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Judges: Greatest Verses Of The Bible.
--Sermon by Dr. Bob Benchoff November 17, 2003
The following are Bible verses or portions of verses.
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister. Joshua 1.1.
Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. Joshua 1.2.
Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, as I promised to Moses. Joshua 1.3.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. Joshua 1.4.
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. Joshua 1.5.
Be stront and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Joshua 1.6.
Only be strong and very courageous, being carefuo to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. Joshua 1.7.
This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall mediatate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. Joshua 1.8.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1.9.
Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people. Joshua 1.10.
"Pass through the camp, and command the people three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess.". Joshua 1.11.
And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua said. Joshua 1.12.
"Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, 'The Lord your God is providing you a place to rest, and will give you this land.'". Joshua 1.13.
Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brethern and shall help them. Joshua 1.14.
Until the Lord gives rest to your brethern as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving them; then you shall return to the land of your possession, and shall possess it, the land which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise. Joshua 1.15.
And they answered Joshua, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.". Joshua 1.16.
Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you; only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses!. Joshua 1.17.
Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage. Joshua 1.18.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretely from Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. Joshua 2.1.
And it was told the king of Jericho, "Behold, certain men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.". Joshua 2.2.
Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring forth the men that have come to you, who entered your house; for they have come to search out all the land.". Joshua 2.3.
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them; and she said, "True, men came to me, but I did not know where they came from.". Joshua 2.4.
And when the gate was to be closed, at dark, the men went out; where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them. Joshua 2.5.
But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax which she had laid in order of the roof. Joshua 2.6.
So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords; and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut. Joshua 2.7.
Before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof. Joshua 2.8.
And said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. Joshua 2.9.
For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. Joshua 2.10.
And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no courage left in any man, because of you; for the Lord your God is he who is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. Joshua 2.11.
Now then, swear to me by the Lord that as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign. Joshua 2.12.
And save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death. Joshua 2.13.
And the men said to her, "Our life for yours! If you do not tell this business of ours, then we will deal kindly and faithfully with you when the Lord gives us the land.". Joshua 2.14 (Note: God already gave the land, so compassionately the spys should have rather asked Rahab and family to leave their ways and follow God.).
Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she dwelt in the wall. Joshua 2.15.
And she said to them, "Go into the hills, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; then afterward you may go your way.". Joshua 2.16.
The men said to her, "We will be guiltless whith respect to this oath of yours which you have made us swear.". Joshua 2.17.
Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down; and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household. Joshua 2.18.
If any one goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless; but if a hand is laid upon any one who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head. Joshua 2.19.
But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath which you have made us swear. Joshua 2.20.
And she said, "According to your words, so be it."
Then she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet cord in the window. Joshua 2.21.
They departed, and went into the hills, and remained there three days, until the pursuers returned; for the pursuers had made search all along the way and found nothing. Joshua 2.22.
Then the two men came down again from the hills, and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them. Joshua 2.23.
And they said to Joshua, "Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of us.". Joshua 2.24.
Early in the morning Joshua rose and set out from Shittim, with all the people of Israel; and they came to the Jordan, and lodged there before they passed over. Joshua 3.1.
At the end of three days the officers went through the camp. Joshua 3.2.
And commanded the people, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it". Joshua 3.3.
That you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, a distance of about two thousand cubits; do not come near it. Joshua 3.4.
And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.". Joshua 3.5.
And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on before the people." And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. Joshua 3.6.
And the Lord said to Joshua, "This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.". Joshua 3.7.
And you shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'. Joshua 3.8.
And Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God.". Joshua 3.9.
And Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.". Joshua 3.10.
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is to pass over before you into the Jordan. Joshua 3.11.
Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man. Joshua 3.12.
And when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be stopped from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap. Joshua 3.13.
So, when the people set out from their tents, to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people. Joshua 3.14.
And when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest). Joshua 3.15.
The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap far off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt sea, were wholly cut off; and the people passed over opposite Jericho. Joshua 3.16.
And while all Israel were passing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan. Joshua 3.17.
When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua. Joshua 4.1.
"Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man". Joshua 4.2.
And command them, "Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests; feet stood, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.". Joshua 4.3.
Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe. Joshua 4.4.
And Joshua said to them, "Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God in the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel". Joshua 4.5.
That this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, "What do those stones mean to you?". Joshua 4.6.
Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial for ever. Joshua 4.7.
And the men of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, as the Lord told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. Joshua 4.8.
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day. Joshua 4.9.
For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste. Joshua 4.10.
And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the Lord and the priests passed over before the people. Joshua 4.11.
The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had bidden them. Joshua 4.12.
About forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains of Jericho. Joshua 4.13.
On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him, as they had stod in awe of Moses, all the days of his life. Joshua 4.14.
And the Lord said to Joshua. Joshua 4.15.
"Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan.". Joshua 4.16.
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan.". Joshua 4.17.
And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before. Joshua 4.18.
The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. Joshua 4.19.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. Joshua 4.20.
And he said to the people of Israel, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, 'What do these stones mean?'". Joshua 4.21.
Then you shall let your children know, 'Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.'. Joshua 4.22.
for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over. Joshua 4.23.
So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty; that you may fear the Lord your God forever. Joshua 4.24.
When all the kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites that were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them, because of the people of Israel. Joshua 5.1.
At that time the Lord said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the people of Israel again the second time.". Joshua 5.2.
So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the people of Israel at Gibeathhaaraloth. Joshua 5.3.
And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of lthe people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died on the way in the wilderness after thy had come out of Egypt. Joshua 5.4.
Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised. Joshua 5.5.
For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness. Joshua 5.6.
When the circumcising of all the nations was done, they remained in their places in the camp till they were healed. Joshua 5.8.
And the Lord said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. Joshua 5.9.
While the people of Israel were encamped in Gilgal they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. Joshua 5.10.
And on the morrow after the passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. Joshua 5.11.
And the manna ceased on the morrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. Joshua 5.12.
When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood before him with his drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?". Joshua 5.13.
And he said, "No; but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, "What does my lord bid his servant?". Joshua 5.14.
And the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, "Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so. Joshua 5.15.
Now Jericho was shut up from within and from without because of the people of Israel; none went out, and none came in. Joshua 6.1.
And the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have given into your hand Jericho, with its king and mighty men of valor.". Joshua 6.2.
You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days. Joshua 6.3.
And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark; and on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, the priests blowing the trumpets. Joshua 6.4.
And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him. Joshua 6.5.
So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord.". Joshua 6.6.
And he said to the people, "Go forward; march around the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord. Joshua 6.7.
And as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Lord went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the Lord following them. Joshua 6.8.
And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually. Joshua 6.9.
But Joshua commanded the people, "You shall not shout or let your voice be heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then you shall shout.". Joshua 6.10.
So he caused the ark of the Lord to compass the city, going about it once; and they came into the camp, and spent the night in the camp. Joshua 6.11.
Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. Joshua 6.12.
And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord passed on, blowing the trumpets continually; and the armed men went before them, and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets blew continually. Joshua 6.13.
And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days. Joshua 6.14.
On the seventh day they rose early at dawn of day, and marched seven times: it was only on that day they marched around the city seven times. Joshua 6.15.
And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout; for the Lord has given you the city.". Joshua 6.16.
And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for deatruction; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she his the messengers that we sent. Joshua 6.17.
But you keep yourselves from the things devoted to deatruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for deatruction and bring trouble upon it. Joshua 6.18.
But all silver and gold, and vessels of bronze shall go into the treasury of the Lord. Joshua 6.19.
So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. Joshua 6.20.
Then they utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and asses, with the edge of the sword. Joshua 6.21.
And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the harlot's house, and bring out from it the woman, and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.". Joshua 6.22.
So the young men who had been spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her; and they brought all her dindred, and set them outside the camp of Israel. Joshua 6.23.
And they burned the city with fire, and all within it; only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. Joshua 6.24.
But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive; and she dwelt in Israel to this day, because she his the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. Joshua 6.25.
Joshua laid an oath upon them at that time, saying, "Cursed before the Lord be the man that rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. At the cost of his first-born shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.". Joshua 6.26.
So the Lord was in all the land. Joshua 6.27.
But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things; for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things; and the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel. Joshua 7.1.
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Bethaven, east of Bethel, and said to them, "Go up and spy out the land." And the men went up and spied out Ai. Joshua 7.2.
And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are but few.". Joshua 7.3.
So about three thousand went up there from the people; and they fled before the men of Ai. Joshua 7.4.
