\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Judges}
{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Judges

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
the
death
of
Joshua,
the
children
of
Israel
made
request
to
the
Lord,
saying,
Who
is
to
go
up
first
to make war
for
us
against
the
Canaanites?
\VS{2}And
the
Lord
said,
Judah
is
to
go
up:
see,
I
have
given
the
land
into
his
hands.
\VS{3}Then
Judah
said
to
Simeon
his
brother,
Come
up
with
me
into
my heritage,
so
that
we
may
make war
against
the
Canaanites;
and
I
will
then
go
with
you
into
your heritage.
So
Simeon
went
with
him.
\VS{4}And
Judah
went
up;
and
the
Lord
gave
the
Canaanites
and
the
Perizzites
into
their
hands;
and
they overcame
ten
thousand
of
them
in
Bezek.
\VS{5}And
they
came across Adoni-zedek,
and
made war
on
him;
and
they overcame
the
Canaanites
and
the
Perizzites.
\VS{6}But Adoni-zedek
went
in
flight;
and
they
went
after
him
and overtook
him,
and
had
his
thumbs
and
his great
toes
cut
off.
\VS{7}And Adoni-zedek
said,
Seventy
kings,
whose
thumbs
and
great
toes
had
been
cut
off, got broken meat
under
my
table:
as
I
have
done,
so
has
God
done
to
me
in full.
And
they
took
him
to
Jerusalem,
and
he
came
to
his end
there.
\VS{8}Then
the
children
of
Judah
made
an
attack
on
Jerusalem,
and
took
it,
burning
down
the
town after
they
had
put
its
people
to
the
sword without mercy.
\VS{9}After
that
the
children
of
Judah
went
down
to
make war
on
the
Canaanites
living
in
the hill-country
and
in
the
south
and
in
the lowlands.
\VS{10}And Caleb
went
against
the
Canaanites
of
Hebron: (now
in earlier
times
Hebron
was
named
Kiriath-arba:)
and
he put
Sheshai
and
Ahiman
and
Talmai
to
the sword.
\VS{11}And
from
there
he
went
up
against
the
people
of
Debir. (Now
the
name
of
Debir
in earlier
times
was
Kiriath-sepher.)
\VS{12}And
Caleb
said,
I
will
give
Achsah,
my
daughter,
as
wife
to
the man
who overcomes
Kiriath-sepher
and
takes
it.
\VS{13}And
Othniel,
the
son
of
Kenaz, Caleb's
younger
brother,
took
it;
so
he
gave
him
his
daughter
Achsah
for
his
wife.
\VS{14}Now
when
she
came
to
him,
he
put
into
her mind
the idea
of requesting
a
field
from
her
father:
and
she got
down
from
her ass;
and
Caleb
said
to
her,
What
is
it?
\VS{15}And
she
said
to
him,
Give
me
a
blessing;
because
you
have
put
me
in
a dry south-land,
now
give
me
springs
of
water.
So
Caleb
gave
her
the higher
spring
and
the
lower
spring.
\VS{16}Now Hobab
the
Kenite, Moses'
father-in-law,
had
come
up
out
of
the
town
of palm-trees,
with
the
children
of
Judah,
into
the waste land
of
Arad;
and
he
went
and
was
living
among
the Amalekites;
\VS{17}And
Judah went
with
Simeon,
his
brother,
and overcame
the
Canaanites
living
in
Zephath,
and put
it
under
the curse;
and
he
gave
the
town
the
name
of
Hormah.
\VS{18}Then
Judah
took
Gaza
and
its limit,
and
Ashkelon
and
its limit,
and
Ekron
and
its limit.
\VS{19}And
the
Lord
was
with
Judah;
and
he
took
the hill-country
for
his heritage;
but
he
was unable
to
make
the
people
of
the
valley
go
out,
for
they
had war-carriages
of
iron.
\VS{20}And
they
gave
Hebron
to
Caleb,
as
Moses
had
said;
and
he
took
the land
of
the
three
sons
of Anak,
driving
them
out
from
there.
\VS{21}And
the
children
of Judah
did
not make
the
Jebusites
who
were
living
in
Jerusalem go
out;
the
Jebusites
are
still
living
with
the
children
of
Benjamin
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{22}And
the
family
of
Joseph
went
up
against Beth-el,
and
the
Lord
was
with
them.
\VS{23}So
they sent men
to
make
a search round Beth-el. (Now
the
name
of
the
town
in earlier
times
was
Luz.)
\VS{24}And
the watchers
saw
a
man
coming
out
of
the
town,
and
said
to
him,
If
you
will
make
clear
to
us
the way
into
the
town,
we
will
be kind
to
you.
\VS{25}So
he
made
clear
to
them
the
way
into
the
town,
and
they
put
it
to
the
sword;
but
they
let
the
man
and
all
his
family
get
away safe.
\VS{26}And
he
went
into
the
land
of
the
Hittites,
building
a
town
there
and naming
it
Luz:
which
is
its
name
to
this
day.
\VS{27}And
Manasseh
did
not
take away
the
land
of
the
people
of
Beth-shean
and
its daughter-towns,
or
of
Taanach
and
its daughter-towns,
or
of
the
people
of
Dor
and
its daughter-towns,
or
of
the
people
of
Ibleam
and
its daughter-towns,
or
of
the
people
of
Megiddo
and
its daughter-towns,
driving
them
out;
but
the
Canaanites would go
on
living
in
that
land.
\VS{28}And
whenever
Israel
became
strong,
they
put
the
Canaanites
to
forced
work,
without
driving
them
out
completely.
\VS{29}And
Ephraim
did
not make
the
Canaanites
who
were
living
in
Gezer go
out;
but
the
Canaanites went
on
living
in
Gezer
among
them.
\VS{30}Zebulun
did
not make
the
people
of
Kitron
or
the
people
of
Nahalol
go
out;
but
the
Canaanites
went
on
living
among
them
and
were put
to
forced work.
\VS{31}And
Asher
did
not
take
the land
of
the
people
of
Acco,
or Zidon,
or
Ahlab,
or
Achzib,
or
Helbah,
or
Aphik,
or
Rehob,
driving
them
out;
\VS{32}But
the
Asherites went
on
living
among
the
Canaanites,
the
people
of
the
land,
without
driving
them
out.
\VS{33}Naphtali
did
not
take
the
land
of
the
people
of
Beth-shemesh
or
of
Beth-anath,
driving
them
out;
but
he
was
living
among
the
Canaanites
in
the
land; however,
the
people
of
Beth-shemesh
and
Beth-anath
were put
to
forced work.
\VS{34}And
the
children
of
Dan
were
forced
into
the hill-country
by
the
Amorites,
who would
not
let
them
come
down
into
the
valley;
\VS{35}For
the
Amorites would
go
on
living
in
Mount
Heres,
in
Aijalon,
and
in
Shaalbim;
but
the children
of
Joseph
became stronger
than
they,
and
put
them
to
forced work.
\VS{36}And
the limit
of
the Edomites went
from
the slope
of
Akrabbim
from
Sela
and
up.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
the
angel
of
the
Lord
came
up
from
Gilgal
to
Bochim.
And
he
said, ***I
took
you
out
of
Egypt, guiding
you
into
the
land
which
I
gave
by
an
oath
to
your
fathers;
and
I
said,
My
agreement
with
you
will
never
be
broken
by
me:
\VS{2}And
you
are
to
make
no
agreement
with
the
people
of
this
land;
you
are
to see
that
their
altars
are
broken
down:
but
you
have
not
given ear
to
my
voice:
what
have
you
done?
\VS{3}And
so
I
have
said,
I
will
not send
them
out
from
before
you;
but
they
will
be
a danger
to
you,
and
their
gods
will
be
a
cause
of falling
to
you.
\VS{4}Now
on hearing
these
words
which
the
angel
of
the
Lord
said
to
all
the
children
of
Israel,
the
people
gave
themselves
up
to loud
crying
and
weeping.
\VS{5}And
they
gave
that
place
the
name
of
Bochim,
and
made
offerings
there
to
the
Lord.
\VS{6}And
Joshua
let
the
people
go
away,
and
the
children
of
Israel
went,
every
man
to
his
heritage,
to
take
the
land
for themselves.
\VS{7}And
the
people
were
true
to
the
Lord
all
the
days
of
Joshua,
and
all
the
days
of
the
responsible
men
who
were still living
after
the death
of
Joshua,
and
had
seen
all
the
great
work
of
the
Lord
which
he
had
done
for
Israel.
\VS{8}And
death
came
to
Joshua,
the
son
of
Nun,
the
servant
of
the
Lord,
he
being
a
hundred
and
ten
years
old.
\VS{9}And they put
his body
in
the earth
in
the
land
of
his
heritage
in Timnath-heres,
in
the hill-country
of
Ephraim
to
the
north
of
Mount
Gaash.
\VS{10}And
in
time death overtook
all
that
generation;
and
another
generation
came
after
them,
having
no
knowledge
of
the
Lord
or
of
the
things
which
he
had
done
for
Israel.
\VS{11}And
the
children
of
Israel
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
and became
servants
to
the
Baals;
\VS{12}And
they
gave
up
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
who
had
taken
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
went
after
other
gods,
the
gods
of
the
peoples
round
about
them, worshipping
them
and moving
the
Lord
to wrath.
\VS{13}And
they gave
up
the
Lord,
and became
the
servants
of
Baal
and
the Astartes.
\VS{14}And
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was burning
against
Israel,
and
he
gave
them
up
into
the
hands
of
those
who
violently
took
their property,
and
into
the
hands
of
their haters
all
round
them,
so
that
they
were forced
to
give
way
before
them.
\VS{15}Wherever
they
went
out,
the
hand
of
the
Lord
was
against
them
for
evil,
as
the
Lord
had
taken
his
oath
it
would
be;
and
things
became
very
hard
for
them.
\VS{16}Then
the
Lord
gave
them
judges,
as
their saviours
from
the
hands
of
those
who
were cruel
to
them.
\VS{17}But
still
they
would
not
give ear
to
their
judges,
but
went
after
other
gods
and
gave
them
worship;
quickly
turning
from
the
way
in
which
their
fathers
had
gone, keeping
the
orders
of
the
Lord;
but
they
did
not
do
so.
\VS{18}And
whenever
the
Lord
gave
them
judges,
then
the
Lord
was
with
the
judge,
and
was
their saviour
from
the
hands
of
their haters
all
the
days
of
the
judge;
for
the
Lord
was
moved
by
their cries
of grief
because
of
those
who
were cruel
to
them.
\VS{19}But
whenever
the
judge
was
dead,
they
went
back
and
did
more evil
than
their
fathers,
going
after
other
gods,
to
be
their
servants
and
their worshippers; giving
up
nothing
of
their sins
and
their hard-hearted
ways.
\VS{20}And
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was burning
against
Israel,
and
he
said,
Because
this
nation
has
not
been
true
to
my
agreement
which
I
made
with
their
fathers,
and
has
not
given ear
to
my
voice;
\VS{21}From
now
on
I
will
not go
on
driving
out
from
before
them
any
of
the
nations
which
at
the
death
of
Joshua
were
still
living
in
this
land;
\VS{22}In
order
to
put
Israel
to
the
test,
and
see
if
they
will
keep
the
way
of
the
Lord, walking
in
it
as
their
fathers
did,
or
not.
\VS{23}So
the
Lord
let
those
nations
go
on living
in
the land,
not
driving
them
out
quickly,
and
did
not
give
them
up
into
the
hands
of
Joshua.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
these
are
the
nations
which
the
Lord kept
in
the land
for
the purpose
of
testing
Israel
by
them,
all
those
who
had
had
no
experience
of
all
the
wars
of
Canaan;
\VS{2}Only
because
of
the
generations
of
the
children
of
Israel,
for
the
purpose
of
teaching
them
war —
only
those
who
up till
then
had
no
experience
of
it;
\VS{3}The
five chiefs
of
the
Philistines,
and
all
the
Canaanites
and
the Zidonians
and
the
Hivites
living
in
Mount
Lebanon,
from
the
mountain
Baal-hermon
as
far
as
Hamath:
\VS{4}For
the purpose
of
testing
Israel
by
them,
to
see
if
they
would
give ear
to
the
orders
of
the
Lord,
which
he
had
given
to
their
fathers
by
the
hand
of
Moses.
\VS{5}Now
the
children
of
Israel
were
living
among
the
Canaanites,
the
Hittites,
and
the
Amorites,
and
the
Perizzites,
and
the
Hivites,
and
the
Jebusites:
\VS{6}And
they
took
as
wives
the
daughters
of
these nations
and
gave
their
daughters
to
their
sons,
and became
servants
to
their
gods.
\VS{7}And
the
children
of
Israel
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
and put
out
of
their minds
the
Lord
their
God,
and became
servants
to
the
Baals
and
the Astartes.
\VS{8}So
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was burning
against
Israel,
and
he gave
them
up
into
the
hands
of
Cushan-rishathaim,
king
of
Mesopotamia;
and
the
children
of
Israel
were
his
servants
for
eight
years.
\VS{9}And
when
the
children
of
Israel made prayer
to
the
Lord,
he
gave
them
a saviour,
Othniel,
the
son
of
Kenaz, Caleb's
younger
brother.
\VS{10}And
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
on
him
and
he
became
judge
of
Israel,
and
went
out
to
war,
and
the
Lord
gave
up
Cushan-rishathaim,
king
of Mesopotamia,
into
his
hands
and
he overcame
him.
\VS{11}Then
for
forty
years
the
land
had
peace, till
the
death
of
Othniel,
the
son
of
Kenaz.
\VS{12}Then
the
children
of
Israel
again
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord;
and
the
Lord
made
Eglon,
king
of
Moab,
strong
against
Israel,
because
they
had
done
evil
in
the Lord's
eyes.
\VS{13}And Eglon got
together
the
people
of
Ammon
and
Amalek,
and
they
went
and overcame
Israel
and
took
the
town
of palm-trees.
\VS{14}And
the
children
of
Israel
were
servants
to
Eglon,
king
of
Moab,
for
eighteen
years.
\VS{15}Then
when
the
children
of
Israel made prayer
to
the
Lord,
he
gave
them
a saviour,
Ehud,
the
son
of
Gera,
the
Benjamite,
a
left-handed
man;
and
the
children
of
Israel
sent
an
offering
by
him
to
Eglon,
king
of
Moab.
\VS{16}So
Ehud
made himself
a two-edged
sword,
a
cubit
long,
which
he
put
on
at
his
right
side
under
his
robe.
\VS{17}And
he
took
the
offering
to
Eglon,
king
of
Moab,
who
was
a
very
fat
man.
\VS{18}And
after giving
the
offering,
he
sent
away
the
people
who
had
come
with
the
offering.
\VS{19}But
he
himself,
turning
back
from
the
stone
images
at
Gilgal,
said,
I
have
something
to
say
to
you
in secret, O
king.
And
he
said, Let
there
be
quiet.
Then
all
those
who
were waiting
before
him
went
out.
\VS{20}Then
Ehud
came
in
to
him
while
he
was
seated
by
himself
in
his summer-house.
And
Ehud
said,
I
have
a
word
from
God
for
you.
And
he
got
up
from
his
seat.
\VS{21}And
Ehud
put
out
his
left
hand,
and
took
the
sword
from
his
right
side,
and
sent
it
into
his
stomach;
\VS{22}And
the hand-part
went
in
after
the
blade,
and
the
fat
was
joined
up
over
the
blade;
for
he
did
not
take
the
sword
out
of
his
stomach.
And
he
went
out
into
the ...
\VS{23}Then
Ehud
went
out
into
the covered way, shutting
the
doors
of
the summer-house
on
him
and locking
them.
\VS{24}Now
when
he
had
gone,
the king's
servants
came,
and
saw
that
the
doors
of
the summer-house
were locked;
and
they
said,
It
may
be
that
he
is
in
his summer-house
for
a private purpose.
