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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
the
death
of Josue
the
children
of
Israel consulted
the
Lord,
saying:
Who
shall
go
up
before
us
against
the Chanaanite,
and
shall
be
the leader
of
the war?
\VS{2}And
the
Lord
said: Juda
shall
go
up:
behold
I
have
delivered
the
land
into
his
hands.
\VS{3}And Juda
said
to
Simeon
his
brother:
Come
up
with
me
into
my
lot,
and
fight
against
the Chanaanite,
that
I
also
may
go
along
with thee
into thy
lot.
And
Simeon
went
with
him.
\VS{4}And Juda
went
up,
and
the
Lord
delivered
the Chanaanite,
and
the Pherezite
into
their
hands:
and
they
slew
of
them
in Bezec
ten
thousand
men.
\VS{5}And
they
found Adonibezec
in Bezec,
and
fought
against
him,
and
they
defeated
the Chanaanite,
and
the Pherezite.
\VS{6}And Adonibezec
fled:
and
they
pursued
after
him
and
took
him,
and
cut
off
his fingers
and
toes.
\VS{7}And Adonibezec
said:
Seventy
kings
having
their fingers
and
toes
cut
off,
gathered
up
the leavings
of
the meat
under
my
table:
as
I
have
done,
so hath
God requited
me.
And
they
brought
him
to
Jerusalem,
and
he
died
there.
\VS{8}And
the
children
of Juda besieging
Jerusalem,
took
it,
and
put
it
to
the
sword,
and
set
the whole
city
on
fire.
\VS{9}And
afterwards
they
went
down
and
fought
against
the Chanaanite,
who
dwelt
in
the
mountains,
and
in
the
south,
and
in
the plains.
\VS{10}And Juda going
forward
against
the Chanaanite,
that
dwelt
in
Hebron (the
name whereof
was
in
former
times Cariath-Arbe)
slew Sesai,
and
Ahiman,
and Tholmai:
\VS{11}And departing
from thence
he
went
to
the
inhabitants
of Dabir,
the ancient
name
of
which
was Cariath-Sepher,
that
is,
the city
of letters.
\VS{12}And
Caleb
said:
He
that
shall
take Cariath-Sepher,
and
lay
it waste,
to
him
will
I
give
my
daughter Axa
to
wife.
\VS{13}And Othoniel
the
son
of Cenez,
the
younger
brother
of
Caleb, having
taken
it,
he
gave
him Axa
his
daughter
to
wife.
\VS{14}And
as
she
was
going
on
her
way
her husband admonished
her
to
ask
a
field
of
her
father.
And
as
she sighed sitting
on
her ass,
Caleb
said
to
her:
What aileth thee?
\VS{15}But
she
answered:
Give
me
a
blessing,
for thou hast
given
me
a dry
land:
give
me
also
a watery
land.
So
Caleb
gave
her
the
upper
and
the
nether watery
ground.
\VS{16}And
the
children
of
the Cinite,
the kinsman
of
Moses,
went
up
from
the
city
of
palms,
with
the
children
of Juda
into
the
wilderness
of
his lot,
which
is
at
the
south
side
of
Arad,
and
they
dwelt
with
him.
\VS{17}And Juda went
with
Simeon
his
brother,
and
they
together
defeated
the Chanaanites
that
dwelt
in Sephaath,
and
slew
them.
And
the
name
of
the
city
was
called Horma,
that
is, Anathema.
\VS{18}And Juda
took
Gaza
with
its confines,
and Ascalon
and Accaron
with their confines.
\VS{19}And
the
Lord
was
with Juda,
and
he
possessed
the
hill
country:
but
was
not able
to
destroy
the
inhabitants
of
the
valley,
because
they
had many
chariots armed
with scythes.
\VS{20}And
they
gave
Hebron
to
Caleb,
as
Moses
had
said,
who destroyed
out
of
it
the
three
sons
of Enac.
\VS{21}But
the
sons
of
Benjamin
did
not
destroy
the
Jebusites
that
inhabited
Jerusalem:
and
the
Jebusite hath
dwelt
with
the
sons
of
Benjamin
in
Jerusalem
until
this
present
day.
\VS{22}The
house
of
Joseph
also
went
up
against
Bethel,
and
the
Lord
was
with
them.
\VS{23}For
when
they
were besieging
the
city,
which
before
was
called Luza,
\VS{24}They
saw
a
man
coming
out
of
the
city,
and
they
said
to
him: Shew
us
the
entrance
into
the
city,
and
we
will shew thee mercy.
\VS{25}And
when
he
had shewn
them,
they
smote
the
city
with
the
edge
of
the
sword:
but
that
man
and
all
his kindred
they
let
go:
\VS{26}Who
being sent away,
went
into
the
land
of Hethim,
and
built
there
a
city,
and
called
it Luza:
which
is
so
called
until
this
day.
\VS{27}Manasses
also
did
not
destroy Bethsan,
and Thanac
with
their
villages,
nor
the
inhabitants
of
Dor,
and Jeblaam,
and Mageddo
with
their
villages.
And
the Chanaanite
began
to
dwell
with
them.
\VS{28}But
after
Israel
was
grown
strong
he
made
them tributaries,
and
would
not
destroy
them.
\VS{29}Ephraim
also
did
not slay
the Chanaanite
that
dwelt
in Gazer,
but
dwelt
with
him.
\VS{30}Zabulon destroyed
not
the
inhabitants
of Cetron,
and Naalol:
but
the Chanaanite
dwelt
among
them,
and
became
their tributaries.
\VS{31}Aser
also destroyed
not
the
inhabitants
of Accho,
and
of
Sidon,
of Ahalab,
and
of Achazib,
and
of Helba,
and
of Aphec,
and
of Rohob:
\VS{32}And
he
dwelt
in
the
midst
of
the Chanaanites
the
inhabitants
of
that
land,
and
did
not slay
them.
\VS{33}Nephtali
also destroyed
not
the
inhabitants
of Bethsames,
and
of Bethanath:
and
he
dwelt
in
the
midst
of
the Chanaanites
the
inhabitants
of
the
land,
and
the Bethsamites
and Bethanites
were tributaries
to
him.
\VS{34}And
the Amorrhite straitened
the
children
of
Dan
in
the
mountain,
and
gave
them
not
place
to
go
down
to
the plain:
\VS{35}And
he
dwelt
in
the
mountain Hares,
that
is,
of potsherds,
in Aialon
and Salebim.
And
the
hand
of
the
house
of
Joseph
was
heavy
upon
him,
and
he
became tributary
to
him.
\VS{36}And
the
border
of
the Amorrhite
was
from
the
ascent
of
the scorpion,
the
rock,
and
the
higher places.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
an
angel
of
the
Lord
went
up
from Galgal
to
the
place
of weepers,
and
said:
I
made
you
go
out
of
Egypt,
and
have
brought
you
into
the
land
for
which
I
swore
to
your
fathers:
and
I
promised
that
I
would
not make void
my
covenant
with
you
for
ever:
\VS{2}On condition
that
you
should
not
make
a
league
with
the
inhabitants
of
this
land,
but
should throw
down
their
altars:
and
you
would
not
hear
my
voice:
why
have
you
done
this?
\VS{3}Wherefore
I
would
not destroy
them
from
before
your
face:
that
you
may
have enemies,
and
their
gods
may
be
your ruin.
\VS{4}And
when
the
angel
of
the
Lord
spoke
these
words
to
all
the
children
of
Israel,
they
lifted
up
their
voice,
and
wept.
\VS{5}And
the
name
of
that
place
was
called,
The
place
of weepers,
or
of tears:
and
there
they
offered
sacrifices
to
the
Lord.
\VS{6}And Josue
sent
away
the
people,
and
the
children
of
Israel
went
every
one
to
his
own
possession
to hold
it:
\VS{7}And
they
served
the
Lord
all
his
days,
and
the
days
of
the ancients,
that
lived
a
long
time
after
him,
and
who knew
all
the
works
of
the
Lord,
which
he
had
done
for
Israel.
\VS{8}And Josue
the
son
of
Nun,
the
servant
of
the
Lord,
died,
being
a
hundred
and
ten
years
old,
\VS{9}And they
buried
him
in
the
borders
of
his
possession
in Thamnathsare
in
mount
Ephraim,
on
the
north
side
of
mount Gaas.
\VS{10}And
all
that
generation
was
gathered
to
their
fathers:
and
there
arose
others
that
knew
not
the
Lord,
and
the
works
which
he
had
done
for
Israel.
\VS{11}And
the
children
of
Israel
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and
they
served Baalim.
\VS{12}And
they
left
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers,
who
had
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt:
and
they
followed strange
gods,
and
the
gods
of
the
people
that dwelt
round
about
them,
and
they adored
them:
and
they
provoked
the
Lord
to
anger.
\VS{13}Forsaking
him,
and
serving
Baal
and Astaroth.
\VS{14}And
the
Lord being
angry
against
Israel,
delivered
them
into
the
hands
of
plunderers:
who
took
them
and
sold
them
to
their
enemies,
that dwelt
round
about:
neither
could
they
stand
against
their
enemies:
\VS{15}But whithersoever
they
meant
to
go,
the
hand
of
the
Lord
was
upon
them,
as
he
had
said,
and
as
he
had
sworn
to
them:
and
they
were
greatly distressed.
\VS{16}And
the
Lord
raised
up
judges,
to
deliver
them
from
the
hands
of
those
that oppressed
them:
but
they
would
not hearken
to
them,
\VS{17}Committing fornication
with strange
gods,
and adoring
them.
They
quickly forsook
the
way,
in
which
their
fathers
had
walked:
and
hearing
the
commandments
of
the
Lord,
they
did
all
things contrary.
\VS{18}And
when
the
Lord
raised
them
up
judges,
in
their
days
he
was
moved
to
mercy,
and
heard
the
groanings
of
the
afflicted,
and
delivered
them
from
the slaughter
of
the
oppressors.
\VS{19}But
after
the
judge
was
dead,
they
returned,
and
did much worse
things
than
their
fathers
had
done,
following strange
gods,
serving
them
and adoring
them.
They
left
not
their
own inventions,
and
the
stubborn
way,
by which
they
were accustomed
to
walk.
\VS{20}And
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was
kindled
against
Israel,
and
he
said:
Behold
this
nation hath
made void
my
covenant,
which
I
had
made
with
their
fathers,
and hath despised
to hearken
to
my
voice:
\VS{21}I
also
will
not
destroy
the
nations
which Josue
left,
when
he
died:
\VS{22}That
through
them
I
may
try
Israel,
whether
they
will
keep
the
way
of
the
Lord,
and
walk
in
it,
as
their
fathers
kept
it,
or
not.
\VS{23}The
Lord
therefore
left all
these
nations,
and
would
not
quickly
destroy
them,
neither
did
he
deliver
them
into
the
hands
of Josue.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}These
are
the
nations
which
the
Lord
left,
that
by
them
he
might
instruct
Israel,
and
all
that
had
not
known
the
wars
of
the Chanaanites:
\VS{2}That afterwards
their
children
might
learn
to
fight
with
their enemies,
and
to
be
trained
up
to
war:
\VS{3}The
five princes
of
the
Philistines,
and
all
the Chanaanites,
and
the
Sidonians,
and
the Hevites
that
dwelt
in
mount Libanus,
from
mount Baal Hermon
to
the
entering
into Emath.