And the men of Ai killed about thirty-six men of them, and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim, and slew them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted, and became as water. Joshua 7.5.
Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads. Joshua 7.6.
And Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord God, why hast thou brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!". Joshua 7.7.
O Lord what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!. Joshua 7.8.
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?. Joshua 7.9.
The Lord said to Joshua, "Arise, why have you thus fallen upon your face?". Joshua 7.10.
Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, and lied, and put them among their own stuff. Joshua 7.11.
Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become a thing for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. Joshua 7.12.
Up, sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, "There are devoted things in the midst of you, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the devoted things from among you."'. Joshua 7.13.
In the morning therefore you shall be frought near by your tribes; and the tribe which the Lord takes shall come near by families; and the family which the Lord takes shall come near by households; and the household which the Lord takes shall come near man by man. Joshua 7.14.
And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done a shameful thing in Israel. Joshua 7.15.
So Joshua rose early in the morning, and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken. Joshua 7.16.
Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and render praise to him; and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.". Joshua 7.19.
And Achan answered Joshua, "Of a truth I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did:". Joshua 7.20.
When I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them, and took them; and behold, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath. Joshua 7.21.
So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath. Joshua 7.22.
And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the people of Israel; and they laid them down before the Lord. Joshua 7.23.
And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the mantle and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters, and his oxen and asses and sheep, and his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the Valley of Achor. Joshua 7.24.
And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones; they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. Joshua 7.25.
And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day; then the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor. Joshua 7.26.
And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not fear or be dismayed; take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land". Joshua 8.1.
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves; lay an ambush against the city, behind it. Joshua 8.2.
So Joshua arose, and all the fighting men, to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night. Joshua 8.3.
And he commanded them, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but hold yourselves all in readiness". Joshua 8.4.
And I, and all the people who are with me, will approach the city. And when they come out against us, as before, we shall flee before them. Joshua 8.5.
And they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They are fleeing from us, as before.'. Joshua 8.6.
Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the city; for the Lord your God will give it into your hand. Joshua 8.7.
And when you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire, doing as the Lord has bidden; see, I have commanded you. Joshua 8.8.
So Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the place of ambush, and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people. Joshua 8.9.
And Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, with the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. Joshua 8.10.
And all the fighting men who were with him went up, and drew near before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai. Joshua 8.11.
And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. Joshua 8.12.
So they stationed the forces, the main encampment which was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley. Joshua 8.13.
And when the king of Ai saw this he and all his people, the men of the city made haste and went out early to the descent toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. Joshua 8.14.
And Joshua and all Israel made a pretense of being beaten before them, and fled in the direction of the wilderness. Joshua 8.15.
So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city. Joshua 8.16.
There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, who did not go out after Israel; they left the city open and pursued Israel. Joshua 8.17.
Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city. Joshua 8.18.
And the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched otu his hand, they ran and entered the city and took it; and they made haste to set the city on fire. Joshua 8.19.
So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. Joshua 8.20.
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and smote the men of Ai. Joshua 8.21.
And the others came forth from the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side; and Israel smote them, until there was left none that survived or escaped. Joshua 8.22.
But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. Joshua 8.23.
When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. Joshua 8.24.
And all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai. Joshua 8.25.
For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. Joshua 8.26.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took as their booty, according to the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua. Joshua 8.27.
So Joshua burned Ai, and made it for ever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day. Joshua 8.28.
And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day. Joshua 8.29.
Then Joshua built an altar in Mount Ebal to the Lord, the God of Israel. Joshua 8.30.
As Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, "an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man has lifted an iron tool"; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. Joshua 8.31 (Note: "the book of the law of Moses" is known as the Pentateuch: the first five books of Jewish and Christian Scriptures: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Christian canon law also includes New Testament Scriptures. Compare natural law of inherent rights, as with the United States Declaration of Independence; and civil law of jurisdictions, as with Roman law and Louisiana law.).
And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. Joshua 8.32.
And all Israel, sojourner as well as homeborn, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, ass Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. Joshua 8.33.
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law. Joshua 8.34.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them. Joshua 8.35.
When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this. Joshua 9.1.
They gathered together with one accord to fight Joshua and Israel. Joshua 9.2.
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai. Joshua 9.3.
They on their part acted with cunning, and went and made ready provisions, and took worn-out sacks upon their asses, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended. Joshua 9.4.
With worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes; and all their provisions were dry and moldy. Joshua 9.5.
And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country; so now make a covenant with us.". Joshua 9.6.
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?". Joshua 9.7.
They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." And Joshua said to them, "Who are you? And where do you come from?". Joshua 9.8.
They said to him, "From a very far country your servants have come, because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt. Joshua 9.9.
And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth. Joshua 9.10.
And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, 'Take provisions in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, "We are your servants; come now, make a covenant with us."'. Joshua 9.11.
Here is our bread; it was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey, on the day we set forth to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and moldy. Joshua 9.12.
These wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they are burst; and these garments and shoes of ours are worn out from the very long journey. Joshua 9.13.
So the men partook of their provisions, and did not ask direction from the Lord. Joshua 9.14.
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore to them. Joshua 9.15.
At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, adn that they dwelt among them. Joshua 9.16.
And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriathjearim. Joshua 9.17.
But the people of Israel did not kill them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders. Joshua 9.18.
But all the leaders said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.". Joshua 9.19.
This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore to them. Joshua 9.20.
And the leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the leaders had said of them. Joshua 9.21.
Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, "Why did you deceive us, saying, 'We are very far from you.' when you dwell among us?". Joshua 9.22.
Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. Joshua 9.23.
They answered Joshua, "Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; so we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and did this thing.". Joshua 9.24.
And now, behold, we are in your hand: do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us. Joshua 9.25.
So he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel; and they did not kill them. Joshua 9.26.
But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to continue to this day, in the place which he should choose. Joshua 9.27.
When Adonizedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them. Joshua 10.1.
He feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. Joshua 10.2 (Note: RSV "He" = "they" / Hebrew, and KJV "than" = "then" / RSV).
So Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying. Joshua 10.3.
"Come up to me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel.". Joshua 10.4.
Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces, and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against. Joshua 10.5.
And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, "Do not relax your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.". Joshua 10.6.
So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor. Joshua 10.7.
And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands; there shall not a man of them stand before you.". Joshua 10.8.
So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal. Joshua 10.9.
And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Bethhoron, and smote them as far as Azekah and Makkedah. Joshua 10.10.
And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Bethhorn, the Lord threw down great stones from heaven upon them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died because of the hailstones than the men of Israel killed with the sword. Joshua 10.11.
Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon.". Joshua 10.12.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. Joshua 10.13.
There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord hearkened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel. Joshua 10.14 (Note: Compare this great verse with Genesis 24 through 29, a great hearkening before Israel became great.).
Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. Joshua 10.15.
These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. Joshua 10.16.
And it was told Joshua, "Teh five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.". Joshua 10.17.
And Joshua said, "Roll great stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them. Joshua 10.18.
But do not stay there yourselves, pursue your enemies, fall upon their rear, do not let them enter their cities; for the Lord your God has given them into your hand. Joshua 10.19.
When Joshua and the men of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were wiped out, and when the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities. Joshua 10.20.
All the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah; not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel. Joshua 10.21.
Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out to me from the cave.". Joshua 10.22.
And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of AHebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. Joshua 10.23.
And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, "Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. Joshua 10.24.
And Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and of good courage; for thus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.". Joshua 10.25 (Note: Hence, Israel could physically be thus, that it might be reborn anew and greater; reference it's historic abatement and resurgence at the time of Christ: the fall and rising again of many.).
And afterward Joshua smote them and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees. And they hung upon the trees until evening. Joshua 10.26.
But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set great stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day. Joshua 10.27.
And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed every person in it, he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. Joshua 10.28.
Then Joshua passed on from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah. Joshua 10.29.
And the Lord gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho. Joshua 10.30.
And Joshua passed on from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and laid siege to it, and assulted it. Joshua 10.31.
And the Lord gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword and every person in it as he had done to Linah. Joshua 10.32.
Then Horma king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he left none remaining. Joshua 10.33.
And Joshua passed on with all Israel from Lachish to Eglon; and they laid siege to it, and assulted it. Joshua 10.34.
And they took it on that eday, and smote it with the edge of the sword; and every person in it he utterly destroyed that day, as he had done to Lachish. Joshua 10.35.
Then Joshua went up with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron; and they assulted it. Joshua 10.36.