\VS{25}And
they went
on
waiting
till
they
were
shamed,
but
the
doors
were
still shut;
so
they
took
the
key,
and,
opening
them,
saw
their
lord stretched
out
dead
on
the
floor.
\VS{26}But
Ehud
had got
away
while
they were
waiting
and
had gone past
the stone
images
and got
away
to
Seirah.
\VS{27}And
when
he
came
there,
he
had
a
horn
sounded
in
the hill-country
of
Ephraim,
and
all
the
children
of
Israel
went
down
with
him
from
the hill-country,
and
he
at
their
head.
\VS{28}And
he
said
to
them,
Come
after
me;
for
the
Lord
has
given
the
Moabites,
your haters,
into
your
hands.
So
they
went
down
after
him
and
took
the crossing-places
of
Jordan
against
Moab,
and
let
no
one
go
across.
\VS{29}At
that
time
they put
about
ten
thousand
men
of
Moab
to
the sword,
every
strong
man
and
every
man
of war;
not
a
man got
away.
\VS{30}So
Moab
was broken
that
day
under
the
hand
of
Israel.
And
for
eighty
years
the
land
had
peace.
\VS{31}And
after
him
came
Shamgar,
the
son
of
Anath,
who put
to death
six
hundred
Philistines
with
an ox-stick;
and
he
was
another saviour
of
Israel.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
children
of
Israel
again
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
when
Ehud
was
dead.
\VS{2}And
the
Lord gave
them
up
into
the
hands
of
Jabin,
king
of
Canaan,
who
was
ruling
in
Hazor;
the
captain
of
his
army
was
Sisera,
who
was
living
in Harosheth
of
the
Gentiles.
\VS{3}Then
the
children
of
Israel made prayer
to
the
Lord;
for
he
had
nine
hundred
iron war-carriages,
and
for
twenty
years
he
was very cruel
to
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{4}Now
Deborah,
a
woman prophet,
the
wife
of Lapidoth,
was
judge
of
Israel
at
that
time.
\VS{5}(And
she
had
her
seat
under
the palm-tree
of
Deborah
between
Ramah
and Beth-el
in
the hill-country
of
Ephraim;
and
the
children
of
Israel
came
up
to
her
to
be
judged.)
\VS{6}And
she
sent
for
Barak,
the
son
of
Abinoam,
from Kedesh-naphtali,
and
said
to
him,
Has
not
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
given
orders
saying,
Go
and
get
your force
into line
in
Mount
Tabor,
and
take
with
you
ten
thousand
men
of
the
children
of
Naphtali
and
of
the
children
of
Zebulun?
\VS{7}And
I
will
make
Sisera,
the
captain
of Jabin's
army,
with
his war-carriages
and
his
forces,
come
against
you
at
the
river
Kishon,
where
I
will
give
him
into
your
hands.
\VS{8}And
Barak
said
to
her,
If
you
will
go
with
me
then
I
will
go;
but
if
you
will
not
go
with
me
I
will
not
go.
\VS{9}And
she
said,
I
will
certainly
go
with
you:
though
you
will
get
no honour
in
your undertaking,
for
the
Lord
will
give
Sisera
into
the
hands
of
a
woman.
So
Deborah
got
up
and
went
with
Barak
to
Kedesh.
\VS{10}Then
Barak
sent
for
Zebulun
and
Naphtali
to
come
to
Kedesh;
and
ten
thousand
men
went
up
after
him,
and
Deborah
went
up
with
him.
\VS{11}Now
Heber
the
Kenite, separating
himself
from
the rest
of
the
Kenites,
from
the
children
of
Hobab,
the brother-in-law
of
Moses,
had put
up
his
tent
as
far
away
as
the oak-tree
in
Zaanannim,
by
Kedesh.
\VS{12}And
word
was given
to
Sisera
that
Barak,
the
son
of
Abinoam,
had
gone
up
to
Mount
Tabor.
\VS{13}So
Sisera got
together
all
his war-carriages,
nine
hundred war-carriages
of
iron,
and
all
the
people
who
were
with
him,
from Harosheth
of
the
Gentiles
as
far
as
the
river
Kishon.
\VS{14}Then
Deborah
said
to
Barak,
Up!
for
today
the
Lord
has
given
Sisera
into
your
hands:
has
not
the
Lord
gone
out
before
you?
So
Barak
went
down
from
Mount
Tabor
and
ten
thousand
men
after
him.
\VS{15}And
the
Lord sent fear
on
Sisera
and
all
his war-carriages
and
all
his
army
before
Barak;
and
Sisera got
down
from
his war-carriage
and
went
in
flight
on
foot.
\VS{16}But
Barak
went
after
the war-carriages
and
the
army
as
far
as Harosheth
of
the
Gentiles;
and
all Sisera's
army
was
put
to
the
sword;
not
a
man got
away.
\VS{17}But
Sisera
went
in
flight
on
foot
to
the
tent
of
Jael,
the
wife
of
Heber
the
Kenite;
for
there
was
peace
between
Jabin,
king
of
Hazor,
and
the
family
of
Heber
the
Kenite.
\VS{18}And
Jael
went
out
to
Sisera,
and
said
to
him,
Come
in,
my
lord,
come
in
to
me
without
fear.
So
he
went
into
her
tent,
and she
put
a
cover
over
him.
\VS{19}Then
he
said
to
her,
Give
me
now
a
little
water,
for
I
have need
of
a
drink.
And opening
a skin
of
milk,
she
gave
him
drink,
and put
the
cover
over
him again.
\VS{20}And
he
said
to
her,
Take
your
place
at
the
door
of
the
tent,
and
if
anyone
comes
and
says
to
you,
Is
there
any
man
here,
say,
No.
\VS{21}Then
Jael, Heber's
wife,
took
a tent-pin
and
a hammer
and
went
up
to
him quietly, driving
the
pin
into
his head,
and
it
went
through
his head
into
the
earth,
for
he
was
in
a deep sleep
from weariness;
and
so
he
came
to
his end.
\VS{22}Then
Jael
went
out,
and meeting
Barak
going
after
Sisera,
said
to
him,
Come,
and
I
will let
you
see
the
man
you
are
searching
for.
So
he
came
into
her
tent
and
saw,
and
there
was
Sisera stretched
out
dead
with
the tent-pin
in
his
head.
\VS{23}So
that
day
God overcame
Jabin,
king
of
Canaan,
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{24}And
the
power
of
the
children
of
Israel
went
on increasing
against
Jabin,
king
of
Canaan,
till
he
was
cut
off.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
that
time
Deborah
and
Barak,
the
son
of
Abinoam, made
this
song,
saying:
\VS{2}Because
of
the flowing hair
of
the fighters
in
Israel,
because
the
people gave themselves freely, give
praise
to
the
Lord.
\VS{3}Give
attention,
O
kings;
give
ear,
O
rulers;
I, even
I,
will
make
a
song
to
the
Lord;
I
will
make melody
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{4}Lord,
when
you
went
out
from
Seir, moving
like
an
army
from
the
field
of
Edom,
the
earth
was shaking
and
the
heavens
were troubled,
and
the
clouds
were dropping
water.
\VS{5}The
mountains
were shaking
before
the
Lord,
before
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{6}In
the
days
of
Shamgar,
the
son
of
Anath,
in
the
days
of
Jael,
the
highways
were
not used,
and travellers
went
by side roads.
\VS{7}Country towns
were
no more
in
Israel, ***were
no more,
till
you,
Deborah, came
up,
till
you came
up
as
a
mother
in
Israel.
\VS{8}They
had
no
one
to
make arms, there
were
no more
armed
men
in
the
towns;
was there
a body-cover
or
a
spear
to
be
seen
among
forty
thousand
in
Israel?
\VS{9}Come,
you rulers
of
Israel,
you
who gave
yourselves freely
among
the
people: give
praise
to
the
Lord.
\VS{10}Let
them give thought
to
it,
who
go
on
white asses,
and
those
who
are
walking
on
the
road.
\VS{11}Give ear
to
the women laughing
by
the water-springs;
there
they
will give again
the story
of
the upright
acts
of
the
Lord, all
the upright
acts
of
his arm
in
Israel.
\VS{12}Awake!
awake!
Deborah:
awake!
awake!
give
a
song:
Up!
Barak,
and
take
prisoner
those
who
took
you
prisoner, O
son
of
Abinoam.
\VS{13}Then
the chiefs went down
to
the doors;
the Lord's
people went down
among
the
strong
ones.
\VS{14}Out
of
Ephraim
they
came
down
into
the valley;
after
you,
Benjamin,
among
your tribesmen;
from
Machir
came
down
the captains,
and
from
Zebulun
those
in
whose hand
is
the ruler's
rod.
\VS{15}Your
chiefs,
Issachar,
were
with
Deborah;
and Naphtali
was
true
to
Barak; into
the
valley
they went rushing
out
at
his
feet.
In
Reuben there
were divisions,
and
great searchings
of
heart.
\VS{16}Why
did
you
keep quiet
among
the sheep,
hearing nothing
but
the watchers
piping
to
the
flocks?
\VS{17}Gilead
was
living
over
Jordan;
and
Dan
was waiting
in
his
ships;
Asher kept
in
his
place
by
the sea's edge,
living
by
his inlets.
\VS{18}It
was
the
people
of
Zebulun
who
put
their
lives
in danger,
even
to
death,
with
Naphtali
on
the
high
places
of
the
field.
\VS{19}The
kings
came
on
to
the
fight,
the
kings
of
Canaan
were warring;
in
Taanach
by
the
waters
of
Megiddo:
they
took
no
profit
in
money.
\VS{20}The
stars
from
heaven
were
fighting;
from
their
highways
they
were
fighting
against
Sisera.
\VS{21}The
river
Kishon took
them violently
away, stopping
their flight,
the
river
Kishon. Give praise,
O
my
soul,
to
the
strength
of
the Lord!
\VS{22}Then loudly
the feet
of
the
horses were sounding
with
the stamping,
the stamping
of
their war-horses.
\VS{23}A
curse,
a
curse
on
Meroz!
said
the
angel
of
the
Lord.
A bitter
curse
on
her townspeople!
Because
they
came
not
to
the
help
of
the
Lord,
to
the
help
of
the
Lord
among
the
strong
ones.
\VS{24}Blessings
be on
Jael, more than on
all
women!
Blessings greater than on
any
in
the
tents!
\VS{25}His
request
was
for
water,
she
gave
him
milk;
she
put
butter before
him
on
a fair plate.
\VS{26}She
put
out
her
hand
to
the tent-pin,
and
her
right
hand
to
the workman's
hammer;
and she
gave
Sisera
a blow, crushing
his
head, wounding
and
driving
through
his brow.
\VS{27}Bent
at
her
feet
he went
down,
he
was stretched
out; bent
at
her
feet
he went
down;
where
he
was bent
down,
there
he went
down
in death.
\VS{28}Looking
out
from
the
window
she
gave
a cry,
the
mother
of
Sisera
was crying
out
through
the
window,
Why
is
his carriage
so
long
in
coming?
When
will
the noise
of
his wheels
be sounding?
\VS{29}Her
wise
women
gave
answer
to
her,
yes,
she
made
answer
again
to
herself,
\VS{30}Are
they
not getting,
are
they
not parting
the goods
among
them:
a young girl
or
two
to
every
man;
and
to
Sisera robes
of coloured needlework, worked
in fair colours
on
this side
and
on
that,
for
the
neck
of
the queen?
\VS{31}So
may
destruction
come
on
all
your haters,
O
Lord;
but
let
your
lovers
be
like
the
sun
going
out
in
his
strength.
And
for
forty
years
the
land
had
peace.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
children
of
Israel
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord;
and
the
Lord
gave
them
up
into
the
hand
of
Midian
for
seven
years.
\VS{2}And
Midian
was stronger
than
Israel;
and
because
of
the
Midianites,
the
children
of
Israel
made holes
for
themselves
in
the
mountains,
and hollows
in
the rocks,
and
strong places.
\VS{3}And
whenever Israel's grain
was
planted,
the
Midianites
and
the
Amalekites
and
the
people
of
the
east
came
up
against
them;
\VS{4}And
put
their
army
in position
against
them;
and
they
took
all
the
produce
of
the
earth
as
far
as
Gaza,
till
there
was
no food
in
Israel,
or
any
sheep
or
oxen
or asses.
\VS{5}For
they
came
up regularly
with
their oxen
and
their
tents;
they
came
like
the
locusts
in
number;
they
and
their
camels
were
without
number;
and
they
came
into
the
land
for
its
destruction.
\VS{6}And
Israel
was
in
great need
because
of
Midian;
and
the
cry
of
the
children
of
Israel
went
up
to
the
Lord.
\VS{7}And
when
the
cry
of
the
children
of
Israel,
because
of
Midian,
came
before
the
Lord,
\VS{8}The
Lord
sent
a
prophet
to
the
children
of
Israel,
who
said
to
them,
The
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
I
took
you
up
from
Egypt,
out
of
the prison-house;
\VS{9}And
I
took
you
out
of
the
hands
of
the
Egyptians
and
out
of
the
hands
of
all
who
were cruel
to
you,
and
I
sent
them
out
by
force
from
before
you
and
gave
you
their
land;
\VS{10}And
I
said
to
you,
I
am
the
Lord
your
God;
you
are
not
to
give
worship
to
the
gods
of
the
Amorites
in
whose
land
you
are
living,
but
you
did
not
give ear
to
my
voice.
\VS{11}Now
the
angel
of
the
Lord
came
and
took
his
seat
under
the oak-tree
in
Ophrah,
in
the field
of
Joash
the
Abiezrite;
and
his
son
Gideon
was crushing
grain
in
the
place
where
the grapes
were crushed,
so
that
the
Midianites
might
not
see
it.
\VS{12}And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
came
before
his eyes,
and
said
to
him,
The
Lord
is
with
you,
O
man
of war.
\VS{13}Then
Gideon
said
to
him,
O
my
lord,
if
the
Lord
is
with
us
why
has
all
this
come
on
us?
And
where
are
all
his
works
of
power,
of
which
our
fathers
have
given
us
word,
saying,
Did
not
the
Lord
take
us
out
of
Egypt?
But
now
he
has
given
us
up, handing
us
over
to
the
power
of
Midian.
\VS{14}And
the
Lord,
turning
to
him,
said,
Go
in
the
strength
you
have
and
be Israel's saviour
from
Midian:
have
I
not
sent
you?
\VS{15}And
he
said
to
him,
O
Lord,
how
may
I
be
the saviour
of
Israel?
See,
my
family
is
the poorest
in
Manasseh,
and
I
am
the
least
in
my father's
house.
\VS{16}Then
the
Lord
said
to
him,
Truly,
I
will
be
with
you,
and
you
will overcome
the
Midianites
as
if
they
were
one
man.
\VS{17}So
he
said
to
him,
If
now
I
have
grace
in
your
eyes,
then
give
me
a
sign
that
it
is
you
who
are
talking
to
me.
\VS{18}Do
not
go
away
till
I
come
with
my
offering
and
put
it
before
you.
And
he
said,
I
will
not
go
away
before
you
come
back.
\VS{19}Then
Gideon
went
in
and
made ready
a
young
goat,
and
with
an
ephah
of
meal
he
made
unleavened
cakes:
he
put
the
meat
in
a
basket
and
the soup
in which
it
had been cooked
he
put
in
a
pot,
and
he
took
it
out
to
him
under
the oak-tree
and
gave
it
to
him
there.
\VS{20}And
the
angel
of
God
said
to
him,
Take
the
meat
and
the
unleavened
cakes
and
put
them down
on
the
rock
over
there, draining
out
the soup
over
them.
And
he
did
so.