\VS{4}And
he
left
them,
that
he
might
try
Israel
by
them, whether
they
would
hear
the
commandments
of
the
Lord,
which
he
had
commanded
their
fathers
by
the
hand
of
Moses,
or
not.
\VS{5}So
the
children
of
Israel
dwelt
in
the
midst
of
the Chanaanite,
and
the Hethite,
and
the Amorrhite,
and
the Pherezite,
and
the Hevite,
and
the
Jebusite:
\VS{6}And
they
took
their
daughters
to
wives,
and
they
gave
their own
daughters
to
their
sons,
and
they
served
their
gods.
\VS{7}And
they
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and
they
forgot
their
God,
and
served Baalim
and Astaroth.
\VS{8}And
the
Lord
being
angry
with
Israel,
delivered
them
into
the
hands
of Chusan Rasathaim
king
of
Mesopotamia,
and
they
served
him
eight
years.
\VS{9}And
they
cried
to
the
Lord,
who
raised
them
up
a saviour,
and
delivered
them,
to wit, Othoniel
the
son
of Cenez,
the
younger
brother
of
Caleb:
\VS{10}And
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
was
in
him,
and
he
judged
Israel.
And
he
went
out
to
fight,
and
the
Lord
delivered
into
his
hands Chusan Rasathaim
king
of
Syria,
and
he overthrew
him.
\VS{11}And
the
land rested
forty
years,
and Othoniel
the
son
of Cenez
died.
\VS{12}And
the
children
of
Israel
did
evil
again
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord:
who
strengthened
against
them
Eglon
king
of
Moab:
because
they
did
evil
in
his
sight.
\VS{13}And
he joined
to
him
the
children
of
Ammon,
and Amalec:
and
he
went
and overthrew
Israel,
and
possessed
the
city
of
palm
trees.
\VS{14}And
the
children
of
Israel
served
Eglon
king
of
Moab
eighteen
years:
\VS{15}And afterwards
they
cried
to
the
Lord,
who
raised
them
up
a saviour
called Aod,
the
son
of
Gera,
the
son
of Jemini,
who used
the
left
hand
as well
as
the
right.
And
the
children
of
Israel
sent
presents
to
Eglon
king
of
Moab
by
him.
\VS{16}And
he
made himself
a two-edged
sword,
with
a haft
in
the midst
of
the
length
of
the palm
of
the
hand,
and
was
girded therewith
under
his
garment
on
the
right
thigh.
\VS{17}And
he
presented
the
gifts
to
Eglon
king
of
Moab. Now
Eglon
was
exceeding
fat.
\VS{18}And
when
he
had
presented
the
gifts unto
him,
he followed
his companions
that
came
along
with
him.
\VS{19}Then
returning
from Galgal,
where
the
idols
were,
be
said
to
the
king:
I
have
a secret
message
to thee, O
king.
And
he
commanded
silence:
and
all being
gone
out
that
were
about
him,
\VS{20}Aod
went
in
to
him:
now
he
was
sitting
in
a summer parlour
alone,
and
he
said:
I
have
a
word
from
God
to thee.
And
he forthwith
rose
up
from
his
throne,
\VS{21}And Aod
put
forth
his
left
hand,
and
took
the dagger
from
his
right
thigh,
and
thrust
it
into
his
belly,
\VS{22}With
such force
that
the haft
went
in
after
the
blade
into
the wound,
and
was
closed
up
with
the abundance
of
fat.
So
that
he
did
not
draw
out
the dagger,
but
left
it
in
his
body
as
he
had struck
it
in.
And forthwith
by
the secret
parts
of nature
the excrements
of
the
belly
came
out.
\VS{23}But Aod carefully shutting
the
doors
of
the parlour
and locking
them,
\VS{24}Went
out
by
a postern
door.
And
the king’s
servants
going
in,
saw
the
doors
of
the parlour shut,
and
they
said: Perhaps
he
is easing nature
in
his summer parlour.
\VS{25}And
waiting
a
long
time
till
they
were
ashamed,
and seeing
that
no
man
opened
the
door,
they
took
a
key:
and
opening,
they
found
their
lord
lying
dead
on
the
ground.
\VS{26}But Aod,
while
they were
in confusion,
escaped,
and
passed
by
the place
of
the
idols,
from whence
he
had returned.
And
he came
to Seirath:
\VS{27}And forthwith
he
sounded
the
trumpet
in
mount
Ephraim:
and
the
children
of
Israel
went
down
with
him,
he
himself
going
in
the
front.
\VS{28}And
he
said
to
them:
Follow
me:
for
the
Lord hath
delivered
our
enemies
the
Moabites
into
our
hands.
And
they
went
down
after
him,
and
seized
upon
the fords
of
the
Jordan, which
are
in
the way
to
Moab:
and
they suffered
no
man
to
pass
over.
\VS{29}But
they
slew
of
the
Moabites
at
that
time,
about
ten
thousand,
all
strong
and
Valiant
men:
none
of
them
could
escape.
\VS{30}And
Moab
was
humbled
that
day
under
the
hand
of
Israel:
and
the
land rested
eighty
years.
\VS{31}After
him
was Samgar
the
son
of
Anath,
who
slew
of
the
Philistines
six
hundred
men
with
a ploughshare:
and
he
also defended
Israel.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
children
of
Israel
again
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord after
the
death
of Aod,
\VS{2}And
the
Lord
delivered
them
up
into
the
hands
of Jaban
king
of Chanaan,
who
reigned
in Asor:
and
he
had
a
general
of
his
army named Sisara,
and
he
dwelt
in Haroseth
of
the
Gentiles.
\VS{3}And
the
children
of
Israel
cried
to
the
Lord:
for
he
had
nine
hundred
chariots set
with scythes,
and
for
twenty
years
had grievously
oppressed
them.
\VS{4}And there
was
at
that
time Debbora
a
prophetess
the
wife
of Lapidoth,
who
judged
the
people,
\VS{5}And
she
sat
under
a
palm
tree,
which
was called
by
her name,
between Rama
and
Bethel
in
mount
Ephraim:
and
the
children
of
Israel
came
up
to
her
for
all
judgment.
\VS{6}And
she
sent
and
called Barac
the
son
of Abinoem
out
of Cedes
in Nephtali:
and
she
said
to
him:
The
Lord
God
of
Israel hath
commanded thee:
Go,
and
lead
an army
to
mount Thabor,
and thou shalt
take
with thee
ten
thousand fighting
men
of
the
children
of Nephtali,
and
of
the
children
of Zabulon:
\VS{7}And
I
will
bring unto thee
in
the
place
of
the torrent Cison, Sisara
the
general
of
Jabin’s
army,
and
his
chariots,
and all
his
multitude,
and
will
deliver
them
into thy
hand.
\VS{8}And Barac
said
to
her:
If thou wilt
come
with
me,
I
will
go:
if thou wilt
not
come
with
me,
I
will
not
go.
\VS{9}She
said
to
him:
I
will
go
indeed
with thee,
but
at
this
time
the victory
shall
not
be attributed
to thee,
because Sisara
shall
be
delivered
into
the
hand
of
a
woman. Debbora
therefore
arose,
and
went
with Barac
to Cedes.
\VS{10}And
he
called unto
him Zabulon
and Nepbtali,
and
went
up
with
ten
thousand fighting
men, having Debbora
in
his company.
\VS{11}Now Haber
the Cinite
had some
time
before departed
from
the rest
of
the Cinites
his brethren
the
sons
of
Hobab,
the kinsman
of
Moses:
and
had
pitched
his
tents unto
the valley
which
is called Sellnim,
and
was
near Cedes.
\VS{12}And
it
was
told Sisara,
that Barac
the
son
of Ablinoem
was
gone
up
to
mount Thabor:
\VS{13}And
he gathered
together
his
nine
hundred
chariots armed
with scythes,
and
all
his
army
from Haroseth
of
the
Gentiles
to
the torrent Cison.
\VS{14}And Debbora
said
to Barac:
Arise,
for
this
is
the
day
wherein
the
Lord hath
delivered Sisara
into thy
hands:
behold
he
is thy leader.
And Barac
went
down
from
mount Thabor,
and
ten
thousand fighting
men
with
him.
\VS{15}And
the
Lord struck
a terror
into Sisara,
and
all
his
chariots,
and
all
his multitude,
with
the
edge
of
the
sword,
at
the
sight
of Barac, insomuch
that Sisara leaping
down
from
off
his
chariot,
fled
away
on
foot.
\VS{16}And Barac
pursued
after
the fleeing
chariots
and
the
army unto Haroseth
of
the
Gentiles,
and
all
the multitude
of
the enemies
was utterly destroyed.
\VS{17}But Sisara
fleeing
came
to
the
tent
of Jahel
the
wife
of Haber
the Cinite,
for
there
was
peace
between
Jabin
the
king
of Asor,
and
the
house
of Haber
the Cinite.
\VS{18}And Jahel
went
forth
to
meet Sisara,
and
said
to
him:
Come
in
to
me,
my
lord,
come
in,
fear
not.
He
went
in
to
her
tent,
and being
covered
by
her
with
a cloak,
\VS{19}Said
to
her:
Give
me,
I
beseech thee,
a
little
water,
for
I am very
thirsty.
She
opened
a
bottle
of
milk,
and
gave
him
to
drink,
and
covered
him.
\VS{20}And Sisara
said
to
her:
Stand
before
the
door
of
the
tent,
and
when
any
shall
come
and
inquire
of thee,
saying:
Is
there
any
man
here? thou shalt
say:
There
is
none.
\VS{21}So Jahel Haber’s
wife
took
a nail
of
the
tent,
and
taking
also
a hammer:
and
going
in softly,
and
with silence,
she
put
the nail
upon
the
temples
of
his head,
and striking
it
With
the hammer,
drove
it
through
his brain fast
into
the
ground:
and
so passing
from deep sleep
to
death,
he fainted
away
and
died.
\VS{22}And
behold Barac
came
pursuing
after Sisara:
and Jahel
went
out
to
meet
him,
and
said
to
him:
Come,
and
I
will shew thee,
the
man
whom thou seekest.
And
when
he
came
into
her
tent,
be
saw Sisara
lying
dead,
and
the nail fastened
in
his
temples.
\VS{23}So
God
that
day
humbled
Jabin
the
king
of Chanaan
before
the
children
of
Israel:
\VS{24}Who
grew daily stronger,
and
with
a mighty
hand
overpowered
Jabin
king
of Chanaan,
till
they quite
destroyed
him.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
that
day Debbora
and Barac
son
of Abinoem
sung,
and
said:
\VS{2}O
you
of
Israel,
that
have
willingly
offered
your lives
to danger,
bless
the
Lord.
\VS{3}Hear,
O ye
kings,
give
ear, ye princes:
It
is
I,
it
is
I,
that
will
sing
to
the
Lord,
I
will
sing
to
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{4}O
Lord,
when thou wentest
out
of
Seir,
and passedst
by
the
regions
of
Edom,
the
earth trembled,
and
the
heavens
dropped
water.
