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Judges

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  1. Chapter 1Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
  2. Chapter 2And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
  3. Chapter 3Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
  4. Chapter 4And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.
  5. Chapter 5Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
  6. Chapter 6And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
  7. Chapter 7Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
  8. Chapter 8And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
  9. Chapter 9And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
  10. Chapter 10And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
  11. Chapter 11Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
  12. Chapter 12And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
  13. Chapter 13And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
  14. Chapter 14And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
  15. Chapter 15But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
  16. Chapter 16Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
  17. Chapter 17And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
  18. Chapter 18In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
  19. Chapter 19And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth–lehem–judah.
  20. Chapter 20Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh.
  21. Chapter 21Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

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Judges is a history book of Scripture with 21 chapters. This page is designed first for navigation into the biblical text.