> they vexed <07492> and oppressed <07533> the children <01121> of Israel <03478>: eighteen years <08141>, all <03605> the children <01121> of Israel <03478> that [were] on the other <05676> side < 05676> Jordan <03383> in the land <0776> of the Amorites <0567>, which <0834> [is] in Gilead <01568>.

9 Moreover the children <01121> of Ammon <05983> passed <05674> over <05674> Jordan <03383> to fight < 03898> also <01571> against Judah <03063>, and against Benjamin <01144>, and against the house <01004> of Ephraim < 0669>; so that Israel <03478> was sore <03966> distressed <03334>.

10. And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> cried <02199> unto the LORD <03068>, saying <0559>, We have sinned <02398> against thee, both because <03588> we have forsaken <05800> our God <0430>, and also served <05647> Baalim <01168>.

11 And the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto the children <01121> of Israel <03478>, [Did] not [I deliver you] from the Egyptians <04714>, and from the Amorites <0567>, from the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>, and from the Philistines <06430>?

12 The Zidonians <06722> also <01571>, and the Amalekites <06003>, and the Maonites <04584>, did oppress < 03905> you; and ye cried <06817> to me, and I delivered < 03467> you out of their hand <03027>.

13 Yet ye have forsaken <05800> me, and served < 05647> other <0312> gods <0430>: wherefore <03651> I will deliver <03467> you no <03808> more <03254>.

14 Go <03212> and cry <02199> unto the gods < 0430> which <0834> ye have chosen <0977>; let them deliver <03467> you in the time <06256> of your tribulation < 06869>.

15 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> said <0559> unto the LORD <03068>, We have sinned <02398>: do <06213> thou unto us whatsoever <03605> seemeth <05869> good <02896> unto thee; deliver <05337> us only <0389>, we pray <04994> thee, this <02088> day <03117>.

16 And they put <05493> away <05493> the strange <05236> gods <0430> from among <07130> them, and served <05647> the LORD <03068>: and his soul <05315> was grieved <07114> for the misery <05999> of Israel <03478>.

17 Then the children <01121> of Ammon <05983> were gathered <06817> together, and encamped <02583> in Gilead < 01568>. And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> assembled <0622> themselves together, and encamped <02583> in Mizpeh <04709>.

18 And the people <05971> [and] princes <08269> of Gilead <01568> said <0559> one <0376> to another < 07453>, What <04310> man <0376> [is he] that will begin < 02490> to fight <03898> against the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>? he shall be head <07218> over all <03605> the inhabitants <03427> of Gilead <01568>.

Judges 11

1. Now Jephthah <03316> the Gileadite <01569> was a mighty <01368> man of valour <02428>, and he [was] the son < 01121> of an harlot <02181>: and Gilead <01568> begat < 03205> Jephthah <03316>.

2 And Gilead's <01568> wife <0802> bare < 03205> him sons <01121>; and his wife's <0802> sons < 01121> grew <01431> up, and they thrust <01644> out Jephthah <03316>, and said <0559> unto him, Thou shalt not inherit <05157> in our father's <01> house <01004>; for thou [art] the son <01121> of a strange <0312> woman < 0802>.

3 Then Jephthah <03316> fled <01272> from his brethren <0251>, and dwelt <03427> in the land <0776> of Tob <02897>: and there were gathered <03950> vain <07386> men <0582> to Jephthah <03316>, and went <03318> out with him.

4. And it came <01961> to pass in process of time < 03117>, that the children <01121> of Ammon <05983> made war <03898> against <05973> Israel <03478>.

5 And it was so, that when <0834> the children < 01121> of Ammon <05983> made war <03898> against < 05973> Israel <03478>, the elders <02205> of Gilead < 01568> went <03212> to fetch <03947> Jephthah <03316> out of the land <0776> of Tob <02897>:

6 And they said <0559> unto Jephthah <03316>, Come <03212>, and be our captain <07101>, that we may fight < 03898> with the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>.

7 And Jephthah <03316> said <0559> unto the elders <02205> of Gilead <01568>, Did not ye hate <08130> me, and expel <01644> me out of my father's <01> house < 01004>? and why <04069> are ye come <0935> unto me now < 06258> when <0834> ye are in distress <06887>?

8 And the elders <02205> of Gilead <01568> said < 0559> unto Jephthah <03316>, Therefore we turn <07725> again <07725> to thee now <06258>, that thou mayest go < 01980> with us, and fight <03898> against the children < 01121> of Ammon <05983>, and be our head <07218> over all <03605> the inhabitants <03427> of Gilead <01568>.

9 And Jephthah <03316> said <0559> unto the elders <02205> of Gilead <01568>, If <0518> ye bring < 07725> me home <07725> again <07725> to fight <03898> against the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>, and the LORD <03068> deliver <05414> them before <06440> me, shall I be your head <07218>?

10 And the elders <02205> of Gilead <01568> said <0559> unto Jephthah <03316>, The LORD <03068> be witness <08085> between <0996> us, if <0518> we do < 06213> not so <03651> according to thy words <01697>.

11 Then Jephthah <03316> went <03212> with the elders <02205> of Gilead <01568>, and the people <05971> made <07760> him head <07218> and captain <07101> over <05921> them: and Jephthah <03316> uttered <01696> all <03605> his words <01697> before <06440> the LORD < 03068> in Mizpeh <04709>.

12. And Jephthah <03316> sent <07971> messengers < 04397> unto the king <04428> of the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>, saying <0559>, What <04100> hast thou to do with me, that thou art come <0935> against <0413> me to fight <03898> in my land <0776>?

13 And the king <04428> of the children <01121> of Ammon <05983> answered <0559> unto the messengers <04397> of Jephthah <03316>, Because <03588> Israel <03478> took <03947> away my land <0776>, when they came <05927> up out of Egypt <04714>, from Arnon <0769> even unto Jabbok <02999>, and unto Jordan <03383>: now <06258> therefore restore <07725> those [lands] again <07725> peaceably < 07965>.

14 And Jephthah <03316> sent <07971> messengers < 04397> again unto the king <04428> of the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>:

15 And said <0559> unto him, Thus <03541> saith < 0559> Jephthah <03316>, Israel <03478> took <03947> not away the land <0776> of Moab <04124>, nor the land < 0776> of the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>:

16 But when Israel <03478> came <05927> up from Egypt <04714>, and walked <03212> through the wilderness < 04057> unto the Red <05488> sea <03220>, and came < 0935> to Kadesh <06946>;

17 Then Israel <03478> sent <07971> messengers < 04397> unto the king <04428> of Edom <0123>, saying < 0559>, Let me, I pray <04994> thee, pass <05674> through thy land <0776>: but the king <04428> of Edom <0123> would not hearken <08085> [thereto]. And in like <01571> manner they sent <07971> unto the king <04428> of Moab < 04124>: but he would <014> not [consent <014>]: and Israel <03478> abode <03427> in Kadesh <06946>.

18 Then they went <03212> along through the wilderness <04057>, and compassed <05437> the land <0776> of Edom <0123>, and the land <0776> of Moab <04124>, and came <0935> by the east side of the land <0776> of Moab < 04124>, and pitched <02583> on the other <05676> side < 05676> of Arnon <0769>, but came <0935> not within the border <01366> of Moab <04124>: for Arnon <0769> [was] the border <01366> of Moab <04124>.

19 And Israel <03478> sent <07971> messengers < 04397> unto Sihon <05511> king <04428> of the Amorites < 0567>, the king <04428> of Heshbon <02809>; and Israel < 03478> said <0559> unto him, Let us pass <05674>, we pray <04994> thee, through thy land <0776> into <05704> my place <04725>.

20 But Sihon <05511> trusted <0539> not Israel < 03478> to pass <05674> through his coast <01366>: but Sihon <05511> gathered <0622> all <03605> his people < 05971> together, and pitched <02583> in Jahaz <03096>, and fought <03898> against <05973> Israel <03478>.

21 And the LORD <03068> God <0430> of Israel < 03478> delivered <05414> Sihon <05511> and all <03605> his people <05971> into the hand <03027> of Israel < 03478>, and they smote <05221> them: so Israel <03478> possessed <03423> all <03605> the land <0776> of the Amorites <0567>, the inhabitants <03427> of that country < 0776>.

22 And they possessed <03423> all <03605> the coasts <01366> of the Amorites <0567>, from Arnon <0769> even unto Jabbok <02999>, and from the wilderness <04057> even unto Jordan <03383>.

23 So now <06258> the LORD <03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478> hath dispossessed <03423> the Amorites < 0567> from before <06440> his people <05971> Israel < 03478>, and shouldest thou possess <03423> it?

24 Wilt not thou possess <03423> that which <0834> Chemosh <03645> thy god <0430> giveth thee to possess < 03423>? So whomsoever the LORD <03068> our God <0430> shall drive <03423> out from before <06440> us, them will we possess <03423>.

25 And now <06258> [art] thou any thing better < 02896> than Balak <01111> the son <01121> of Zippor < 06834>, king <04428> of Moab <04124>? did he ever strive <07378> against <05973> Israel <03478>, or did he ever fight <03898> against <05973> them,

26 While Israel <03478> dwelt <03427> in Heshbon <02809> and her towns <01323>, and in Aroer <06177> and her towns <01323>, and in all <03605> the cities <05892> that [be] along by the coasts <03027> of Arnon <0769>, three <07969> hundred <03967> years <08141>? why <04069> therefore did ye not recover <05337> [them] within that time < 06256>?

27 Wherefore I have not sinned <02398> against thee, but thou doest <06213> me wrong <07451> to war <03898> against me: the LORD <03068> the Judge <08199> be judge < 08199> this day <03117> between <0996> the children < 01121> of Israel <03478> and the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>.

28 Howbeit the king <04428> of the children <01121> of Ammon <05983> hearkened <08085> not unto the words < 01697> of Jephthah <03316> which <0834> he sent < 07971> him.

29. Then the Spirit <07307> of the LORD <03068> came <01961> upon Jephthah <03316>, and he passed <05674> over <05674> Gilead <01568>, and Manasseh <04519>, and passed <05674> over <05674> Mizpeh <04708> of Gilead < 01568>, and from Mizpeh <04708> of Gilead <01568> he passed <05674> over <05674> [unto] the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>.

30 And Jephthah <03316> vowed <05087> a vow < 05088> unto the LORD <03068>, and said <0559>, If < 0518> thou shalt without fail deliver <05414> the children < 01121> of Ammon <05983> into mine hands <03027>,

31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever <0834> cometh < 03318> forth <03318> of the doors <01817> of my house < 01004> to meet <07125> me, when I return <07725> in peace <07965> from the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>, shall surely be the LORD'S <03068>, and I will offer <05927> it up for a burnt <05930> offering.