\VS{5}The
mountains melted
before
the
face
of
the
Lord,
and
Sinai
before
the
face
of
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{6}In
the
days
of Samgar
the
son
of
Anath,
in
the
days
of Jahel
the
paths rested:
and
they
that
went
by
them,
walked
through by-ways.
\VS{7}The valiant
men
ceased,
and rested
in
Israel:
until Debbora
arose,
a
mother
arose
in
Israel.
\VS{8}The Lord
chose
new wars,
and
he himself overthrew
the
gates
of
the enemies:
a
shield
and
spear
was
not
seen
among
forty
thousand
of
Israel.
\VS{9}My
heart loveth
the princes
of
Israel:
O
you
that
of
your own good
will
offered
yourselves
to danger,
bless
the
Lord.
\VS{10}Speak,
you
that
ride
upon fair asses,
and
you
that
sit
in judgment,
and
walk
in
the
way.
\VS{11}Where
the chariots
were dashed
together,
and
the
army
of
the enemies
was choked,
there
let
the justices
of
the
Lord
be rehearsed,
and
his clemency towards
the brave
men
of
Israel:
then
the
people
of
the
Lord
went
down
to
the
gates,
and obtained
the sovereignty.
\VS{12}Arise,
arise, O Debbora,
arise,
arise,
and
utter
a canticle.
Arise, Barac,
and
take hold
of thy
captives, O
son
of Abinoem.
\VS{13}The remnants
of
the
people
are saved,
the
Lord hath fought
among
the
valiant
ones.
\VS{14}Out
of
Ephraim
he destroyed
them
into Amalec,
and
after
him
out
of
Benjamin
into thy
people, O Amalec:
Out
of
Machir there
came
down princes,
and
out
of Zabulon
they
that
led
the
army
to fight.
\VS{15}The
captains
of
Issachar
were
with Debbora,
and
followed
the
steps
of Barac,
who exposed
himself
to danger,
as
one going headlong,
and into
a pit. Ruben being divided
against
himself, there
was found
a strife
of courageous
men.
\VS{16}Why dwellest thou
between
two borders,
that thou mayest
hear
the bleatings
of
the
flocks? Ruben being divided
against
himself,
there
was found
a strife
of courageous
men.
\VS{17}Galaad
rested
beyond
the
Jordan,
and
Dan applied
himself
to
ships: Aser
dwelt
on
the
sea shore,
and
abode
in
the havens.
\VS{18}But Zabulon
and Nephtali offered
their
lives
to
death
in
the region
of Merome.
\VS{19}The
kings
came
and
fought,
the
kings
of Chanaan
fought
in Thanach
by
the
waters
of Mageddo,
and
yet
they
took
no spoils.
\VS{20}War
from
heaven
was made
against
them,
the
stars remaining
in
their order
and
courses
fought
against Sisara.
\VS{21}The torrent
of Cison dragged
their carcasses,
the torrent
of Cadumim,
the torrent
of Cisoii:
tread thou,
my
soul, upon
the
strong
ones.
\VS{22}The
hoofs
of
the
horses were broken whilst
the stoutest
of
the enemies fled amain, and fell headlong
down.
\VS{23}Curse ye
the land
of
Meroz,
said
the
angel
of
the
Lord:
curse
the
inhabitants thereof,
because
they
came
not
to
the
help
of
the
Lord,
to
help
his most
valiant
men.
\VS{24}Blessed
among
women
be Jahel
the
wife
of Haber
the Cinite,
and
blessed
be she
in
her
tent.
\VS{25}He
asked
her
water
and
she
gave
him
milk,
and
offered
him
butter
in
a dish fit
for princes.
\VS{26}She
put
her left
hand
to
the nail,
and
her
right
hand
to
the workman’s
hammer,
and she
struck Sisara, seeking
in
his
head
a
place
for
the wound,
and strongly piercing
through
his
temples.
\VS{27}At
her
feet
he
fell:
he fainted,
and
he
died:
he rolled before
her
feet,
and
he
lay lifeless
and wretched.
\VS{28}His
mother
looked
out
at
a
window,
and howled:
and
she spoke
from
the dining room:
Why
is
his
chariot
so
long
in
coming
back?
Why
are
the
feet
of
his
horses
so slow?
\VS{29}One
that
was
wiser than
the rest
of
his wives,
returned
this
answer
to
her mother
in law:
\VS{30}Perhaps
he
is now
dividing
the
spoils,
and
the fairest
of
the women
is chosen
out
for
him: garments
of divers colours
are given
to Sisara
for
his prey,
and furniture
of different kinds
is heaped together
to adorn
the
necks.
\VS{31}So
let
all thy
enemies
perish,
O
Lord:
but
let
them
that
love thee shine,
as
the
sun shineth
in
his
rising.
\VS{32}And the land rested for forty years.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
children
of
Israel again
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord:
and
he
delivered
them
into
the
hand
of Madian
seven
years.
\VS{2}And
they
were grievously oppressed
by
them.
And
they
made
themselves
dens
and eaves
in
the
mountains,
and
strong holds
to resist.
\VS{3}And
when
Israel
had
sown, Madian
and Amalec,
and
the
rest
of
the eastern nations
came
up:
\VS{4}And pitching
their tents
among
them,
wasted
all
things
as
they
were
in
the blade
even
to
the
entrance
of
Gaza:
and
they
left
nothing
at
all
in
Israel
for
sustenance
of
life,
nor
sheep,
nor
oxen,
nor asses.
\VS{5}For
they
and
all
their
flocks
came
with
their
tents,
and
like
locusts filled
all places,
an
innumerable
multitude
of men,
and
of
camels, wasting whatsoever
they touched.
\VS{6}And
Israel
was humbled
exceedingly
in
the
sight
of Madian.
\VS{7}And
he
cried
to
the
Lord desiring help
against
the Madianites.
\VS{8}And
he
sent unto
them
a
prophet,
and
he
spoke:
Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
I
made
you
to
come
up
out
of
Egypt,
and
brought
you
out
of
the
house
of
bondage,
\VS{9}And
delivered
you
out
of
the
hands
of
the
Egyptians,
and
of
all
the enemies
that afflicted
you:
and
I
cast
them
out
at
your coming
in,
and
gave
you
their
land.
\VS{10}And
I
said:
I
am
the
Lord
your
God,
fear
not
the
gods
of
the Amorrhites,
in
whose
land
you
dwell.
And
you
would
not
hear
my
voice.
\VS{11}And
an
angel
of
the
Lord
came,
and
sat
under
an
oak,
that
was
in Ephra,
and belonged
to Joas
the father
of
the family
of Ezri.
And
when Gedeon
his
son
was
threshing
and cleansing
wheat
by
the winepress,
to
flee
from Madian,
\VS{12}The
angel
of
the
Lord
appeared
to
him,
and
said:
The
Lord
is
with thee,
O most
valiant
of
men.
\VS{13}And Gedeon
said
to
him:
I beseech thee,
my
lord,
if
the
Lord
be
with
us,
why
have
these evils fallen
upon
us?
Where
are
his
miracles,
which
our
fathers
have
told
us
of,
saying:
The
Lord
brought
us
Out
of
Egypt?
but
now
the
Lord hath
forsaken
us,
and
delivered
us
into
the bands
of Madian.
\VS{14}And
the
Lord
looked
upon
him,
and
said:
Go
in
this thy
strength,
and
then shalt
deliver
Israel
out
of
the
hand
of Madian: know
that
I
have
sent thee.
\VS{15}He
answered
and
said:
I beseech thee,
my
lord, wherewith
shall
I
deliver
Israel?
Behold
my
family
is
the meanest
in Manasses,
and
I
am
the
least
in
my
father’s
house.
\VS{16}And
the
Lord
said
to
him:
I
will
be
with thee:
and thou shalt cut
off Madian
as
one
man.
\VS{17}And
he
said:
If
I
have
found
grace
before thee,
give
me
a
sign
that
it
is thou
that speakest
to
me,
\VS{18}And
depart
not hence,
till
I
return
to thee,
and
bring
a
sacrifice,
and offer
it
to thee.
And
he
answered:
I
will
wait thy
coming.
\VS{19}So Gedeon
went
in,
and boiled
a kid,
and
made
unleavened loaves
of
a
measure
of
flour:
and
putting
the
flesh
in
a
basket,
and
the
broth
of
the
flesh
into
a
pot,
he
carried all
under
the
oak,
and
presented
to
him.
\VS{20}And
the
angel
of
the Lord
said
to
him:
Take
the
flesh
and
the
unleavened loaves,
and lay
them
upon
that
rock,
and
pour
out
the
broth thereon.
And
when
he
had
done
so,
\VS{21}The
angel
of
the
Lord
put
forth
the
tip
of
the rod,
which
he held
in
his
hand,
and
touched
the
flesh
and
the
unleavened
loaves:
and
there
arose
a
fire
from
the
rock,
and
consumed
the
flesh
and
the
unleavened
loaves:
and
the
angel
of
the
Lord
vanished
out
of
his
sight.
\VS{22}And Gedeon
seeing
that
it
was
the
angel
of
the
Lord,
said:
Alas,
my
Lord
God:
for
I
have
seen
the
angel
of
the
Lord
face
to
face.
\VS{23}And
the
Lord
said
to
him:
Peace
be
with thee:
fear
not, thou shalt
not
die.
\VS{24}And Gedeon
built
there
an
altar
to
the
Lord,
and
called
it
the
Lord’s
peace,
until
this
present
day.
And
when
he
was
yet
in Ephra,
which
is
of
the family
of Ezri,
\VS{25}That
night
the
Lord
said
to
him:
Take
a bullock
of thy
father’s,
and
another bullock
of
seven
years,
and thou shalt
destroy
the
altar
of
Baal,
which
is thy
father’s:
and
cut
down
the grove
that
is
about
the
altar:
\VS{26}And thou shalt
build
an
altar
to
the
Lord thy
God
in
the
top
of
this rock, whereupon thou didst lay
the sacrifice
before:
and thou shalt
take
the
second bullock,
and shalt
offer
a holocaust
upon
a pile
of
the
wood,
which thou shalt
cut
down
out
of
the grove.
\VS{27}Then Gedeon
taking
ten
men
of
his
servants,
did
as
the
Lord
had
commanded
him.
But fearing
his
father’s
house,
and
the
men
of
that
city,
he
would
not
do
it
by
day,
but
did
all
by
night.
\VS{28}And
when
the
men
of
that
town
were risen
in
the
morning,
they
saw
the
altar
of
Baal
destroyed,
and
the grove
cut
down,
and
the
second bullock laid
upon
the
altar,
which
then
was
built.
\VS{29}And
they
said
one
to
another:
Who hath
done
this?
And
when
they
inquired
for
the author
of
the fact,
it
was
said: Gedeon
the
son
of Joas
did
all
this.
\VS{30}And
they
said
to Joas:
Bring
out thy
son hither,
that
he
may
die:
because
he hath
destroyed
the
altar
of
Baal,
and hath
cut
down
his grove.
\VS{31}He
answered
them:
Are
you
the avengers
of
Baal,
that
you
fight
for
him?
he
that
is
his adversary, let
him
die
before
tomorrow light appear:
if
he
be
a
god, let
him revenge
himself
on
him
that hath cast
down
his
altar.
\VS{32}From
that
day Gedeon
was
called Jerobaal,
because Joss
had
said: Let
Baal revenge
himself
on
him
that hath cast
down
his
altar.