\VS{21}Then
the
angel
of
the
Lord
put
out
the stick
which
was
in
his
hand,
touching
the
meat
and
the
cakes
with
the
end
of
it;
and
a
flame
came
up
out
of
the
rock,
burning
up
the
meat
and
the
cakes:
and
the
angel
of
the
Lord
was
seen
no
longer.
\VS{22}Then
Gideon
was certain
that
he
was
the
angel
of
the
Lord;
and
Gideon
said,
I
am
in fear,
O
Lord
God!
for
I
have
seen
the
angel
of
the
Lord
face
to
face.
\VS{23}But
the
Lord
said
to
him,
Peace
be
with
you;
have
no
fear:
you
are
in
no danger
of
death.
\VS{24}Then
Gideon
made
an
altar
there
to
the
Lord,
and
gave
it
the
name Yahweh-shalom;
to
this
day
it
is
in
Ophrah
of
the
Abiezrites.
\VS{25}The
same
night
the
Lord
said
to
him,
Take ten
men
of
your servants
and
an
ox
seven
years
old,
and
after pulling
down
the
altar
of
Baal
which
is
your father's,
and cutting
down
the holy tree
by
its side,
\VS{26}Make
an
altar
to
the
Lord
your
God
on
the
top
of
this rock,
in
the
ordered
way
and
take
the
ox
and
make
a burned
offering
with
the
wood
of
the holy
tree
which
has
been
cut
down.
\VS{27}Then
Gideon
took
ten
of
his
servants
and
did
as
the
Lord
had
said
to
him;
but fearing
to
do
it
by
day,
because
of
his father's
people
and
the
men
of
the
town,
he
did
it
by
night.
\VS{28}And
the
men
of
the
town
got
up
early
in
the
morning,
and
they
saw
the
altar
of
Baal
broken
down,
and
the holy tree
which
was
by
it
cut
down,
and
the
ox
offered
on
the
altar
which
had
been
put
up
there.
\VS{29}And
they
said
to
one
another,
Who
has
done
this
thing?
And
after
searching
with
care,
they
said,
Gideon,
the
son
of
Joash,
has
done
this
thing.
\VS{30}Then
the
men
of
the
town
said
to
Joash,
Make
your
son
come
out
to
be
put
to
death,
for pulling
down
the
altar
of
Baal
and cutting
down
the holy tree
which
was
by
it.
\VS{31}But
Joash
said
to
all
those
who
were attacking
him,
Will
you
take
up
the cause
of
Baal?
will
you
be
his saviour? Let
anyone
who
will
take
up
his cause
be
put
to
death
while
it
is
still
morning:
if
he
is
a
god, let
him
take
up
his cause
himself
because
of
the pulling
down
of
his
altar.
\VS{32}So
that
day
he
gave
him
the
name
of
Jerubbaal,
saying, Let
Baal take
up
his
cause
against
him
because
his
altar
has been
broken
down.
\VS{33}Then
all
the
Midianites
and
the
Amalekites
and
the
people
of
the
east, banding
themselves
together, went
over
and
put
up
their tents
in
the
valley
of
Jezreel.
\VS{34}But
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
on
Gideon;
and
at
the
sound
of
his
horn
all
Abiezer
came
together
after
him.
\VS{35}And
he
sent
through
all
Manasseh,
and
they
came
after
him;
and
he
sent
to
Asher
and
Zebulun
and
Naphtali,
and
they
came
up
and
were
joined
to
the others.
\VS{36}Then
Gideon
said
to
God,
If
you
are
going
to
give
Israel
salvation
by
my
hand,
as
you
have
said,
\VS{37}See,
I
will
put
the
wool
of
a sheep
on
the grain-floor;
if
there
is
dew
on
the
wool
only,
while
all
the
earth
is
dry,
then
I
will
be
certain
that
it
is
your purpose
to
give
Israel
salvation
by
my
hand
as
you
have
said.
\VS{38}And
it
was
so:
for
he
got
up
early
on
the
morning
after,
and twisting
the wool
in
his hands,
he
got
a basin
full
of
water
from
the
dew
on
the wool.
\VS{39}Then
Gideon
said
to
God,
Do
not
be moved
to
wrath
against
me
if
I
say
only
this:
let
me
make
one
more
test
with
the wool;
let
the wool
now
be
dry,
while
the
earth
is covered
with
dew.
\VS{40}And
that
night
God
did
so;
for
the wool
was
dry,
and
there
was
dew
on
all
the
earth round
it.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Jerubbaal,
that
is,
Gideon,
and
all
the
people
with
him,
got
up
early
and put
up
their tents
by
the
side
of
the water-spring
of Harod;
the tents
of
Midian
were
on
the
north
side
of
him,
under
the
hill
of
Moreh
in
the
valley.
\VS{2}And
the
Lord
said
to
Gideon,
So
great
is
the number
of
your
people,
that
if
I
give
the
Midianites
into
their
hands
they
will
be uplifted
in pride
over
me
and
will
say,
I myself
have
been
my saviour.
\VS{3}So
now,
let
it
be
given
out
to
the
people
that anyone
who
is shaking
with
fear
is
to
go
back
from
Mount Galud.
So
twenty-two
thousand
of
the
people
went
back,
but
there
were
still
ten
thousand.
\VS{4}Then
the
Lord
said
to
Gideon,
There
are
still
more
people
than
is necessary;
take
them
down
to
the
water
so
that
I
may
put
them
to
the
test
for
you
there;
then
whoever
I
say
is
to
go
with
you
will
go,
and
whoever
I
say
is
not
to
go
will
not
go.
\VS{5}So
he
took
the
people
down
to
the
water;
and
the
Lord
said
to
Gideon,
Put
on
one side
by
themselves
all
those
drinking
up
the
water
with
their
tongues
like
a
dog;
and
in
the
same
way,
all
those
who
go
down
on
their
knees
to
the
water
while
drinking.
\VS{6}Now
the
number
of
those
who
took
up
the
water
with
their tongues
was
three
hundred;
all
the
rest
of
the
people
went
down
on
their
knees
to
the
water.
\VS{7}And
the
Lord
said
to
Gideon,
By
those
three
hundred
who
were drinking
with
their tongues
I
will
give
you
salvation
and
give
the
Midianites
into
your
hands;
let
the rest
of
the
people go
away,
every
man
to
his
place.
\VS{8}So
they
took
the vessels
of
the
people,
and
their
horns
from
their
hands,
and
he
sent
them
away,
every
man
to
his
tent, keeping
only
the
three
hundred;
and
the
tents
of
Midian
were lower
down
in
the
valley.
\VS{9}The
same
night
the
Lord
said
to
him,
Up!
go
down
now
against
their
army,
for
I
have
given
them
into
your
hands.
\VS{10}But
if
you
have
fear
of
going
down,
take
your
servant
Purah
with
you
and
go
down
to
the tents;
\VS{11}And
after
hearing
what
they
are
saying,
you
will get
strength
to
go
down
against
the
army.
So
he
went
down
with
his
servant
Purah
to
the outer line
of
the tents
of
the armed
men.
\VS{12}Now
the
Midianites
and
the
Amalekites
and
all
the
people
of
the
east
were covering
the
valley
like
locusts;
and
their
camels
were
like
the
sand
by
the seaside,
without
number.
\VS{13}When
Gideon
came
there,
a
man
was giving
his
friend
an
account
of
his
dream,
saying,
See,
I
had
a
dream
about
a cake
of
barley
bread
which,
falling
into
the
tents
of
Midian,
came
on
to
the
tent, overturning
it
so
that
it
was stretched
out
flat
on
the earth.
\VS{14}And
his
friend
in
answer
said,
This
is
certainly
the
sword
of
Gideon,
the
son
of
Joash,
the
men
of
Israel:
into
their
hands
God
has
given
up
all
the
army
of
Midian.
\VS{15}Then
Gideon,
hearing
the story
of
the
dream
and
the sense
in which
they
took
it,
gave
worship;
then
he
went
back
to
the tents
of
Israel,
and
said,
Up!
for
the
Lord
has
given
the
army
of
Midian
into
your
hands.
\VS{16}Then separating
the
three
hundred
men
into
three
bands,
he
gave
every
man
a
horn,
and
a vessel
in which
was
a flaming branch.
\VS{17}And
he
said
to
them,
Keep
your eyes
on
me,
and
do
what
I
do;
when
I
come
to
the outer
line
of tents,
whatever
I
do,
you
are
to
do
the
same.
\VS{18}At
the
sound
of
my
horn,
and
the
horns
of
those
who
are
with
me, let
your
horns
be
sounded
all
round
the tents,
and
say,
For
the
Lord
and
for
Gideon.
\VS{19}So
Gideon
and
the three
hundred
men
who
were
with
him
came
to
the outer
line
of tents,
at
the start
of
the
middle
watch,
when
the
watchmen
had
only
then
taken
their stations;
and
the
horns
were
sounded
and
the vessels broken.
\VS{20}So
the
three
bands all
gave
a loud note
on
their
horns,
and
when
the vessels
had
been
broken,
they
took
the flaming branches
in
their
left
hands,
and
the
horns
in
their
right
hands ready
for
blowing,
crying
out,
For
the
Lord
and
for
Gideon.
\VS{21}Then
they
made
a line
round
the tents,
every
man
in
his
place;
and
all
the
army, awaking
from sleep,
came
running
out,
and
with
loud cries
went
in
flight.
\VS{22}And
the
three
hundred
gave
a loud note
on
their
horns,
and
every man's
sword
was
turned
by
the
Lord
against
his brother
all
through
the
army;
and
the
army
went
in
flight
as
far
as
Beth-shittah
in
the direction
of Zeredah,
to
the
edge
of
Abel-meholah
by
Tabbath.
\VS{23}And
the
men
of
Israel
came
together
from
Naphtali
and
from
Asher
and
all
Manasseh,
and
went
after
Midian.
\VS{24}Then
Gideon
sent
through
all
the hill-country
of
Ephraim
saying,
Come
down
against
Midian,
and keep
the ways across
Jordan
before
they
come.
So
all
the
men
of
Ephraim, massing themselves
together, kept
the ways across
Jordan.
\VS{25}And
they
took
the
two
chiefs
of
Midian,
Oreb
and
Zeeb;
and
they
put
Oreb
to death
at
the
rock
of
Oreb,
and
Zeeb
they
put
to death
at
the
place
of
the grape-crushing
in
Zeeb,
and
they
went
after
Midian;
but
the
heads
of
Oreb
and
Zeeb
they
took
across
Jordan
to
Gideon.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
men
of
Ephraim
came
and
said
to
him,
Why
did
you
not send
for
us
when
you
went
to war
against
Midian?
And
they
said sharp
and angry
words
to
him.
\VS{2}And
he
said
to
them,
What
have
I
done
in comparison
with
you?
Is
not
that
which
Ephraim took
up
after
the grape-cutting
better
than all
the grapes
which
Abiezer got
in
from
the grape-cutting?
\VS{3}God
has
given
into
your
hands
the
chiefs
of
Midian,
Oreb
and
Zeeb;
what
have
I been
able
to
do
in comparison
with
you?
And
when
he
said
this,
their feeling
about
him
became kinder.
\VS{4}Then
Gideon
came
to
Jordan
and
went
over
it
with
his
three
hundred, overcome
with weariness
and
in
need
of food.
\VS{5}And
he
said
to
the
men
of
Succoth,
Give
bread cakes
to
my
people,
for
they
are overcome
with weariness,
and
I
am going
on
after
Zebah
and
Zalmunna,
the
kings
of
Midian.
\VS{6}But
the
chiefs
of
Succoth
said,
Are
the
hands
of
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
even
now
in
your
hand
that
we
are
to
give
bread
to
your
army?
\VS{7}Then
Gideon
said,
Because
of
this,
when
the
Lord
has
given
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
into
my
hands,
I
will
have
you stretched
on
a bed
of
thorns
of
the waste land
and
on sharp stems,
and
have
you crushed
as grain
is crushed
on
a grain-floor.
\VS{8}So
he
went
up
from
there
to
Penuel
and
made
the
same request
to
the
men
of
Penuel;
but
they gave
him
the
same
answer
as
the
men
of
Succoth
had given.
\VS{9}So
he
said
to
the
men
of
Penuel,
When
I
come
back
in
peace,
I
will
have
this
tower
broken
down.
\VS{10}Now
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
were
in Karkor
and
their
armies
with
them,
about
fifteen
thousand
men,
those
of
all
the
army
of
the
children
of
the
east
who
were still
living;
for
a
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
of
their
swordsmen
had
been put
to death.
\VS{11}And
Gideon
went
up
by
the
way
used
by
the people
living
in
tents
on
the
east
of
Nobah
and
Jogbehah,
and
made
an
attack
on
the
army
when
they
had no thought
of danger.
\VS{12}And
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
went
in
flight;
and
he
went
after
them,
and
took
the
two
kings
of
Midian,
Zebah
and
Zalmunna,
and
put
all
the
army
to
the curse.
\VS{13}Then
Gideon,
the
son
of
Joash,
went
back
from
the
fight:
\VS{14}And taking prisoner
a
young
man
of
the
people
of
Succoth,
he got
from
him,
in answer
to
his questions,
a list
of
the
chiefs
of
Succoth
and
the responsible
men,
seventy-seven
men.
\VS{15}So
he
came
to
the
men
of
Succoth
and
said,
Here
are
Zebah
and
Zalmunna,
on account
of
whom
you
made sport
of
me,
saying,
Are
the
hands
of
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
even
now
in
your
hand,
that
we
are
to
give
bread
to
your army
who
are overcome
with weariness?
\VS{16}Then
he
took
the responsible
men
of
the
town
and
had
them crushed
on
a bed
of
thorns
and sharp stems.
\VS{17}And
he
had
the
tower
of
Penuel
broken
down
and
the
men
of
the
town put
to death.
\VS{18}Then
he
said
to
Zebah
and
Zalmunna,
Where
are
the
men
whom
you put
to death
at
Tabor?
And
they
gave
answer,
As
you
are,
so
were
they;
every
one
of
them
was
like
a king's
son.
\VS{19}And
he
said,
They
were
my
brothers,
my mother's
sons:
by
the
life
of
the
Lord,
if
you
had kept
them safe,
I
would
not put
you
to death.
\VS{20}Then
he
said
to
Jether,
his
oldest son,
Up! Put
them
to death.
But
the
boy
did
not
take
out
his
sword, fearing
because
he
was
still
a
boy.
\VS{21}Then
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
said,
Up!
Put
an end
to
us
yourself:
for
you
have
a man's
strength.
Then
Gideon
got
up
and
put
Zebah
and
Zalmunna
to death
and
took
the
ornaments
which
were
on
their camels'
necks.
\VS{22}Then
the
men
of
Israel
said
to
Gideon,
Be
our
ruler,
you
and
your
son
and
your son's
son
after
him;
for
you
have been
our saviour
from
the
hands
of
Midian.
\VS{23}But
Gideon
said
to
them,
I
will
not
be
a
ruler
over
you,
and
my
son
will
not
be
a
ruler
over
you:
it
is
the
Lord
who
will
be
ruler
over
you.
\VS{24}Then
Gideon
said
to
them,
I
have
a
request
to
make
to
you;
let
every
man
give
me
the ear-rings
he
has
taken. (For
they
had
gold ear-rings,
because
they
were
Ishmaelites.)
\VS{25}And
they
gave
answer,
We
will gladly
give
them.
So
they
put
down
a robe,
every
man dropping
into
it
the ear-rings
he
had
taken.
\VS{26}The
weight
of
the
gold ear-rings
which
he got
from
them
was
one
thousand,
seven
hundred
shekels
of
gold;
in
addition
to
the moon-ornaments
and jewels
and
the
purple
robes
which
were
on
the
kings
of
Midian,
and
the chains
on
their camels'
necks.