32 So Jephthah <03316> passed <05674> over < 05674> unto the children <01121> of Ammon <05983> to fight <03898> against them; and the LORD <03068> delivered < 05414> them into his hands <03027>.

33 And he smote <05221> them from Aroer <06177>, even till <05704> thou come <0935> to Minnith <04511>, [even] twenty <06242> cities <05892>, and unto the plain < 058> of the vineyards <03754>, with a very <03966> great <01419> slaughter <04347>. Thus the children <01121> of Ammon <05983> were subdued <03665> before <06440> the children <01121> of Israel <03478>.

34 And Jephthah <03316> came <0935> to Mizpeh < 04709> unto his house <01004>, and, behold <02009>, his daughter <01323> came <03318> out to meet <07125> him with timbrels <08596> and with dances <04246>: and she [was his] only <03173> child <03173>; beside her he had neither < 0369> son <01121> nor <0176> daughter <01323>.

35 And it came <01961> to pass, when he saw <07200> her, that he rent <07167> his clothes <0899>, and said < 0559>, Alas <0160>, my daughter <01323>! thou hast brought <03766> me very low <03766>, and thou art one of them that trouble <05916> me: for I have opened <06475> my mouth < 06310> unto the LORD <03068>, and I cannot go <07725> back <07725>.

36 And she said <0559> unto him, My father <01>, [if] thou hast opened <06475> thy mouth <06310> unto the LORD <03068>, do <06213> to me according to that which <0834> hath proceeded <03318> out of thy mouth <06310>; forasmuch as the LORD <03068> hath taken <06213> vengeance <05360> for thee of thine enemies <0341>, [even] of the children < 01121> of Ammon <05983>.

37 And she said <0559> unto her father <01>, Let this <02088> thing <01697> be done <06213> for me: let me alone <07503> two <08147> months <02320>, that I may go <03212> up and down <03381> upon the mountains <02022> , and bewail <01058> my virginity <01331>, I and my fellows <07464>.

38 And he said <0559>, Go <03212>. And he sent < 07971> her away [for] two <08147> months <02320>: and she went <03212> with her companions <07464>, and bewailed < 01058> her virginity <01331> upon the mountains <02022>.

39 And it came <01961> to pass at the end <07093> of two <08147> months <02320>, that she returned <07725> unto her father <01>, who did <06213> with her [according] to his vow <05088> which <0834> he had vowed <05087>: and she knew <03045> no <03808> man <0376>. And it was a custom <02706> in Israel <03478>,

40 [That] the daughters <01121> of Israel <03478> went <03212> yearly <03117> to lament <08567> the daughter <01323> of Jephthah <03316> the Gileadite < 01569> four <0702> days <03117> in a year <08141>.

Judges 12

1. And the men <0376> of Ephraim <0669> gathered < 06817> themselves together, and went <05674> northward < 06828>, and said <0559> unto Jephthah <03316>, Wherefore <04069> passedst <05674> thou over <05674> to fight < 03898> against the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>, and didst <06213> not call <07121> us to go <03212> with thee? we will burn <08313> thine house <01004> upon thee with fire <0784>.

2 And Jephthah <03316> said <0559> unto them, I and my people <05971> were at great <03699> strife <07379> with the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>; and when I called <02199> you, ye delivered <03467> me not out of their hands <03027>.

3 And when I saw <07200> that ye delivered <03467> [me] not, I put <07760> my life <05315> in my hands < 03709>, and passed <05674> over <05674> against <0413> the children <01121> of Ammon <05983>, and the LORD < 03068> delivered <05414> them into my hand <03027>: wherefore <04100> then are ye come <05927> up unto me this < 02088> day <03117>, to fight <03898> against me?

4 Then Jephthah <03316> gathered <06908> together all <03605> the men <0582> of Gilead <01568>, and fought <03898> with Ephraim <0669>: and the men <0582> of Gilead <01568> smote <05221> Ephraim <0669>, because < 03588> they said <0559>, Ye Gileadites <01569> [are] fugitives <06412> of Ephraim <0669> among <08432> the Ephraimites <0669>, [and] among <08432> the Manassites < 04519>.

5 And the Gileadites <01569> took <03920> the passages <04569> of Jordan <03383> before the Ephraimites < 0669>: and it was [so], that when those Ephraimites <0669> which were escaped <06412> said <0559>, Let me go <05674> over <05674>; that the men <0582> of Gilead <01568> said < 0559> unto him, [Art] thou an Ephraimite <0673>? If he said < 0559>, Nay <03808>;

6 Then said <0559> they unto him, Say <0559> now <04994> Shibboleth <07641>: and he said <0559> Sibboleth <05451>: for he could not frame <03559> to pronounce < 01696> [it] right <03651>. Then they took <0270> him, and slew <07819> him at <0413> the passages <04569> of Jordan <03383>: and there fell <05307> at that time < 06256> of the Ephraimites <0669> forty <0705> and two < 08147> thousand <0505>.

7 And Jephthah <03316> judged <08199> Israel < 03478> six <08337> years <08141>. Then died <04191> Jephthah <03316> the Gileadite <01569>, and was buried < 06912> in [one of] the cities <05892> of Gilead <01568>.

8. And after <0310> him Ibzan <078> of Bethlehem < 01035> judged <08199> Israel <03478>.

9 And he had <01961> thirty <07970> sons < 01121>, and thirty <07970> daughters <01121>, [whom] he sent <07971> abroad <02351>, and took <0935> in thirty <07970> daughters <01121> from abroad <02351> for his sons <01121>. And he judged <08199> Israel <03478> seven <07651> years <08141>.

10 Then died <04191> Ibzan <078>, and was buried <06912> at Bethlehem <01035>.

11 And after <0310> him Elon <0356>, a Zebulonite <02075>, judged <08199> Israel <03478>; and he judged <08199> Israel <03478> ten <06235> years <08141>.

12 And Elon <0356> the Zebulonite <02075> died < 04191>, and was buried <06912> in Aijalon <0357> in the country <0776> of Zebulun <02074>.

13 And after <0310> him Abdon <05658> the son < 01121> of Hillel <01985>, a Pirathonite <06553>, judged < 08199> Israel <03478>.

14 And he had <01961> forty <0705> sons < 01121> and thirty <07970> nephews <01121>, that rode < 07392> on <05921> threescore <07657> and ten ass < 05895> colts <05895>: and he judged <08199> Israel < 03478> eight <08083> years <08141>.

15 And Abdon <05658> the son <01121> of Hillel < 01985> the Pirathonite <06553> died <04191>, and was buried <06912> in Pirathon <06552> in the land <0776> of Ephraim <0669>, in the mount <02022> of the Amalekites < 06003>.

Judges 13

1. And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> did <06213> evil <07451> again <03254> in the sight < 05869> of the LORD <03068>; and the LORD <03068> delivered <05414> them into the hand <03027> of the Philistines < 06430> forty <0705> years <08141>.

2 And there was a certain <0259> man <0376> of Zorah <06681>, of the family <04940> of the Danites < 01839>, whose name <08034> [was] Manoah <04495>; and his wife <0802> [was] barren <06135>, and bare <03205> not.

3 And the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> appeared <07200> unto the woman <0802>, and said <0559> unto her, Behold <02009> now <04994>, thou [art] barren < 06135>, and bearest <03205> not: but thou shalt conceive < 02030>, and bear <03205> a son <01121>.

4 Now <06258> therefore beware <08104>, I pray < 04994> thee, and drink <08354> not wine <03196> nor strong drink <07941>, and eat <0398> not any <03605> unclean <02931> [thing]:

5 For, lo <02009>, thou shalt conceive <02030>, and bear <03205> a son <01121>; and no <03808> razor < 04177> shall come <05927> on <05921> his head <07218>: for the child <05288> shall be a Nazarite <05139> unto God <0430> from the womb <0990>: and he shall begin <02490> to deliver <03467> Israel <03478> out of the hand <03027> of the Philistines <06430>.

6 Then the woman <0802> came <0935> and told < 0559> her husband <0376>, saying <0559>, A man <0376> of God <0430> came <0935> unto me, and his countenance < 04758> [was] like the countenance <04758> of an angel < 04397> of God <0430>, very <03966> terrible <03372>: but I asked <07592> him not whence he [was], neither <03808> told <05046> he me his name <08034>:

7 But he said <0559> unto me, Behold <02009>, thou shalt conceive <02030>, and bear <03205> a son <01121>; and now <06258> drink <07941> no <0408> wine < 03196> nor strong drink <08354>, neither <0408> eat < 0398> any <03605> unclean <02932> [thing]: for the child <05288> shall be a Nazarite <05139> to God <0430> from the womb <0990> to the day <03117> of his death <04194>.

8. Then Manoah <04495> intreated <06279> the LORD <03068>, and said <0559>, O my Lord <03068>, let the man <0376> of God <0430> which <0834> thou didst < 06213> send <07971> come <0935> again <05750> unto us, and teach <03384> us what <04100> we shall do <06213> unto the child <05288> that shall be born <03205>.

9 And God <0430> hearkened <08085> to the voice < 06963> of Manoah <04495>; and the angel <04397> of God < 0430> came <0935> again <05750> unto the woman <0802> as she sat <03427> in the field <07704>: but Manoah < 04495> her husband <0376> [was] not with her.

10 And the woman <0802> made haste <04116>, and ran <07323>, and shewed <05046> her husband <0376>, and said <0559> unto him, Behold <02009>, the man <0376> hath appeared <07200> unto me, that came <0935> unto me the [other] day <03117>.

11 And Manoah <04495> arose <06965>, and went < 03212> after <0310> his wife <0802>, and came <0935> to the man <0376>, and said <0559> unto him, [Art] thou the man <0376> that spakest <01696> unto the woman <0802>? And he said <0559>, I [am].

12 And Manoah <04495> said <0559>, Now <06258> let thy words <01697> come <0935> to pass <0935>. How <04100> shall we order <04941> the child <05288>, and [how] shall we do <04640> unto him?

13 And the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto Manoah <04495>, Of all <03605> that I said <0559> unto the woman <0802> let her beware <08104>.

14 She may not eat <0398> of any <03605> [thing] that cometh <03318> of the vine <01612>, neither <0408> let her drink <08354> wine <03196> or strong drink < 07941>, nor <0408> eat <0398> any <03605> unclean < 02932> [thing]: all <03605> that I commanded <06680> her let her observe <08104>.