And took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword and its king and its towns, and every person in it; he left none remaining as he had done to Eglon, and utterly destroyed it with every person in it. Joshua 10.37.
Then Joshua, with all Israel, turned back to Debir and assulted it. Joshua 10.38.
And he took it with its king and all its towns; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed every person in it; he left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king. Joshua 10.39.
So Joshua defeated the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded. Joshua 10.40.
And Joshua defeated them from Kadeshbarnea to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon. Joshua 10.41.
And Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. Joshua 10.42.
Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. Joshua 10.43.
When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph. Joshua 11.1.
And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphothdor on the west. Joshua 11.2.
To the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. Joshua 11.3.
And they came out, with all their troops, a great host, in number like the sand that is upon the seashore, with very many horses and chariots. Joshua 11.4.
And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel. Joshua 11.5.
And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel; you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.". Joshua 11.6.
So Joshua came suddenly upon them with all his people of war, by the waters of Merom, and fell upon them. Joshua 11.7.
And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who smote them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephothmaim, and eastward as far as the valley of Mizpeh; and they smote them, until they left none remaining. Joshua 11.8.
And Joshua did to them as the Lord bade him; he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire. Joshua 11.9.
And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote its king with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms. Joshua 11.10.
And they put to the sword all who were in it, utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed, and he burned Hazor with fire. Joshua 11.11.
And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took, and smote them with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. Joshua 11.12.
But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor only; that Joshua burned. Joshua 11.13.
And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the people of Israel took for their booty; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them and they did not leave any that breathed. Joshua 11.14.
As the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses. Joshua 11.15.
So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland. Joshua 11.16.
From Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir, as far as Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he took all their kings, and smote them, and put them to death. Joshua 11.17.
Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. Joshua 11.18.
There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon; they took all in battle. Joshua 11.19.
For it was the Lord's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be utterly destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be exterminated, as the Lord commanded Moses. Joshua 11.20.
And Joshua came at that time, and wiped out the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Derbir, from Anam, and from all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. Joshua 11.21.
There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain. Joshua 11.22.
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war. Joshua 11.23.
Now these are the kings of the lend, whom the people of Israel defeated, and took possession of their land. Joshua 12.1.
In all, thirty-one kings. Joshua 12.24.
Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the Lord said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed. Joshua 13.1.
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites. Joshua 13.2.
I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel; only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. Joshua 13.6.
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh. Joshua 13.7.
The other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward. Joshua 13.8.
But Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day. Joshua 13.13.
To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance; the offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him. Joshua 13.14.
And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their families. Joshua 13.15.
And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of. Joshua 13.24.
These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. Joshua 13.32.
But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to them. Joshua 13.33.
And these are the inheritances which the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed to them. Joshua 14.1.
Their inheritance was by lot, as the Lord had commanded Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. Joshua 14.2.
For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. Joshua 14.3.
For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their cattle and their substance. Joshua 14.4.
The people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land. Joshua 14.5.
Then the people of Judas came to Joshua at Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadeshbarnea concerning you and me.". Joshua 14.6.
I was forty years old whin Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadeshbarnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. Joshua 14.7.
But my brethern who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. Joshua 14.8.
And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children for ever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.'. Joshua 14.9.
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am this day eighty-five years old. Joshua 14.10.
I am still as strong to this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war, and for going and coming. Joshua 14.11.
So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day; for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out as the Lord said. Joshua 14.12.
Then Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. Joshua 14.13.
So Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. Joshua 14.14.
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriatharba; this Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war. Joshua 14.15 (Note: "Kiriatharba" = "The city of Arba").
The lot for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families. Joshua 15.1.
Of the Jebusite (that is Jerusalem). Joshua 15.8.
And Caleb said, "Whoever smites Kiriathsepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.". Joshua 15.16.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families. Joshua 15.20.
But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out; so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day. Joshua 15.63 (Jerusalem is revered as a holy city, a sanctuary. See Ether Chapter 13 verses 2 through 12.).
The allotment of the descendants of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of. Joshua 16.1.
Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the Ephraimites by their families. Joshua 16.8.
Together with the towns which were set apart for the Ephraimites within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages. Joshua 16.9.
However they did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt there in Gezer: so the Canaanites have dwelt in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have become slaves to do forced labor. Joshua 16.10.
Then the allotment was made to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the first-born of Joseph. Joshua 17.1 (Note: see Joshua 5.1.).
The tribe of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us; yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron". Joshua 17.16.
Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, "You are a numerous people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot only". Joshua 17.17.
But the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong. Joshua 17.18.
Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; the land lay subdued before them. Joshua 18.1.
There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned. Joshua 18.2.
So Joshua said to the people of Israel, "How long will you be slack to go in and take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?. Joshua 18.3.
Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land, writing a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me. Joshua 18.4.
They shall divide it into seven portions, Judah continuing in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph in their territory on the north. Joshua 18.5.
And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God. Joshua 18.6.
The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the Lord is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them. Joshua 18.7.
So the men started on their way; and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, "Go up and down and write a description of the land, and come again to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.". Joshua 18.8.
So the men went and passed up and down in the land and set down in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions; then they came to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh. Joshua 18.9.
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord; and there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion. Joshua 18.10.
The lot of the tribe of Benjamin. Joshua 18.11.
The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe. Joshua 19.1.
The inheritance of the tribe of Simeon formed part of the territory of Judah; because the portion of the tribe of Judah was too large for them, the tribe of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance. Joshua 19.9.
The third lot came up for the tribe of Zebulun. Joshua 19.10.
The fourth lot came out for Issachar. Joshua 19.17.
The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher. Joshua 19.24.
As far as Sidon the Great. Joshua 19.28.
The sixth lot came out for the tribe of Naphtali. Joshua 19.32.
The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan. Joshua 19.40.
These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the Lord, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land. Joshua 19.51.
Then the Lord said to Joshua. Joshua 20.1.
"Say to the people of Israel, 'Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses'". Joshua 20.2.
That the manslayer who kills any person without intent or unwittingly may flee there; they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood. Joshua 20.3.
He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and explain his case to the elders of that city; then they shall take him into the city, and give him a place, and he shall remain with them. Joshua 20.4.
And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the slayer into his hand; because he killed his neighbor unwittingly, having had no enmity against him in times past. Joshua 20.5 (Note: Great wisdom is found in the phrase "having had no enmity against him in times past", known as motive, as it serves God to help you distinguish accidents from intentional injury [according to the righteous reasoning of it, or lack thereof] so you may know to choose good and not evil: intentional injury being wrong unless according to the good greater purpose of higher reasoning; see Judges 14.3&4.).
And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time: then the slayer may go again to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled. Joshua 20.6.
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriatharba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. Joshua 20.7.
And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramothe in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh. Joshua 20.8.
These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel, and for the stranger sojourning among them, that any one who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation. Joshua 20.9.
Then the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. Joshua 21.1.
And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, "The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasture lands for our cattle.". Joshua 21.2.
So by command of the Lord the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasture lands out of their inheritance. Joshua 21.3.
The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities. Joshua 21.4.
And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh ten cities. Joshua 21.5.
The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasture lands. Joshua 21.41.
These cities had each its pasture lands round about it; so it was with all these cities. Joshua 21.42.
Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and having taken possession of it, they settled there. Joshua 21.43.
And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers; not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands. Joshua 21.44.
Not one of all the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass. Joshua 21.45.
Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Namasseh. Joshua 22.1.
And said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you". Joshua 22.2.
You have not forsaken your brethern these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the Lord your God. Joshua 22.3.
And now the Lord your God has given rest to your brethern, as he promised them; therefore turn and go to your home in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan. Joshua 22.4.
Take good care to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. Joshua 22.5.
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their homes. Joshua 22.6.
Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan; but to the other half Joshua had given a possession beside their brethern in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their homes and blessed them. Joshua 22.7.
He said to them, "Go back to your homes with much wealth, and with very many cattle, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethern.". Joshua 22.8.
So the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the Lord through Moses. Joshua 22.9.
And when they came to the region about the Jordan that lies in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of great size. Joshua 22.10.
And the people of Israel heard say, "Behold, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the people of Israel.". Joshua 22.11.
And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh, to make war against them. Joshua 22.12.
Then the people of Israel sent to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest. Joshua 22.13.
And with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel. Joshua 22.14.
And they came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they seid to them. Joshua 22.15.
"Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, 'What is this treachery which you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the Lord, by building your selves an altar this day in rebellion against the Lord?'". Joshua 22.16.
Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the Lord. Joshua 22.17.