\VS{27}And
Gideon
made
an
ephod
from
them
and
put
it
up
in
his
town
Ophrah;
and
all
Israel
went
after
it
there
and
were false
to
the Lord;
and
it
became
a
cause
of sin
to
Gideon
and
his
house.
\VS{28}So
Midian
was broken
before
the
children
of
Israel
and
the
Midianites
never got back
their strength.
And
the
land
had
peace
for
forty
years,
in
the
days
of
Gideon.
\VS{29}And
Jerubbaal,
the
son
of
Joash,
went
back
to
his
house
and
was
living
there.
\VS{30}Gideon
had
seventy
sons,
the
offspring
of
his body;
for
he
had
a number
of
wives.
\VS{31}And
the servant-wife
he
had
in
Shechem
had
a
son
by
him,
to
whom
he
gave
the
name
Abimelech.
\VS{32}And
Gideon,
the
son
of
Joash, came
to
his end
when
he
was very
old,
and
his
body
was
put
in
the resting-place
of
Joash
his
father,
in
Ophrah
of
the
Abiezrites.
\VS{33}And
after
the
death
of
Gideon,
the
children
of
Israel
again
went
after
the
gods
of Canaan
and
were false
to
the Lord,
and
made
Baal-berith
their
god.
\VS{34}And
the
children
of
Israel
did
not
keep
in
their minds
the
Lord
their
God,
who
had
been
their saviour
from
all
their haters
on
every
side;
\VS{35}And
they
were
not
kind
to
the
house
of
Jerubbaal,
that
is,
Gideon,
in reward
for
all
the
good
he
had
done
to
Israel.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Abimelech,
the
son
of
Jerubbaal,
went
to
Shechem
to
his mother's
family,
and
said
to
them
and
to
all
the
family
of
his mother's
father,
\VS{2}Say
now
in
the
ears
of
all
the townsmen
of
Shechem,
Is
it
better
for
you
to
be
ruled
by
all
the
seventy
sons
of
Jerubbaal
or
by
one
man
only?
And
keep
in
mind
that
I
am
your
bone
and
your
flesh.
\VS{3}So
his mother's family
said
all
this
about
him
in
the
ears
of
all
the townsmen
of
Shechem:
and
their
hearts
were
turned
to
Abimelech,
for
they
said,
He
is
our
brother.
\VS{4}And
they
gave
him
seventy
shekels
of
silver
from
the
house
of
Baal-berith,
with
which
Abimelech got
the support
of
a number
of uncontrolled
and good-for-nothing
persons.
\VS{5}Then
he
went
to
his father's
house
at
Ophrah,
and
put
his
brothers,
the
seventy
sons
of
Jerubbaal,
to
death
on
the
same
stone; however,
Jotham,
the
youngest, kept
himself safe
by
going
away
to
a secret
place.
\VS{6}And
all
the townsmen
of
Shechem
and
all Beth-millo came
together
and
went
and
made
Abimelech
their
king,
by
the
oak
of
the
pillar
in
Shechem.
\VS{7}Now
Jotham,
on
hearing
of
it,
went
to
the
top
of
Mount
Gerizim,
and
crying
out
with
a loud
voice
said
to
them,
Give ear
to
me,
you townsmen
of
Shechem,
so
that
God
may
give ear
to
you.
\VS{8}One day
the
trees
went
out
to make
a
king
for
themselves;
and
they
said
to
the olive-tree,
Be
king
over
us.
\VS{9}But
the olive-tree
said
to
them,
Am
I
to give
up
my wealth
of oil,
by
which
men give honour
to
God,
and
go waving
over
the
trees?
\VS{10}Then
the
trees
said
to
the fig-tree,
You come
and
be
king
over
us.
\VS{11}But
the fig-tree
said
to
them,
Am
I
to give
up
my sweet taste
and
my
good
fruit
and
go waving
over
the
trees?
\VS{12}Then
the
trees
said
to
the
vine,
You come
and
be
king
over
us.
\VS{13}But
the
vine
said
to
them,
Am
I
to
give
up
my
wine,
which
makes
glad
God
and
men,
to
go waving
over
the
trees?
\VS{14}Then
all
the
trees
said
to
the thorn,
You come
and
be
king
over
us.
\VS{15}And
the thorn
said
to
the
trees,
If
it
is
truly
your desire
to make
me
your
king,
then
come
and
put
your
faith
in
my
shade;
and
if
not,
may
fire
come
out
of
the thorn,
burning
up
the
cedars
of
Lebanon.
\VS{16}So
now,
if
you
have
done
truly
and
uprightly
in
making
Abimelech
king,
and
if
you
have
done
well
to
Jerubbaal
and
his
house
in reward
for
the work
of
his
hands;
\VS{17}(For
my
father
made war
for
you,
and
put
his
life
in danger,
and
made
you free
from
the
hands
of
Midian;
\VS{18}And
you
have gone
against
my father's
family
this
day,
and
have put
to
death
his
sons,
even
seventy
men
on
one
stone,
and
have made
Abimelech,
the
son
of
his servant-wife,
king
over
the townsmen
of
Shechem
because
he
is
your
brother;)
\VS{19}If
then
you
have
done
what
is
true
and upright
to
Jerubbaal
and
his
family
this
day,
may
you
have
joy
in
Abimelech,
and
may
he
have
joy
in
you;
\VS{20}But
if
not,
may
fire
come
out
from
Abimelech,
burning
up
the townsmen
of
Shechem
and Beth-millo;
and
may
fire
come
out
from
the townsmen
of
Shechem
and Beth-millo,
for
the destruction
of
Abimelech.
\VS{21}Then
Jotham straight
away
went
in
flight
to
Beer,
and
was
living
there
for fear
of
his
brother
Abimelech.
\VS{22}So
Abimelech
was chief
over
Israel
for
three
years.
\VS{23}And
God
sent
an
evil
spirit
between
Abimelech
and
the townsmen
of
Shechem;
and
the townsmen
of
Shechem
were false
to
Abimelech;
\VS{24}So
that
punishment
for
the
violent
attack
made
on
the
seventy
sons
of
Jerubbaal,
and
for
their
blood,
might
come
on
Abimelech,
their
brother,
who
put
them
to
death,
and
on
the townsmen
of
Shechem
who
gave
him
their help
in
putting
his
brothers
to
death.
\VS{25}And
the townsmen
of
Shechem
put secret watchers
on
the
tops
of
the
mountains,
and
they
made attacks
on
all
who went
by
on
the
road
and
took
their goods;
and
word
of
this came
to
Abimelech.
\VS{26}Then
Gaal,
the
son
of
Ebed,
came
with
his
brothers,
and
went
over
to
Shechem;
and
the
men
of
Shechem
put
their faith
in
him.
\VS{27}And
they
went
out
into
their
fields
and
got
in
the fruit
of
their
vines,
and
when
the grapes
had been crushed,
they
made
a holy
feast
and
went
into
the
house
of
their
god,
and
over
their
food
and
drink
they
were
cursing
Abimelech.
\VS{28}And
Gaal,
the
son
of
Ebed,
said,
Who
is
Abimelech
and
who
is
Shechem,
that
we
are
to
be
his
servants?
Is
it
not right
for
the
son
of
Jerubbaal
and
Zebul
his captain
to
be
servants
to
the
men
of
Hamor,
the
father
of
Shechem?
But
why
are
we
to
be
his
servants?
\VS{29}If
only
I
had
authority
over
this
people!
I
would
put
Abimelech
out
of
the
way,
and
I
would
say
to
Abimelech,
Make
your
army strong,
and
come
out.
\VS{30}Now
Zebul,
the
ruler
of
the
town,
hearing
what
Gaal,
the
son
of
Ebed,
had
said,
was moved
to
wrath.
\VS{31}And
he
sent
to
Abimelech
at Arumah,
saying,
See,
Gaal,
the
son
of
Ebed,
and
his
brothers
have
come
to
Shechem,
and
they
are working
up
the
town
against
you.
\VS{32}So
now,
get
up
by
night,
you
and
your
people,
and keep watch
in
the
field secretly;
\VS{33}And
in
the
morning,
when
the
sun
is
up,
get
up
early
and
make
a
rush
on
the
town;
and
when
he
and
his
people
come
out
against
you,
do
to
them
whatever
you
have
a chance
to
do.
\VS{34}So
Abimelech
and
the
people
with
him
got
up
by
night,
in
four
bands,
to
make
a surprise
attack
on
Shechem.
\VS{35}And
Gaal,
the
son
of
Ebed,
went
out,
and
took
his
place
at
the
doorway
into
the
town;
then
Abimelech
and
his
people
got
up
from
the
place
where
they
had
been waiting.
\VS{36}And
when
Gaal
saw
the
people,
he
said
to
Zebul,
See!
people
are
coming
down
from
the
tops
of
the
mountains.
And
Zebul
said
to
him,
You
see
the
shade
of
the
mountains
like
men.
\VS{37}And
Gaal
said
again,
See!
people
are
coming
down
from
the middle
of
the
land,
and
one
band
is
coming
by
way
of
the oak-tree
of
the Seers.
\VS{38}Then
Zebul
said
to
him,
Now
where
is
your loud
talk
when
you
said,
Who
is
Abimelech
that
we
are
to
be
his
servants?
Is
this
not
the
people
whom
you
were rating
so low?
Go
out
now,
and
make war
on
them.
\VS{39}So
Gaal
went
out at
the
head
of
the townsmen
of
Shechem
and made war
on
Abimelech.
\VS{40}And
Abimelech
went
after
him
and
he
went
in
flight
before
him;
and
a
great number
were
falling
by
the sword
all
the
way
up
to
the
town.
\VS{41}Then
Abimelech went back
to
Arumah;
and
Zebul sent
Gaal
and
his
brothers
away
and would not let
them go
on
living
in
Shechem.
\VS{42}Now
the
day
after,
the
people
went
out
into
the
fields;
and news
of
it
came
to
Abimelech.
\VS{43}And
he
took
his
people, separating
them
into
three
bands,
and
was waiting secretly
in
the
field;
and
when
he
saw
the
people
coming
out
of
the
town,
he
went
up
and
made
an
attack
on
them.
\VS{44}And
Abimelech
with
his
band
made
a
rush,
and
took
up
their
position
at
the
doorway
into
the
town;
and
the
other
two
bands
made
a
rush
on
all
those
who
were
in
the
fields,
and overcame
them.
\VS{45}And
all
that
day
Abimelech
was
fighting
against
the
town;
and
he
took
it,
and put
to death
the
people
who
were
in
it,
and
had
the
town
pulled
down
and covered
with
salt.
\VS{46}Then
all
the townsmen
of
the
tower
of
Shechem,
hearing
of
it,
went
into
the
inner
room
of
the
house
of El-berith.
\VS{47}And
word
was given
to
Abimelech
that
all
the
men
of
the
tower
of
Shechem
were
there
together.
\VS{48}Then
Abimelech
went
up
to
Mount
Zalmon,
with
all
his
people;
and
Abimelech
took
an
axe
in
his
hand
and, cutting
down branches
of
trees,
took
them
and
put
them
on
his
back.
And
he
said
to
the
people
who
were
with
him,
Be
quick
and
do
as
you
have
seen
me
do.
\VS{49}So
all
the
people got branches,
every
man cutting
down
a
branch,
and
they
went
with
Abimelech
at
their head
and, massing
the branches
against
the
inner room,
put
fire
to
the room
over
them;
so
all
those
who
were
in
the
tower
of
Shechem,
about
a
thousand
men
and
women,
were
burned
to
death
with
it.
\VS{50}Then
Abimelech
went
to
Thebez,
and put
his army
in position
against
Thebez
and
took
it.
\VS{51}But
in
the
middle
of
the
town
there
was
a
strong
tower,
to
which
all
the
men
and
women
of
the
town
went
in
flight
and, shutting
themselves
in,
went
up
to
the
roof
of
the
tower.
\VS{52}And
Abimelech
came
to
the
tower
and
made
an
attack
on
it,
and got
near
to
the
door
of
the
tower
for
the purpose
of firing
it.
\VS{53}But
a
certain
woman sent
a great stone, such
as
is used
for
crushing grain,
on
to
the
head
of
Abimelech, cracking
the bone.
\VS{54}Then
quickly
crying
out
to
his body-servant,
he
said
to
him,
Take
out
your
sword
and
put
an end
to
me straight
away,
so
that
men may
not
say
of
me,
His
death
was
the work
of
a
woman.
So
the
young
man
put
his
sword
through
him, causing
his
death.
\VS{55}And
when
the
men
of
Israel
saw
that
Abimelech
was
dead,
they
went away,
every
man
to
his
place.
\VS{56}In
this way
Abimelech
was
rewarded
by
God
for
the
evil
he
had
done
to
his
father
in putting
his
seventy
brothers
to death;
\VS{57}And
God
sent
back
on
to
the
heads
of
the
men
of
Shechem
all
the
evil
they
had
done,
and
the
curse
of
Jotham,
the
son
of
Jerubbaal,
came
on
them.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
Abimelech,
Tola,
the
son
of
Puah,
the
son
of
Dodo,
a
man
of
Issachar, became
the saviour
of
Israel;
he
was
living
in Shamir
in
the hill-country
of
Ephraim.
\VS{2}He
was
judge
over
Israel
for twenty-three
years;
and
at
his
death
his
body
was
put
to rest
in
the earth
in Shamir.
\VS{3}And
after
him
came
Jair
the
Gileadite,
who
was
judge
over
Israel
for
twenty-two
years.
\VS{4}And
he
had
thirty
sons,
who
went
on
thirty
young asses;
and
they
had
thirty towns
in
the
land
of
Gilead,
which
are
named
Havvoth-Jair
to
this
day.
\VS{5}And
at
the
death
of
Jair
his
body was
put
to rest
in
the earth
in
Kamon.
\VS{6}And
again
the
children
of
Israel
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, worshipping
the
Baals
and Astartes,
and
the
gods
of
Aram
and
the
gods
of Zidon
and
the
gods
of
Moab
and
the
gods
of
the
children
of
Ammon
and
the
gods
of
the
Philistines;
they
gave
up
the
Lord
and
were
servants
to
him
no
longer.
\VS{7}And
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was burning
against
Israel,
and
he gave
them
up
into
the
hands
of
the
Philistines
and
into
the
hands
of
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{8}And
that
year
the
children
of
Israel
were
crushed under
their yoke;
for
eighteen
years
all
the
children
of
Israel
on
the
other
side
of
Jordan,
in
the
land
of
the
Amorites
which
is
in
Gilead,
were cruelly
crushed down.
\VS{9}And
the
children
of
Ammon
went
over
Jordan,
to make war
against
Judah
and
Benjamin
and
the
house
of
Ephraim;
and
Israel
was
in
great trouble.
\VS{10}Then
the
children
of
Israel,
crying
out
to
the
Lord,
said,
Great
is
our
sin
against
you,
for
we
have
given
up
our
God
and
have
been
servants
to
the
Baals.
\VS{11}And
the
Lord
said
to
the
children
of
Israel,
Were
not
the
Egyptians
and
the
Amorites
and
the
children
of
Ammon
and
the
Philistines
\VS{12}And
the Zidonians
and
Amalek
and Midian crushing
you
down,
and
in answer
to
your
cry did
I
not give
you
salvation
from
their
hands?
\VS{13}But,
for all
this,
you
have
given
me
up
and
have
been
servants
to
other
gods:
so
I
will
be
your saviour
no
longer.
\VS{14}Go, send
up
your
cry
for
help
to
the
gods
of
your selection;
let
them
be
your saviours
in
the
time
of
your
trouble.
\VS{15}And
the
children
of
Israel
said
to
the
Lord,
We
are sinners;
do
to
us
whatever
seems
good
to
you:
only
give
us salvation
this
day.