\VS{33}Now
all Madian,
and Amalec,
and
the eastern
people
were
gathered
together,
and
passing
over
the Jordan,
camped
in
the
valley
of Jezrael.
\VS{34}But
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
upon Gedeon,
and
be
sounded
the
trumpet
and
called
together
the house
of
Abiezer,
to
follow
him.
\VS{35}And
he
sent
messengers
into
all Manasses,
and
they
also
followed
him:
and
other
messengers
into Aser
and Zabulon
and Nephtali,
and
they
came
to
meet
him.
\VS{36}And Gedeon
said
to
God:
If thou wilt
save
Israel
by
my
hand,
as thou hast
said,
\VS{37}I
will
put
this
fleece
of
wool
on
the
floor:
if
there
be
dew
on
the
fleece
only,
and
it
be
dry
on
all
the
ground
beside,
I,
shall
know
that
by
my
hand,
as thou hast
said, thou wilt
deliver
Israel.
\VS{38}And
it
was
so.
And
rising
before
day wringing
the
fleece,
he
filled
a vessel
with
the
dew.
\VS{39}And
he
said
again
to
God:
let
not thy
wrath
be
kindled
against
me
if
I
try
once
more, seeking
a sign
in
the
fleece.
I
pray
that
the
fleece
only
may
be
dry,
and
all
the
ground wet
with
dew.
\VS{40}And
God
did
that
night
as
he
had requested:
and
it
was
dry
on
the
fleece
only,
and
there
was
dew
on
all
the
ground.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then Jerobaal,
who
is
the
same
as Gedeon,
rising
up
early
and
all
the
people
with
him,
came
to
the fountain
that
is called Harad.
Now
the
camp
of Madian
was
in
the
valley
on
the
north
side
of
the high
hill.
\VS{2}And
the
Lord
said
to Gedeon:
The
people
that
are
with thee
are
many,
and Madian
shall
not
be
delivered
into
their
hands:
lest
Israel
should
glory
against
me,
and
say:
I
was
delivered
by
my own
strength.
\VS{3}Speak
to
the
people,
and
proclaim
in
the
hearing
of
all,
I Whosoever
is fearful
and timorous,
let
him
return.
So
two
and
twenty
thousand
men
went
away
from
mount Galaad
and
returned
home,
and only
ten
thousand
remained.
\VS{4}And
the
Lord
said
to Gedeon:
The
people
are
still
too
many,
bring
them
to
the
waters,
and
there
I
will try
them:
and
of
whom
I
shall
say
to thee,
This
shall
go
with thee,
let
him
go:
whom
I
shall forbid
to
go,
let
him return.
\VS{5}And
when
the
people
were
come
down
to
the
waters,
the
Lord
said
to Gedeon:
They
that
shall
lap
the
water
with
their
tongues,
as
dogs
are wont
to
lap, thou shalt
set
apart
by
themselves:
but
they
that
shall
drink
bowing
down
their
knees,
shall
be
on
the
other side.
\VS{6}And
the
number
of
them
that
had
lapped
water, casting
it
with
the
hand
to
their
mouth,
was
three
hundred
men:
and
all
the
rest
of
the multitude
had
drunk
kneeling.
\VS{7}And
the
Lord
said
to Gedeon:
By
the
three
hundred
men,
that
lapped water,
I
will
save
you,
and
deliver Madian
into thy
hand:
but
let
all
the rest
of
the
people return
to
their
place.
\VS{8}So
taking victuals
and
trumpets
according
to
their number,
he
ordered
all
the
rest
of
the multitude
to depart
to
their
tents:
and
he
with
the
three
hundred
gave
himself
to
the battle.
Now
the
camp
of Madian
was
beneath
him
in
the
valley.
\VS{9}The
same
night
the
Lord
said
to
him:
Arise,
and
go
down
into
the
camp:
because
I
have
delivered
them
into thy
hand.
\VS{10}But
if thou be
afraid
to
go alone,
let Phara thy
servant
go
down
with thee.
\VS{11}And
when thou shalt
hear
what
they
are
saying,
then
shall thy
hands
be
strengthened,
and thou shalt
go
down more
secure
to
the enemies’
camp.
And
he
went
down
with Phara
his
servant
into
part
of
the
camp,
where
was
the watch
of
men
in
arms.
\VS{12}But Madian
and Amalec,
and
all
the eastern
people
lay scattered
in
the
valley,
as
a
multitude
of
locusts:
their
camels also
were
innumerable
as
the
sand
that lieth
on
the
sea
shore.
\VS{13}And
when Gedeon
was
come,
one
told
his neighbour
a
dream:
and
in
this manner
related what
he
had seen:
I dreamt
a
dream,
and
it seemed
to
me
as
if
a hearth cake
of
barley
bread rolled
and
came
down
into
the
camp
of Madian:
and
when
it
was
come
to
a
tent
it
struck
it,
and
beat
it
down
flat
to
the ground.
\VS{14}He
to whom
he
spoke,
answered:
This
is
nothing
else
but
the
sword
of Gedeon
the
son
of Joas
a
man
of
Israel.
For
the Lord hath
delivered Madian,
and
all
their
camp
into
his
hand.
\VS{15}And
when Gedeon
had
heard
the
dream,
and
the
interpretation thereof,
he adored:
and
returned
to
the
camp
of
Israel,
and
said:
Arise,
for
the
Lord hath
delivered
the
camp
of Madian
into
our
hands.
\VS{16}And
he
divided
the
three
hundred
men
into
three
parts,
and
gave
them
trumpets
in
their
hands,
and
empty
pitchers,
and lamps
within
the
pitchers.
\VS{17}And
he
said
to
them:
What
you
shall
see
me
do,
do
you
the
same:
I
will
go
into
one
part
of
the
camp,
and
do
you
as
I
shall
do.
\VS{18}When
the
trumpet
shall
sound
in
my hand,
do
you
also
blow
the
trumpets
on
every
side
of
the
camp.
\VS{19}And Gedeon,
and
the three
hundred
men
that
were
with
him,
went
into
part
of
the
camp,
at
the
beginning
of
the midnight
watch,
and
the
watchmen
being alarmed,
they
began
to
sound
their
trumpets,
and
to
clap
the
pitchers
one
against
another.
\VS{20}And
when
they
sounded
their
trumpets
in
three places round
about
the camp,
and
had
broken
their
pitchers,
they
held
their lamps
in
their
left
hands,
and
with
their
right
hands
the
trumpets
which
they
blew,
and
they
cried
out:
The
sword
of
the
Lord
and
of Gedeon;
\VS{21}Standing
every
man
in
his
place
round
about
the enemies’
camp.
So
all
the
camp
was troubled,
and
crying
out
and howling
they
fled
away.
\VS{22}And
the
three
hundred
men nevertheless persisted sounding
the
trumpets.
And
the
Lord sent
the
sword
into
all
the
camp,
and
they
killed
one
another,
\VS{23}Fleeing
as
far
as Bethsetta,
and
the border
of Abelmahula
in Tebbath.
But
the
men
of
Israel shouting
from Nephtali
and Aser,
and
from
all Manasses
pursued
after Madian.
\VS{24}And Gedeon
sent
messengers
into
all
mount
Ephraim,
saying:
Come
down
to
meet Madian,
and
take
the
waters
before
them
to Bethbera
and
the
Jordan.
And
all
Ephraim
shouted,
and
took
the
waters
before
them
and
the
Jordan
as
far
as Bethbera.
\VS{25}And having
taken
two
men
of Madian,
Oreb
and Zeb:
Oreb
they
slew
in
the
rock
of
Oreb,
and Zeb
in
the
winepress
of Zeb.
And
they
pursued Madian, carrying
the
heads
of
Oreb
and Zeb
to Gedeon
beyond
the waters
of
the
Jordan.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
men
of
Ephraim
said
to
him:
What
is
this
that thou meanest
to
do,
that thou wouldst
not
call
us
when thou wentest
to
fight
against Madian?
and
they chid
him sharply
and almost offered violence.
\VS{2}And
he
answered
them:
What
could
I
have
done
like
to
that
which
you
have
done?
Is
not
one bunch
of grapes
of
Ephraim
better
than
the vintages
of
Abiezer?
\VS{3}The Lord hath
delivered
into
your bands
the
princes
of Madian,
Oreb
and Zeb:
what
could
I
have
done
like
to
what
you
have
done?
And
when
he
had
said
this,
their
spirit
was appeased,
with
which
they swelled
against
him.
\VS{4}And
when Gedeon
was
come
to
the
Jordan,
he
passed
over
it
with
the
three
hundred
men,
that
were
with
him:
who
were
so
weary
that
they
could not
pursue
after
them
that fled.
\VS{5}And
he
said
to
the
men
of Soccoth:
Give,
I
beseech
you,
bread
to
the
people
that
is
with
me,
for
they
are
faint:
that
we
may
pursue Zebee,
and Salmana
the
kings
of Madian.
\VS{6}The
princes
of Soccoth
answered: Peradventure
the
palms
of
the
hands
of Zebee
and Salmana
are
in thy
hand,
and
therefore thou demandest
that
we
should
give
bread
to thy
army.
\VS{7}And
he
said
to
them:
When
the
Lord
therefore
shall
have
delivered Zebee
and Salmana
into
my
hands,
I
will
thresh
your
flesh
with
the
thorns
and
briers
of
the
desert.
\VS{8}And
going
up
from thence,
he
came
to Phanuel:
and
he
spoke
the
like
things
to
the
men
of
that
place.
And
they
also
answered
him,
as
the
men
of Soccoth
had
answered.
\VS{9}He
said
therefore
to
them
also:
When
I
shall
return
a conqueror
in
peace,
I
will
destroy
this
tower.
\VS{10}But Zebee
and Salmana
were resting
with
all
their
army.
For
fifteen
thousand
men
were
left
of
all
the
troops
of
the eastern
people,
and
one
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
warriors
that
drew
the
sword,
were slain.
\VS{11}And Gedeon
went
up
by
the
way
of
them
that
dwelt
in
tents,
on
the
east
of Nobe
and Jegbaa,
and
smote
the
camp
of
the enemies,
who
were
secure,
and suspected no hurt.
\VS{12}And Zebee
and Salmana
fled,
and Gedeon
pursued
and
took
them,
all
their
host being
put
in confusion.
\VS{13}And
returning
from
the
battle
before
the sun rising,
\VS{14}He
took
a
boy
of
the
men
of Soccoth:
and
he
asked
him
the names
of
the
princes
and ancients
of Soccoth,
and
he
described unto
him
seventy-seven
men.
\VS{15}And
he
came
to Soccoth
and
said
to
them:
Behold Zebee
and Salmana,
concerning
whom
you upbraided
me,
saying: Peradventure
the
hands
of Zebee
and Salmana,
are
in thy
hands,
and
therefore thou demandest
that
we
should
give
bread
to
the
men
that
are
weary
and faint.
\VS{16}So
he
took
the ancients
of
the
city
and
thorns
and
briers
of
the
desert,
and tore
them
with
the
same,
and cut
in pieces
the
men
of Soccoth.
\VS{17}And
he demolished
the
tower
of Phanuel,
and
slew
the
men
of
the
city.