That you must turn away this day from following the Lord? And if you rebel against the Lord today he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel tomorrow. Joshua 22.18.
But now, if your land is unclean, pass over into the Lord's land where the Lord's tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us; only do not rebel against the Lord, or make us as rebels by building yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God. Joshua 22.19.
Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity. Joshua 22.20.
Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel. Joshua 22.21.
"The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith toward the Lord, spare us not today. Joshua 22.22.
For building an altar to turn away from following the Lord; or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or cereal offerings or peace offerings on it, may the Lord himself take vengeance. Joshua 22.23.
Nay, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, 'What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?. Joshua 22.24.
For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you Reubenites and Gadites; you have no portion in the Lord.' So your children might make our children cease to worship the Lord. Joshua 22.25.
Therefore we said, 'Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice'. Joshua 22.26.
But to be a witness between us and you, and between the generations after us, that we do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings; lest your children say to our children in time to come, "You have no portion in the Lord.". Joshua 22.27.
And we thought, If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, 'Behold the copy of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.'. Joshua 22.28.
Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn away this day from following the Lord by building an altar for burnt offering, cereal offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle!. Joshua 22.29.
When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the Reubenites and the Gadites and the Manassites spoke, it pleased them well. Joshua 22.30.
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the Manassites, "Today we know that the Lord is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this treachery against the Lord; now you have saved the people of Israel from the hand of the Lord.". Joshua 22.31.
Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the Reubenites and the Gadites in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them. Joshua 22.32.
And the report pleased the people of Israel; and the people of Israel blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them, to destroy the land where the Reubenites and the Gadites were settled. Joshua 22.33.
The Reubenites and the Gadites called the altar Witness; "For," said they, "it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.". Joshua 23.1.
Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders and heads, their judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years". Joshua 23.2.
And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you. Joshua 23.3.
Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west. Joshua 23.4.
The Lord your God will push them back before you, and drive them out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the Lord your God promised you. Joshua 23.5.
Therefore be very steadfast to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left. Joshua 23.6.
That you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down yourselves to them. Joshua 23.7.
But cleave to the Lord your God as you have done to this day. Joshua 23.8.
For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, no man has been able to withstand you to this day. Joshua 23.9.
One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, as he promised you. Joshua 23.10.
Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the Lord your God. Joshua 23.11.
For if you turn back, and join the remnant of these nations left here among you, and make marriages with them, so that you marry their women and they yours. Joshua 23.12.
Know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, till you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you. Joshua 23.13 (Note: In earthly terms God lets you permanently move outside the paradigm, and God lets you know the permanent risk; so understand them and the risk, then show them this verse and ask yourself if the choice will greatly and constantly glorify God, or are they just whimsical.).
And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you knowin your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God promised concerning you; all ahve come to pass for you, not one of them has failed. Joshua 23.14.
But just as all the good things which the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you. Joshua 23.15 (Note: "have" shows plurality of God. Some say there was a god before God, but "You shall have no other gods before me." Exodus 20.3" refutes that. Rather, when people accepted of God perish from earth, uniting with God absolutely permanently, then relative to earthly reasoning, God [God + souls] is plural, as God is greater. "have" is "hath" in KJV.).
If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you. Joshua 23.16.
Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God. Joshua 24.1.
And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Your fathers lived of old beyond the Euphrates, Terah the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.'" Joshua 24.2.
Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac. Joshua 24.3.
And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. Joshua 24.4.
And I sent Moses and Aaron and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it; and afterwards I brought you out. Joshua 24.5.
Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. Joshua 24.6.
And when they cried to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did to Egypt; and you lived in the wilderness a long time. Joshua 24.7.
Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan; they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you. Joshua 24.8.
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel; and he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. Joshua 24.9.
But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you; so I delivered you out of his hand. Joshua 24.10.
And you went over the Jordan and come to Jericho, and the men of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I gave them into your hand. Joshua 24.11.
And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, and the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow. Joshua 24.12.
I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you dwell therein; you eat the fruit of vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant.. Joshua 24.13.
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. Joshua 24.14.
And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24.15.
Then the people answered, "Far be from us that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods. Joshua 24.16.
For it is the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed. Joshua 24.17.
And the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land; therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God. Joshua 24.18.
But Joshua said to the people "You cannot serve the Lord; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.". Joshua 24.19.
If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after having done you good. Joshua 24.20.
And the people said to Joshua, "Nay; but we will serve the Lord.". Joshua 24.21.
Then Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him." And they said, "We are witnesses.". Joshua 24.22.
He said, "Then put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.". Joshua 24.23.
And the people said to Joshua, "The Lord our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.". Joshua 24.24.
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem. Joshua 24.25.
And Joshua wrote these words in the great stone, and set it up there under the oak in the sanctuary of the Lord. Joshua 24.26.
And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness of the Lord which he spoke to us; therefore it shall be a witness unto you, lest you deal falsely with your God.". Joshua 24.27 (Note: "unto" [KJV] = "against" [RSV]: the Law of God helps all, whether good or sinner: calling sinners [even unto death since they might set a good example and find life aside from or beyond death] to repentance and life.).
So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance. Joshua 24.28.
After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old. Joshua 24.29.
And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash. Joshua 24.30.
And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work which the Lord did for Israel. Joshua 24.31.
The bones of Joseph which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt were buried at Shechm, in the portion of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver; it became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph. Joshua 24.32.
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim. Joshua 24.33.
Judges
After the death of Joshua the people of Israel inquired of the Lord, "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?". Judges 1.1.
The Lord said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.". Judges 1.2.
And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him. Judges 1.3.
Then Judah went up and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they defeated ten thousand of them at Bezek. Judges 1.4.
They came upon Adonibezek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. Judges 1.5.
Adonibezek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Judges 1.6.
And Adonibezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their great toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have don, so God has requited me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. Judges 1.7.
And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. Judges 1.8.
And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland. Judges 1.9.
And Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron. Judges 1.10.
Judah also took Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory. Judges 1.18.
And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had chariots of iron. Judges 1.19.
And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he drove out from it the three sons of Anak. Judges 1.20.
But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who dwelt in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have dwelt with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. Judges 1.21.
The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel; and the Lord was with them. Judges 1.22.
And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. Judges 1.23.
And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, "Pray, show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.". Judges 1.24.
And he showed them the way into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the mand and all his family go. Judges 1.25.
And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city, and called its name Luz; that is its name to this day. Judges 1.26.
Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. Judges 1.27.
When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out. Judges 1.28.
And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. Judges 1.29.
Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of. Judges 1.30.
Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, "I brought you into the land which I swore to give to your fathers. I said 'I will never break my covenant with you'. Judges 2.1 (Note: So the word of the Lord was what the angel of the Lord spoke. So this seems key if we are to equal or emulate angels.).
And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my command. What is this you have done?. Judges 2.2.
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you. Judges 2.3 (Note: "adversaries" Vulgate Old Latin, compare Greek: Hebrew "sides"; also a foe can be a buffer from a greater foe, and compare a great foe buffer might be persuaded to the side of God [your side / the people of Israel] who in turn might sway the greater to convert to the side of God.).
When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept. Judges 2.4.
And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there to the Lord. Judges 2.5.
When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land. Judges 2.6.
And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work which the Lord had done for Israel. Judges 2.7.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten years. Judges 2.8.
And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who did not know the Lord or the work which he had done for Israel. Judges 2.10.
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. Judges 2.11.
And they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land from among the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and provoked the Lord to anger. Judges 2.12.
They forsook the Lord, and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. Judges 2.13.
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them; and he sold them into the power of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. Judges 2.14 (Note: Herein is great wisdom, the former miracle power of Israel was according to their devotion to God, and later their lack of devotion enabled [luck from the logical perspective of the plunderers].).
Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them; and they were in sore straits. Judges 2.15.
Then the Lord raised up judges who saved them out of the power of those who plundered them. Judges 2.16.
And yet they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord and they did not do so. Judges 2.17.
Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. Judges 2.18.
But whenever the judge died, they turned back and behaved worse than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them; they did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways. Judges 2.19.
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel; and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not obeyed my voice. Judges 2.20.
I will not henceforth drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died. Judges 2.21.
That by them I may test Israel, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not. Judges 2.22.
So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out at once, and he did not give them into the power of Joshua. Judges 2.23.
Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan. Judges 3.1.
It was only that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, that he might teach war to such at least as had not known it before. Judges 3.2.
These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwelt on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baalhermon as far as the entrance of Hamath. Judges 3.3.
They were for the testing on Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by Moses. Judges 3.4.