\VS{16}So
they
put
away
the
strange
gods
from
among
them,
and became
the Lord's
servants;
and
his
soul
was angry because
of
the sorrows
of
Israel.
\VS{17}Then
the
children
of
Ammon came
together
and
put
their
army
in position
in
Gilead.
And
the
children
of
Israel came
together
and
put
their
army
in position
in
Mizpah.
\VS{18}And
the
people
of
Israel
said
to
one
another,
Who
will
be
the
first
to make
an
attack
on
the
children
of
Ammon?
We
will make
him
head
over
all
Gilead.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Jephthah
the
Gileadite
was
a
great
man
of war;
he
was
the
son
of
a loose
woman,
and
Gilead
was
his
father.
\VS{2}And Gilead's
wife
gave
birth
to
sons,
and
when
her
sons
became
men,
they
sent
Jephthah
away,
saying,
You
have
no
part
in
the heritage
of
our father's
house,
for
you
are
the
son
of
another
woman.
\VS{3}So
Jephthah
went
in
flight
from
his
brothers
and
was
living
in
the
land
of
Tob,
where
a number
of good-for-nothing
men,
joining
Jephthah,
went
out
with
him
on
his undertakings.
\VS{4}Now
after
a
time
the
children
of
Ammon
made war
against
Israel.
\VS{5}And
when
the
children
of
Ammon
made war
against
Israel,
the responsible
men
of
Gilead
went
to
get
Jephthah
back
from
the
land
of
Tob;
\VS{6}And
they
said
to
Jephthah,
Come
and
be
our
chief
so
that we
may make war
against
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{7}But
Jephthah
said
to
the responsible
men
of
Gilead,
Did
you
not,
in
your
hate
for
me, send
me
away
from
my father's
house?
Why
do
you
come
to
me
now
when
you
are
in
trouble?
\VS{8}And
the
responsible
men
of
Gilead
said
to
Jephthah,
That
is
the
reason
we
have
come
back
to
you;
so
go
with
us
and
make war
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
we
will
make
you
our
head
over
all
the
people
of
Gilead.
\VS{9}Then
Jephthah
said
to
the
responsible
men
of
Gilead,
If
you
take
me
back
to
make war
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
if
with
the help
of
the
Lord
I overcome
them,
will
you
make
me
your
head?
\VS{10}And
the
responsible
men
of
Gilead
said
to
Jephthah,
May
the
Lord
be
our
witness:
we
will
certainly
do
as
you
say.
\VS{11}So
Jephthah
went
with
the
responsible
men
of
Gilead,
and
the
people
made
him
head
and
chief
over
them;
and
Jephthah
said
all
these
things
before
the
Lord
in
Mizpah.
\VS{12}Then
Jephthah
sent
men
to
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
saying,
What
have
you
against
me
that
you
have
come
to
make war
against
my
land?
\VS{13}And
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon
said
to
the
men
sent
by
Jephthah,
Because
Israel,
when
he
came
up
out
of
Egypt,
took
away
my
land,
from
the
Arnon
as
far
as
the
Jabbok
and
as
far
as
Jordan:
so
now,
give
me
back
those
lands quietly.
\VS{14}And
Jephthah
sent
again
to
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
\VS{15}And
said
to
him,
This
is
the
word
of
Jephthah:
Israel
did
not
take
away
the
land
of
Moab
or
the
land
of
the
children
of
Ammon;
\VS{16}But
when
they
came
up
from
Egypt,
Israel
went
through
the waste land
to
the Red
Sea
and
came
to
Kadesh;
\VS{17}Then
Israel
sent
men
to
the
king
of
Edom
saying,
Let
me
now
go
through
your
land;
but
the
king
of
Edom
did
not
give ear
to
them.
And
in
the same
way
he
sent
to
the
king
of
Moab,
but
he
would
not;
so
Israel
went
on
living
in
Kadesh.
\VS{18}Then
he
went
on
through
the waste
land
and
round
the
land
of
Edom
and
the
land
of
Moab,
and
came
by
the
east
side
of
the
land
of
Moab,
and
put
up
their tents
on
the
other
side
of
the
Arnon;
they
did
not
come
inside
the limit
of
Moab,
for
the
Arnon
was
the limit
of
Moab.
\VS{19}And
Israel
sent
men
to
Sihon,
king
of
the
Amorites,
the
king
of
Heshbon;
and
Israel
said
to
him,
Let
me
now
go
through
your
land
to
my
place.
\VS{20}But
Sihon
would
not give
way
and
let
Israel
go
through
his
land;
and
Sihon got
together
all
his
people,
and
put
his
army
in position
in
Jahaz,
and
made war
on
Israel.
\VS{21}And
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
gave
Sihon
and
all
his
people
into
the
hands
of
Israel,
and
they overcame
them;
so
all
the
land
of
the
Amorites,
the
people
of
that
land, became Israel's.
\VS{22}All
the limit
of
the
Amorites
was theirs,
from
the
Arnon
as
far
as
the
Jabbok
and
from
the waste
land
even
to
Jordan.
\VS{23}So
now
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
taken away
their
land
from
the
Amorites
and
given
it
to
his
people
Israel;
are
you
then
to
have
it?
\VS{24}Do
you
not keep
the lands
of
those
whom
Chemosh
your
god sends
out
from
before
you?
So
we
will keep
all
the lands
of
those
whom
the
Lord
our
God sends
out
from
before
us.
\VS{25}What!
are
you any
better
than
Balak,
the
son
of
Zippor,
king
of
Moab? Did
he
ever
take
up
a cause
against
Israel
or make war
against
them?
\VS{26}While
Israel
was
living
in
Heshbon
and
its daughter-towns
and
in
Aroer
and
its daughter-towns
and
in
all
the
towns
which
are
by
the
side
of
the
Arnon,
for
three
hundred
years,
why
did
you
not get
them back
at
that
time?
\VS{27}So
I
have
done
no
wrong
against
you,
but
you
are
doing
wrong
to
me
in
fighting
against
me:
may
the
Lord,
who
is
Judge
this
day,
be
judge
between
the
children
of
Israel
and
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{28}The
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
however,
did
not
give ear
to
the
words
which
Jephthah
sent
to
him.
\VS{29}Then
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
on
Jephthah,
and
he
went
through
Gilead
and
Manasseh,
and
came
to
Mizpeh
of
Gilead;
and
from
Mizpeh
of
Gilead
he
went
over
to
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{30}And
Jephthah
took
an oath
to
the
Lord,
and
said,
If
you
will
give
the
children
of
Ammon
into
my
hands,
\VS{31}Then
whoever
comes
out
from
the
door
of
my
house, meeting
me
when
I
come
back
in
peace
from
the
children
of
Ammon,
will
be
the Lord's
and
I
will
give
him
as
a burned
offering.
\VS{32}So
Jephthah
went
over
to
the
children
of
Ammon
to
make war
on
them;
and
the
Lord
gave
them
into
his
hands.
\VS{33}And
he
made
an
attack
on
them
from
Aroer
all
the
way
to
Minnith, overrunning
twenty
towns,
as
far
as Abel-cheramim,
and
put
great numbers
to
the sword.
So
the
children
of
Ammon
were
crushed
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{34}Then
Jephthah
came
back
to
his
house
in
Mizpah,
and
his
daughter
came
out, meeting
him
on
his way
with music
and
with
dances;
she
was
his
only
child;
he
had
no
other
sons
or
daughters.
\VS{35}And
when
he
saw
her
he
was
overcome
with grief,
and
said,
Ah!
my
daughter!
I
am crushed
with sorrow,
and
it
is
you
who
are
the chief
cause
of
my
trouble;
for
I
have
made
an oath
to
the
Lord
and
I
may
not
take
it
back.
\VS{36}And
she
said
to
him,
My
father,
you
have
made
an oath
to
the
Lord;
do
then
to
me
whatever
you
have
said;
for
the
Lord
has
sent
a
full reward
on
your haters,
on
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{37}Then
she
said
to
her
father, Only
do
this
for
me:
let
me
have
two
months
to
go
away
into
the
mountains
with
my friends,
weeping
for
my sad fate.
\VS{38}And
he
said,
Go
then.
So
he
sent
her
away
for
two
months;
and
she went
with
her friends
to
the
mountains,
weeping
for
her sad fate.
\VS{39}And
at
the
end
of
two
months
she
went
back
to
her
father,
who
did
with
her
as
he
had
said
in
his oath:
and
she
had
never
been touched
by
a
man.
So
it
became
a rule
in
Israel,
\VS{40}For
the
women
to go
year
by
year sorrowing
for
the
daughter
of
Jephthah
the
Gileadite,
four
days
in
every
year.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
the
men
of
Ephraim
came
together
and took
up arms
and
went
over
to Zaphon;
and
they
said
to
Jephthah,
Why
did
you
go
over
to
make war
against
the
children
of
Ammon
without sending
for
us
to
go
with
you? Now we
will put
your
house
on
fire
over
you.
\VS{2}And
Jephthah
said
to
them,
I
and
my
people
were
in danger,
and
the
children
of
Ammon
were
very cruel
to
us,
and
when
I
sent
for
you,
you
gave
me
no
help
against
them.
\VS{3}So
when
I
saw
that
there
was
no
help
to
be
had
from
you,
I
put
my
life
in
my
hand
and
went
over
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
the
Lord
gave
them
into
my
hands:
why
then
have
you
come
up
to
me
this
day
to
make war
on
me?
\VS{4}Then
Jephthah got
together
all
the
men
of
Gilead
and
made war
on
Ephraim;
and
the
men
of
Gilead overcame
Ephraim.
\VS{5}And
the
Gileadites
took
the crossing-places
of
Jordan
against
the
Ephraimites;
and
when
any
of
the
men
of
Ephraim
who
had
gone
in flight
said,
let
me
go
over;
the
men
of
Gilead
said
to
him,
Are
you
an
Ephraimite?
And
if
he
said,
No;
\VS{6}Then
they
said
to
him,
Now
say Shibboleth;
and
he
said
Sibboleth,
and
was
not able
to
say
it
in
the
right
way;
then
they
took
him
and
put
him
to death
at
the crossing-places
of
Jordan;
and
at
that
time
forty-two
thousand
Ephraimites
were
put
to death.
\VS{7}Now
Jephthah
was
judge
of
Israel
for
six
years.
And
Jephthah
the
Gileadite
came
to
his
death,
and
his
body
was
put
to rest
in
his
town, Mizpeh
of
Gilead.
\VS{8}And
after
him,
Ibzan
of Beth-lehem
was
judge
of
Israel.
\VS{9}He
had
thirty
sons,
and
thirty
daughters whom
he
sent
to other places,
and
he got
thirty wives
from other places
for
his
sons.
And
he
was
judge
of
Israel
for
seven
years.
\VS{10}And
Ibzan came
to
his
death
and
his
body was
put
to rest
at Beth-lehem.
\VS{11}And
after
him,
Elon
the Zebulonite
was
judge
of
Israel;
and
he
was
judge
of
Israel
for
ten
years.
\VS{12}And Elon
the Zebulonite came
to
his
death,
and
his
body
was
put
to rest
in
Aijalon
in
the
land
of
Zebulun.
\VS{13}And
after
him,
Abdon,
the
son
of
Hillel,
the
Pirathonite,
was
judge
of
Israel.
\VS{14}He
had
forty
sons
and
thirty sons'
sons
who
went
on
seventy
young asses;
and
he
was
judge
of
Israel
for
eight
years.
\VS{15}And
Abdon,
the
son
of
Hillel, came
to
his
death,
and
his
body
was
put
to rest
in
Pirathon
in
the
land
of
Ephraim,
in
the hill-country
of
the
Amalekites.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
children
of
Israel
again
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord;
and
the
Lord
gave
them
into
the
hands
of
the
Philistines
for
forty
years.
\VS{2}Now
there
was
a
certain
man
of
Zorah
of
the
family
of
the
Danites,
and
his
name
was
Manoah;
and
his
wife
had
never
given
birth
to
a
child.
\VS{3}And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
came
to
the
woman,
and
said
to
her,
See
now! though
you
have
never
given
birth
to
children,
you
will
be
with
child
and
give
birth
to
a
son.
\VS{4}Now
then
take
care
to
have
no
wine
or
strong
drink
and
to
take
no
unclean
thing
for
food;
\VS{5}For
you
are
with
child
and
will
give
birth
to
a
son;
his
hair
is
never
to
be cut,
for
the
child
is
to
be separate
to
God
from
his
birth;
and
he
will
take
up
the work
of freeing
Israel
from
the
hands
of
the
Philistines.
\VS{6}Then
the
woman
came
in,
and
said
to
her
husband,
A
man
came
to
me,
and
his
form
was
like
the
form
of
a
god,
causing
great
fear;
I
put
no
question
to
him
about
where
he
came
from,
and
he
did
not
give
me
his
name;
\VS{7}But
he
said
to
me,
You
are
with
child
and
will
give
birth
to
a
son;
and
now
do
not
take
any
wine
or
strong
drink
or
let
anything
unclean
be
your
food;
for
the
child
will
be separate
to
God
from
his
birth
to
the
day
of
his
death.
\VS{8}Then
Manoah
made
prayer
to
the
Lord,
and
said,
O
Lord,
let
the
man
of
God
whom
you
sent
come
to
us
again
and
make clear
to
us
what
we
are
to
do
for
the
child
who
is
to
come.
\VS{9}And
God
gave ear
to
the
voice
of
Manoah;
and
the
angel
of
God
came
to
the
woman
again
when
she
was
seated
in
the
field;
but
her
husband
Manoah
was
not
with
her.
\VS{10}So
the
woman,
running
quickly,
gave
her
husband
the
news,
saying,
I
have
seen
the
man
who
came
to
me
the
other
day.
\VS{11}And
Manoah
got
up
and
went
after
his
wife,
and
came
up
to
the
man
and
said
to
him,
Are
you
the
man
who
was
talking
to
this
woman?
And
he
said,
I
am.
\VS{12}And
Manoah
said,
Now
when
your
words
come true,
what
is
to
be
the
rule
for
the
child
and
what
will
be
his
work?
\VS{13}And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
said
to
Manoah, Let
the
woman
take
note
of
what
I
have
said
to
her.
\VS{14}She
is
to
have
nothing
which
comes
from
the
vine
for
her
food,
and
let
her
take
no
wine
or
strong
drink
or
anything
which
is
unclean;
let
her
take
care
to
do
all
I
have
given
her
orders
to
do.
\VS{15}And
Manoah
said
to
the
angel
of
the
Lord,
Now
let
us
keep
you while
we
make ready
a
young
goat
for
you.
\VS{16}And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
said
to
Manoah,
Though
you
keep
me
I
will
not
take
of
your
food;
but
if
you
will
make
a burned
offering,
let
it
be
offered
to
the
Lord.
For
it
had
not
come
into Manoah's
mind
that
he
was
the
angel
of
the
Lord.
\VS{17}Then
Manoah
said
to
the
angel
of
the
Lord,
What
is
your
name,
so
that
when
your
words
come
true
we
may
give
you honour?
\VS{18}But
the
angel
of
the
Lord
said
to
him,
Why
are
you questioning
me
about
my
name, seeing
that
it
is
a wonder?
\VS{19}So
Manoah
took
the
young
goat
with
its
meal
offering,
offering
it
on
the
rock
to
the
Lord,
who
did strange
things.
\VS{20}And
when
the
flame
went
up
to
heaven
from
the
altar,
the
angel
of
the
Lord
went
up
in
the
flame
of
the
altar,
while
Manoah
and
his
wife
were
looking
on;
and
they
went
down
on
their
faces
to
the
earth.
\VS{21}But
the
angel
of
the
Lord
was
seen
no
more
by
Manoah
and
his
wife.
Then
it
was clear
to
Manoah
that
he
was
the
angel
of
the
Lord.