\VS{18}And
he
said
to Zebee
and Salmana:
What manner
of
men
were
they
whom
you
slew
in Thabor?
They
answered:
They
were
like thee,
and
one
of
them
as
the
son
of
a
king.
\VS{19}He
answered
them:
They
were
my
brethren,
the
sons
of
my
mother.
As
the
Lord liveth,
if
you
had saved
them,
I
would
not
kill
you.
\VS{20}And
he
said
to
Jether
his eldest son:
Arise,
and
slay
them.
But
he
drew
not
his
sword:
for
he
was
afraid, being
but
yet
a
boy.
\VS{21}And Zebee
and Salmana
said: Do thou
rise,
and run
upon
us:
because
the
strength
of
a
man
is
according
to
his age: Gedeon
rose
up
and
slew Zebee
and Salmana:
and
he
took
the
ornaments
and bosses,
with
which
the
necks
of
the
camels
of kings
are wont
to
be adorned.
\VS{22}And
all
the
men
of
Israel
said
to Gedeon:
Rule thou
over
us
and thy
son,
and thy
son’s
son:
because thou hast
delivered
us
from
the
hand
of Madian.
\VS{23}And
he
said
to
them:
I
will
not
rule
over
you,
neither
shall
my
son
rule
over
you,
but
the
Lord
shall
rule
over
you.
\VS{24}And
he
said
to
them:
I desire
one
request
of
you:
Give
me
the earlets
of
your
spoils.
For
the Ismaelites
were accustomed
to wear
golden earlets.
\VS{25}They
answered:
We
will
give
them most willingly.
And
spreading
a mantle
on
the ground,
they
cast upon
it
the earlets
of
the
spoils.
\VS{26}And
the
weight
of
the earlets
that
he
requested,
was
a
thousand
seven
hundred sicles
of
gold,
besides
the
ornaments,
and jewels,
and
purple raiment
which
the
kings
of Madian
were
went
to
use,
and
besides
the
golden chains
that
were
about
the
camels’
necks.
\VS{27}And Gedeon
made
an
ephod thereof,
and
put
it
in
his
city Ephra.
And
all
Israel
committed fornication
with
it,
and
it
became
a ruin
to Gedeon
and
to
all
his
house.
\VS{28}But Madian
was
humbled
before
the
children
of
Israel,
neither
could
they
any
more
lift
up
their beads:
but
the
land rested
for
forty
years,
while Gedeon presided.
\VS{29}So Jerobaal
the
son
of Joas
went,
and
dwelt
in
his own
house.
\VS{30}And
he
had
seventy
sons,
who
came
out
of
his
thigh,
for
he
had
many
wives.
\VS{31}And
his
concubine,
that
he
had
in Sichem,
bore
him
a
son,
whose
name
was
Abimelech.
\VS{32}And Gedeon
the
son
of Joas
died
in
a
good
old
age,
and
was
buried
in
the sepulchre
of
his
father
in Ephra
of
the
family
of Ezri.
\VS{33}But
after Gedeon
was
dead,
the
children
of
Israel
turned
again,
and
committed fornication
with Baalim.
And
they
made
a covenant
with
Baal,
that
he
should
be
their
god:
\VS{34}And
they
remembered
not
the
Lord
their
God,
who
delivered
them
out
of
the
hands
of
all
their
enemies
round
about:
\VS{35}Neither
did
they shew mercy
to
the
house
of Jerobaal Gedeon, according
to
all
the
good
things
he
had
done
to
Israel.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Abimelech
the
son
of Jerobaal
went
to Sichem
to
his
mother’s
brethren
and
spoke
to
them,
and
to
all
the kindred
of
his
mother’s
father,
saying:
\VS{2}Speak
to
all
the
men
of Sichem:
whether
is
better
for
you
that
seventy
men
all
the
sons
of Jerobaal
should
rule
over
you,
or
that
one
man
should
rule
over
you?
And withal
consider
that
I
am
your
bone,
and
your
flesh.
\VS{3}And
his
mother’s
brethren
spoke
of
him
to
all
the
men
of Sichem,
all
these
words,
and
they
inclined
their
hearts
after
Abimelech,
saying:
He
is
our
brother:
\VS{4}And
they
gave
him
seventy weight
of
silver
out
of
the
temple
of Baalberith: wherewith
he
hired
to
himself
men
that
were needy,
and vagabonds,
and
they
followed
him.
\VS{5}And
he
came
to
his
father’s
house
in Ephra,
and
slew
his
brethren
the
sons
of Jerobaal,
seventy
men,
upon
one
stone:
and there
remained
only Joatham
the
youngest
son
of Jerobaal,
who
was
hidden.
\VS{6}And
all
the
men
of Sichem
were
gathered
together,
and
all
the
families
of
the city
of Mello:
and
they
went
and
made
Abimelech
king,
by
the
oak
that
stood
in Sichem.
\VS{7}This
being
told
to Joatham,
he
went
and
stood
on
the
top
of
mount Garizim:
and lifting
up
his
voice,
he
cried,
and
said:
Hear
me, ye
men
of Sichem,
so
may
God
hear
you.
\VS{8}The
trees
went
to
anoint
a
king
over
them:
and
they
said
to
the
olive
tree:
Reign thou
over
us.
\VS{9}And
it
answered:
Can
I
leave
my
fatness,
which
both
gods
and
men
make use
of,
to
come
to
be promoted
among
the
trees?
\VS{10}And
the
trees
said
to
the
fig
tree: Come thou
and
reign
over
us.
\VS{11}And
it
answered
them:
Can
I
leave
my
sweetness,
and
my delicious
fruits,
and
go
to
be promoted
among
the other
trees?
\VS{12}And
the
trees
said
to
the
vine: Come thou
and
reign
over
us.
\VS{13}And
it
answered
them:
Can
I forsake
my
wine,
that cheereth
God
and
men,
and
be promoted
among
the
other
trees?
\VS{14}And
all
the
trees
said
to
the
bramble: Come thou
and
reign
over
us.
\VS{15}And
it
answered
them:
If
indeed
you mean
to make
me
king,
come ye
and rest
under
my
shadow:
but
if
you mean
it
not, let
fire
come
out
from
the
bramble,
and
devour
the
cedars
of Libanus.
\VS{16}Now
therefore
if
you
have
done
well,
and
without sin
in appointing
Abimelech
king
over
you,
and
have dealt
well
with Jerobaal,
and
with
his
house,
and
have
made
a suitable return
for
the
benefits
of
him,
who fought
for
you,
\VS{17}And exposed
his
life
to dangers,
to
deliver
you
from
the
hands
of Madian,
\VS{18}And
you
are
now
risen
up
against
my
father’s
house,
and
have
killed
his
sons
seventy
men
upon
one
stone,
and
have made
Abimelech
the
son
of
his
handmaid
king
over
the inhabitants
of Sichem,
because
he
is
your
brother:
\VS{19}If
therefore
you
have dealt
well,
and
without fault
with Jerobaal,
and
his
house,
rejoice ye
this
day
in
Abimelech,
and
may
he
rejoice
in
you.
\VS{20}But
if unjustly: let
fire
come
out
from
him,
and
consume
the inhabitants
of Sichem,
and
the town
of Mello:
and let
fire
come
out
from
the
men
of Sichem,
and
from
the town
of Mello,
and
devour
Abimelech.
\VS{21}And
when
he
had said thus
he
fled,
and
went into Bera:
and
dwelt
there
for fear
of
Abimelech
his
brother.
\VS{22}So
Abimelech reigned
over
Israel
for
three
years.
\VS{23}And
the Lord
sent
a
very
evil
spirit
between
Abimelech
and
the inhabitants
of Sichem:
who began
to detest
him,
\VS{24}And
to
leave
the
crime
of
the murder
of
the
seventy
sons
of Jerobaal,
and
the
shedding
of
their
blood
upon
Abimelech
their
brother,
and
upon
the rest
of
the princes
of
the Sichemites,
who aided
him.
\VS{25}And
they
set
an
ambush
against
him
on
the
top
of
the
mountains:
and
while
they
waited
for
his coming,
they
committed robberies,
taking spoils
of
all
that
passed
by:
and
it
was
told
Abimelech.
\VS{26}And
Gaal
the
son
of Obed
came
with
his
brethren,
and
went
over
to Sichem.
And
the inhabitants
of Sichem
taking courage
at
his
coming,
\VS{27}Went
out
into
the
fields, wasting
the
vineyards,
and
treading
down
the grapes:
and singing
and dancing
they
went
into
the
temple
of
their
god,
and
in
their banquets
and cups
they
cursed
Abimelech.
\VS{28}And
Gaal
the
son
of Obed cried:
Who
is
Abimelech,
and
what
is Sichem,
that
we
should
serve
him?
Is
he
not
the
son
of Jerobaal,
and hath
made
Zebul
his
servant ruler
over
the
men
of Emor
the
father
of Sichem?
Why
then
shall
we
serve
him?
\VS{29}Would
to
God
that
some man
would
put
this
people
under
my
hand,
that
I might
remove
Abimelech
out
of
the
way.
And
it
was
said
to
Abimelech: Gather
together
the multitude
of
an
army,
and
come.
\VS{30}For
Zebul
the
ruler
of
the
city,
hearing
the
words
of
Gaal,
the
son
of Obed,
was
very
angry,
\VS{31}And
sent
messengers privately
to
Abimelech,
saying:
Behold
Gaal
the
son
of Obed
is
come
into Sichem
with
his
brethren,
and endeavoureth
to
set
the
city
against thee.
\VS{32}Arise
therefore
in
the
night
with
the
people
that
is
with thee
and
he hid
in
the
field:
\VS{33}And betimes
in
the
morning
at
sun
rising
set
upon
the
city.
And
when
he
shall
come
out
against thee
with
his
people,
do
to
him
what thou shalt
be
able.
\VS{34}Abimelech
therefore
arose
with
all
his
army
by
night,
and laid
ambushes
near Sichem
in
four
places.
\VS{35}And
Gaal
the
son
of Obed
went
out,
and
stood
in
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
the
city.
And
Abimelech
rose
up,
and
all
his
army
with
him
from
the
places
of
the ambushes.
\VS{36}And
when
Gaal
saw
the
people,
he
said
to
Zebul:
Behold
a multitude cometh
down
from
the
mountains.
And
he
answered
him: Thou seest
the
shadows
of
the
mountains
as
if
they
were
the
heads
of
men,
and
this
is thy mistake.
\VS{37}Again
Gaal
said:
Behold
there cometh
people
down
from
the middle
of
the
land,
and
one troop cometh
by
the
way
that looketh towards
the
oak.
\VS{38}And
Zebul
said
to
him:
Where
is
now thy
mouth wherewith thou saidst?
Who
is
Abimelech
that
we
should
serve
him?
Is
not
this
the
people
which thou didst
despise?
Go
out,
and
fight
against
him.
\VS{39}So
Gaal
went
out
in
the
sight
of
the people
of Sichem,
and
fought
against
Abimelech,
\VS{40}Who
chased
and
put
him
to
flight,
and drove
him
to
the
city:
and
many
were
slain
of
his people,
even
to
the
gate
of
the
city:
\VS{41}And
Abimelech
sat
down
in Ruma: but
Zebul
drove
Gaal,
and
his
companions
out
of
the city,
and would not suffer
them
to
abide
in
it.