So the people of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Judges 3.5.
And they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods. Judges 3.6 (Note: "served their gods" might be interpreted as "serving beliefs contrary to god", ranging from improper tenderness and affection (such as continuing long to rely on a crutch after a broken leg has healed to selfishly gain sympathy) to improper great devotion (such as praying to a statue idol) spiting God.).
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, forgetting the Lord their God, and serving the Baals and the Asheroth. Judges 3.7.
Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Cushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the people of Israel served Cushanrishathaim eight years. Judges 3.8.
But when the people of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who delivered them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. Judges 3.9.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel; he went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and heis hand prevailed over Cushanrishathaim. Judges 3.10.
So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died. Judges 3.11.
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord. Judges 3.12.
He gathered to himself the Ammornites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel; and they took possession of the city of palms. Judges 3.13.
And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. Judges 3.14.
But when the people of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. Judges 3.15.
And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it on his right thigh under his clothes. Judges 3.16.
And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. Judges 3.17.
And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people that carried the tribute. Judges 3.18.
But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence. Judges 3.19.
And Ehud came to him, as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." And he arose from his seat. Judges 3.20.
And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. Judges 3.21.
And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the dirt came out. Judges 3.22.
Then Ehud went out into the vestibule, and closed the doors of the roof chamber upon him, and locked them. Judges 3.23 (Note: "vestibule" Hebrew meaning unclear).
When he had gone, the servants came; and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, "He is only relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber.". Judges 3.24.
And they waited till they were utterly at a loss; but when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them; and there lay their lord dead on the floor. Judges 3.25.
Ehud escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the sculptured stones, and escaped to Seirah. Judges 3.26.
When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, having him at their head. Judges 3.27.
And he said to them, "Follow after me; for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him, and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and allowed not a man to pass over. Judges 3.28.
And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped. Judges 3.29.
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years. Judges 3.30.
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an ox goad; and he too delivered Israel. Judges 3.31.
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died. Judges 4.1.
And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sisera, who dwelt in Haroshethhagoiim. Judges 4.2.
Then the people of Israel cried to the Lord for help; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years. Judges 4.3.
Now Deboray, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. Judges 4.4.
She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, "The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking ten thousand from the tribe of Naphtali and the tribe of Zebulon.'". Judges 4.6.
And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops; and I will give him into your hand. Judges 4.7.
Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.". Judges 4.8.
And she said, "I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.". Judges 4.9.
When Sisera was told that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor. Judges 4.12.
Sisera called out all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Haroshethhagoiim to the river Kishon. Judges 4.13.
And Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the Lord go out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him. Judges 4.14.
And the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak at the edge of the sword; and Sisera alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot. Judges 4.15.
And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Haroshethhagoiim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left. Judges 4.16.
But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. Judges 4.17.
And Jael came out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; have no fear." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. Judges 4.18.
And he said to her, "Pray, give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty." So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him. Judges 4.19.
And he said to her, "Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, 'Is any one here?' say, No.". Judges 4.20.
So he died. Judges 4.21.
So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel. Judges 4.23.
And the hand of the people of Israel bore harder and harder on Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. Judges 4.24.
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day: "That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the Lord!". Judges 5.1.
And the land had rest for forty years. The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years. Judges 6.1.
And teh hand of Midian prevailed over Israel; and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves and the strongholds. Judges 6.2.
For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up and attack them. Judges 6.3.
They would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the nieghborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep or ox or ass. Judges 6.4.
For they would come up with their cattle and their tents, coming like locusts for numbers; both they and their camels could not be counted; so that they wasted the land as they came in. Judges 6.5.
And Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the people of Israel cried for help to the Lord. Judges 6.6.
When the people of Israel cried to the Lord on account of the Midianites. Judges 6.7.
The Lord sent a prophet to the people of Israel; and he said to them, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage". Judges 6.8.
And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you, and gave you their land. Judges 6.9.
And I said to you, 'I am the Lord your God; you shall not pay reverence to the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.' But you have not given heed to my voice. Judges 6.10.
Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak at Ophra, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites. Judges 6.11.
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor.". Judges 6.12.
And Gideon said to him, "Pray, sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this befallen us? And where are all his wonderful deeds which our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?' But now the Lord has cast us off, and given us into the hand of Midian.". Judges 6.13.
And teh Lord turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?". Judges 6.14.
And he said to him, "Pray, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.". Judges 6.15.
And the Lord said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.". Judges 6.16.
And he said to him, "If now I have found favor with thee, then show me a sign that it is thou who speakest with me.". Judges 6.17.
Do not depart from here, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring out my present, and set it before thee. And he said, "I will stay till you return.". Judges 6.18.
So Gideon went into his house and prepared a kid, and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour the meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the oak and presented them. Judges 6.19.
And the angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them." And he did so. Judges 6.20.
Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and there sprang up fire from the rock and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight. Judges 6.21.
Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.". Judges 6.22.
But the Lord said to him, "Peace be to you; do not fear, you shall not die.". Judges 6.23.
Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it, The Lord is peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites. Judges 6.24.
That night the Lord said to him, "Take your father's bull, the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it". Judges 6.25.
And build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order; then take the second bull, and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down. Judges 6.26.
So Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had told him; but because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night. Judges 6.27.
When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered upon the altar which had been built. Judges 6.28.
And they said to one another, "Who has done this thing?" And after they had made search and inquired, they said, "Gideon the son of Hoash has done this thing.". Judges 6.29.
Then the men of the town said to Joash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has pulled down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.". Judges 6.30.
But Joash said to all who were arrayed against him, "Will you contend for Baal? Or will you defend his cause? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been pulled down.". Judges 6.31 (Note: "for himself" compare "save yourself" Matthew 27.40; similar relative events of opposite absolute principles regarding selfishness).
Therefore on that day he was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, "Let Baal contend against him," because he pulled down his altar. Judges 6.32.
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and crossing the Jordan they encamped in the Valley of Jezreel. Judges 6.33.
But the Spirit of the Lord took possession of Gideon; and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him. Judges 6.34.
And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali; and they went up to meet them. Judges 6.35.
Then Gideon said to God, "If thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said". Judges 6.36.
Behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said. Judges 6.37.
And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water. Judges 6.38.
Then Gideon said to God, "Let not thy anger burn against me, let me speak but this once; pray, let me make trial only this once with the fleece; pray, let it be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.". Judges 6.39.
And God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew. Judges 6.40.
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. Judges 7.1.
The Lord said to Gideon, "The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, 'My own hand has delivered me.'. Judges 7.2.
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home.'" And Gideon tested them; twenty-two thousand returned, and ten thousand remained. Judges 7.3 (Note: correction applies concerning "mount Gilead", reference Hebrew / KJV and AKJV / RSV).
And the Lord said to Gideon, "The people are still too many; take them down to the water and I will test them for you there; and he of whom I say to you, 'This man shall go with you,' shall go with you; and any of whom I say to you, 'This man shall not go with you,' shall not go.". Judges 7.4.
So he brought the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, "Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself; likewise every one that kneels down to drink.". Judges 7.5.
And the number of those that lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water. Judges 7.6.
And the Lord said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will deliver you, and give the Midianites into your hand; and let all the others go every man to his home.". Judges 7.7.
So he took the jars of the people from their hands, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of the Midian was below him in the valley. Judges 7.8.
That same night the Lord said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp; for I have given it into your hand.". Judges 7.9.
But if you fear to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant. Judges 7.10.
And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp. Then he wend down with Purah his servant to the outposts of teh armed men that were in the camp. Judges 7.11.
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the seashore for multitude. Judges 7.12.
When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade; and he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.". Judges 7.13.
And his comrade answered, "This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; into his hand God has given Midian and all the host.". Judges 7.14.
When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation,he worshiped; and he returned to the camp of Israel, and said, "Arise; for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand.". Judges 7.15.
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars. Judges 7.16 ("empty jars" see also Ether 3:4-6).
And he said to them, "Look at me, and do likewise; when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.". Judges 7.17.
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, 'For the Lord and the Gideon.'. Judges 7.18.
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands. Judges 7.19.
And the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars, holding in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow; and they cried, "A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!". Judges 7.20.
They stood every man in his place round about the camp, and all the army ran; they cried out and fled. Judges 7.21.
When they blew the three hundred trumpets, the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Bethshittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abelmeholah, by Tabbath. Judges 7.22.
And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian. Judges 7.23.
They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the wine press of Zeeb, as they pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan. Judges 7.25.