\VS{22}And
Manoah
said
to
his
wife,
Death
will
certainly
be
our fate,
for
it
is
a
god whom
we
have
seen.
\VS{23}But
his
wife
said
to
him,
If
the
Lord
was purposing
our
death,
he
would
not
have
taken
our burned
offering
and
our
meal
offering,
or
have
given
us
such
orders
about
the child.
\VS{24}So
the
woman
gave
birth
to
a
son,
and
gave
him
the
name
Samson;
and
he
became
a
man
and
the
blessing
of
the
Lord
was
on
him.
\VS{25}And
the
spirit
of
the
Lord first
came
on
him
in Mahaneh-dan,
between
Zorah
and
Eshtaol.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Samson
went
down
to
Timnah,
and
saw
a
woman
in
Timnah,
of
the
daughters
of
the
Philistines;
\VS{2}And
when
he
came
back
he
said
to
his
father
and
mother,
I
have
seen
a
woman
in
Timnah,
of
the
daughters
of
the
Philistines:
get
her
now
for
me
for
my
wife.
\VS{3}Then
his
father
and
mother
said
to
him,
Is
there
no
woman
among
the
daughters
of
your
relations
or
among
all
my
people,
that
you
have
to
go
for
your
wife
to
the
Philistines,
who
are
without circumcision?
But
Samson
said
to
his
father,
Get
her
for
me,
for
she
is
pleasing
to
me.
\VS{4}Now
his
father
and
mother
had
no
knowledge
that
this
was
the purpose
of
the
Lord,
who
had
the destruction
of
the
Philistines
in
mind.
Now
the
Philistines
at
that
time
were
ruling
over
Israel.
\VS{5}Then
Samson
went
down
to
Timnah (and
his
father
and
his
mother,)
and
came
to
the vine-gardens
of
Timnah;
and
a
young
lion
came rushing
out
at
him.
\VS{6}And
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
on
him
with
power,
and, unarmed
as
he
was, pulling
the lion
in
two
as
one
might
do
to
a
young
goat,
he
put
him
to death; (but
he said
nothing
to
his
father
and
mother
of
what
he
had
done.)
\VS{7}So
he
went
down
and
had
talk
with
the
woman;
and she
was
pleasing
to
Samson.
\VS{8}Then
after
a
time
he
went
back
to
take
her;
and
turning
from
the road
to
see
the dead body
of
the
lion,
he
saw
a mass
of
bees
in
the body
of
the
lion,
and
honey
there.
\VS{9}And
he
took
the
honey
in
his
hand,
and
went
on,
tasting
it
on
the
way;
and
when
he
came
to
his
father
and
mother
he
gave some
to
them;
but
did
not say
that
he
had
taken
the
honey
from
the body
of
the
lion.
\VS{10}Then
Samson
went
down
to
the
woman,
and
made
a
feast
there,
as
was
the
way
among
young
men.
\VS{11}And
he
took
thirty
friends,
and
they
were
with
him.
\VS{12}And
Samson
said,
Now
I
have
a hard question
for
you:
if
you
are able
to
give
me
the
answer
before
the
seven
days
of
the
feast
are
over,
I
will
give
you
thirty
linen
robes
and
thirty
changes
of
clothing;
\VS{13}But
if
you
are
not
able
to
give
me
the
answer,
then
you
will
have
to
give
me
thirty
linen
robes
and
thirty
changes
of
clothing.
And
they
said
to
him,
Put
your hard question
and
let
us
see what
it
is.
\VS{14}And
he
said,
Out
of
the taker
of
food
came
food,
and
out
of
the
strong
came
the
sweet.
And
at
the
end
of
three
days
they
were
still
not
able
to
give
the
answer.
\VS{15}So
on
the
fourth
day
they
said
to Samson's
wife, Get
from
your
husband
the
answer
to
his question
by
some trick
or
other,
or
we
will
have
you
and
your father's
house
burned
with
fire;
did
you get
us here
to
take
all
we
have?
\VS{16}Then Samson's
wife,
weeping
over
him,
said, Truly
you
have
no
love
for
me
but
only
hate;
you
have put
a hard question
to
the
children
of
my
people
and
have
not given
me
the
answer.
And
he
said
to
her,
See,
I
have
not given
the
answer
even
to
my
father
or
my
mother; am
I
to
give
it
to
you?
\VS{17}And
all
the
seven
days
of
the
feast
she
went
on
weeping
over
him;
and
on
the
seventh
day
he
gave
her
the answer,
because
she
gave
him no peace;
and
she sent
word
of
it
to
the
children
of
her
people.
\VS{18}Then
on
the
seventh
day,
before
he
went
into
the bride's room,
the
men
of
the
town
said
to
him,
What
is
sweeter
than
honey?
and
what
is
stronger
than
a
lion?
And
he
said
to
them,
If
you
had
not
been ploughing
with
my cow
you
would
not
have got
the
answer
to
my question.
\VS{19}And
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came rushing
on
him,
and
he
went
down
to
Ashkelon
and,
attacking
thirty
men
there,
took
their clothing
from
them,
and
gave
it
to
the
men
who
had
given
the answer
to
his
hard question.
Then, full
of
wrath,
he
went
back
to
his father's
house.
\VS{20}But Samson's
wife
was given
to
the friend
who
had
been
his best man.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
a short
time
after,
at
the
time
of
the grain-cutting,
Samson,
taking
with
him
a
young
goat,
went
to
see
his
wife;
and
he
said,
I
will
go
in
to
my
wife
into
the bride's
room.
But
her
father
would
not
let
him
go
in.
\VS{2}And
her
father
said,
It seemed
to
me
that
you
had only
hate
for
her;
so
I
gave
her
to
your friend:
but
is
not
her
younger
sister fairer
than
she?
so
please
take
her
in
place
of
the
other.
\VS{3}Then
Samson
said
to
them,
This
time
I
will give payment
in full
to
the
Philistines,
for
I
am going
to
do
them great
evil.
\VS{4}So
Samson
went
and
got
three
hundred
foxes
and
some sticks
of fire-wood;
and
he
put
the
foxes
tail
to
tail
with
a stick
between
every
two
tails;
\VS{5}Then firing
the sticks,
he
let
the foxes
loose
among
the uncut
grain
of
the
Philistines,
and
all
the corded stems
as well
as
the living
grain
and
the vine-gardens
and
the
olives went
up
in
flames.
\VS{6}Then
the
Philistines
said,
Who
has
done
this?
And
they
said,
Samson,
the
son-in-law
of
the
Timnite,
because
he
took
his
wife
and
gave
her
to
his friend.
So
the
Philistines
came
up
and
had
her
and
her father's house
burned.
\VS{7}And
Samson
said
to
them,
If
you go on like
this,
truly
I
will
take
my full payment
from
you;
and
that
will
be
the
end
of
it.
\VS{8}And
he
made
an
attack
on
them, driving
them
in uncontrolled flight,
and causing
great destruction;
then
he
went away
to
his safe place
in
the crack
of
the
rock
at
Etam.
\VS{9}Then
the
Philistines
went
and
put
up
their tents
in
Judah,
all round
Lehi.
\VS{10}And
the
men
of
Judah
said,
Why
have
you
come
up
against
us?
And
they
said,
We
have
come
up
to
take
Samson,
and
to
do
to
him
as
he
has
done
to
us.
\VS{11}Then
three
thousand
of
the
men
of
Judah
went
down
to
the crack
of
the
rock
of
Etam,
and
said
to
Samson,
Is
it
not clear
to
you
that
the
Philistines
are
our
rulers?
What
is
this
you
have
done
to
us?
And
he
said
to
them,
I only
did
to
them
as
they
did
to
me.
\VS{12}Then
they
said
to
him,
We
have
come
down
to
take
you
and
give
you
up
into
the
hands
of
the
Philistines.
And
Samson
said
to
them,
Give
me
your
oath
that
you
will
not
make
an
attack
on
me
yourselves.
\VS{13}And
they
said,
No;
we
will
take
you
and
give
you
up
into
their
hands,
but
truly
we
will
not
put
you
to
death.
So knotting
two
new
cords round
him
they
took
him
up
from
the
rock.
\VS{14}And
when
he
came
to
Lehi,
the
Philistines
came
out, meeting
him
with
loud cries;
then
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came rushing
on
him,
and
the
cords
on
his
arms
became
like grass
which
has
been
burned
with
fire,
and
the bands
came falling
off
his
hands.
\VS{15}And
taking up
the mouth-bone
of
an ass newly dead, which
he saw
by chance
on
the earth,
he
put
to death
a
thousand
men
with
it.
\VS{16}And
Samson
said,
With
a red ass's mouth-bone
I
have
made
them red
with blood,
with
a red ass's mouth-bone
I
have
sent destruction
on
a
thousand
men.
\VS{17}And
having
said
these words,
he
let
the mouth-bone
go
out
of
his
hand;
so
that
place
was
named Ramath-lehi.
\VS{18}After
this,
he
was
in
great need
of
water,
and
crying
out
to
the
Lord,
he
said,
You
have
given
this
great
salvation
by
the
hand
of
your
servant,
and
now need
of
water
will
be
my
death;
and
I
will
be
given
into
the
hands
of
this people
who
are without circumcision.
\VS{19}Then
God
made
a crack
in
the
hollow rock
in
Lehi
and
water
came
out
of
it;
and
after
drinking,
his
spirit
came
back
to
him
and
he
was strong
again;
so
that
place
was
named
En-hakkore;
it
is
in
Lehi
to
this
day.
\VS{20}And
he
was
judge
of
Israel
in
the
days
of
the
Philistines
for
twenty
years.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Samson
went
to
Gaza,
and
there
he
saw
a loose
woman
and
went
in
to
her.
\VS{2}And
it
was
said
to
the
Gazites,
Samson
is
here.
So
they
went
round, watching
for
him
all
day
at
the doorway
of
the
town,
but
at
night
they kept quiet,
saying,
When
daylight
comes
we
will
put
him
to death.
\VS{3}And
Samson
was
there
till
the
middle
of
the
night;
then
he
got
up,
and
took
a grip
on
the
doors
of
the
town, pulling
them
up,
together
with
their
two
supports
and
their locks,
and
put
them
on
his
back
and
took
them
up
to
the
top
of
the
hill
in
front
of
Hebron.
\VS{4}Now
after
this,
he
was
in
love
with
a
woman
in
the
valley
of Sorek,
named
Delilah.
\VS{5}And
the chiefs
of
the
Philistines
came
up
to
her,
and
said
to
her,
Make use
of
your
power
over
him
and
see
what
is
the secret
of
his
great
strength,
and
how
we
may
get
the better
of
him,
and
put bands
on
him,
so
that
we
may
make
him feeble;
and
every
one
of
us
will
give
you eleven
hundred
shekels
of
silver.
\VS{6}So
Delilah
said
to
Samson,
Make clear
to
me
now
what
is
the secret
of
your
great
strength,
and
how
you
may
be
put
in bands
and
made feeble.
\VS{7}And
Samson
said
to
her,
If
seven new bow-cords
which
have
never
been
made
dry
are knotted round
me,
I
will
become feeble
and
will
be
like
any
other
man.
\VS{8}So
the chiefs
of
the
Philistines gave her
seven new bow-cords
which
had
never
been
made
dry,
and
she
had
them
tightly knotted round
him.
\VS{9}Now
she
had
men waiting secretly
in
the
inner
room;
and
she
said
to
him,
The
Philistines
are
on
you,
Samson.
And
the
cords
were
broken
by
him
as
a twist
of
thread
is
broken
when touched
by
a
flame.
So
the secret
of
his
strength
did
not come
to light.
\VS{10}Then
Delilah
said
to
Samson,
See,
you
have
been making sport
of
me
with
false words;
now,
say truly
how
may
you
be
put
in bands?
\VS{11}And
he
said
to
her,
If
they
only
put round
me
new thick
cords
which
have
never
been
used,
then
I
will
become feeble
and
will
be
like
any
other
man.
\VS{12}So
Delilah
took
new thick
cords, knotting
them
tightly round
him,
and
said
to
him,
The
Philistines
are
on
you,
Samson.
And
men
were waiting secretly
in
the
inner
room.
And
the
cords
were
broken
off
his
arms
like threads.
\VS{13}Then
Delilah
said
to
Samson,
Up
to
now
you
have
made sport
of
me
with
false words;
now
say
truly,
how may
you be
put
in
bands?
And
he
said
to
her,
If
you
get
the
seven twists
of
my
hair
worked
into
the cloth
you
are making
and fixed
with
the pin,
I
will become feeble
and
will be
like any
other
man.
\VS{14}So
while
he
was sleeping she got
the seven twists
of
his hair worked
into
her cloth
and fixed
with
the
pin,
and
said
to
him,
The
Philistines
are
on
you,
Samson.
Then awaking
from
his
sleep,
he got
up quickly, pulling
up cloth
and machine
together.
\VS{15}And
she
said
to
him,
Why
do
you
say
you
are
my
lover
when
your
heart
is
not mine?
Three
times
you
have
made sport
of
me,
and
have
not
made clear
to
me
the secret
of
your
great
strength.
\VS{16}So
day
after
day
she
gave
him
no peace,
for ever questioning
him till
his
soul
was troubled
to
death.
\VS{17}And opening
all
his
heart
to
her,
he
said
to
her,
My
head
has
never
been touched
by
a blade,
for
I
have
been separate
to
God
from
the day
of
my
birth:
if
my
hair
is
cut
off,
then
my
strength
will
go
from
me
and
I
will
become feeble,
and
will
be
like
any
other
man.
\VS{18}And
when
Delilah
saw
that
he
had
let
her
see
into
his
heart,
she
sent
word
to
the chiefs
of
the
Philistines
saying,
Come
up
this
time,
for
he
has
let
out
all
his
heart
to
me.
Then
the chiefs
of
the
Philistines
came
to
her,
with
the
money
in
their
hands.
\VS{19}And
she
made
him
go
to
sleep
on
her
knees;
and
she sent
for
a
man
and
had
his
seven twists
of
hair
cut
off;
and
while
it
was being done
he became feeble
and
his
strength
went
from
him.
\VS{20}Then
she
said,
The
Philistines
are
on
you,
Samson.
And awaking
from
his
sleep,
he
said,
I
will
go
out
as
at
other
times, shaking
myself
free.
But
he
was
not conscious
that
the
Lord
had
gone
from
him.
\VS{21}So
the
Philistines
took
him
and
put
out
his
eyes;
then
they
took
him
down
to
Gaza,
and, chaining
him
with bands
of
brass,
put
him
to work crushing grain
in
the prison-house.
\VS{22}But
the growth
of
his
hair
was starting
again after
it
had
been
cut
off.
\VS{23}And
the chiefs
of
the
Philistines
came
together
to
make
a
great
offering
to
Dagon
their
god,
and
to
be glad;
for
they
said,
Our
god
has
given
into
our
hands
Samson
our hater.
\VS{24}And
when
the
people
saw
him,
they
gave
praise
to
their
god;
for
they
said,
Our
god
has
given
into
our
hands
the
one
who
was fighting
against
us,
who
made
our
country waste,
and
who
put
great numbers
of
us
to death.
\VS{25}Now
when
their
hearts
were full
of joy,
they
said, Send
for
Samson
to
make
sport
for
us.
And
they
sent
for
Samson
out
of
the prison-house,
and
he
made
sport
before
them;
and
they put
him
between
the
pillars.
\VS{26}And
Samson
said
to
the
boy
who
took
him
by
the
hand, Let
me
put
my
hand
on
the
pillars supporting
the
house,
so
that
I
may
put
my
back
against
them.
\VS{27}Now
the
house
was
full
of
men
and
women;
and
all
the
lords
of
the
Philistines
were
there;
and
about
three
thousand
men
and
women
were
on
the
roof,
looking
on
while
Samson
made
sport.
