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Judges 1:1

1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the LORD, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?”

Judges 1:28

28 When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.

Judges 2:4

4 When the angel of the LORD had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,

Judges 2:6

6 After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance.

Judges 2:11

11 Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.

Judges 2:14

14 In his anger against Israel the LORD gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.

Judges 2:20

20 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and said, “Because this nation has violated the covenant I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to me,

Judges 2:22

22 I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the LORD and walk in it as their ancestors did.”

Judges 3:1

1 These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan

Judges 3:2

2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):

Judges 3:4

4 They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD’s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.

Judges 3:5

5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Judges 3:7

7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

Judges 3:8

8 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.

Judges 3:9

9 But when they cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, who saved them.

Judges 3:10

10 The Spirit of the LORD came on him, so that he became Israel’s judge and went to war. The LORD gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.

Judges 3:12

12 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and because they did this evil the LORD gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel.

Judges 3:13

13 Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.

Judges 3:14

14 The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.

Judges 3:15

15 Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer—Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

Judges 3:27

27 When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.

Judges 3:30

30 That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.

Judges 4:1

1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, now that Ehud was dead.

Judges 4:3

3 Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the LORD for help.

Judges 4:4

4 Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.

Judges 4:5

5 She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.

Judges 4:6

6 She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor.

Judges 4:24

24 And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.

Judges 5:2

2 “When the princes in Israel take the lead, when the people willingly offer themselves— praise the LORD!

Judges 5:7

7 Villagers in Israel would not fight; they held back until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose, a mother in Israel.

Judges 5:9

9 My heart is with Israel’s princes, with the willing volunteers among the people. Praise the LORD!

Judges 5:11

11 the voice of the singers at the watering places. They recite the victories of the LORD, the victories of his villagers in Israel. “Then the people of the LORD went down to the city gates.

Judges 6:1

1 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites.

Judges 6:2

2 Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.

Judges 6:3

3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.

Judges 6:4

4 They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys.

Judges 6:6

6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the LORD for help.

Judges 6:7

7 When the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,

Judges 6:8

8 he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Judges 6:14

14 The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”

Judges 6:15

15 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”

Judges 6:36

36 Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised—

Judges 6:37

37 look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.”

Judges 7:2

2 The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’

Judges 7:8

8 So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

Judges 7:14

14 His friend responded, “This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.”

Judges 7:15

15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, “Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands.”

Judges 7:23

23 Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites.

Judges 8:22

22 The Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you, your son and your grandson—because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”

Judges 8:27

27 Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.

Judges 8:28

28 Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon’s lifetime, the land had peace forty years.

Judges 8:33

33 No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god

Judges 8:34

34 and did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.

Judges 9:55

55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.

Judges 10:1

1 After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.

Judges 10:2

2 He led Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.

Judges 10:3

3 He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years.

Judges 10:6

6 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the LORD and no longer served him,

Judges 10:7

7 he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,

Judges 10:8

8 who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

Judges 10:9

9 The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress.

Judges 10:10

10 Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, “We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.”

Judges 10:11

11 The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

Judges 10:15

15 But the Israelites said to the LORD, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.”

Judges 10:17

17 When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

Judges 11:5

5 the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

Judges 11:13

13 The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.”

Judges 11:15

15 saying: “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites.

Judges 11:16

16 But when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and on to Kadesh.

Judges 11:17

17 Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Give us permission to go through your country,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. They sent also to the king of Moab, and he refused. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

Judges 11:19

19 “Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Let us pass through your country to our own place.’

Judges 11:20

20 Sihon, however, did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He mustered all his troops and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.

Judges 11:21

21 “Then the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and his whole army into Israel’s hands, and they defeated them. Israel took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country,

Judges 11:23

23 “Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over?

Judges 11:25

25 Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel or fight with them?

Judges 11:26

26 For three hundred years Israel occupied Heshbon, Aroer, the surrounding settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn’t you retake them during that time?

Judges 11:27

27 I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the LORD, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

Judges 11:40

40 that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

Judges 12:7

7 Jephthah led Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in a town in Gilead.

Judges 12:9

9 He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in thirty young women as wives from outside his clan. Ibzan led Israel seven years.

Judges 12:11

11 After him, Elon the Zebulunite led Israel ten years.

Judges 12:14

14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years.

Judges 13:1

1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, so the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 13:5

5 You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”

Judges 15:20

20 Samson led Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Judges 16:31

31 Then his brothers and his father’s whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led Israel twenty years.

Judges 17:6

6 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

Judges 18:1

1 In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 18:29

29 They named it Dan after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city used to be called Laish.

Judges 19:1

1 In those days Israel had no king. Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

Judges 19:12

12 His master replied, “No. We won’t go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

Judges 19:30

30 Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, “Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!”

Judges 20:1

1 Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came together as one and assembled before the LORD in Mizpah.

Judges 20:2

2 The leaders of all the people of the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, four hundred thousand men armed with swords.

Judges 20:3

3 (The Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the Israelites said, “Tell us how this awful thing happened.”

Judges 20:6

6 I took my concubine, cut her into pieces and sent one piece to each region of Israel’s inheritance, because they committed this lewd and outrageous act in Israel.

Judges 20:7

7 Now, all you Israelites, speak up and tell me what you have decided to do.”

Judges 20:10

10 We’ll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel.”

Judges 20:11

11 So all the Israelites got together and united as one against the city.

Judges 20:12

12 The tribes of Israel sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What about this awful crime that was committed among you?

Judges 20:13

13 Now turn those wicked men of Gibeah over to us so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.” But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.

Judges 20:17

17 Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them fit for battle.

Judges 20:18

18 The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” The LORD replied, “Judah shall go first.”

Judges 20:19

19 The next morning the Israelites got up and pitched camp near Gibeah.

Judges 20:20

20 The Israelites went out to fight the Benjamites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.

Judges 20:21

21 The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.

Judges 20:22

22 But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.

Judges 20:23

23 The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The LORD answered, “Go up against them.”

Judges 20:24

24 Then the Israelites drew near to Benjamin the second day.

Judges 20:25

25 This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them, they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

Judges 20:26

26 Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD.

Judges 20:27

27 And the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,

Judges 20:29

29 Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah.

Judges 20:30

30 They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before.

Judges 20:32

32 While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,” the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”

Judges 20:33

33 All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west of Gibeah.

Judges 20:34

34 Then ten thousand of Israel’s able young men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was.

Judges 20:35

35 The LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

Judges 20:36

36 Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten. Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.

Judges 20:38

38 The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city,

Judges 20:39

39 and then the Israelites would counterattack. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”

Judges 20:41

41 Then the Israelites counterattacked, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them.

Judges 20:42

42 So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the wilderness, but they could not escape the battle. And the Israelites who came out of the towns cut them down there.

Judges 20:48

48 The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.

Judges 21:1

1 The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”

Judges 21:3

3 “LORD, God of Israel,” they cried, “why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing from Israel today?”

Judges 21:5

5 Then the Israelites asked, “Who from all the tribes of Israel has failed to assemble before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah was to be put to death.

Judges 21:6

6 Now the Israelites grieved for the tribe of Benjamin, their fellow Israelites. “Today one tribe is cut off from Israel,” they said.

Judges 21:8

8 Then they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah?” They discovered that no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

Judges 21:18

18 We can’t give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath: ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite.’

Judges 21:24

24 At that time the Israelites left that place and went home to their tribes and clans, each to his own inheritance.

Judges 21:25

25 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.