God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. Judges 8.3.
And Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who weree with him, faint yet pursuing. Judges 8.4.
So he said to the men of Succoth, "Pray, give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.". Judges 8.5.
"Are Zebah and Zalmunna alreade in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?". Judges 8.6.
And Gideon said, "Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.". Judges 8.7.
And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. Judges 8.8.
And he said to the men of Penuel, "When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.". Judges 8.9.
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of the army of the people of the East; for there had fallen a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword. Judges 8.10.
And Gideon went up by the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the army; for the army was off its guard. Judges 8.11.
And Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued them and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic. Judges 8.12.
Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres. Judges 8.13.
And he caught a young man of Succoth, and questioned him; and he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men. Judges 8.14.
And he took the elders of the city and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth. Judges 8.16.
And he broke down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city. Judges 8.17.
Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "Where are the men whom you slew at Tabor?" They answered, "As you are, so were they, every one of them; they resembled the sons of a king.". Judges 8.18.
And he said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother; as the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not slay you.". Judges 8.19.
And he said to Jether his firstborn, "Rise, and slay them." But the youth did not draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was still a youth. Judges 8.20.
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise yourself, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength." And Bideon arose and slew Zabah and Zalmunna; and he took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels. Judges 8.21.
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also; for you have delivered us out of the hand of Midian.". Judges 8.22.
Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.". Judges 8.23.
And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you; give me every man of you the earrings of his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.). Judges 8.24.
And they answered, "We will willingly give them." And they spread a garment, and every man cast in it the earrings of his spoil. Judges 8.25.
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the crescents and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were about the necks of their camels. Judges 8.26.
And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel played the harlot after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family. Judges 8.27.
So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they lifted up thier heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. Judges 8.28.
Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. Judges 8.29.
Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives. Judges 8.30.
And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech. Judges 8.31.
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Judges 8.32.
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and played the harlot after the Baals, and made Baalberith their god. Judges 8.33.
And the people of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side. Judges 8.34.
And they did not show kindness to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel. Judges 8.35.
Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's kinsmen and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family. Judges 9.1.
"Say in the ears of all the citizens of Shechem, 'Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.". Judges 9.2.
And his mother's kinsmen spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the men of Shechem; and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our brother.". Judges 9.3.
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baalebrith with which Abimelech him. Judges 9.4.
And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself. Judges 9.5.
And all the citizens of Shechem came together, and all Bethmillo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem. Judges 9.6.
When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and cried aloud and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.". Judges 9.7.
The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'. Judges 9.8.
But the olive tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my fatness, by which gods and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?'. Judges 9.9.
And the trees said to the fig tree, 'Come you, and reign over us.'. Judges 9.10.
But the fig tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over the trees?'. Judges 9.11.
And the trees said to the vine, 'Come you, and reign over us.'. Judges 9.12.
But the vine said to them, 'Shall I leave my wine which cheers gods and men, and go to sway over the trees?'. Judges 9.13.
Then all the trees said to the bramble, 'Come you, and reign over us.'. Judges 9.14.
And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; but if not let, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'. Judges 9.15.
Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and honor when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him as his deeds deserved-. Judges 9.16.
For my father fought for you, and risked his life, and rescued you from the hand of Midian. Judges 9.17.
And you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your kinsman-. Judges 9.18.
If you then have acted in good faith and honor with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. Judges 9.19.
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the citizens of Shechem, and Bethmillo; and let fire come out from the citizens of Shechem, and from Bethmillo, and devour Abimelech. Judges 9.20.
And Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. Judges 9.21.
Abimelech ruled over Israel three years. Judges 9.22.
And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech. Judges 9.23.
That the violence done to the seventy sons of Jeerubbaal might come and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brothers. Judges 9.24.
And the men of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountain tops, and they robbed all who passed by them along the way; and it was told Abimelech. Judges 9.25.
And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his kinsmen; and the men of Shechem put confidence in him. Judges 9.26.
And they went out into the field, and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech. Judges 9.27.
And Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Did not the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his officer serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem? Why then should we serve him?". Judges 9.28.
And Gaal went out at the head of the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. Judges 9.39.
And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate. Judges 9.40.
On the following day the men went out into the fields. And Abimelech was told. Judges 9.42.
He took his men and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the fields; and he looked and saw the men coming out and slew them. Judges 9.43.
Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the fields and slew them. Judges 9.44 (Note: "company" RSV, AKJV, & KJV; or "companies" / Hebrew / Vulgate and certain Grecian manuscripts).
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he took the city, and killed the people that were in it; and he razed the city and sowed it with salt. Judges 9.45.
When all the people of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of Elberith. Judges 9.46.
Abimelech was told that all the people of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together. Judges 9.47.
And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the men that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men that were with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste to do, as I have done.". Judges 9.48.
So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women. Judges 9.49.
Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. Judges 9.50.
But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the people of the city fled to it, all the men and women, and shut themselves in; and they went to the roof of the tower. Judges 9.51.
And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. Judges 9.52.
And a certain woman threw an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and crushed his skull. Judges 9.53.
Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, 'A woman killed him.' And his young man thrust him through, and he died. Judges 9.54.
And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his home. Judges 9.55.
Thus God requited the crime of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers. Judges 9.56.
And God also made all the wickedness of the men of Shechem fall back upon their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. Judges 9.57.
After Abimelech there arose to deliver Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. Judges 10.1.
And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died, and was buried at Shamir. Judges 10.2.
After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. Judges 10.3.
And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty asses; and they had thirty cities, called Havvothjair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. Judges 10.4.
And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon. Judges 10.5.
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baais and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord, and did not serve him. Judges 10.6.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites. Judges 10.7.
And they crushed and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. Judges 10.8.
And teh Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sorely distressed. Judges 10.9.
And the people of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.". Judges 10.10.
And the Lord said to the people of Israel, "Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?". Judges 10.11.
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand. Judges 10.12.
Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more. Judges 10.13.
Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress. Judges 10.14.
And the people of Israel said to the Lord, "We have sinned; do to whatever seems good to thee; only deliver us, we pray thee, this day.". Judges 10.15.
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord; and he became indignant over the misery of Israel. Judges 10.16.
Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead; and the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah. Judges 10.17.
And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man that will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.". Judges 10.18.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a harlot. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. Judges 11.1.
And Gilead's wife also bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they thrust Jephthah out, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman.". Judges 11.2.
Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows collected round Jephthah, and went raiding with him. Judges 11.3.
After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel. Judges 11.4.
And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob. Judges 11.5.
And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight with the Ammonites.". Judges 11.6.
But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?". Judges 11.7.
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the Ammonites, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.". Judges 11.8.
Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the Ammonites, and the Lord gives them over to me, I will be your head.". Judges 11.9.
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The Lord will be witness between us; we will surely do as you say.". Judges 11.10.
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah. Judges 11.11.
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, "What have you against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?". Judges 11.12.
And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel on coming from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.". Judges 11.13.
And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites. Judges 11.14.
And said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites. Judges 11.15.
But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. Judges 11.16.
Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Let us pass, we pray, through your land'; but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh. Judges 11.17.
Then they journeyed through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab. Judges 11.18.
Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, 'Let us pass, we pray, through your land to our country.'. Judges 11.19.
But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped at Jahaz, and fought with Israel. Judges 11.20.
And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country. Judges 11.21.
And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan. Judges 11.22.
So then the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of the?. Judges 11.23.
Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess. Judges 11.24.
Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?. Judges 11.25.
While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?. Judges 11.26.
I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me; the Lord, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.". Judges 11.27.
But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message of Jephthah which he sent to him. Judges 11.28.
Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. Judges 11.29.
And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, "If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand". Judges 11.30.
Then whoever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord's, and I will offer him up for a burnt offering.". Judges 11.31.
So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them; and the Lord gave them into his hand. Judges 11.32.
And he smote them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abelkeramim, with a very great slaughter. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel. Judges 11.33.
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. Judges 11.34.
And when he saw her, he rent his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me; for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow.". Judges 11.35.
And she said to him, "My father, if you have opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to what has gone forth from your mouth, now that the Lord has avenged you of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.". Judges 11.36 (Note: composite of versions for readability).
And she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go and wander on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, and I and my companions.". Judges 11.37.
And he said, "Go." And he sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. Judges 11.38.
And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had made. She had never known a man. And it became a custom in Israel. Judges 11.39.
That the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year. Judges 11.40.
The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.". Judges 12.1.
And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had a great feud with the Ammonites; and when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.". Judges 12.2.