15. And Manoah <04495> said <0559> unto the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068>, I pray <04994> thee, let us detain <06113> thee, until <05704> we shall have made < 06213> ready a kid for thee.

16 And the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto Manoah <04495>, Though <0518> thou detain <06113> me, I will not eat <0398> of thy bread <03899>: and if <0518> thou wilt offer <06213> a burnt <05930> offering, thou must offer <05927> it unto the LORD <03068>. For Manoah <04495> knew <03045> not that he [was] an angel < 04397> of the LORD <03068>.

17 And Manoah <04495> said <0559> unto the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068>, What <04310> [is] thy name <08034>, that when <03588> thy sayings <01697> come < 0935> to pass <0935> we may do thee honour <03513>?

18 And the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> said <0559> unto him, Why <04100> askest <07592> thou thus <02088> after my name <08034>, seeing it [is] secret < 06383>?

19 So Manoah <04495> took <03947> a kid with a meat offering <04503>, and offered <05927> [it] upon a rock < 06697> unto the LORD <03068>: and [the angel] did <06213> wondrously <06381>; and Manoah <04495> and his wife < 0802> looked <07200> on.

20 For it came <01961> to pass, when the flame < 03851> went <05927> up toward heaven <08064> from off < 05921> the altar <04196>, that the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> ascended <05927> in the flame <03851> of the altar <04196>. And Manoah <04495> and his wife <0802> looked <07200> on [it], and fell <05307> on <05921> their faces <06440> to the ground <0776>.

21 But the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> did no <03808> more <03254> appear <07200> to Manoah < 04495> and to his wife <0802>. Then <0227> Manoah < 04495> knew <03045> that he [was] an angel <04397> of the LORD <03068>.

22 And Manoah <04495> said <0559> unto his wife < 0802>, We shall surely die <04191>, because <03588> we have seen <07200> God <0430>.

23 But his wife <0802> said <0559> unto him, If < 03863> the LORD <03068> were pleased <02654> to kill < 04191> us, he would not have received <03947> a burnt < 05930> offering and a meat offering <04503> at our hands < 03027>, neither <03808> would he have shewed <07200> us all <03605> these <0428> [things], nor <03908> would as at this time <06256> have told <08085> us [such things] as these <02063>.

24. And the woman <0802> bare <03205> a son < 01121>, and called <07121> his name <08034> Samson < 08123>: and the child <05288> grew <01431>, and the LORD <03068> blessed <01288> him.

25 And the Spirit <07307> of the LORD <03068> began <02490> to move <06470> him at times in the camp <04264> of Dan <01835> between <0996> Zorah <06681> and Eshtaol <0847>.

Judges 14

1. And Samson <08123> went <03381> down <03381> to Timnath <08553>, and saw <07200> a woman <0802> in Timnath <08553> of the daughters <01121> of the Philistines <06430>.

2 And he came <05927> up, and told <05046> his father <01> and his mother <0517>, and said <0559>, I have seen <07200> a woman <0802> in Timnath <08553> of the daughters <01121> of the Philistines <06430>: now < 06258> therefore get <03947> her for me to wife <0802>.

3 Then his father <01> and his mother <0517> said <0559> unto him, [Is there] never <0369> a woman <0802> among the daughters <01121> of thy brethren <0251>, or among all <03605> my people <05971>, that thou goest <01980> to take <03947> a wife <0802> of the uncircumcised < 06189> Philistines <06430>? And Samson <08123> said < 0559> unto his father <01>, Get <03947> her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

4 But his father <01> and his mother <0517> knew <03045> not that it [was] of the LORD <03068>, that he sought <01245> an occasion <08385> against the Philistines < 06430>: for at that time <06256> the Philistines <06430> had dominion <04910> over Israel <03478>.

5 Then went <03381> Samson <08123> down < 03381>, and his father <01> and his mother <0517>, to Timnath <08553>, and came <0935> to the vineyards <03754> of Timnath <08553>: and, behold <02009>, a young <03715> lion <0738> roared <07580> against <07125> him.

6 And the Spirit <07307> of the LORD <03068> came <06743> mightily upon him, and he rent <08156> him as he would have rent <08156> a kid <01423>, and [he had] nothing in his hand <03027>: but he told <05046> not his father <01> or his mother <0517> what he had done <06213>.

7 And he went <03381> down <03381>, and talked < 01696> with the woman <0802>; and she pleased Samson <08123> well.

8 And after a time <03117> he returned <07725> to take <03947> her, and he turned <05493> aside to see < 07200> the carcase <04658> of the lion <0738>: and, behold <02009>, [there was] a swarm <05712> of bees <01682> and honey <01706> in the carcase <01472> of the lion <0738>.

9 And he took <07287> thereof in his hands <03709>, and went <03212> on eating <0398>, and came <01980> to his father <01> and mother <0517>, and he gave <05414> them, and they did eat <0398>: but he told <05046> not them that he had taken <07287> the honey <01706> out of the carcase <01472> of the lion <0738>.

10. So his father <01> went <03381> down < 03381> unto the woman <0802>: and Samson <08123> made < 06213> there <08033> a feast <04960>; for so <03651> used the young <0970> men to do <06213>.

11 And it came <01961> to pass, when they saw < 07200> him, that they brought <03947> thirty <07970> companions <04828> to be with him.

12 And Samson <08123> said <0559> unto them, I will now <04994> put <02330> forth <02330> a riddle < 02420> unto you: if <0518> ye can certainly declare <05046> it me within the seven <07651> days <03117> of the feast < 04960>, and find <04672> [it] out, then I will give <05414> you thirty <07970> sheets <05466> and thirty <07970> change <02487> of garments <0899>:

13 But if <0518> ye cannot declare <05046> [it] me, then shall ye give <05414> me thirty <07970> sheets < 05466> and thirty <07970> change <02487> of garments < 0899>. And they said <0559> unto him, Put <02330> forth < 02330> thy riddle <02420>, that we may hear <08085> it.

14 And he said <0559> unto them, Out of the eater < 0398> came <03318> forth <03318> meat <03978>, and out of the strong <05794> came <03318> forth <03318> sweetness <04966>. And they could <03201> not in three < 07969> days <03117> expound <05046> the riddle <02420> .

15 And it came <01961> to pass on the seventh < 07637> day <03117>, that they said <0559> unto Samson's < 08123> wife <0802>, Entice <06601> thy husband <0376>, that he may declare <05046> unto us the riddle <02420>, lest <06435> we burn <08313> thee and thy father's <01> house <01004> with fire <0784>: have ye called <07121> us to take <03423> that we have? [is it] not [so]?

16 And Samson's <08123> wife <0802> wept < 01058> before <05921> him, and said <0559>, Thou dost but hate <08130> me, and lovest <0157> me not: thou hast put < 02330> forth <02330> a riddle <02420> unto the children < 01121> of my people <05971>, and hast not told <05046> [it] me. And he said <0559> unto her, Behold <02009>, I have not told <05046> [it] my father <01> nor <03908> my mother <0517>, and shall I tell <05046> [it] thee?

17 And she wept <01058> before <05921> him the seven <07651> days <03117>, while their feast <04960> lasted <01961>: and it came <01961> to pass on the seventh < 07637> day <03117>, that he told <05046> her, because < 03588> she lay sore upon him: and she told <05046> the riddle < 02420> to the children <01121> of her people <05971>.

18 And the men <0582> of the city <05892> said < 0559> unto him on the seventh <07637> day <03117> before <02962> the sun <02775> went <0935> down, What < 04100> [is] sweeter <04966> than honey <01706>? and what <04100> [is] stronger <05794> than a lion <0738>? And he said <0559> unto them, If <03883> ye had not plowed < 02790> with my heifer <05697>, ye had not found <04672> out my riddle <02420>.

19 And the Spirit <07307> of the LORD <03068> came <06743> upon him, and he went <03381> down <03381> to Ashkelon <0831>, and slew <05221> thirty <07970> men < 0376> of them, and took <03947> their spoil <02488>, and gave <05414> change <02487> of garments unto them which expounded <05046> the riddle <02420>. And his anger < 0639> was kindled <02734>, and he went <05927> up to his father's <01> house <01004>.

20 But Samson's <08123> wife <0802> was [given] to his companion <04828>, whom <0834> he had used as his friend <07462>.

Judges 15

1. But it came <01961> to pass within a while after, in the time <03117> of wheat <02406> harvest <07105>, that Samson <08123> visited <06485> his wife <0802> with a kid; and he said <0559>, I will go <0935> in to my wife < 0802> into the chamber <02315>. But her father <01> would not suffer <05414> him to go <0935> in.

2 And her father <01> said <0559>, I verily < 0559> thought <0559> that thou hadst utterly hated <08130> her; therefore I gave <05414> her to thy companion <04828>: [is] not her younger <06996> sister <0269> fairer <02896> than she? take <01961> her, I pray <04994> thee, instead < 08478> of her.

3 And Samson <08123> said <0559> concerning them, Now <06471> shall I be more blameless <05352> than the Philistines <06430>, though <03588> I do <06213> them a displeasure <07451>.

4 And Samson <08123> went <03212> and caught < 03920> three <07969> hundred <03967> foxes <07776>, and took <03947> firebrands <03940>, and turned <06437> tail <02180> to tail <02180>, and put <07760> a firebrand <03940> in the midst <08432> between <0996> two <08147> tails <02180>.

5 And when he had set the brands <03940> on fire < 0784>, he let [them] go <07971> into the standing <07054> corn <07054> of the Philistines <06430>, and burnt < 01197> up both the shocks <01430>, and also <05704> the standing <07054> corn <07054>, with the vineyards <03754> [and] olives <02132>.

6 Then the Philistines <06430> said <0559>, Who < 04310> hath done <06213> this <02063>? And they answered <0559>, Samson <08123>, the son <02860> in law < 02859> of the Timnite <08554>, because <03588> he had taken <03947> his wife <0802>, and given <05414> her to his companion <04828>. And the Philistines <06430> came < 05927> up, and burnt <08313> her and her father <01> with fire <0784>.

7 And Samson <08123> said <0559> unto them, Though <0518> ye have done <06213> this <02063>, yet will I be avenged <05358> of you, and after <0310> that I will cease < 02308>.

8 And he smote <05221> them hip <07785> and thigh <03409> with a great <01419> slaughter <04347>: and he went <03381> down <03381> and dwelt <03427> in the top <05585> of the rock <05553> Etam <05862>.

9. Then the Philistines <06430> went <05927> up, and pitched <02583> in Judah <03063>, and spread <05203> themselves in Lehi <03896>.