\VS{42}So
the
day
following
the
people
went
out
into
the
field.
And
it
was
told
Abimelech.
\VS{43}And
he
took
his
army,
and
divided
it
into
three
companies,
and
laid
ambushes
in
the
fields.
And
seeing
that
the
people
came
out
of
the
city,
he
arose
and
set
upon
them,
\VS{44}With
his
own
company, assaulting
and
besieging
the
city: whilst
the
two
other
companies chased
the enemies
that
were scattered
about
the
field.
\VS{45}And
Abimelech assaulted
the
city
all
that
day:
and
took
it,
and
killed
the inhabitants thereof,
and demolished
it,
so
that
he
sowed
salt
in
it.
\VS{46}And
when
they
who dwelt
in
the
tower
of Sichem
had
heard
this,
they
went
into
the
temple
of
their
god Berith
where
they
had
made
a covenant
with
him,
and
from thence
the
place
had taken
its name,
and
it
was exceeding
strong.
\VS{47}Abimelech
also hearing
that
the
men
of
the
tower
of Sichem
were
gathered
together,
\VS{48}Went
up
into
mount Selmon
he
and
all
his
people
with
him:
and
taking
an
axe,
he
cut
down
the bough
of
a
tree,
and laying
it
on
his
shoulder
and
carrying
it,
he
said
to
his companions:
What
you
see
me
do,
do
you
out
of
hand.
\VS{49}So
they
cut
down boughs
from
the trees,
every
man
as fast
as
he
could,
and
followed
their leader.
And surrounding
the fort
they
set
it
on
fire:
and
so
it
came
to pass
that
with
the smoke
and
with
the
fire
a
thousand
persons
were
killed,
men
and
women
together,
of
the inhabitants
of
the
tower
of Sichem.
\VS{50}Then
Abimelech departing
from thence
came
to
the town
of Thebes, which
he surrounded
and besieged
with
his army.
\VS{51}And
there
was
in
the
midst
of
the
city
a
high
tower,
to
which
both
the
men
and
the
women
were
fled
together,
and
all
the princes
of
the
city,
and
having
shut
and strongly barred
the gate,
they stood
upon
the battlements
of
the
tower
to defend
themselves.
\VS{52}And
Abimelech
coming
near
the
tower,
fought stoutly:
and
approaching
to
the
gate, endeavoured
to
set
fire
to
it:
\VS{53}And behold
a
certain
woman casting
a
piece
of
a
millstone
from
above, dashed
it
against
the
head
of
Abimelech,
and
broke
his
skull.
\VS{54}And
he
called hastily
to
his armourbearer,
and
said
to
him:
Draw thy
sword,
and
kill
me:
lest
it
should
be
said
that
I
was
slain
by
a
woman.
He
did
as
he
was
commanded,
and
slew
him.
\VS{55}And
when
he
was
dead,
all
the
men
of
Israel
that
were
with
him, returned
to
their homes.
\VS{56}And
God
repaid
the
evil,
that
Abimelech
had
done against
his
father,
killing
his
seventy
brethren.
\VS{57}The Sichemites
also
were
rewarded
for
what
they
had
done,
and
the
curse
of Joatham
the
son
of Jerobaal
came
upon
them.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
Abimelech
there
arose
a
ruler
in
Israel, Thola
son
of Phua
the uncle
of
Abimelech,
a
man
of
Issachar,
who
dwelt
in Samir
of
mount
Ephraim:
\VS{2}And
he
judged
Israel
three
and
twenty
years,
and
he
died
and
was
buried
in Samir.
\VS{3}To
him
succeeded
Jair
the Galaadite,
who
judged
Israel
for
two
and
twenty
years.
\VS{4}Having
thirty
sons
that
rode
on
thirty ass
colts,
and
were princes
of
thirty
cities,
which
from
his
name
were
called Havoth Jair,
that
is,
the towns
of Jair,
until
this
present
day
in
the
land
of Galaad.
\VS{5}And
Jair
died:
and was
buried
in
the place which was called Camon.
\VS{6}But
the
children
of
Israel,
adding new sins
to
their
old
ones,
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and
served
idols, Baalim
and Astaroth,
and
the
gods
of
Syria
and
of
Sidon
and
of
Moab
and
of
the
children
of
Ammon
and
of
the
Philistines:
and
they
left
the
Lord,
and
did
not
serve
him.
\VS{7}And
the
Lord
being
angry
with
them,
delivered
them
into
the
hands
of
the
Philistines
and
of
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{8}And
they
were
afflicted,
and grievously
oppressed
for
eighteen
years,
all
they
that dwelt
beyond
the
Jordan
in
the
land
of
the Amorrhite,
who
is
in Galaad:
\VS{9}Insomuch
that
the
children
of
Ammon
passing
over
the
Jordan, wasted Juda
and
Benjamin
and
Ephraim:
and
Israel
was distressed
exceedingly.
\VS{10}And
they
cried
to
the
Lord,
and
said:
We
have
sinned
against thee,
because
we
have forsaken
the
Lord
our
God,
and
have
served Baalim.
\VS{11}And
the
Lord
said
to
them:
Did
not
the
Egyptians
and
the Amorrhites,
and
the
children
of
Ammon
and
the
Philistines,
\VS{12}The
Sidonians
also
and Amalec
and Chanaan
oppress
you,
and
you
cried
to
me,
and
I
delivered
you
out
of
their
hand?
\VS{13}And
yet
you
have forsaken
me,
and
have worshipped strange
gods:
therefore
I
will
deliver
you
no
more:
\VS{14}Go
and
call
upon
the
gods
which
you
have
chosen:
let
them
deliver
you
in
the
time
of
distress.
\VS{15}And
the
children
of
Israel
said
to
the
Lord:
We
have
sinned,
do thou unto
us
whatsoever pleaseth thee:
only
deliver
us
this
time.
\VS{16}And saying these
things,
they cast
away
out
of
their coasts
all
the idols
of
strange
gods
and
served
the
Lord
their
God:
and
he
was touched
with
their miseries.
\VS{17}And
the
children
of
Ammon shouting
together,
pitched
their tents
in Galaad:
against whom
the
children
of
Israel
assembled
themselves
together
and
camped
in Maspha.
\VS{18}And
the
princes
of Galaad
said
one
to
another: Whosoever
of
us
shall
first
begin
to
fight
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
he
shall
be
the
leader
of
the
people
of Galaad.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}There
was
at
that
time Jephte
the Galaadite,
a most
valiant
man
and
a
warrior,
the
son
of
a
woman
that
was
a
harlot,
and
his
father
was Galaad.
\VS{2}Now Galaad
had
a
wife
of whom
he
had
sons:
who
after
they
were
grown
up, thrust
out Jephte,
saying: Thou canst
not
inherit
in
the
house
of
our
father,
because thou art
born
of
another mother.
\VS{3}Then
he
fled
and avoided
them
and
dwelt
in
the
land
of
Tob:
and
there
were
gathered
to
him needy
men,
and robbers,
and
they followed
him
as
their prince.
\VS{4}In
those
days
the
children
of
Ammon
made war
against
Israel.
\VS{5}And
as
they pressed hard
upon
them,
the ancients
of Galaad
went
to fetch Jephte
out
of
the
land
of
Tob
to help
them:
\VS{6}And
they
said
to
him:
Come thou
and
be
our prince,
and
fight
against
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{7}And
he
answered
them:
Are
not
you
the
men
that
hated
me,
and cast
me
out
of
my
father’s
house,
and
now
you
are
come
to
me constrained
by necessity?
\VS{8}And
the princes
of Galaad
said
to Jephte:
For
this
cause
we
are
now
come
to thee,
that thou mayst
go
with
us,
and
fight
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
be
head
over
all
the
inhabitants
of Galaad.
\VS{9}Jephte
also
said
to
them:
If
you
be
come
to
me sincerely,
that
I
should
fight
for
you
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
the
Lord
shall
deliver
them
into
my
band,
shall
I
be
your prince?
\VS{10}They
answered
him:
The
Lord
who heareth these
things,
he
himself
is mediator
and
witness
that
we
will
do
as
we
have
promised.
\VS{11}Jephte
therefore
went
with
the princes
of Galaad,
and
all
the
people
made
him
their prince.
And Jephte
spoke
all
his
words
before
the
Lord
in Maspha.
\VS{12}And
he
sent
messengers
to
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
to
say
in
his
name,
What hast thou
to
do
with
me,
that thou art
come
against
me,
to waste
my
land?
\VS{13}And
he
answered
them:
I
Because
Israel
took
away
my
land
when
he
came
up
out
of
Egypt,
from
the confines
of
the
Arnon unto
the Jaboc
and
the
Jordan:
now
therefore
restore
the
same
peaceably
to
me.
\VS{14}And Jephte
again
sent word
by
them,
and commanded
them
to
say
to
the
king
of
Ammon:
\VS{15}Thus saith Jephte:
Israel
did
not
take
away
the
land
of
Moab,
nor
the
land
of
the
children
of
Ammon:
\VS{16}But
when
they
came
up
out
of
Egypt,
he walked
through
the
desert
to
the Red
Sea
and
came
into Cades.
\VS{17}And
he
sent
messengers
to
the
king
of
Edom,
saying: Suffer
me
to
pass
through thy
land.
But
he
would
not condescend
to
his
request.
He
sent
also
to
the
king
of
Moab,
who
likewise
refused
to
give
him passage.
He
abode
therefore
in Cades,
\VS{18}And
went
round
the
land
of
Edom
at
the
side,
and
the
land
of
Moab:
and
came
over
against
the
east coast
of
the
land
of
Moab,
and
camped
on
the
other
side
of
the
Arnon:
and
he
would
not
enter
the bounds
of
Moab.
\VS{19}So
Israel
sent
messengers
to Sehon
king
of
the Amorrhites,
who dwelt
in Hesebon,
and
they
said
to
him: Suffer
me
to
pass
through thy
land
to
the
river.
\VS{20}But
he
also despising
the words
of
Israel, suffered
him
not
to
pass
through
his
borders:
but
gathering an infinite multitude, went
out
against
him
to Jasa,
and
made strong opposition.
\VS{21}And
the
Lord
delivered
him
with
all
his
army
into
the
hands
of
Israel,
and
he
slew
him,
and
possessed
all
the
land
of
the Amorrhite
the
inhabitant
of
that
country,
\VS{22}And
all
the coasts thereof
from
the
Arnon
to
the Jaboc,
and
from
the
wilderness
to
the
Jordan.
\VS{23}So
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel destroyed
the Amorrhite,
his
people
of
Israel fighting
against
him,
and wilt thou
now
possess
this
land?
\VS{24}Are
not
those
things
which thy
god Chamos possesseth,
due
to thee
by right?
But
what
the
Lord
our
God hath obtained
by conquest,
shall
be
our
possession:
\VS{25}Unless perhaps thou art
better
than Balac
the
son
of Sephor
king
of
Moab:
or canst shew
that
he strove
against
Israel
and
fought
against
him,
\VS{26}Whereas
he hath
dwelt
in Hesebon,
and
the
villages thereof,
and
in
Aroer,
and
its
villages,
and
in
all
the
cities
near
the Jordan,
for
three
hundred
years.