And when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hand, and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand; why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?. Judges 12.3.
Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.". Judges 12.4.
And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said "No,". Judges 12.5.
They said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right; then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites. Judges 12.6.
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gilead died, and was buried in his city in Gilead. Judges 12.7.
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. Judges 12.8.
He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. Judges 12.9.
Then Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem. Judges 12.10.
After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. Judges 12.11.
Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. Judges 12.12.
After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. Judges 12.13.
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy asses; and he judged Israel eight years. Judges 12.14.
Then Abdon the son of Hilel the Pirathonite died, and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. Judges 12.15.
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. Judges 13.1.
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children. Judges 13.2.
And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son.". Judges 13.3.
Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean. Judges 13.4.
For lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines. Judges 13.5.
Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; I did not ask him whence he was, and he did not tell me his name". Judges 13.6.
Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, "O, Lord, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again to us, and teach us what we are to do with the boy that will be born.". Judges 13.8.
And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her. Judges 13.9.
And the woman ran in haste and told her husband, "Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.". Judges 13.10.
And Manoah arose and went after his wife, and came to the man and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to this woman?" And he said, "I am.". Judges 13.11.
And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the boy's manner of life, and what is he to do?". Judges 13.12 (Note: Questions of the future are offered, since the creator of the future knows the future, and being one with God is intrinsic to heavenly revelation, and the angel is heavenly.).
And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.". Judges 13.13.
She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe. Judges 13.14.
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "Pray, let us detain you, and prepare a kid for you.". Judges 13.15.
And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food; but if you make ready a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord." (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.". Judges 13.16.
And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?". Judges 13.17.
And the angel of the Lord said to him, "Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?". Judges 13.18.
So Manoah took the kid with the cereal offering, and offered it upon the rock to the Lord, to him who works wonders. Judges 13.19 (Note: other versions and/or interpretations include various: working wonders as the couple looked-on).
And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar while Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. Judges 13.20.
The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord. Judges 13.21.
And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God.". Judges 13.22.
But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a cereal offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.". Judges 13.23.
And teh woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the Lord blessed him. Judges 13.24.
And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahnehdan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. Judges 13.25.
Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. Judges 14.1.
Then he came up, and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.". Judges 14.2.
But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your kinsmen, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me; for she pleases me well.". Judges 14.3.
His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord; for he was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. Judges 14.4 (Note: see Joshua 20.5 discussion).
Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah. And behold a young lion roared against him. Judges 14.5.
And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion asunder as one tears a kid; and he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done. Judges 14.6.
Then he went down and talked with the woman and she pleased Samson well. Judges 14.7.
And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. Judges 14.8.
He scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion. Judges 14.9.
And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there; for so the young men used to do. Judges 14.10.
And when the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. Judges 14.11.
And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you; if you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments. Judges 14.12.
But if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it.". Judges 14.13.
And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And they could not in three days tell what the riddle was. Judges 14.14.
On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?". Judges 14.15 (Note: "fourth" in the Greek Syriac: Hebrew version is "seventh").
And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?". Judges 14.16 (Note: "it" = "is" RSV / AKJV).
She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted; and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her countrymen. Judges 14.17.
And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.". Judges 14.18.
And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men of the town, and took their spoil and gave the festal garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house. Judges 14.19.
And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man. Judges 14.20.
After a while, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a kid; and he said, "I will go in to my wife in the chamber." But her father would not allow him to go in. Judges 15.1.
And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Pray take her instead.". Judges 15.2.
And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them mischief.". Judges 15.3.
So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches; and he turned them tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails. Judges 15.4.
And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards. Judges 15.5.
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire. Judges 15.6.
And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged upon you, and after that I will quit.". Judges 15.7.
And he smote them hip and thigh with great slaughter; and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam. Judges 15.8.
Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and made a raid on Lehi. Judges 15.9.
And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.". Judges 15.10.
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them.". Judges 15.11.
And they said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.". Judges 15.12.
They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands; we will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock. Judges 15.13.
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes which were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. Judges 15.14.
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men. Judges 15.15.
And Samson said, "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men.". Judges 15.16.
When he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramathlehi. Judges 15.17.
And he was very thirsty, and he called on the Lord and said, "Thou hast granted this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and shall I now die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?". Judges 15.18.
And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and there came water from it; and when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called Enhakkore; it is at Lehi to this day. Judges 15.19.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. Judges 15.20.
Samson went to Gaza, and htere he saw a harlot, and he went in to her. Judges 16.1.
The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here," and they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.". Judges 16.2.
But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.. Judges 16.3.
After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. Judges 16.4.
And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, "Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to subdue him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.". Judges 16.5.
And Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me wherein your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.". Judges 16.6.
And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.". Judges 16.7.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. Judges 16.8.
Now she had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known. Judges 16.9.
And Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies; please tell me hou you might be bound.". Judges 16.10.
And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.". Judges 16.11.
So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And the men lying in wait were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread. Judges 16.12.
And Delilah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies; tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.". Judges 16.13.
So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web. Judges 16.14.
And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me wherein your great strength lies.". Judges 16.15.
And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death. Judges 16.16.
And he told her all his mind, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I be shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.". Judges 16.17.
When Delilah saw that he had told her all his mind, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up this once, for he has told me all his mind." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hands.. Judges 16.18.
She made him sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him. Judges 16.19.
And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." And he did not know that the Lord had left him. Judges 16.20.
And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison. Judges 16.21.
But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved. Judges 16.22.
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.". Judges 16.23.
And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has slain many of us.". Judges 16.24.
And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may make sport for us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he made sport before them. They made him stand between the pillars. Judges 16.25.
And Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.". Judges 16.26.
Now the house was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about three thousand men and women, who looked on while Samson made sport. Judges 16.27.
Then Samson called to the Lord and said, "O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, that I may be avenged upon the Philistines for one of my two eyes.". Judges 16.28.
And Samson grasped the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and he leaned his weight upon them, and his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. Judges 16.29.
And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life. Judges 16.30.
Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years. Judges 16.31.
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whos name was Micah. Judges 17.1.
And he said to his mother, "The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be my son by the Lord.". Judges 17.2.
And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, "I consecrate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore I will restore it to you.". Judges 17.3.
So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a graven image and a molten image; and it was in the house of Micah. Judges 17.4.
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and installed one of his sons, who became his priest. Judges 17.5.
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes. Judges 17.6.
Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there. Judges 17.7.
And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah, to live where he could find a place; and as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah. Judges 17.8.
And Micah said to him, "From where do you come?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.". Judges 17.9.
And Micah said to him, "Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of apparel, and your living." So the Levite went in. Judges 17.10 (Note: compare RSV with Hebrew: AKJV).
And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man became to him like one of his sons. Judges 17.11.
And Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. Judges 17.12.
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.". Judges 17.13.
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in; for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them. Judges 18.1.
So the Danites sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it; and they said to them, "Go and explore the land." And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. Judges 18.2.
When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; and they turned aside and said to him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?". Judges 18.3.
And he said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.". Judges 18.4.
And they said to him, "Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.". Judges 18.5.
And the priest said to them, "Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the Lord.". Judges 18.6.
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were there, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth, and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with any one. Judges 18.7.
And when they came to their brethern at Zorah and Eshtaol,, their brethern said to them, "What do you report?". Judges 18.8.
They said, "Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very fertile. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, and enter in and possess the land. Judges 18.9.
When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is broad; yea, God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.". Judges 18.10.
And six hundred men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set forth from Zorah and Eshtaol. Judges 18.11.
And went up and encamped at Kiriathjearim in Judah. On this account that place is called Mahanehdan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim. Judges 18.12.
And they passed on from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah. Judges 18.13.
Then the five men who had gone to spy out the country of Laish said to their brethern, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, teraphim, a graven image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you will do.". Judges 18.14.
And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him of his welfare. Judges 18.15.
Now the sic hundred men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate. Judges 18.16.
And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up, and entered and took the graven image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war. Judges 18.17.
And when these went into Micah's house and took the graven image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?". Judges 18.18.
And they said to him, "Keep quiet, put your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to one house of one man, or to be the priest to a to a tribe and family in Israel?". Judges 18.19.
And the priest's heart was glad; he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. Judges 18.20.
So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the cattle and the goods in front of them. Judges 18.21.
When they were a good way from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called out, and they overtook the Danites. Judges 18.22.
And they souted to the Danites, who turned round and said to Micah, "What ails you that you come with such a company?". Judges 18.23.