10 And the men <0376> of Judah <03063> said < 0559>, Why <04100> are ye come <05927> up against < 05921> us? And they answered <0559>, To bind <0631> Samson <08123> are we come <05927> up, to do <06213> to him as he hath done <06213> to us.

11 Then three <07969> thousand <0505> men < 0376> of Judah <03063> went <03381> to the top <05585> of the rock <05553> Etam <05862>, and said <0559> to Samson <08123>, Knowest <03045> thou not that the Philistines <06430> [are] rulers <04910> over us? what <04100> [is] this <02063> [that] thou hast done <06213> unto us? And he said <0559> unto them, As they did <06213> unto me, so < 03651> have I done <06213> unto them.

12 And they said <0559> unto him, We are come < 03381> down <03381> to bind <0631> thee, that we may deliver <05414> thee into the hand <03027> of the Philistines <06430>. And Samson <08123> said <0559> unto them, Swear <07650> unto me, that ye will not fall <06293> upon me yourselves <0859>.

13 And they spake <0559> unto him, saying <0559>, No <03808>; but we will bind <0631> thee fast, and deliver < 05414> thee into their hand <03027>: but surely we will not kill <04191> thee. And they bound <0631> him with two <08147> new <02319> cords <05688>, and brought <05927> him up from the rock <05553>.

14 [And] when he came <0935> unto Lehi <03896>, the Philistines <06430> shouted <07321> against <07125> him: and the Spirit <07307> of the LORD <03068> came mightily upon him, and the cords <05688> that [were] upon his arms <02220> became <01961> as flax <06593> that was burnt <01197> with fire <0784>, and his bands <0612> loosed <04549> from off <05921> his hands <03027>.

15 And he found <04672> a new <02961> jawbone < 03895> of an ass <02543>, and put <07971> forth < 07971> his hand <03027>, and took <03947> it, and slew < 05221> a thousand <0505> men <0376> therewith.

16 And Samson <08123> said <0559>, With the jawbone <03895> of an ass <02543>, heaps <02565> upon heaps < 02565>, with the jaw <03895> of an ass <02543> have I slain <05221> a thousand <0505> men <0376>.

17 And it came <01961> to pass, when he had made an end <03615> of speaking <01696>, that he cast <07993> away the jawbone <03895> out of his hand <03027>, and called < 07121> that place <04725> Ramathlehi <07437>.

18. And he was sore <03966> athirst <06770>, and called <07121> on <0413> the LORD <03068>, and said < 0559>, Thou hast given <05414> this <02063> great < 01419> deliverance <08668> into the hand <03027> of thy servant <05650>: and now <06258> shall I die <04191> for thirst <06772>, and fall <05307> into the hand <03027> of the uncircumcised <06189>?

19 But God <0430> clave <01234> an hollow < 04388> place that [was] in the jaw <03895>, and there came < 03318> water <04325> thereout; and when he had drunk <08354> , his spirit <07307> came <07725> again <07725>, and he revived <02421>: wherefore <04100> he called <07121> the name <08034> thereof Enhakkore <05875>, which <0834> [is] in Lehi <03896> unto this <02063> day <03117>.

20 And he judged <08199> Israel <03478> in the days <03117> of the Philistines <06430> twenty <06242> years <08141>.

Judges 16

1. Then went <03212> Samson <08123> to Gaza < 05804>, and saw <07200> there <08033> an harlot < 02181>, and went <0935> in unto her.

2 [And it was told] the Gazites <05841>, saying < 0559>, Samson <08123> is come <0935> hither. And they compassed <05437> [him] in, and laid wait <0693> for him all <03605> night <03915> in the gate <08179> of the city <05892>, and were quiet <02790> all <03605> the night <03915>, saying <0559>, In the morning <01242>, when < 05704> it is day <01242>, we shall kill <02026> him.

3 And Samson <08123> lay <07901> till <05704> midnight, and arose <06965> at midnight, and took <0270> the doors <01817> of the gate <08179> of the city <05892>, and the two <08147> posts <04201>, and went <05265> away <05265> with them, bar <01280> and all <05973>, and put <07760> [them] upon his shoulders <03802>, and carried < 05927> them up to the top <07218> of an hill <02022> that [is] before Hebron <02275>.

4. And it came <01961> to pass afterward, that he loved <0157> a woman <0802> in the valley <05158> of Sorek < 07796>, whose name <08034> [was] Delilah <01807>.

5 And the lords <05633> of the Philistines <06430> came <05927> up unto her, and said <0559> unto her, Entice < 06601> him, and see <07200> wherein <04100> his great < 01419> strength <03581> [lieth], and by what <04100> [means] we may prevail <03201> against him, that we may bind < 0631> him to afflict <06031> him: and we will give <05414> thee every <0376> one <0376> of us eleven hundred <03967> [pieces] of silver <03701>.

6 And Delilah <01807> said <0559> to Samson < 08123>, Tell <05046> me, I pray <04994> thee, wherein < 04100> thy great <01419> strength <03581> [lieth], and wherewith <04100> thou mightest be bound <0631> to afflict < 06031> thee.

7 And Samson <08123> said <0559> unto her, If < 0518> they bind <0631> me with seven <07651> green < 03892> withs <03499> that were never <03808> dried < 02717>, then shall I be weak <02470>, and be as another < 0259> man <0120>.

8 Then the lords <05633> of the Philistines <06430> brought <05927> up to her seven <07651> green <03892> withs <03499> which <0834> had not been dried <02717>, and she bound <0631> him with them.

9 Now [there were] men lying in wait <0693>, abiding < 03427> with her in the chamber <02315>. And she said <0559> unto him, The Philistines <06430> [be] upon thee, Samson < 08123>. And he brake <05423> the withs <03499>, as a thread <06616> of tow <05296> is broken <05423> when it toucheth <07306> the fire <0784>. So his strength <03581> was not known <03045>.

10 And Delilah <01807> said <0559> unto Samson < 08123>, Behold <02009>, thou hast mocked <02048> me, and told <01696> me lies <03576>: now <06258> tell < 05046> me, I pray <04994> thee, wherewith <04100> thou mightest be bound <0631>.

11 And he said <0559> unto her, If <0518> they bind <0631> me fast with new <02319> ropes <05688> that never <03808> were occupied, then shall I be weak <02470>, and be as another <0259> man <0120>.

12 Delilah <01807> therefore took <03947> new < 02319> ropes <05688>, and bound <0631> him therewith, and said <0559> unto him, The Philistines <06430> [be] upon thee, Samson <08123>. And [there were] liers in wait <0693> abiding <03427> in the chamber <02315>. And he brake <05423> them from off <05921> his arms <02220> like a thread < 02339>.

13 And Delilah <01807> said <0559> unto Samson < 08123>, Hitherto thou hast mocked <02048> me, and told < 01696> me lies <03576>: tell <05046> me wherewith < 0834> thou mightest be bound <0631>. And he said <0559> unto her, If <0518> thou weavest <0707> the seven <07651> locks <04253> of my head <07218> with the web <04545>.

14 And she fastened <08628> [it] with the pin < 03489>, and said <0559> unto him, The Philistines <06430> [be] upon thee, Samson <08123>. And he awaked <03364> out of his sleep <08142>, and went <05265> away <05265> with the pin <03489> of the beam <0708>, and with the web < 04545>.

15 And she said <0559> unto him, How <0349> canst thou say <0559>, I love <0157> thee, when thine heart < 03820> [is] not with me? thou hast mocked <02048> me these < 02088> three <07969> times <06471>, and hast not told < 05046> me wherein <04100> thy great <01419> strength < 03581> [lieth].

16 And it came <01961> to pass, when <03588> she pressed <06693> him daily <03117> with her words <01697>, and urged <0509> him, [so] that his soul <05315> was vexed <07114> unto death <04191>;

17 That he told <05046> her all <03605> his heart <03820>, and said <0559> unto her, There hath not come < 05927> a razor <04177> upon mine head <07218>; for I [have been] a Nazarite <05139> unto God <0430> from my mother's < 0517> womb <0990>: if <0518> I be shaven <01548>, then my strength <03581> will go <05493> from me, and I shall become <02470> weak <02470>, and be like any <03605> [other] man <0120>.

18. And when Delilah <01807> saw <07200> that he had told <05046> her all <03605> his heart <03820>, she sent <07971> and called <07121> for the lords <05633> of the Philistines <06430>, saying <0559>, Come <05927> up this once <06471>, for he hath shewed <05046> me all <03605> his heart <03820>. Then the lords <05633> of the Philistines <06430> came <05927> up unto her, and brought <05927> money <03701> in their hand <03027>.

19 And she made him sleep <03462> upon her knees < 01290>; and she called <07121> for a man <0376>, and she caused him to shave <01548> off the seven <07651> locks < 04253> of his head <07218>; and she began <02490> to afflict <06031> him, and his strength <03581> went < 05493> from him.

20 And she said <0559>, The Philistines <06430> [be] upon thee, Samson <08123>. And he awoke <03364> out of his sleep <08142>, and said <0559>, I will go <03318> out as at other times <06471> before <06471>, and shake < 05287> myself. And he wist <03045> not that the LORD <03068> was departed <05493> from him.

21 But the Philistines <06430> took <0270> him, and put <05365> out his eyes <05869>, and brought <03381> him down <03381> to Gaza <05804>, and bound <0631> him with fetters <05178> of brass <05178>; and he did grind < 02912> in the prison <0631> house <01004>.

22. Howbeit the hair <08181> of his head <07218> began <02490> to grow <06779> again after <0834> he was shaven <01548>.

23 Then the lords <05633> of the Philistines <06430> gathered <06908> them together for to offer <02076> a great <01419> sacrifice <02077> unto Dagon <01712> their god <0430>, and to rejoice <08057>: for they said <0559>, Our god <0430> hath delivered <05414> Samson <08123> our enemy <0341> into our hand <03027>.

24 And when the people <05971> saw <07200> him, they praised <01984> their god <0430>: for they said < 0559>, Our god <0430> hath delivered <05414> into our hands <03027> our enemy <0341>, and the destroyer <02717> of our country <0776>, which <0834> slew <02491> many < 07235> of us.

25 And it came <01961> to pass, when <03588> their hearts <03820> were merry <02896>, that they said <0559>, Call <07121> for Samson <08123>, that he may make us sport <07832>. And they called <07121> for Samson <08123> out of the prison <0631> house <01004>; and he made them sport < 06711>: and they set <05975> him between <0996> the pillars <05982>.

26 And Samson <08123> said <0559> unto the lad < 05288> that held <02388> him by the hand <03027>, Suffer <03240> me that I may feel <04184> the pillars <05982> whereupon the house <01004> standeth <03559>, that I may lean <08172> upon them.