Why
have
you
for
so long
a
time attempted
nothing
about
this claim?
\VS{27}Therefore
I
do
not trespass
against thee,
but thou wrongest
me
by declaring
an unjust war
against
me.
The
Lord
be
judge
and
decide
this
day
between
Israel
and
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{28}And
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon
would
not hearken
to
the
words
of Jephte,
which
he
sent
him
by
the messengers.
\VS{29}Therefore
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
upon Jephte,
and going round Galaad,
and Manasses,
and Maspha
of Galaad,
and
passing
over
from thence
to
the
children
of
Ammon,
\VS{30}He
made
a
vow
to
the
Lord,
saying:
If thou wilt
deliver
the
children
of
Ammon
into
my
hands,
\VS{31}Whosoever
shall first
come
forth
out
of
the
doors
of
my
house,
and
shall
meet
me
when
I
return
in
peace
from
the
children
of
Ammon,
the same
will
I
offer
a holocaust
to
the
Lord.
\VS{32}And Jephte
passed
over
to
the
children
of
Ammon,
to
fight
against
them:
and
the
Lord
delivered
them
into
his
hands.
\VS{33}And
he
smote
them
from
Aroer
till
you
come
to Mennith,
twenty
cities,
and
as
far
as Abel, which
is
set
with vineyards,
with
a
very
great
slaughter:
and
the
children
of
Ammon
were
humbled
by
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{34}And
when Jephte
returned
into Maspha
to
his
house,
his
only
daughter
met
him
with
timbrels
and
with
dances:
for
he
had
no
other
children.
\VS{35}And
when
he
saw
her,
he rent
his
garments,
and
said:
Alas!
my
daughter, thou hast deceived
me,
and thou thyself art deceived:
for
I
have
opened
my
mouth
to
the
Lord,
and
I
can
do
no
other thing.
\VS{36}And
she
answered
him:
My
father,
if thou hast
opened thy
mouth
to
the
Lord,
do unto
me whatsoever thou hast
promised,
since
the victory hath
been granted
to thee,
and
revenge
of thy
enemies.
\VS{37}And
she
said
to
her
father: Grant
me only
this
which
I desire:
Let
me
go,
that
I
may
go
about
the
mountains
for
two
months,
and
may
bewail
my
virginity
with
my companions.
\VS{38}And
he
answered
her:
Go.
And
he
sent
her
away
for
two
months.
And
when
she
was gone
with
her comrades
and
companions,
she
mourned
her
virginity
in
the
mountains.
\VS{39}And
the
two
months
being expired,
she
returned
to
her
father,
and
he
did
to
her
as
he
had
vowed,
and
she
knew
no
man.
From thence
came
a fashion
in
Israel,
and
a
custom
has
been
kept:
\VS{40}That
from
year
to
year
the
daughters
of
Israel assemble together,
and lament
the
daughter
of Jephte
the Galaadite
for
four
days.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
behold there arose
a sedition
in
Ephraim.
And
passing towards
the
north,
they
said
to Jephte:
When thou wentest
to
fight
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
why wouldst thou
not
call
us,
that we
might
go
with thee? Therefore we
will
burn thy
house.
\VS{2}And
he
answered
them:
I
and
my
people
were
at
great
strife
with
the
children
of
Ammon:
and
I
called
you
to
assist
me,
and
you
would
not
do
it.
\VS{3}And
when
I
saw
this,
I
put
my
life
in
my
own
hands,
and
passed
over
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
the
Lord
delivered
them
into
my
hands.
What
have
I deserved,
that
you
should
rise
up
to
fight
against
me?
\VS{4}Then calling
to
him
all
the
men
of Galaad,
he
fought
against
Ephraim:
and
the
men
of Galaad
defeated
Ephraim,
because
he
had
said: Galaad
is
a
fugitive
of
Ephraim,
and dwelleth
in
the
midst
of
Ephraim
and Manasses.
\VS{5}And
the Galaadites secured
the fords
of
the
Jordan,
by which
Ephraim
was
to return.
And
when
any
one
of
the number
of
Ephraim
came thither
in
the flight,
and
said:
I beseech
you
let
me
pass:
the Galaadites
said
to
him: Art thou
not
an
Ephraimite?
If
he
said:
I
am
not:
\VS{6}They
asked
him:
Say
then, Scibboleth,
which
is interpreted,
An ear
of corn.
But
he
answered,
Sibboleth,
not being able
to express
an ear
of corn
by
the
same letter.
Then presently
they
took
him
and
killed
him
in
the
very passage
of
the
Jordan.
And there
fell
at
that
time
of
Ephraim
two
and
forty
thousand.
\VS{7}And Jephte
the Galaadite
judged
Israel
six
years:
and
he
died,
and
was
buried
in
his
city
of Galaad.
\VS{8}After
him Abesan
of
Bethlehem
judged
Israel:
\VS{9}He
had
thirty
sons,
and
as many
daughters, whom
he
sent
abroad,
and
gave
to husbands,
and
took wives
for
his
sons
of
the
same number,
bringing
them
into
his house.
And
he
judged
Israel
seven
years:
\VS{10}And
he
died,
and was
buried
in
Bethlehem.
\VS{11}To
him
succeeded Ahialon
a Zabulonite:
and
he
judged
Israel
ten
years:
\VS{12}And
he
died,
and
was
buried
in Zabulon.
\VS{13}After
him
Abdon,
the
son
of Illel,
a Pharathonite,
judged
Israel:
\VS{14}And
he
had
forty
sons,
and
of
them
thirty
grandsons,
mounted
upon
seventy ass
colts,
and
he
judged
Israel
eight
years:
\VS{15}And
he
died,
and
was
buried
in Pharathon
in
the
land
of
Ephraim,
in
the
mount
of Amalech.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
children
of
Israel
did
evil
again
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord:
and
he
delivered
them
into
the
hands
of
the
Philistines
forty
years.
\VS{2}Now
there
was
a
certain
man
of Saraa,
and
of
the race
of Dan,
whose
name
was Manue,
and
his
wife
was
barren.
\VS{3}And
an
angel
of
the
Lord
appeared
to
her,
and
said: Thou art
barren
and
without
children:
but thou shalt
conceive
and
bear
a
son.
\VS{4}Now
therefore
beware
and
drink
no
wine
nor
strong
drink,
and
eat
not
any
unclean
thing.
\VS{5}Because thou shalt
conceive
and
bear
a
son,
and
no razor
shall touch
his
head:
for
he
shall
be
a Nazarite
of
God,
from
his infancy,
and
from
his mother’s
womb,
and
he
shall
begin
to
deliver
Israel
from
the
hands
of
the
Philistines.
\VS{6}And
when
she
was
come
to
her
husband
she
said
to
him:
A
man
of
God
came
to
me,
having
the countenance
of
an
angel,
very awful.
And
when
I
asked
him
who
he
was,
and whence
he
came,
and
by
what
name
he
was
called,
he
would
not
tell
me.
\VS{7}But
he
answered
thus:
Behold thou shalt
conceive
and
bear
a
son:
beware thou
drink
no
wine,
nor
strong
drink,
nor
eat
any
unclean
thing:
for
the
child
shall
be
a Nazarite
of
God
from
his infancy,
from
his mother’s
womb
until
the
day
of
his
death.
\VS{8}Then Manue
prayed
to
the
Lord,
and
said:
I
beseech thee,
O
Lord,
that
the mail
of
God,
whom thou didst
send,
may
come
again,
and
teach
us
what
we ought
to
do
concerning
the
child
that
shall
be
born.
\VS{9}And
the Lord
heard
the prayer
of Manue,
and
the
angel
of
the Lord
appeared
again
to
his
wife
as
she
was
sitting
in
the
field.
But Manue
her
husband
was
not
with
her.
And
when
she saw
the
angel,
\VS{10}She
made
haste
and
ran
to
her
husband:
and
told
him
saying:
Behold
the
man hath
appeared
to
me
whom
I
saw
before.
\VS{11}He
rose
up
and
followed
his
wife:
and
coming
to
the
man,
said
to
him: Art thou
he
that
spoke
to
the
woman?
And
he
answered:
I
am.
\VS{12}And Manue
said
to
him:
When thy
word
shall
come
to
pass,
what wilt thou
that
the
child
should
do?
or
from
what
shall
he
keep himself?
\VS{13}And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
said
to Manue:
From
all
the
things
I
have
spoken
of
to thy
wife, let
her refrain herself:
\VS{14}And
let
her
eat
nothing
that cometh
of
the
vine,
neither
let
her
drink
wine
or
strong
drink,
nor
eat
any
unclean
thing:
and
whatsoever
I
have
commanded
her,
let
her fulfill
and
observe.
\VS{15}And Manue
said
to
the
angel
of
the
Lord:
I
beseech thee
to consent
to
my
request,
and
let
us dress
a kid
for thee.
\VS{16}And
the
angel
answered
him:
If thou press
me,
I
will
not
eat
of thy
bread:
but
if thou wilt
offer
a holocaust,
offer
it
to
the
Lord.
And Manue
knew
not
it
was
the
angel
of
the
Lord.
\VS{17}And
he
said
to
him:
What
is thy
name,
that,
if thy
word
shall
come
to
pass,
we
may honour thee?
\VS{18}And
he
answered
him:
Why askest thou
my
name,
which
is
wonderful?
\VS{19}Then Manue
took
a kid
of
the flocks,
and
the libations,
and
put
them
upon
a
rock,
offering
to
the
Lord,
who doth
wonderful
things:
and
he
and
his
wife
looked
on.
\VS{20}And
when
the
flame
from
the
altar
went
up towards
heaven,
the
angel
of
the
lord
ascended
also
in
the
flame.
And
when Manue
and
his
wife
saw
this,
they
fell
flat
on
the
ground.
\VS{21}And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
appeared
to
them
no
more.
And forthwith Manue
understood
that
it
was
an
angel
of
the
Lord,
\VS{22}And
he
said
to
his
wife:
We
shall
certainly
die,
because
we
have
seen
God.
\VS{23}And
his
wife
answered
him:
If
the
Lord
had
a
mind
to
kill
us,
he
would
not
have
received
a holocaust
and libations
at
our
hands,
neither
would
he
have shewed
us
all
these
things,
nor
have
told
us
the
things
that
are
to come.
\VS{24}And
she
bore
a
son,
and
called
his
name
Samson.
And
the
child
grew,
and
the
Lord
blessed
him.
\VS{25}And
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
began
to
be
with
him
in
the
camp
of
Dan,
between Saraa
and Esthaol.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Samson
went
down
to Thamnatlia,
and
seeing there
a
woman
of
the
daughters
of
the
Philistines,
\VS{2}He
came
up,
and
told
his
father
and
his
mother,
saying:
I
saw
a
woman
in Thamnatha
of
the
daughters
of
the
Philistines:
I beseech
you,
take
her
for
me
to
wife.
\VS{3}And
his
father
and
mother
said
to
him:
Is
there
no
woman
among
the
daughters
of thy
brethren,
or
among
all
my
people,
that thou wilt
take
a
wife
of
the
Philistines,
who
are
uncircumcised?
And
Samson
said
to
his
father:
Take
this
woman
for
me,
for
she hath
pleased
my
eyes.