\VS{28}And
Samson,
crying
out
to
the
Lord,
said,
O
Lord
God,
do
have
me
now
in
mind,
and
do
make
me
strong
only
this
once,
O
God,
so
that
I
may
take
one last payment
from
the
Philistines
for
my
two
eyes.
\VS{29}Then
Samson
put
his arms round
the
two
middle
pillars supporting
the
house, putting
his weight
on
them,
on
one
with
his
right
hand
and
on
the
other
with
his
left.
\VS{30}And
Samson
said,
Let
death
overtake
me
with
the
Philistines.
And
he
put
out
all
his
strength,
and
the
house
came
down
on
the chiefs
and
on
all
the
people
who
were
in
it.
So
the
dead
whom
he
sent
to destruction
by
his
death
were
more
than
all
those
on
whom
he
had
sent destruction
in
his
life.
\VS{31}Then
his
brothers
and
his father's
people
came
down
and
took
him
up
and
put
his body
to rest
in
the
earth
between
Zorah
and
Eshtaol
in
the resting-place
of
Manoah
his
father.
And
he
had
been
judge
of
Israel
for
twenty
years.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
there
was
a
man
of
the hill-country
of
Ephraim
named
Micah.
\VS{2}And
he
said
to
his
mother,
The eleven
hundred
shekels
of
silver
which
were
taken
from
you,
about
which
you
took
an
oath
and
said
in
my
hearing,
I
have given
this
silver
to
the
Lord
from
my hand
for
myself,
to
make
a pictured image
and
a metal image:
see,
I
have
the
silver,
for
I
took
it:
so
now
I
will
give
it
back
to
you.
And
his
mother
said,
May
the
blessing
of
the
Lord
be
on
my
son.
\VS{3}And
he
gave
back
the eleven
hundred
shekels
of
silver
to
his
mother,
and
his
mother
said,
I
have
made
the
silver
holy
to
the
Lord
from
me
for
my
son,
to
make
a pictured
image
and
a
metal
image.
\VS{4}So
he
gave
the
silver
back
to
his
mother.
Then
his
mother
took
two
hundred
shekels
of
silver
and
gave
them
to
a metal-worker
who
made
a pictured
image
and
a
metal
image
from
them:
and
it
was
in
the
house
of
Micah.
\VS{5}And
the
man
Micah
had
a
house
of
gods;
and
he
made
an
ephod
and
family
gods
and
put
one
of
his
sons
in
the position
of
priest.
\VS{6}In
those
days
there
was
no
king
in
Israel:
every
man
did
as
seemed
right
to
him.
\VS{7}Now
there
was
a
young
man
living
in Beth-lehem-judah,
of
the
family
of
Judah
and
a
Levite,
who
was
not
a townsman
of
the
place.
\VS{8}And
he
went
away
from
the
town
of Beth-lehem-judah,
looking
for
somewhere
to
make
his living-place;
and
on
his
journey
he
came
to
the hill-country
of
Ephraim,
to
the
house
of
Micah.
\VS{9}And
Micah
said
to
him,
Where
do
you
come
from?
And
he
said
to
him,
I
am
a
Levite
from Beth-lehem-judah,
and
I
am
looking
for
a living-place.
\VS{10}Then
Micah
said
to
him,
Make
your living-place
with
me,
and
be
a
father
and
a
priest
to
me,
and
I
will
give
you
ten
shekels
of
silver
a
year
and
your
clothing
and food.
\VS{11}And
the
Levite said
he
would make
his living-place
with
the
man,
and
he
became
to
him
as
one
of
his
sons.
\VS{12}And
Micah
gave
the position
to
the
Levite,
and
the
young
man
became
his
priest,
and
was
in
the
house
of
Micah.
\VS{13}Then
Micah
said,
Now
I
am
certain
that
the
Lord
will
do
me
good,
seeing
that
the
Levite
has
become
my
priest.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
those
days
there
was
no
king
in
Israel,
and
in
those
days
the
Danites
were
looking
for
a
heritage
for
themselves,
to
be
their living-place;
for
up
to
that
time
no distribution
of
land
had
been
made
to
them
among
the
tribes
of
Israel.
\VS{2}So
the
children
of
Dan
sent
five
men
from
among
their
number,
strong
men,
from
Zorah
and
from
Eshtaol,
to
take
a look
at
the
land
and
make
a
search
through
it;
and
they
said
to
them,
Go
and
make
a
search
through
the
land;
and
they
came
to
the hill-country
of
Ephraim,
to
the
house
of
Micah,
where
they made
a stop
for
the night.
\VS{3}When
they
were
near
the
house
of
Micah, hearing
a
voice
which
was
not strange
to
them,
that
of
the
young
Levite,
they
went
out
of
their road
to
his
place,
and
said
to
him,
How
did
you
come
here?
and
what
are
you
doing
in
this
place?
and
why
are
you
here?
\VS{4}And
he
said
to
them,
This
is
what
Micah
did
for
me,
and
he
gave
me payment
and
I
became
his
priest.
\VS{5}Then
they
said,
Do
get
directions
from
God
for
us,
to
see
if
the
journey
on
which
we
are
going
will
have
a good outcome.
\VS{6}And
the
priest
said
to
them, Go
in
peace:
your
way
is guided
by
the
Lord.
\VS{7}Then
the
five
men
went
on
their
way
and
came
to Laish
and
saw
the
people
who
were
there,
living
without
thought
of danger,
like
the Zidonians,
quiet
and safe;
for
they
had
everything
on
earth
for
their needs,
and
they
were
far
from
the Zidonians
and
had
no
business
with Aram.
\VS{8}So
they
came
back
to
their
brothers
in
Zorah
and
Eshtaol,
and
their
brothers
said
to
them,
What
news
have
you?
\VS{9}And
they
said,
Up!
and
let
us
go
against Laish;
for
we
have
seen
the
land,
and
it
is
very
good:
why
are
you
doing
nothing?
Do
not
be slow
to
go
in
and
take
the
land
for
your heritage.
\VS{10}When
you
come
there
you
will
come
to
a
people living
without
thought
of danger;
and
the
land
is
wide,
and
God
has
given
it
into
your
hands:
a
place
where
there
is
everything
on
earth
for man's
needs.
\VS{11}So
six
hundred
men
of
the
Danites
from
Zorah
and
Eshtaol
went
out
armed
with
instruments
of
war.
\VS{12}And
they
went
up
and
put
up
their tents
in
Kiriath-jearim
in
Judah:
so
that
place
is
named
Mahaneh-dan
to
this
day.
It
is
to
the
west
of
Kiriath-jearim.
\VS{13}From
there
they
went
on
to
the hill-country
of
Ephraim
and
came
to
the
house
of
Micah.
\VS{14}Then
the
five
men
who
had
gone
to
make
a search
through
the
country
of Laish,
said
to
their
brothers,
Have
you
knowledge
that
in
these
houses
there
is
an
ephod
and
family
gods
and
a pictured
image
and
a
metal
image?
So
now
you
see
what
to
do.
\VS{15}And
turning
from
their road
they
came
to
the
house
of
the
young
Levite,
the
house
of
Micah,
and
said
to
him,
Is
it
well
with
you?
\VS{16}And
the
six
hundred
armed
men
of
the
Danites took
their places
by
the
doorway.
\VS{17}Then
the
five
men
who
had
gone
to
make
a search
through
the
land,
went
in
and
took
the pictured image
and
the
ephod
and
the family
gods
and
the
metal image;
and
the
priest
was
by
the
doorway
with
the
six
hundred
armed
men.
\VS{18}And
when
they
went
into Micah's
house
and
took
out
the pictured
image
and
the
ephod
and
the
family gods
and
the
metal
image,
the
priest
said
to
them,
What
are
you
doing?
\VS{19}And
they
said
to
him,
Be quiet;
say nothing,
and
come
with
us
and
be
our
father
and
priest;
is
it
better
for
you
to
be
priest
to
one man's
house
or
to
be
priest
to
a
tribe
and
a
family
in
Israel?
\VS{20}Then
the priest's
heart
was
glad,
and
he
took
the
ephod
and
the family gods
and
the pictured
image
and
went
with
the
people.
\VS{21}So
they
went
on
their
way
again,
putting
the
little
ones
and
the oxen
and
the goods
in
front
of
them.
\VS{22}When
they
had
gone
some way
from
the
house
of
Micah,
the
men
from
the
houses
near Micah's
house
came
together
and
overtook
the
children
of
Dan,
\VS{23}Crying
out
to
them.
And
the
Danites,
turning
round,
said
to
Micah,
What
is
your trouble,
that
you
have
taken
up arms?
\VS{24}And
he
said,
You
have
taken
my
gods
which
I
made,
and
my
priest,
and
have gone
away;
what
is
there
for
me
now?
Why
then
do
you
say
to
me,
What
is
your
trouble?
\VS{25}And
the
children
of
Dan
said
to
him,
Say
no
more,
or
men
of
bitter
spirit
may
make
an
attack
on
you, causing loss
of
your
life
and
the
lives
of
your
people.
\VS{26}Then
the
children
of
Dan
went
on
their
way;
and
when
Micah
saw
that
they
were
stronger
than
he,
he
went
back
to
his
house.
\VS{27}And
they
took
that
which
Micah
had
made,
and
his
priest,
and
came
to Laish,
to
a
people living
quietly
and without thought
of danger,
and
they
put
them
to
the
sword without mercy,
burning
down
their
town.
\VS{28}And
they
had
no saviour,
because
it
was
far
from Zidon,
and
they
had
no
business
with Aram;
and
it
was
in
the
valley
which
is
the
property
of
Beth-rehob.
And
building
up
the
town again
they
took
it
for
their living-place.
\VS{29}And
they
gave
the
town
the
name
of
Dan,
after
Dan
their
father,
who
was
the son
of
Israel: though
the
town
had
been
named Laish
at
first.
\VS{30}(And
the
children
of
Dan put
up
the pictured
image
for themselves;
and
Jonathan,
the
son
of
Gershom,
the
son
of Moses,
and
his
sons
were
priests
for
the
tribe
of
the
Danites
till
the
day
when
the ark
was
taken prisoner.)
\VS{31}And
they
put
up
for
themselves
the
image
which
Micah
had
made,
and
it
was
there
all
the
time
that
the
house
of
God
was
in
Shiloh.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
those
days,
when
there
was
no
king
in
Israel,
a
certain
Levite
was
living
in
the inmost
parts
of
the hill-country
of
Ephraim,
and
he
got
for
himself
a servant-wife
from Beth-lehem-judah.
\VS{2}And
his servant-wife
was angry
with
him,
and
went away
from
him
to
her father's
house
at Beth-lehem-judah,
and
was
there
for
four
months.
\VS{3}Then
her
husband
got
up
and
went
after
her,
with
the
purpose
of
talking
kindly
to
her,
and
taking
her
back
with
him;
he
had
with
him
his
young
man
and
two asses:
and
she
took
him
into
her father's
house,
and
her
father,
when
he
saw
him,
came
forward
to
him
with
joy.
\VS{4}And
his
father-in-law,
the girl's
father,
kept
him
there
for
three
days;
and
they
had
food
and
drink
and
took
their rest
there.
\VS{5}Now
on
the
fourth
day
they
got
up
early
in
the
morning
and
he
made ready
to
go
away;
but
the girl's
father
said
to
his
son-in-law,
Take
a little
food
to keep
up
your strength,
and
then
go
on
your way.
\VS{6}So seating themselves
they
had
food
and
drink,
the
two
of
them
together;
and
the girl's
father
said
to
the
man,
If
it
is
your pleasure,
take
your rest here tonight,
and
let
your
heart
be
glad.
\VS{7}And
the
man
got
up
to
go
away,
but
his
father-in-law
would not let
him
go,
so
he
took
his rest
there
again
for
the night.
\VS{8}Then
early
on
the
morning
of
the
fifth
day
he
got
up
to
go
away;
but
the girl's
father
said, Keep
up
your strength;
so
the
two
of
them
had
a meal,
and
the man
and
his
woman
and
his servant
did
not
go
till
after
the middle
of
the
day.
\VS{9}And
when
they
got
up
to
go
away,
his
father-in-law,
the girl's
father,
said
to
him,
Now
evening
is
coming
on,
so
do
not
go tonight;
see,
the
day
is
almost
gone;
take
your rest
here
and
let
your
heart
be
glad,
and
tomorrow
early,
go
on
your
way
back
to
your house.
\VS{10}But
the
man
would
not
be kept
there
that night,
and
he
got
up
and
went
away
and
came
opposite
to
Jebus (which
is
Jerusalem);
and
he
had
with
him
the
two asses, ready
for travelling,
and
his woman.
\VS{11}When
they got
near
Jebus
the
day
was
far
gone;
and
the
servant
said
to
his
master,
Now
let
us
go
from
our road
into
this
town
of
the
Jebusites
and
take
our night's rest
there.
\VS{12}But
his
master
said
to
him,
We
will
not
go
out
of
our
way
into
a strange
town,
whose
people
are
not
of
the
children
of
Israel;
but
we
will
go
on
to
Gibeah.
\VS{13}And
he
said
to
his
servant,
Come, let
us
go
on
to
one
of these
places, stopping
for
the night
in
Gibeah
or
Ramah.
\VS{14}So
they
went
on
their way;
and
the
sun
went down
when
they
were
near
Gibeah
in
the land
of
Benjamin.
\VS{15}And
they
went
off
the road
there
with
the purpose
of
stopping
for
the night
in
Gibeah:
and
he
went
in, seating
himself
in
the
street
of
the
town,
for
no
one
took
them
into
his
house
for
the night.
\VS{16}Now
when
it
was
evening
they
saw
an
old
man
coming
back
from
his
work
in
the
fields;
he
was
from
the hill-country
of
Ephraim
and
was
living
in
Gibeah:
but
the
men
of
the
place
were
Benjamites.
\VS{17}And
when
he
saw
the traveller
in
the
street
of
the
town,
the
old
man
said,
Where
are
you
going?
and
where
do
you
come
from?
\VS{18}And
he
said
to
him,
We
are
on
our
way
from Beth-lehem-judah
to
the inmost
parts
of
the hill-country
of
Ephraim:
I
came
from
there
and
went
to Beth-lehem-judah:
now
I
am
on
my
way
back
to
my
house,
but
no
man
will
take
me
into
his
house.
\VS{19}But
we
have dry grass
and
food
for
our asses,
as
well
as
bread
and
wine
for
me,
and
for
the woman,
and
for
the
young
man
with us:
we
have
no
need
of
anything.
\VS{20}And
the
old
man
said,
Peace
be
with
you;
let
all
your
needs
be
my
care;
only
do
not take
your rest
in
the
street.
\VS{21}So
he
took
them
into
his
house
and
gave
the asses
food;
and
after
washing
their
feet
they
took
food
and
drink.
\VS{22}While
they
were
taking
their pleasure
at
the meal,
the
good-for-nothing
men
of
the
town
came
round
the
house, giving blows
on
the
door;
and
they
said
to
the
old
man,
the
master
of
the
house,
Send
out
that
man
who
came
to
your
house,
so
that
we
may
take
our pleasure
with
him.
\VS{23}So
the
man,
the
master
of
the
house,
went
out
to
them,
and
said,
No,
my
brothers,
do
not
this
evil
thing;
this
man
has
come
into
my
house,
and
you
are
not
to
do
him
this
wrong.
\VS{24}See,
here
is
my
daughter,
a
virgin,
and
his servant-wife:
I
will
send
them
out
for
you
to
take
them
and
do
with
them
whatever
you
will.
But
do
no
such
thing
of shame
to
this
man.
\VS{25}But
the
men
would
not
give ear
to
him:
so
the
man
took
his woman
and
sent
her
out
to
them;
and
they
took
her
by force,
using
her
for
their pleasure
all
night
till
the
morning;
and
when
dawn
came
they
let
her
go.