27 Now the house <01004> was full <04390> of men <0582> and women <0802>; and all <03605> the lords < 05633> of the Philistines <06430> [were] there <08033>; and [there were] upon the roof <01406> about three <07969> thousand <0505> men <0376> and women <0802>, that beheld <07200> while Samson <08123> made sport <07832>.

28 And Samson <08123> called <07121> unto the LORD <03068>, and said <0559>, O Lord <0136> GOD <03069> , remember <02142> me, I pray <04994> thee, and strengthen < 02388> me, I pray <04994> thee, only <0389> this < 02088> once <06471>, O God <0430>, that I may be at once avenged <05358> of the Philistines <06430> for my two < 08147> eyes <05869>.

29 And Samson <08123> took hold <03943> of the two <08147> middle <08432> pillars <05982> upon which < 0834> the house <01004> stood <03559>, and on <05921> which it was borne <05564> up, of the one <0259> with his right <03225> hand, and of the other <0259> with his left < 08040>.

30 And Samson <08123> said <0559>, Let me die < 04191> with the Philistines <06430>. And he bowed <05186> himself with [all his] might <03581>; and the house <01004> fell <05307> upon the lords <05633>, and upon all <03605> the people <05971> that [were] therein. So the dead <04191> which <0834> he slew <04191> at his death <04194> were more <07227> than [they] which <0834> he slew <04191> in his life <02416>.

31 Then his brethren <0251> and all <03605> the house <01004> of his father <01> came <03381> down < 03381>, and took <05375> him, and brought <05927> [him] up, and buried <06912> him between <0996> Zorah <06681> and Eshtaol <0847> in the buryingplace <06913> of Manoah < 04495> his father <01>. And he judged <08199> Israel < 03478> twenty <06242> years <08141>.

Judges 17

1. And there was a man <0376> of mount <02022> Ephraim <0669>, whose name <08034> [was] Micah <04319>.

2 And he said <0559> unto his mother <0517>, The eleven hundred <03967> [shekels] of silver <03701> that were taken <03947> from thee, about which thou cursedst <0422>, and spakest <0559> of also <01571> in mine ears <0241>, behold <02009>, the silver <03701> [is] with me; I took < 03947> it. And his mother <0517> said <0559>, Blessed < 01288> [be thou] of the LORD <03068>, my son <01121>.

3 And when he had restored <07725> the eleven hundred < 03967> [shekels] of silver <03701> to his mother <0517>, his mother <0517> said <0559>, I had wholly <06942> dedicated <06942> the silver <03701> unto the LORD < 03068> from my hand <03027> for my son <01121>, to make < 06213> a graven <06459> image and a molten <04541> image: now <06258> therefore I will restore <07725> it unto thee.

4 Yet he restored <07725> the money <03701> unto his mother <0517>; and his mother <0517> took <03947> two hundred <03967> [shekels] of silver <03701>, and gave < 05414> them to the founder <06884>, who made <06213> thereof a graven <06459> image and a molten <04541> image: and they were in the house <01004> of Micah <04319>.

5 And the man <0376> Micah <04318> had an house < 01004> of gods <0430>, and made <06213> an ephod < 0646>, and teraphim <08655>, and consecrated one <0259> of his sons <01121>, who became <01961> his priest <03548>.

6 In those <01992> days <03117> [there was] no < 0369> king <04428> in Israel <03478>, [but] every man < 0376> did <06213> [that which was] right <03477> in his own eyes <05869>.

7. And there was a young <05288> man out of Bethlehemjudah <01035> of the family <04940> of Judah <03063>, who < 01931> [was] a Levite <03881>, and he sojourned <01481> there <08033>.

8 And the man <0376> departed <03212> out of the city <05892> from Bethlehemjudah <01035> to sojourn < 01481> where <0834> he could find <04672> [a place]: and he came <0935> to mount <02022> Ephraim <0669> to the house <01004> of Micah <04318>, as he journeyed.

9 And Micah <04319> said <0559> unto him, Whence <0370> comest <0935> thou? And he said <0559> unto him, I [am] a Levite <03881> of Bethlehemjudah <01035>, and I go <01980> to sojourn <01481> where <0834> I may find < 04672> [a place].

10 And Micah <04319> said <0559> unto him, Dwell <03427> with me, and be unto me a father <01> and a priest < 03548>, and I will give <05414> thee ten <06235> [shekels] of silver <03701> by the year <03117>, and a suit <06187> of apparel <0899>, and thy victuals <04241>. So the Levite <03881> went <03212> in.

11 And the Levite <03881> was content <02974> to dwell <03427> with the man <0376>; and the young <05288> man was unto him as one <0259> of his sons <01121>.

12 And Micah <04318> consecrated the Levite <03881>; and the young <05288> man became <01961> his priest < 03548>, and was in the house <01004> of Micah <04318>.

13 Then said <0559> Micah <04318>, Now <06258> know <03045> I that the LORD <03068> will do me good < 03190>, seeing <03588> I have <01961> a Levite <03881> to [my] priest <03548>.

Judges 18

1. In those <01992> days <03117> [there was] no < 0369> king <04428> in Israel <03478>: and in those < 01992> days <03117> the tribe <07626> of the Danites < 01839> sought <01245> them an inheritance <05159> to dwell <03427> in; for unto that day <03117> [all their] inheritance <05159> had not fallen <05307> unto them among <08432> the tribes <07626> of Israel <03478>.

2 And the children <01121> of Dan <01835> sent < 07971> of their family <04940> five <02568> men from their coasts <07098>, men of valour <02428>, from Zorah <06681> , and from Eshtaol <0847>, to spy <07270> out the land < 0776>, and to search <02713> it; and they said <0559> unto them, Go <03212>, search <02713> the land <0776>: who when they came <0935> to mount <02022> Ephraim <0669>, to the house <01004> of Micah <04318>, they lodged < 03885> there <08033>.

3 When they [were] by the house <01004> of Micah < 04318>, they knew <05234> the voice <06963> of the young <05288> man the Levite <03881>: and they turned <05493> in thither <08033>, and said <0559> unto him, Who <04310> brought <0935> thee hither <01988>? and what <04100> makest <06213> thou in this <06311> [place]? and what < 04100> hast thou here <06311>?

4 And he said <0559> unto them, Thus <02090> and thus <02088> dealeth <06213> Micah <04318> with me, and hath hired <07936> me, and I am his priest <03548>.

5 And they said <0559> unto him, Ask <07592> counsel, we pray <04994> thee, of God <0430>, that we may know <03045> whether our way <01870> which <0834> we go < 01980> shall be prosperous <06743>.

6 And the priest <03548> said <0559> unto them, Go <03212> in peace <07965>: before <05227> the LORD < 03068> [is] your way <01870> wherein <0834> ye go < 03212>.

7. Then the five <02568> men <0582> departed < 03212>, and came <0935> to Laish <03919>, and saw < 07200> the people <05971> that [were] therein <07130>, how they dwelt <03427> careless <0983>, after the manner < 04941> of the Zidonians <06722>, quiet <08252> and secure <0982>; and [there was] no <0369> magistrate in the land < 0776>, that might put <03637> [them] to shame <03637> in [any] thing <01697>; and they [were] far <07350> from the Zidonians <06722>, and had no <0369> business <01697> with [any] man <0120>.

8 And they came <0935> unto their brethren <0251> to Zorah <06681> and Eshtaol <0847>: and their brethren < 0251> said <0559> unto them, What <04100> [say <0559> ] ye?

9 And they said <0559>, Arise <06965>, that we may go <05927> up against <05921> them: for we have seen < 07200> the land <0776>, and, behold <02009>, it [is] very <03966> good <02896>: and [are] ye still <02814>? be not slothful <06101> to go <03212>, [and] to enter <0935> to possess <03423> the land <0776>.

10 When ye go <0935>, ye shall come <0935> unto a people <05971> secure <0982>, and to a large land <0776>: for God <0430> hath given <05414> it into your hands < 03027>; a place <04725> where <0834> [there is] no < 0369> want <04270> of any <03605> thing <01697> that [is] in the earth <0776>.

11 And there went <05265> from thence <08033> of the family <04940> of the Danites <01839>, out of Zorah < 06681> and out of Eshtaol <0847>, six <08337> hundred < 03967> men <0376> appointed <02296> with weapons < 03627> of war <04421>.

12 And they went <05927> up, and pitched <02583> in Kirjathjearim <07157>, in Judah <03063>: wherefore they called <07121> that place <04725> Mahanehdan <04265> unto this <02088> day <03117>: behold <02009>, [it is] behind < 0310> Kirjathjearim <07157>.

13 And they passed <05674> thence <08033> unto mount <02022> Ephraim <0669>, and came <0935> unto the house <01004> of Micah <04318>.

14. Then answered <06030> the five <02568> men < 0582> that went <01980> to spy <07270> out the country < 0776> of Laish <03919>, and said <0559> unto their brethren <0251>, Do ye know <03045> that there is in these <0428> houses <01004> an ephod <0646>, and teraphim <08655>, and a graven <06459> image, and a molten <04541> image? now <06258> therefore consider <03045> what <04100> ye have to do <06213>.

15 And they turned <05493> thitherward <08033>, and came <0935> to the house <01004> of the young <05288> man the Levite <03881>, [even] unto the house <01004> of Micah <04318>, and saluted him.

16 And the six <08337> hundred <03967> men < 0376> appointed <02296> with their weapons <03627> of war <04421>, which <0834> [were] of the children <01121> of Dan <01835>, stood <05324> by the entering <06607> of the gate <08179>.

17 And the five <02568> men <0582> that went < 05927> to spy <07270> out the land <0776> went <05927> up, [and] came <0935> in thither <08033>, [and] took < 03947> the graven <06459> image, and the ephod <0646>, and the teraphim <08655>, and the molten <04541> image: and the priest <03548> stood <05324> in the entering <06607> of the gate <08179> with the six <08337> hundred <03967> men <0376> [that were] appointed <02296> with weapons < 03627> of war <04421>.

18 And these <0428> went <0935> into Micah's < 04318> house <01004>, and fetched <03947> the carved < 06459> image, the ephod <0646>, and the teraphim <08655>, and the molten <04541> image. Then said <0559> the priest < 03548> unto them, What <04100> do <06213> ye?