And he said, "You take my gods which I made, and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, 'What ails you?'". Judges 18.24.
And the Danites said to him, "Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest andry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household.". Judges 18.25.
Then the Danites went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home. Judges 18.26.
And taking what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, the Danites came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and smothe them with the edge of the sword, and burned the city with fire. Judges 18.27.
And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any one. It was in the valley which belongs to Bethrehob. And they rebuilt the city, and dwelt in it. Judges 18.28.
And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first. Judges 18.29.
And the Danites set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land. Judges 18.30 (Note: "Moses" RSV or "Manasseh" AKJV).
So they set up Micah's graven image which he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh. Judges 18.31.
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. Judges 19.1.
And his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Judges 19.2 (Note: "became angry" RSV also reads "played the whore" AKJV and "played the harlot against" / Hebrew / Greek Old Latin).
Then her hunband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of asses. And he came to her father's house; and when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. Judges 19.3 (Note: "husband" reveals the concubine spousal relationship. "he came" RSV or "she brought him" Greek: Hebrew).
And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days; so they ate and drank, and lodged there. Judges 19.4.
And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.". Judges 19.5.
So the two men sat and ate and drank together; and the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.". Judges 19.6.
And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law urged him, till he lodged there again. Judges 19.7.
And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart; and the girl's father said, "Strengthen your heart, and tarry until the day declines." So they ate, both of them. Judges 19.8.
And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day has waned toward evening; pray tarry all night. Behold, the day draws to its close; lodge here and let your heart be merry; and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home.". Judges 19.9.
But the man would not spend the night; he rose up and departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled asses, and his concubine was with him. Judges 19.10.
When they were near Jebus, the day was far spent, and the servant said to his master, "Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites, and spend the night in it.". Judges 19.11.
And his master said to him, "We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel; but we will pass on to Gibeah.". Judges 19.12.
And he said to his servant, "Come and let us draw near to one of these places, and spend the night at Gibeah or at Ramah.". Judges 19.13.
So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. Judges 19.14.
And they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city; for no man took them into his house to spend the night. Judges 19.15.
And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening; the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah; the men of the place were Benjaminites. Judges 19.16.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfarer in the open square of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? and whence do you come?". Judges 19.17.
And he said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah; and I am going to my home; and nobody takes me into his house.". Judges 19.18 (Note: "home" RSV reads "to the house of the Lord" AKJV).
We have straw and provender for our asses, with bread and wine for me and your maidservant and the young man with your servants; there is no lack of anything. Judges 19.19.
And the old man said, "Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants; only, do not spend the night in the square.". Judges 19.20.
So hw brought him into his house, and gave the asses provender; and they washed their feet, and ate and drank. Judges 19.21.
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, base fellows, beset the house round about, beating on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.". Judges 19.22.
And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brethern, do not act so wickedly; seeing that this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.". Judges 19.23.
Behold here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me bring them out now. Ravish them and do with them what seems good to you; but against this man do not do so vile a thing. Judges 19.24.
But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine, and put her out to them; and they knew her, and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go. Judges 19.25.
And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at th the door of the man's house where her master was, till it was light. Judges 19.26.
And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold. Judges 19.27.
He said to her, "Get up, let us be going." But there was no answer. Then he put her upon the ass; and the man rose up and went away to his home. Judges 19.28.
And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and laying hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel. Judges 19.29.
And all who saw it said, "Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.". Judges 19.30.
Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah. Judges 20.1.
And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand men on foot that drew the sword. Judges 20.2.
(Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, "Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?". Judges 20.3.
And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, "I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night. Judges 20.4.
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; they meant to kill me, and they ravished my concubine, and she is dead. Judges 20.5.
And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed abomination and wantonness in Israel. Judges 20.6.
Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here.". Judges 20.7.
And all the people arose as one man, saying, "We will not any of us go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.". Judges 20.8.
But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot. Judges 20.9.
And we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may requite Gibeah of Benjamin, for all the wanton crime which they have committed in Israel. Judges 20.10.
So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man. Judges 20.11.
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that has taken place among you?". Judges 20.12.
Now therefore give up the men, the base fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel." But the Benjamites would not listen to the voice of their brethern, the people of Israel. Judges 20.13.
And the Benjaminites came together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the people of Israel. Judges 20.14.
And the Benjaminites mustered out of their cities on that day twenty-six thousand men that drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered seven hundred picked men. Judges 20.15.
Among all these were seven hundred picked men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair, and not miss. Judges 20.16.
And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these were men of war. Judges 20.17.
The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, "Which of us shall go up first to battle against the Benjaminites?" And the Lord said, "Judah shall go up first.". Judges 20.18.
Then the people of Israel rose in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. Judges 20.19.
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel drew up the battle line against them at Gibeah. Judges 20.20.
The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah, and felled to the ground on that day twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites. Judges 20.21.
But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day. Judges 20.22.
And the people of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until the evening; and they inquired of the Lord, "Shall we again draw near to battle against our brethern the Benjaminites?" And the Lord said, "Go up against them.". Judges 20.23.
So the people of Israel came near against the Benjaminites the second day. Judges 20.24.
And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and felled to the grouhd eighteen thousand men of the people of Israel; all these were men who drew the sword. Judges 20.25.
Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept; they sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. Judges 20.26.
And the people of Israel inquired of the Lord (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days. Judges 20.27.
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, "Shall we yet again go out to battle against our brethern the Benjaminites, or shall we cease?" And the Lord said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.". Judges 20.28.
So Israel set men in ambush round about Gibeah. Judges 20.29.
And the people of Israel went up against the Bengaminites on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. Judges 20.30.
And the Benjaminites went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and as at other times they began to smite and kill some of the people, in Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel. Judges 20.31.
And the Benjaminites said, "They are routed before us, as at the first." But the men of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.". Judges 20.32.
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baaltamar; and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place west of Geba. Judges 20.33.
Ant there came against Gibeah ten thousand picked men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard; but the Benjaminited did not know that disaster was close upon them. Judges 20.34.
And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel; and the men of Israel destroyed twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin that day; all these were men who drew the sword. Judges 20.35.
So the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted to the men in ambush whom they had set against Giveah. Judges 20.36.
And the men in ambush made haste and rushed upon Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. Judges 20.37.
Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city. Judges 20.38.
The men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to smite and kill about thirty men of Israel; they said, "Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.". Judges 20.39.
But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them; and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven. Judges 20.40.
Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them. Judges 20.41.
Therefore they turned their backs before themen of Israel in the direction of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them. Judges 20.42.
Cutting down the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gibeah on the east. Judges 20.43.
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor. Judges 20.44.
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways, and they were pursued hard to Gidom, and two thousand men of them were slain. Judges 20.45.
So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword, all of them men of valor. Judges 20.46.
But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and abode at the rock of Rimmon four months. Judges 20.47.
And the men of Israel turned back against the Benjaminites, and smote them with the edge of the sword, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns which they found they set on fire. Judges 20.48.
Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, "No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.". Judges 21.1.
And the people came to Bethel, and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly. Judges 21.2.
And they said, "O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?". Judges 21.3.
And on the morrow the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Judges 21.4.
And teh people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, "He shall be put to death.". Judges 21.5.
And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.". Judges 21.6.
What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?. Judges 21.7.
And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabeshgilead, to the assembly. Judges 21.8.
For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead was there. Judges 21.9.
So the congregation sent thither twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, "Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.". Judges 21.10.
This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has laid with a male you shall utterly destroy. Judges 21.11.
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. Judges 21.12.
Then the whole congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them. Judges 21.13.
And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead; but they did not suffice for them. Judges 21.14.
And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. Judges 21.15.
Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?". Judges 21.16.
And they said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.". Judges 21.17 (Note: The Lord allowed Israel to conquer the tribe of Benjamin in 20.18, and Israel fought then offered peace in 21.13, so logically the 400 women 21.12 nearly perfectly matched the 600 men 20.47.).
Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters. For the people of Israel had sworn, "Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.". Judges 21.18 (Note: Such applies, except via a newly recognized command of God, so if 21.13 is righteous, then the curse is lifted or new terms are established).
So they said, "Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.". Judges 21.19.
And they commanded the Benjaminites, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards". Judges 21.20.
And watch if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and seize each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. Judges 21.21.
And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us; because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.'. Judges 21.22 (Note: "guilty" according to their word, compare "You have said so." Matthew 27.11).
And the Benjaminites did so, and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off; then they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the towns, and dwelt in them. Judges 21.23.
And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance. Judges 21.24.
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes. Judges 21.25.
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