\VS{26}Then
at
the
dawn
of
day
the
woman
came,
and,
falling
down
at
the
door
of
the man's
house
where
her
master
was,
was stretched
there
till
it
was
light.
\VS{27}In
the
morning
her
master
got
up,
and
opening
the
door
of
the
house
went
out
to
go
on
his
way;
and
he
saw
his servant-wife stretched
on
the earth
at
the
door
of
the
house
with
her
hands
on
the step.
\VS{28}And
he
said
to
her,
Get
up
and let
us
be going;
but
there
was
no
answer;
so
he
took
her
up
and
put
her
on
the ass,
and
went
on
his
way
and
came
to
his house.
\VS{29}And
when
he
had
come
to
his
house,
he
got
his
knife,
and
took
the
woman, cutting
her
up
bone
by
bone
into
twelve
parts,
which
he
sent
through
all
Israel.
\VS{30}And
he
gave
orders
to
the
men whom
he
sent,
saying,
This
is
what
you
are
to
say
to
all
the
men
of
Israel,
Has
ever
an
act
like
this
been
done
from
the
day
when
the
children
of
Israel
came
out
of
Egypt
to
this
day?
Give
thought
to
it, turning
it
over
in
your minds,
and
give
your opinion
of
it.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
all
the
children
of
Israel
took
up arms,
and
the
people
came
together
like
one
man,
from
Dan
to Beer-sheba,
and
the
land
of
Gilead,
before
the
Lord
at
Mizpah.
\VS{2}And
the
chiefs
of
the
people,
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
took
their
places
in
the meeting
of
the
people
of
God,
four
hundred
thousand
footmen armed
with
swords.
\VS{3}(Now
the
children
of
Benjamin
had
word
that
the
children
of
Israel
had
gone
up
to
Mizpah.)
And
the
children
of
Israel
said,
Make clear
how
this
evil
thing
took
place.
\VS{4}Then
the
Levite,
the
husband
of
the dead
woman,
said
in
answer,
I
came
to
Gibeah
in
the land
of
Benjamin,
I
and
my servant-wife,
for
the purpose
of stopping
there
for
the night.
\VS{5}And
the townsmen
of
Gibeah came
together
against
me, going
round
the
house
on
all sides
by
night;
it
was
their purpose
to
put
me
to
death,
and
my servant-wife
was violently used
by
them
and
is
dead.
\VS{6}So
I
took
her, cutting
her into parts which
I
sent
through
all
the
country
of
the
heritage
of
Israel:
for
they
have
done
an
act
of shame
in
Israel.
\VS{7}Here
you
all
are,
you
children
of
Israel;
give
now
your suggestions
about
what
is
to
be
done.
\VS{8}Then
all
the
people
got
up
as
one
man
and
said,
Not
one
of
us
will
go
to
his
tent
or
go
back
to
his
house:
\VS{9}But
this
is
what
we
will
do
to
Gibeah:
we
will go
up
against
it
by
the decision
of
the Lord;
\VS{10}And
we
will
take
ten
men
out
of
every
hundred,
through
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
a
hundred
out
of
every
thousand,
a
thousand
out
of
every
ten
thousand,
to
get
food
for
the
people,
so
that
they
may
give
to Gibeah
of
Benjamin
the right punishment
for
the
act
of shame
they
have
done
in
Israel.
\VS{11}So
all
the
men
of
Israel
were banded
together
against
the
town,
united
like
one
man.
\VS{12}And
the
tribes
of
Israel
sent
men
through
all
the
tribe
of
Benjamin
saying,
What
is
this
evil
which
has
been
done
among
you?
\VS{13}Now
give
up
those
good-for-nothing
persons
in
Gibeah
so
that
we
may
put
them
to
death, clearing
away
the
evil
from
Israel.
But
the
children
of
Benjamin
would
not
give ear
to
the
voice
of
their
brothers,
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{14}And
the
children
of
Benjamin
came
together
from
all
their
towns
to
Gibeah,
to
go
to
war
with
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{15}And
the
children
of
Benjamin
who
came
that
day
from
the
towns
were
twenty-six
thousand
men armed
with
swords,
in addition
to
the
people
of
Gibeah, numbering
seven
hundred
of
the best fighting-men,
\VS{16}Who
were
left-handed,
able
to send
a
stone
at
a
hair
without error.
\VS{17}And
the
men
of
Israel,
other
than
Benjamin,
were
four
hundred
thousand
in
number,
all
armed
with
swords;
they
were
all
men
of
war.
\VS{18}And
they
got
up
and
went
up
to Beth-el
to
get directions
from
God,
and
the
children
of
Israel
said,
Who
is
to
be
the
first
to
go
up
to
the
fight
against
the
children
of
Benjamin?
And
the
Lord
said,
Judah
is
to
go
up
first.
\VS{19}So
the
children
of
Israel
got
up
in
the
morning
and put
themselves
in position
against
Gibeah.
\VS{20}And
the
men
of
Israel
went
out
to
war
against
Benjamin (and
the
men
of
Israel
put
their
forces
in fighting order
against
them
at
Gibeah).
\VS{21}Then
the
children
of
Benjamin
came
out
from
Gibeah, cutting down
twenty-two
thousand
of
the
Israelites
that
day.
\VS{22}But
the
people,
the
men
of
Israel, taking heart
again,
put
their
forces
in order
and
took
up
the same
position
as
on
the
first
day.
\VS{23}Now
the
children
of
Israel
went
up,
weeping
before
the
Lord
till
evening, requesting
the
Lord
and
saying,
Am
I
to
go
forward
again
to
the
fight
against
the
children
of
Benjamin
my
brother?
And
the
Lord
said,
Go
up
against
him.
\VS{24}So
the
children
of
Israel
went
forward
against
the
children
of
Benjamin
the
second
day.
\VS{25}And
the
second
day
Benjamin
went
out
against
them
from
Gibeah, cutting
down
eighteen
thousand
men
of
the
children
of
Israel,
all
swordsmen.
\VS{26}Then
all
the
children
of
Israel,
and
all
the
people,
went
up
to Beth-el,
weeping
and
waiting
there
before
the
Lord,
going without food
all
day
till
evening,
and
offering burned
offerings
and peace-offerings
before
the
Lord.
\VS{27}And
the
children
of
Israel made
request
to
the
Lord, (for
the
ark
of
the
agreement
of
the
Lord
was
there
in
those
days,
\VS{28}And
Phinehas,
the
son
of
Eleazar,
the
son
of
Aaron,
was
in
his
place
before
it,)
and
said,
Am
I
still
to
go
on
with
the
fight
against
the
children
of
Benjamin
my
brother,
or
am
I
to
give
it
up?
And
the
Lord
said,
Go
on;
for
tomorrow
I
will
give
him
into
your
hands.
\VS{29}So
Israel
put
men secretly
all
round
Gibeah
to
make
a surprise attack
on
it.
\VS{30}And
the
children
of
Israel
went
up
against
the
children
of
Benjamin
on
the
third
day,
and
put themselves
in fighting order
against
Gibeah
as
before.
\VS{31}And
the
children
of
Benjamin
went
out
against
the
people, moving
away
from
the
town;
and
as
before,
at
their
first
attack,
they
put
to death
about
thirty
men
of
Israel
on
the
highways,
of
which
one
goes
up
to Beth-el
and
the
other
to
Gibeah,
and
in
the open
country.
\VS{32}And
the
children
of
Benjamin
said,
They
are giving
way
before
us
as
at
first.
But
the
children
of
Israel
said, Let
us go
in
flight
and get
them
away
from
the
town,
into
the
highways.
\VS{33}So
all
the
men
of
Israel
got
up
and put themselves
in fighting order
at
Baal-tamar:
and
those
who
had
been waiting secretly
to
make
a surprise
attack
came rushing
out
of
their
place
on
the west
of Geba.
\VS{34}And
they
came
in
front
of
Gibeah,
ten
thousand
of
the best
men
in
all
Israel,
and
the fighting
became
more violent;
but
the children
of Benjamin
were
not conscious
that
evil
was
coming
on
them.
\VS{35}Then
the
Lord sent sudden fear
on
Benjamin
before
Israel;
and
that
day
the
children
of
Israel put
to death
twenty-five
thousand,
one
hundred
men
of
Benjamin,
all
of
them
swordsmen.
\VS{36}So
the
children
of
Benjamin
saw
that
they
were overcome:
and
the
men
of
Israel
had
given way
before
Benjamin,
putting
their faith
in
the watchers
who
were
to
make
the surprise attack
on
Gibeah.
\VS{37}And
the watchers, rushing
on
Gibeah
and overrunning
it,
put
all
the
town
to
the
sword without mercy.
\VS{38}Now
the
sign
fixed
between
the
men
of
Israel
and
those making
the surprise
attack
was
that
when
they
made
a pillar
of
smoke
go
up
from
the
town,
\VS{39}The
men
of
Israel
were
to
make
a
turn
about
in
the
fight.
And
Benjamin
had overcome
and put
to death
about
thirty
of
the
men
of
Israel,
and
were
saying,
Certainly
they
are falling
back
before
us
as
in
the
first
fight.
\VS{40}Then
the sign
went
up
out
of
the
town
in
the
pillar
of
smoke,
and
the Benjamites,
turning
back,
saw
all
the
town
going
up
in
smoke
to
heaven.
\VS{41}And
the
men
of
Israel
had made
a
turn
about,
and
the
men
of
Benjamin
were overcome
with fear,
for
they
saw
that
evil
had overtaken
them.
\VS{42}So
turning
their backs
on
the
men
of
Israel,
they
went
in
the
direction
of
the
waste
land;
but
the
fight
overtook
them;
and
those
who
came
out
of
the
town
were heading
them
off
and putting
them
to
the sword.
\VS{43}And crushing
Benjamin
down,
they
went
after
them, driving
them
from Nohah
as
far
as
the
east
side
of
Gibeah.
\VS{44}Eighteen
thousand
men
of
Benjamin
came
to
their death,
all
strong
men
of war.
\VS{45}And
turning,
they
went
in
flight
to
the
rock
of
Rimmon
in
the waste land:
and
on
the
highways
five
thousand
of
them
were cut
off
by
the
men
of Israel,
who, pushing
on hard
after
them
to Geba,
put
to death
two
thousand
more.
\VS{46}So
twenty-five
thousand
of
the
swordsmen
of
Benjamin
came
to
their end
that
day,
all
strong
men
of
war.
\VS{47}But
six
hundred
men,
turning
back,
went
in
flight
to
the
rock
of
Rimmon
in
the waste land,
and
were
living
on
the
rock
of
Rimmon
for
four
months.
\VS{48}And
the
men
of
Israel,
turning
again
against
the
children
of
Benjamin,
put
to
the
sword without mercy
all
the
towns
and
the
cattle
and
everything
there
was,
burning
every
town
which
came
into
their hands.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
the
men
of
Israel
had
taken
an
oath
in
Mizpah,
saying,
Not
one
of
us
will
give
his
daughter
as
a
wife
to
Benjamin.
\VS{2}And
the
people
came
to Beth-el,
waiting
there
till
evening
before
God,
and
gave themselves
up
to bitter
weeping.
\VS{3}And
they
said,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
why
has
this
fate
come
on
Israel,
that
today
one
tribe
has
been cut off
from
Israel?
\VS{4}Then
on
the
day
after,
the
people
got
up
early
and
made
an
altar
there,
offering burned
offerings
and peace-offerings.
\VS{5}And
the
children
of
Israel
said,
Who
is
there
among
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
who
did
not
come
up
to
the
Lord
at
the meeting
of
all
Israel?
For
they
had
taken
a
great
oath
that
whoever
did
not
come
up
to
Mizpah
to
the
Lord
was
to
be
put
to
death.
\VS{6}And
the
children
of
Israel
were
moved
with
pity
for
Benjamin
their
brother,
saying,
Today
one
tribe
has been
cut
off
from
Israel.
\VS{7}What
are
we
to
do about
wives
for those
who
are still living?
For
we
have
taken
an
oath
by
the
Lord
that
we
will
not
give
them
our
daughters
for
wives.
\VS{8}And
they
said,
Which
one
of
the
tribes
of
Israel
did
not
come
up
to
Mizpah
to
the
Lord?
And
it
was seen
that
no
one
had
come
from Jabesh-gilead
to
the meeting.
\VS{9}For
when
the
people
were
numbered,
not
one
man
of
the
people
of Jabesh-gilead
was
present.
\VS{10}So
they (the meeting)
sent
twelve
thousand
of
the best fighting-men,
and
gave
them
orders,
saying,
Go
and
put
the
people
of Jabesh-gilead
to
the
sword without mercy,
with
their
women
and
their
little
ones.
\VS{11}And
this
is
what
you
are
to
do:
every
male,
and
every
woman
who
has
had sex
relations
with
a
man,
you
are
to put
to
the curse,
but
you
are
to
keep safe
the virgins.
And
they
did
so.
\VS{12}Now
there
were
among
the
people
of Jabesh-gilead
four
hundred
young
virgins
who
had
never
had sex
relations
with
a
man;
these
they
took
to
their tents
in
Shiloh
in
the
land
of
Canaan.
\VS{13}And
all
the meeting
sent
to
the
men
of
Benjamin
who
were
in
the
rock
of
Rimmon, offering
them
peace.
\VS{14}Then
Benjamin
came
back;
and
they
gave
them
the
women
whom
they
had
kept
from death
among
the
women
of Jabesh-gilead:
but
still
there
were
not
enough
for
them.
\VS{15}And
the
people
were
moved
with
pity
for
Benjamin,
because
the
Lord
had let
his wrath loose
on
the
tribes
of
Israel.
\VS{16}Then
the
responsible
men
of
the meeting
said,
What
are
we
to
do about
wives
for
the
rest
of
them,
seeing
that
the
women
of
Benjamin
are dead?
\VS{17}And
they
said, How
is
the rest
of
Benjamin
to
be given offspring
so
that
one
tribe
of
Israel
may
not
be put
out
of existence,
\VS{18}Seeing
that
we
may
not
give
them
our
daughters
as
wives?
For
the
children
of
Israel
had
taken
an
oath,
saying,
Cursed
is
he
who
gives
a
wife
to
Benjamin.
\VS{19}And
they
said,
See,
every
year
there
is
a
feast
of
the
Lord
in
Shiloh,
which
is
to
the
north
of Beth-el,
on
the
east
side
of
the
highway
which
goes
up
from Beth-el
to
Shechem,
and
on
the
south
of
Lebonah.
\VS{20}And
they
said
to
the
men
of
Benjamin, Go into
the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,
\VS{21}And watching;
and
if
the
daughters
of
Shiloh
come
out
to
take
part
in
the
dances,
then
come
from
the vine-gardens
and
take
a
wife
for
every
one
of
you
from
among
the
daughters
of
Shiloh,
and
go
back
to
the
land
of
Benjamin.
\VS{22}And
when
their
fathers
or
their
brothers
come
and
make trouble,
you
are
to
say
to
them,
Give
them
to
us
as
an
act
of grace;
for
we
did
not
take
them
as
wives
for ourselves
in
war;
and
if
you
yourselves
had
given
them
to
us
you
would
have
been responsible
for
the broken oath.
\VS{23}So
the
men
of
Benjamin
did
this,
and got
wives
for
themselves
for
every
one
of
their
number, taking
them
away
by
force
from
the dance;
then
they
went
back
to
their
heritage,
building
up
their
towns
and
living
in
them.
\VS{24}Then
the
children
of
Israel
went
away
from
there,
every
man
to
his
tribe
and
his
family,
every
man
went
back
to
his
heritage.
\VS{25}In
those
days
there
was
no
king
in
Israel:
every
man
did
what
seemed
right
to
him.
\par }