19 And they said <0559> unto him, Hold <02790> thy peace <02790>, lay <07760> thine hand <03027> upon thy mouth <06310>, and go <03212> with us, and be to us a father <01> and a priest <03548>: [is it] better <02896> for thee to be a priest <03548> unto the house <01004> of one < 0259> man <0376>, or <0176> that thou be a priest < 03548> unto a tribe <07626> and a family <04940> in Israel <03478>?

20 And the priest's <03548> heart <03820> was glad <08190>, and he took <03947> the ephod <0646>, and the teraphim <08655>, and the graven <06459> image, and went < 0935> in the midst <07130> of the people <05971>.

21 So they turned <06437> and departed <03212>, and put <07760> the little <02945> ones and the cattle < 04735> and the carriage <03520> before <06440> them.

22 [And] when they were a good <07368> way from the house <01004> of Micah <04318>, the men <0582> that [were] in the houses <01004> near <05973> to Micah's <04318> house <01004> were gathered <02199> together, and overtook < 01692> the children <01121> of Dan <01835>.

23 And they cried <07121> unto the children <01121> of Dan <01835>. And they turned <05437> their faces < 06440>, and said <0559> unto Micah <04318>, What < 04100> aileth thee, that thou comest <02199> with such a company <02199>?

24 And he said <0559>, Ye have taken <03947> away my gods <0430> which <0834> I made <06213>, and the priest <03548>, and ye are gone <03212> away: and what < 04100> have I more <05750>? and what <04100> [is] this < 02088> [that] ye say <0559> unto me, What <04100> aileth thee?

25 And the children <01121> of Dan <01835> said < 0559> unto him, Let not thy voice <06963> be heard <08085> among us, lest <06435> angry <05315> fellows <0582> run <06293> upon thee, and thou lose <0622> thy life <05315>, with the lives <05315> of thy household <01004>.

26 And the children <01121> of Dan <01835> went < 03212> their way <01870>: and when Micah <04318> saw < 07200> that they [were] too strong <02389> for him, he turned < 06437> and went <07725> back <07725> unto his house < 01004>.

27. And they took <03947> [the things] which <0834> Micah <04318> had made <06213>, and the priest <03548> which <0834> he had <01961>, and came <0935> unto Laish <03919>, unto a people <05971> [that were] at quiet < 08252> and secure <0982>: and they smote <05221> them with the edge <06310> of the sword <02719>, and burnt <08313> the city <05892> with fire <0784>.

28 And [there was] no <0369> deliverer <05337>, because <03588> it [was] far <07350> from Zidon <06721>, and they had no <0369> business <01697> with [any] man < 0120>; and it was in the valley <06010> that [lieth] by Bethrehob <01050>. And they built <01129> a city <05892>, and dwelt <03427> therein.

29 And they called <07121> the name <08034> of the city <05892> Dan <01835>, after the name <08034> of Dan <01835> their father <01>, who <0834> was born < 03205> unto Israel <03478>: howbeit <0199> the name < 08034> of the city <05892> [was] Laish <03919> at the first <07223>.

30 And the children <01121> of Dan <01835> set < 06965> up the graven <06459> image: and Jonathan <03129>, the son <01121> of Gershom <01648>, the son <01121> of Manasseh <04519>, he and his sons <01121> were priests < 03548> to the tribe <07626> of Dan <01835> until < 05704> the day <03117> of the captivity <01546> of the land <0776>.

31 And they set <07760> them up Micah's <04318> graven <06459> image, which <0834> he made <06213>, all <03605> the time that the house <01004> of God <0430> was in Shiloh <07887>.

Judges 19

1. And it came <01961> to pass in those <01992> days <03117>, when [there was] no <0369> king <04428> in Israel <03478>, that there was a certain <0376> Levite < 03881> sojourning <01481> on the side <03411> of mount < 02022> Ephraim <0669>, who took <03947> to him a concubine <06370> out of Bethlehemjudah <01035>.

2 And his concubine <06370> played the whore <02181> against <05921> him, and went <03212> away from him unto her father's <01> house <01004> to Bethlehemjudah <01035>, and was there <08033> four <0702> whole <03117> months <02320>.

3 And her husband <0376> arose <06965>, and went <03212> after <0310> her, to speak <01696> friendly < 03820> unto her, [and] to bring <07725> her again <07725>, having his servant <05288> with him, and a couple <06776> of asses <02543>: and she brought <0935> him into her father's <01> house <01004>: and when the father <01> of the damsel <05291> saw <07200> him, he rejoiced <08055> to meet <07125> him.

4 And his father <02859> in law <02859>, the damsel's <05291> father <01>, retained <02388> him; and he abode <03427> with him three <07969> days <03117>: so they did eat <0398> and drink <08354>, and lodged <03885> there <08033>.

5 And it came <01961> to pass on the fourth <07243> day <03117>, when they arose <07925> early <07925> in the morning <01242>, that he rose <06965> up to depart < 03212>: and the damsel's <05291> father <01> said < 0559> unto his son <02860> in law <02859>, Comfort < 05582> thine heart <03820> with a morsel <06595> of bread <03899>, and afterward <0310> go <03212> your way.

6 And they sat <03427> down, and did eat <0398> and drink <08354> both <08147> of them together <03162>: for the damsel's <05291> father <01> had said <0559> unto the man <0376>, Be content <02974>, I pray <04994> thee, and tarry <03885> all <03885> night, and let thine heart < 03820> be merry <03190>.

7 And when the man <0376> rose <06965> up to depart <03212>, his father <02859> in law <02859> urged < 06484> him: therefore he lodged <03885> there <08033> again <07725>.

8 And he arose <07925> early <07925> in the morning <01242> on the fifth <02549> day <03117> to depart < 03212>: and the damsel's <05291> father <01> said < 0559>, Comfort <05582> thine heart <03824>, I pray < 04994> thee. And they tarried <04102> until <05704> afternoon, and they did eat <0398> both <08147> of them.

9 And when the man <0376> rose <06965> up to depart <03212>, he, and his concubine <06370>, and his servant < 05288>, his father <02859> in law <02859>, the damsel's < 05291> father <01>, said <0559> unto him, Behold < 02009>, now <04994> the day <03117> draweth <07503> toward evening <06150>, I pray <04994> you tarry <03885> all <03885> night: behold <02009>, the day <03117> groweth <02583> to an end <02583>, lodge <03885> here <06311>, that thine heart <03824> may be merry <03190>; and to morrow <04279> get you early <07925> on your way < 01870>, that thou mayest go <01980> home <0168>.

10 But the man <0376> would <014> not tarry < 03885> that night, but he rose <06965> up and departed < 03212>, and came <0935> over <05227> against <05227> Jebus <02982>, which <01958> [is] Jerusalem <03389>; and [there were] with him two <06771> asses <02543> saddled < 02280>, his concubine <06370> also [was] with him.

11 [And] when they [were] by Jebus <02982>, the day < 03117> was far <03966> spent <07286>; and the servant < 05288> said <0559> unto his master <0113>, Come < 03212>, I pray <04994> thee, and let us turn <05493> in into <0413> this <02063> city <05892> of the Jebusites <02983>, and lodge <03885> in it.

12 And his master <0113> said <0559> unto him, We will not turn <05493> aside hither into <0413> the city < 05892> of a stranger <05237>, that [is] not of the children < 01121> of Israel <03478>; we will pass <05674> over < 05674> to Gibeah <01390>.

13 And he said <0559> unto his servant <05288>, Come <03212>, and let us draw near <07126> to one <0259> of these places <04725> to lodge <03885> all <03885> night, in Gibeah <01390>, or <0176> in Ramah <07414>.

14 And they passed <05674> on and went <03212> their way <03212>; and the sun <08121> went <0935> down upon them [when they were] by Gibeah <01390>, which <0834> [belongeth] to Benjamin <01144>.

15 And they turned <05493> aside thither <08033>, to go <0935> in [and] to lodge <03885> in Gibeah <01390>: and when he went <0935> in, he sat <03427> him down in a street <07339> of the city <05892>: for [there was] no < 0369> man <0376> that took <0622> them into his house < 01004> to lodging <03885>.

16. And, behold <02009>, there came <0935> an old <02205> man <0376> from his work <04639> out of the field <07704> at even <06153>, which [was] also of mount < 02022> Ephraim <0669>; and he sojourned <01481> in Gibeah <01390>: but the men <0582> of the place <04725> [were] Benjamites <01145>.

17 And when he had lifted <05375> up his eyes < 05869>, he saw <07200> a wayfaring <0732> man <0376> in the street <07339> of the city <05892>: and the old < 02205> man <0376> said <0559>, Whither <0575> goest <03212> thou? and whence <0370> comest <0935> thou?

18 And he said <0559> unto him, We [are] passing < 05674> from Bethlehemjudah <01035> toward <05704> the side <03411> of mount <02022> Ephraim <0669>; from thence < 08033> [am] I: and I went <03212> to Bethlehemjudah <01035>, but I [am now] going <01980> to the house <01004> of the LORD <03068>; and there [is] no <0369> man <0376> that receiveth <0622> me to house <01004>.

19 Yet <01571> there is both <01571> straw < 08401> and provender <04554> for our asses <02543>; and there is bread <03899> and wine <03196> also <01571> for me, and for thy handmaid <0519>, and for the young <05288> man [which is] with thy servants <05650>: [there is] no <0369> want <04270> of any <03605> thing <01697>.

20 And the old <02205> man <0376> said <0559>, Peace <07965> [be] with thee; howsoever <07535> [let] all < 03605> thy wants <04270> [lie] upon me; only <07535> lodge <03885> not in the street <07339>.

21 So he brought <0935> him into his house <01004>, and gave provender <01101> unto the asses <02543>: and they washed <07364> their feet <07272>, and did eat <0398> and drink <08354>.

22. [Now] as they were making their hearts <03820> merry <03190>, behold <02009>, the men <0582> of the city < 05892>, certain <0582> sons <01121> of Belial <01100>, beset <05437> the house <01004> round <05437> about, [and] beat <01849> at <05921> the door <01817>, and spake <0559> to the master <01167> of the house <01004>, the old <02205> man <0376>, saying <0559>, Bring < 03318> forth <03318> the man <0376> that came <0935> into <0413> thine house <01004>, that we may know <03045> him.

23 And the man <0376>, the master <01167> of the house <01004>, went <03318> out unto them, and said < 0559> unto them, Nay <0408>, my brethren <0251>, [nay], I pray <04994> you, do not [so] wickedly <07489>; seeing < 0310> that this <02088> man <0376> is come <0935> into <0413> mine house <01004>, do <06213> not this < 02063> folly <05039>.

24 Behold <02009>, [here is] my daughter <01323> a maiden <01330>, and his concubine <06370>; them I will bring <03318> out now <04994>, and humble <06031> ye them, and do <06213> with them what seemeth <05869> good <02896> unto you: but unto this <02088> man <0376> do <06213> not so <02063> vile <05039> a thing <01697>.

25 But the men <0582> would <014> not hearken < 08085> to him: so the man <0376> took <02388> his concubine <06370>, and brought <03318> her forth <03318> unto them; and they knew <03045> her, and abused <05953> her all < 03605> the night <03915> until <05704> the morning < 01242>: and when the day <07837> began <05927> to spring <05927>, they let her go <07971>.

26 Then came <0935> the woman <0802> in the dawning <06437> of the day <01242>, and fell <05307> down at the door <06607> of the man's <0376> house <01004> where her lord <0113> [was], till <05704> it was light <0216>.

27 And her lord <0113> rose <06965> up in the morning <01242>, and opened <06605> the doors <01817> of the house <01004>, and went <03318> out to go <03212> his way <01870>: and, behold <02009>, the woman <0802> his concubine <06370> was fallen <05307> down [at] the door <06607> of the house <01004>, and her hands <03027> [were] upon the threshold <05592>.

28 And he said <0559> unto her, Up, and let us be going <03212>. But none <0369> answered <06030>. Then the man <0376> took <03947> her [up] upon an ass <02543>, and the man <0376> rose <06965> up, and gat <03212> him unto his place <04725>.

29 And when he was come <0935> into <0413> his house <01004>, he took <03947> a knife <03979>, and laid hold <02388> on his concubine <06370>, and divided < 05408> her, [together] with her bones <06106>, into twelve pieces <05409>, and sent <07971> her into all <03605> the coasts <01366> of Israel <03478>.

30 And it was so, that all <03605> that saw <07200> it said <0559>, There was no <03808> such <02063> deed done <01961> nor <03908> seen <07200> from the day < 03117> that the children <01121> of Israel <03478> came < 05927> up out of the land <0776> of Egypt <04714> unto this <02088> day <03117>: consider <07760> of it, take advice <05779>, and speak <01696> [your minds].

Judges 20

1. Then all <03605> the children <01121> of Israel <03478> went <03318> out, and the congregation <05712> was gathered <06950> together as one <0259> man <0376>, from Dan <01835> even to Beersheba <0884>, with the land < 0776> of Gilead <01568>, unto the LORD <03068> in Mizpeh <04709>.

2 And the chief <06438> of all <03605> the people <05971>, [even] of all <03605> the tribes <07626> of Israel <03478>, presented <03320> themselves in the assembly <06951> of the people <05971> of God <0430>, four < 0702> hundred <03967> thousand <0505> footmen that drew < 08025> sword <02719>.

3 (Now the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> heard <08085> that the children <01121> of Israel <03478> were gone <05927> up to Mizpeh <04709>.) Then said < 0559> the children <01121> of Israel <03478>, Tell < 01696> [us], how <0349> was this <02063> wickedness < 07451>?

4 And the Levite <03881>, the husband <0376> of the woman <0802> that was slain <07523>, answered <06030> and said <0559>, I came <0935> into Gibeah <01390> that [belongeth] to Benjamin <01144>, I and my concubine <06370>, to lodge <03885>.

5 And the men <01167> of Gibeah <01390> rose < 06965> against <05921> me, and beset <05437> the house < 01004> round <05437> about upon me by night <03915>, [and] thought <01819> to have slain <02026> me: and my concubine < 06370> have they forced <06031>, that she is dead <04191>.

6 And I took <0270> my concubine <06370>, and cut <05408> her in pieces, and sent <07971> her throughout all < 03605> the country <07704> of the inheritance <05159> of Israel <03478>: for they have committed <06213> lewdness < 02154> and folly <05039> in Israel <03478>.

7 Behold <02009>, ye [are] all <03605> children < 01121> of Israel <03478>; give <03051> here <01988> your advice <01697> and counsel <06098>.

8 And all <03605> the people <05971> arose < 06965> as one <0259> man <0376>, saying <0559>, We will not any <0376> [of us] go <03212> to his tent <0168> , neither <03808> will we any <0376> [of us] turn <05493> into his house <01004>.

9 But now <06258> this <02063> [shall be] the thing <01697> which <0834> we will do <06213> to Gibeah < 01390>; [we will go <03212> up] by lot <01486> against < 05921> it;

10 And we will take <03947> ten <06235> men < 0582> of an hundred <03967> throughout all <03605> the tribes <07626> of Israel <03478>, and an hundred <03967> of a thousand <0505>, and a thousand <07233> out of ten < 07233> thousand <07233>, to fetch <03947> victual < 06720> for the people <05971>, that they may do <06213>, when they come <0935> to Gibeah <01390> of Benjamin < 01144>, according to all <03605> the folly <05039> that they have wrought <06213> in Israel <03478>.

11 So all <03605> the men <0376> of Israel < 03478> were gathered <0622> against <0413> the city < 05892>, knit <02270> together as one <0259> man <0376> .

12. And the tribes <07626> of Israel <03478> sent <07971> men <0582> through all <03605> the tribe < 07626> of Benjamin <01144>, saying <0559>, What < 04100> wickedness <07451> [is] this <02063> that is done <01961> among you?

13 Now <06258> therefore deliver <05414> [us] the men <0582>, the children <01121> of Belial <01100>, which <0834> [are] in Gibeah <01390>, that we may put them to death <04191>, and put <01197> away <01197> evil < 07451> from Israel <03478>. But the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> would <014> not hearken <08085> to the voice <06963> of their brethren <0251> the children < 01121> of Israel <03478>:

14 But the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> gathered <0622> themselves together out of the cities <05892> unto Gibeah <01390>, to go <03318> out to battle <04421> against <05973> the children <01121> of Israel <03478>.

15 And the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> were numbered <06485> at that time out of the cities <05892> twenty <06242> and six <08337> thousand <0505> men < 0376> that drew <08025> sword <02719>, beside <0905> the inhabitants <03427> of Gibeah <01390>, which were numbered <06485> seven <07651> hundred <03967> chosen <0970> men <0376>.

16 Among all <03605> this <02088> people < 05971> [there were] seven <07651> hundred <03967> chosen <0970> men <0376> lefthanded; every <03605> one could sling <07049> stones <068> at <0413> an hair < 08185> [breadth], and not miss <02398>.

17 And the men <0376> of Israel <03478>, beside < 0905> Benjamin <01144>, were numbered <06485> four < 0702> hundred <03967> thousand <0505> men <0376> that drew <08025> sword <02719>: all <03605> these < 02088> [were] men <0376> of war <04421>.

18. And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> arose <06965>, and went <05927> up to the house <01008> of God <01008>, and asked <07592> counsel of God <0430>, and said <0559>, Which <04310> of us shall go <05927> up first <08462> to the battle <04421> against <05973> the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144>? And the LORD < 03068> said <0559>, Judah <03063> [shall go <03212> up] first <08462>.

19 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> rose <06965> up in the morning <01242>, and encamped <02583> against <05921> Gibeah <01390>.

20 And the men <0376> of Israel <03478> went < 03318> out to battle <04421> against <05973> Benjamin < 01144>; and the men <0376> of Israel <03478> put themselves in array <06186> to fight <04421> against them at Gibeah < 01390>.

21 And the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> came <03318> forth <03318> out of Gibeah <01390>, and destroyed <07843> down to the ground <0776> of the Israelites <03478> that day <03117> twenty <06242> and two < 08147> thousand <0505> men <0376>.

22 And the people <05971> the men <0376> of Israel <03478> encouraged <02388> themselves, and set their battle <04421> again <03254> in array <06186> in the place < 04725> where they put themselves in array <06186> the first < 07223> day <03117>.

23 (And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> went <05927> up and wept <01058> before <06440> the LORD < 03068> until <05704> even <06153>, and asked <07592> counsel of the LORD <03068>, saying <0559>, Shall I go < 05066> up again <03254> to battle <04421> against < 05973> the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> my brother <0251>? And the LORD <03068> said <0559>, Go < 05927> up against <0413> him.)

24 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> came <07126> near <07126> against <0413> the children < 01121> of Benjamin <01144> the second <08145> day < 03117>.

25 And Benjamin <01144> went <03318> forth < 03318> against <07125> them out of Gibeah <01390> the second <08145> day <03117>, and destroyed <07843> down to the ground <0776> of the children <01121> of Israel < 03478> again <05750> eighteen thousand <0505> men < 0376>; all <03605> these <0428> drew <08025> the sword <02719>.

26. Then all <03605> the children <01121> of Israel <03478>, and all <03605> the people <05971>, went < 05927> up, and came <0935> unto the house <01008> of God <01008>, and wept <01058>, and sat <03427> there < 08033> before <06440> the LORD <03068>, and fasted < 06684> that day <03117> until <05704> even <06153>, and offered <05927> burnt <05930> offerings and peace < 08002> offerings before <06440> the LORD <03068>.

27 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> enquired <07592> of the LORD <03068>, (for the ark <0727> of the covenant <01285> of God <0430> [was] there < 08033> in those <01992> days <03117>,

28 And Phinehas <06372>, the son <01121> of Eleazar <0499>, the son <01121> of Aaron <0175>, stood < 05975> before it in those <01992> days <03117>,) saying < 0559>, Shall I yet <05750> again <03254> go <03318> out to battle <04421> against <05973> the children < 01121> of Benjamin <01144> my brother <0251>, or shall I cease <02308>? And the LORD <03068> said <0559>, Go < 05927> up; for to morrow <04279> I will deliver <05414> them into thine hand <03027>.

29 And Israel <03478> set <07760> liers in wait < 0693> round <05439> about Gibeah <01390>.

30 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> went <05927> up against <0413> the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> on the third <07992> day <03117>, and put themselves in array <06186> against <0413> Gibeah < 01390>, as at other times <06471>.

31 And the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> went <03318> out against <07125> the people <05971>, [and] were drawn <05423> away from the city <05892>; and they began <02490> to smite <05221> of the people <05971>, [and] kill <02491>, as at other times <06471>, in the highways <04546>, of which <0834> one <0259> goeth <05927> up to the house <01008> of God <01008>, and the other < 0259> to Gibeah <01390> in the field <07704>, about thirty <07970> men <0376> of Israel <03478>.

32 And the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> said <0559>, They [are] smitten <05062> down before < 06440> us, as at the first <07223>. But the children <01121> of Israel <03478> said <0559>, Let us flee <05127>, and draw <05423> them from the city <05892> unto the highways < 04546>.

33 And all <03605> the men <0376> of Israel < 03478> rose <06965> up out of their place <04725>, and put themselves in array <06186> at Baaltamar <01193>: and the liers in wait <0693> of Israel <03478> came <01518> forth <01518> out of their places <04725>, [even] out of the meadows <04629> of Gibeah <01390>.

34 And there came <0935> against <05048> Gibeah < 01390> ten <06235> thousand <0505> chosen <0970> men <0376> out of all <03605> Israel <03478>, and the battle <04421> was sore <03513>: but they knew <03045> not that evil <07451> [was] near <05060> them.

35 And the LORD <03068> smote <05062> Benjamin < 01144> before <06440> Israel <03478>: and the children < 01121> of Israel <03478> destroyed <07843> of the Benjamites <01145> that day <03117> twenty <06242> and five <02568> thousand <0505> and an hundred <03967> men <0376>: all <03605> these <0428> drew <08025> the sword <02719>.

36 So the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> saw <07200> that they were smitten <05062>: for the men < 0376> of Israel <03478> gave <05414> place <04725> to the Benjamites <01145>, because <03588> they trusted < 0982> unto the liers in wait <0693> which <0834> they had set <07760> beside <0413> Gibeah <01390>.

37 And the liers in wait <0693> hasted <02363>, and rushed <06584> upon Gibeah <01390>; and the liers in wait < 0693> drew <04900> [themselves] along, and smote <05221> all <03605> the city <05892> with the edge <06310> of the sword <02719>.

38 Now there was an appointed <04150> sign between < 05973> the men <0376> of Israel <03478> and the liers in wait <0693>, that they should make a great <07235> flame < 04864> with smoke <06227> rise <05927> up out of the city <05892>.

39 And when the men <0376> of Israel <03478> retired <02015> in the battle <04421>, Benjamin <01144> began <02490> to smite <05221> [and] kill <02491> of the men <0376> of Israel <03478> about thirty <07970> persons <0376>: for they said <0559>, Surely <0389> they are smitten <05062> down before <06440> us, as [in] the first <07223> battle <04421>.

40 But when the flame <04864> began <02490> to arise <05927> up out of the city <05892> with a pillar < 05982> of smoke <06227>, the Benjamites <01145> looked < 06437> behind <0310> them, and, behold <02009>, the flame <03632> of the city <05892> ascended <05927> up to heaven <08064>.

41 And when the men <0376> of Israel <03478> turned <02015> again, the men <0376> of Benjamin <01144> were amazed <0926>: for they saw <07200> that evil <07451> was come <05060> upon them.

42 Therefore they turned <06437> [their backs] before < 06440> the men <0376> of Israel <03478> unto the way < 01870> of the wilderness <04057>; but the battle <04421> overtook <01692> them; and them which <0834> [came] out of the cities <05892> they destroyed <07843> in the midst < 08432> of them.

43 [Thus] they inclosed <03803> the Benjamites < 01145> round <03803> about <03803>, [and] chased < 07291> them, [and] trode <01869> them down with ease <04496> over <05227> against <05227> Gibeah <01390> toward the sunrising.

44 And there fell <05307> of Benjamin <01144> eighteen thousand <0505> men <0376>; all <03605> these <0428> [were] men <0582> of valour <02428>.

45 And they turned <06437> and fled <05127> toward the wilderness <04057> unto the rock <05553> of Rimmon < 07417>: and they gleaned <05953> of them in the highways < 04546> five <02568> thousand <0505> men <0376>; and pursued <01692> hard after <0310> them unto Gidom <01440> , and slew <05221> two thousand <0505> men <0376> of them.

46 So that all <03605> which fell <05307> that day <03117> of Benjamin <01144> were twenty <06242> and five <02568> thousand <0505> men <0376> that drew < 08025> the sword <02719>; all <03605> these <0428> [were] men <0582> of valour <02428>.

47 But six <08337> hundred <03967> men <0376> turned <06437> and fled <05127> to the wilderness <04057> unto the rock <05553> Rimmon <07417>, and abode <03427> in the rock <05553> Rimmon <07417> four <0702> months <02320>.

48 And the men <0376> of Israel <03478> turned < 07725> again <07725> upon the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144>, and smote <05221> them with the edge <06310> of the sword <02719>, as well <03190> the men <04974> of [every] city <05892>, as the beast <0929>, and all < 03605> that came <04672> to hand <04672>: also they set < 07971> on fire <0784> all <03605> the cities <05892> that they came <04672> to.

Judges 21

1. Now the men <0376> of Israel <03478> had sworn <07650> in Mizpeh <04709>, saying <0559>, There shall not any <0376> of us give <05414> his daughter <01323> unto Benjamin <01144> to wife <0802>.

2 And the people <05971> came <0935> to the house <01008> of God <01008>, and abode <03427> there < 08033> till <05704> even <06153> before <06440> God <0430>, and lifted <05375> up their voices <06963>, and wept <01058> sore;

3 And said <0559>, O LORD <03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478>, why <04100> is this <02063> come < 01961> to pass in Israel <03478>, that there should be to day < 03117> one <0259> tribe <07626> lacking <06485> in Israel <03478>?

4 And it came <01961> to pass on the morrow <04279>, that the people <05971> rose <07925> early <07925>, and built <01129> there <08033> an altar <04196>, and offered <05927> burnt <05930> offerings and peace <08002> offerings.

5 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> said <0559>, Who <04310> [is there] among all <03605> the tribes <07626> of Israel <03478> that came <05927> not up with the congregation <06951> unto the LORD <03068>? For they had made a great <01419> oath <07621> concerning him that came <05927> not up to the LORD <03068> to Mizpeh <04709> , saying <0559>, He shall surely be put to death <04191>.

6 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> repented <05162> them for Benjamin <01144> their brother < 0251>, and said <0559>, There is one <0259> tribe < 07626> cut <01438> off from Israel <03478> this day < 03117>.

7 How <04100> shall we do <06213> for wives < 0802> for them that remain <03498>, seeing <07200> we have sworn <07650> by the LORD <03068> that we will not give < 05414> them of our daughters <01121> to wives <0802>?

8 And they said <0559>, What <04310> one < 0259> [is there] of the tribes <07626> of Israel <03478> that came <05927> not up to Mizpeh <04709> to the LORD < 03068>? And, behold <02009>, there came <0935> none to the camp <04264> from Jabeshgilead to the assembly <06951>.

9 For the people <05971> were numbered <06485>, and, behold <02009>, [there were] none of the inhabitants <03427> of Jabeshgilead there <08033>.

10 And the congregation <05712> sent <07971> thither <08033> twelve thousand <0505> men <0376> of the valiantest, and commanded <06680> them, saying <0559>, Go < 03212> and smite <05221> the inhabitants <03427> of Jabeshgilead with the edge <06310> of the sword <02719>, with the women <0802> and the children <02945>.

11 And this <02063> [is] the thing <01697> that ye shall do <06213>, Ye shall utterly destroy <02763> every < 03605> male <02145>, and every <03605> woman <0802> that hath lain by man <02145>.

12 And they found <04672> among the inhabitants < 03427> of Jabeshgilead four <0702> hundred <03967> young <05291> virgins <01330>, that had known <03045> no < 03808> man <0376> by lying <04904> with any male < 02145>: and they brought <0935> them unto the camp <04264> to Shiloh <07887>, which <0834> [is] in the land <0776> of Canaan <03667>.

13 And the whole <03605> congregation <05712> sent <07971> [some] to speak <01696> to the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> that [were] in the rock <05553> Rimmon < 07417>, and to call <07121> peaceably <07965> unto them.

14 And Benjamin <01144> came <07725> again < 07725> at that time <06256>; and they gave <05414> them wives <0802> which <0834> they had saved <02421> alive <02421> of the women <0802> of Jabeshgilead: and yet so < 03651> they sufficed <04672> them not.

15 And the people <05971> repented <05162> them for Benjamin <01144>, because <03588> that the LORD <03068> had made <06213> a breach <06556> in the tribes <07626> of Israel <03478>.

16. Then the elders <02205> of the congregation < 05712> said <0559>, How <04100> shall we do <06213> for wives <0802> for them that remain <03498>, seeing < 03588> the women <0802> are destroyed <08045> out of Benjamin <01144>?

17 And they said <0559>, [There must be] an inheritance <03425> for them that be escaped <06413> of Benjamin < 01144>, that a tribe <07626> be not destroyed <04229> out of Israel <03478>.

18 Howbeit we may <03201> not give <05414> them wives <0802> of our daughters <01121>: for the children < 01121> of Israel <03478> have sworn <07650>, saying < 0559>, Cursed <0779> [be] he that giveth <05414> a wife < 0802> to Benjamin <01144>.

19 Then they said <0559>, Behold <02009>, [there is] a feast <02282> of the LORD <03068> in Shiloh <07887> yearly <03117> [in a place] which <0834> [is] on the north <06828> side of Bethel <01008>, on the east side of the highway <04546> that goeth <05927> up from Bethel <01008> to Shechem <07927>, and on the south <05045> of Lebonah < 03829>.

20 Therefore they commanded <06680> the children < 01121> of Benjamin <01144>, saying <0559>, Go <03212> and lie in wait <0693> in the vineyards <03754>;

21 And see <07200>, and, behold <02009>, if < 0518> the daughters <01121> of Shiloh <07887> come < 03318> out to dance <02342> in dances <04246>, then come <03318> ye out of the vineyards <03754>, and catch < 02414> you every man <0376> his wife <0802> of the daughters <01121> of Shiloh <07887>, and go <01980> to the land <0776> of Benjamin <01144>.

22 And it shall be, when <03588> their fathers <01> or <0176> their brethren <0251> come <0935> unto us to complain <07378>, that we will say <0559> unto them, Be favourable <02603> unto them for our sakes: because <03588> we reserved <03947> not to each man <0376> his wife <0802> in the war <04421>: for ye did not give <05414> unto them at this time <06256>, [that] ye should be guilty <0816>.

23 And the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> did <06213> so <03651>, and took <05375> [them] wives < 0802>, according to their number <04557>, of them that danced < 02342>, whom <0834> they caught <01497>: and they went < 03212> and returned <07725> unto their inheritance <05159>, and repaired <01129> the cities <05892>, and dwelt < 03427> in them.

24 And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> departed <01980> thence <08033> at that time, every man < 0376> to his tribe <07626> and to his family <04940>, and they went <03318> out from thence <08033> every man < 0376> to his inheritance <05159>.

25 In those <01992> days <03117> [there was] no < 0369> king <04428> in Israel <03478>: every man <0376> did <06213> [that which was] right <03477> in his own eyes <05869>.

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