\VS{4}Now
his
parents
knew
not
that
the
thing
was done
by
the
Lord,
and
that
he
sought
an occasion against
the
Philistines:
for
at
that
time
the
Philistines
had
dominion
over
Israel.
\VS{5}Then
Samson
went
down
with
his
father
and
mother
to Thamnatha.
And
when
they
were
come
to
the
vineyards
of
the town,
behold
a
young
lion
met
him raging
and
roaring.
\VS{6}And
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
upon Samson,
and
he
tore
the lion
as
he
would
have torn
a kid
in pieces,
having
nothing
at all
in
his
hand:
and
he
would
not
tell
this
to
his
father
and
mother.
\VS{7}And
he
went
down
and
spoke
to
the
woman
that
had
pleased
his
eyes.
\VS{8}And
after
some
days
returning
to
take
her,
he
went
aside
to
see
the
carcass
of
the
lion,
and
behold
there
was
a
swarm
of
bees
in
the mouth
of
the
lion
and
a honeycomb.
\VS{9}And
when
be
had
taken
it
in
his
hands,
he
went
on
eating:
and
coming
to
his
father
and
mother,
he
gave
them
of
it,
and
they
ate:
but
he
would
not
tell
them,
that
he
had
taken
the
honey
from
the body
of
the
lion.
\VS{10}So
his
father
went
down
to
the
woman,
and
made
a
feast
for
his son
Samson:
for
so
the
young
men
used
to
do.
\VS{11}And
when
the citizens
of
that
place
saw
him,
they
brought
him
thirty
companions
to
be
with
him.
\VS{12}And
Samson
said
to
them:
I
will propose
to
you
a
riddle,
which
if
you
declare unto
me within
the
seven
days
of
the
feast,
I
will
give
you
thirty shirts,
and
as many coats:
\VS{13}But
if
you
shall
not
be
able
to
declare
it,
you
shall
give
me
thirty shirts
and
the same number
of coats.
They
answered
him:
Put
forth
the
riddle
that
we
may
hear
it.
\VS{14}And
he
said
to
them:
Out
of
the
eater
came
forth meat,
and
out
of
the
strong
came
forth sweetness.
And
they
could
not
in
three
days expound
the
riddle.
\VS{15}And
when
the
seventh
day
came,
they
said
to
the
wife
of
Samson: Soothe thy
husband,
and persuade
him
to
tell thee what
the
riddle meaneth.
But
if thou wilt
not do
it,
we
will
burn thee,
and thy
father’s
house.
Have
you
called
us
to
the wedding
on purpose
to strip
us?
\VS{16}So
she
wept
before
Samson
and complained,
saying: Thou hatest
me,
and dost
not
love
me: therefore thou wilt
not expound
to
me
the
riddle
which thou hast proposed
to
the
sons
of
my
people.
But
he
answered:
I
would
not
tell
it
to
my
father
and
mother,
and
how
can
I
tell
it
to thee?
\VS{17}So
she
wept
before
him
the
seven
days
of
the
feast:
and
at
length
on
the
seventh
day
as
she
was troublesome
to
him,
he expounded
it.
And
she immediately
told
her countrymen.
\VS{18}And
they
on
the
seventh
day
before
the sun
went down
said
to
him:
What
is
sweeter
than
honey?
and
what
is
stronger
than
a
lion?
And
he
said
to
them:
If
you
had
not ploughed
with
my
heifer,
you
had
not
found
out
my
riddle.
\VS{19}And
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
upon
him,
and
he
went
down
to Ascalon,
and
slew
there
thirty
men,
whose garments
he
took
away
and
gave
to
them
that
had
declared
the
riddle.
And being exceeding
angry
he
went
up
to
his
father’s
house:
\VS{20}But
his
wife
took
one
of
his
friends
and bridal
companions
for
her husband.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
a
while
after,
when
the
days
of
the
wheat
harvest
were
at
hand,
Samson
came, meaning
to
visit
his
wife,
and
he
brought
her
a kid
of
the flock.
And
when
he
would
have
gone
into
her
chamber
as
usual,
her
father
would
not
suffer
him,
saying:
\VS{2}I
thought thou hadst
hated
her,
and
therefore
I
gave
her
to thy friend:
but
she hath
a
sister,
who
is
younger
and fairer
than
she,
take
her
to wife
instead
of
her.
\VS{3}And
Samson
answered
him:
From
this day
I
shall
be
blameless
in
what
I
do
against
the
Philistines:
for
I
will
do
you evils.
\VS{4}And
he
went
and
caught
three
hundred
foxes,
and coupled
them
tail
to
tail,
and fastened
torches
between
the
tails.
\VS{5}And setting
them
on
fire
he
let
the foxes
go,
that
they might run about hither
and thither.
And
they presently went into
the
standing corn
of
the
Philistines.
Which being
set
on
fire, both
the corn
that
was already carried together,
and
that
which
was
yet
standing,
was
all burnt, insomuch,
that
the
flame
consumed
also
the
vineyards
and
the oliveyards.
\VS{6}Then
the
Philistines
said:
Who hath
done
this
thing?
And
it
was
answered:
Samson
the son
in law
of
the Thamnathite,
because
he
took
away
his
wife,
and
gave
her
to
another, hath
done
these things.
And
the
Philistines
went
up
and
burnt both
the
woman
and
her
father.
\VS{7}But
Samson
said
to
them:
Although
you
have
done
this,
yet
will
I
be revenged
of
you,
and
then
I
will
be quiet.
\VS{8}And
he
made
a
great
slaughter
of
them,
so
that
in astonishment
they laid
the calf
of
the
leg
upon
the
thigh.
And
going
down
he
dwelt
in
a cavern
of
the
rock
Etam.
\VS{9}Then
the
Philistines
going
up
into
the land
of Juda,
camped
in
the place which afterwards
was called Lechi,
that
is,
the Jawbone, where
their
army
was
spread.
\VS{10}And
the
men
of
the tribe
of Juda
said
to
them:
Why
are
you
come
up
against
us?
They
answered:
We
are
come
to
bind
Samson,
and
to pay
him
for
what
he hath
done
against
us.
\VS{11}Wherefore
three
thousand
men
of Juda,
went
down
to
the cave
of
the
rock
Etam,
and
said
to
Samson: Knowest thou
not
that
the
Philistines
rule
over
us?
Why wouldst thou
do
thus?
And
he
said
to
them:
As
they
did
to
me,
so
have
I
done
to
them.
\VS{12}And
they
said
to
him,
We
are
come
to
bind thee
and
to
deliver thee
into
the
hands
of
the
Philistines.
And
Samson
said
to
them:
Swear
to
me,
and
promise
me,
that
you
will
not
kill
me.
\VS{13}They
said:
We
will
not
kill thee:
but
we
will
deliver thee
up
bound.
And
they
bound
him
with
two
new
cords,
and
brought
him
from
the
rock Etam.
\VS{14}Now
when
he
was
come
to
the
place
of
the Jawbone,
and
the
Philistines
shouting
went
to
meet
him,
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came strongly
upon
him:
and
as
the
flax
is wont
to
be
consumed
at
the
approach
of
fire,
so
the bands
with
which
he
was bound
were broken
and loosed.
\VS{15}And
finding
a
jawbone, even
the
jawbone
of
an ass which
lay
there, catching
it up,
be
slew therewith
a
thousand
men.
\VS{16}And
he
said:
With
the
jawbone
of
an ass,
with
the
jaw
of
the colt
of asses
I
have
destroyed
them,
and
have
slain
a
thousand
men.
\VS{17}And
when
he
had
ended
these words singing,
he
threw
the
jawbone
out
of
his
hand,
and
called
the
name
of
that
place Ramathlechi,
which
is interpreted
the lifting
up
of
the
jawbone.
\VS{18}Arid being
very
thirsty,
he
cried
to
the
Lord,
and
said: Thou hast
given
this
very
great
deliverance
and
victory
into
the
hand
of thy
servant:
and behold
I
die
for
thirst,
and
shall
fall
into
the
hands
of
the
uncircumcised.
\VS{19}Then
the Lord opened
a
great tooth
in
the
jaw
of
the ass,
and
waters
issued
out
of
it.
And
when
he
had
drank
them
he refreshed
his
spirit,
and
recovered
his
strength.
Therefore
the
name
of
that
place
was
called,
The
Spring
of
him
that invoked
from
the
jawbone,
until
this
present
day.
\VS{20}And
he
judged
Israel
in
the
days
of
the
Philistines
twenty
years.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}He
went
also
into
Gaza,
and
saw
there
a
woman
a
harlot,
and
went
in unto
her.
\VS{2}And
when
the Philistines
had beard
this,
and
it
was noised
about among
them,
that
Samson
was
come
into
the
city,
they
surrounded
him, setting guards
at
the
gate
of
the
city,
and watching
there
all
the
night
in silence,
that
in
the
morning
they might
kill
him
as
he
went
out.
\VS{3}But
Samson
slept
till midnight,
and
then
rising
he
took
both
the
doors
of
the
gate,
with
the
posts thereof,
and
the
bolt,
and laying
them
on
his
shoulders,
carried
them
up
to
the
top
of
the
hill,
which looketh towards
Hebron.
\VS{4}After
this
he
loved
a
woman,
who dwelt
in
the
valley
of Sorec,
and
she
was
called Dalila.
\VS{5}And
the princes
of
the
Philistines
came
to
her,
and
said: Deceive
him,
and learn
of
him wherein
his
great
strength lieth,
and
how
we
may
be
able
to
overcome
him,
to
bind
and
afflict
him:
which
if thou shalt
do,
we
will
give thee
every
one
of
us eleven
hundred pieces
of
silver.
\VS{6}And Dalila
said
to
Samson:
Tell
me,
I
beseech thee, wherein thy
greatest
strength lieth,
and
what
it
is wherewith if thou wert
bound thou couldst not break loose.
\VS{7}And
Samson
answered
her:
If
I
shall
be
bound
with
seven cords
made
of sinews
not
yet
dry,
but
still moist,
I
shall
be
weak
like
other
men.
\VS{8}And
the princes
of
the
Philistines
brought unto her
seven cords,
such
is
he spoke
of,
with
which
she
bound
him;
\VS{9}Men
lying privately
in
wait
with
her,
and
in
the
chamber expecting
the event
of
the thing,
and
she cried
out
to
him:
The
Philistines
are
upon thee,
Samson.
And
he
broke
the bands,
as
a
man
would
break
a
thread
of
tow twined
with spittle,
when
it smelleth
the
fire:
so
it
was
not
known
wherein
his
strength Jay.
\VS{10}And Dalila
said
to
him:
Behold thou hast
mocked
me,
and hast
told
me
a
false
thing:
but
now
at least
tell
me wherewith thou mayest
be
bound.
\VS{11}And
he
answered
her:
If
I
shall
be
bound
with
new
ropes,
that
were
never
in
work,
I
shall
be
weak
and
like
other
men.
\VS{12}Dalila
bound
him again
with
these,
and cried
out:
The
Philistines
are
upon thee,
Samson,
there being
an
ambush
prepared
for
him
in
the
chamber.
But
he
broke
the bands
like threads
of webs.
\VS{13}And Dalila
said
to
him
again:
How
long dost thou
deceive
me,
and
tell
me
lies? Shew
me wherewith thou mayest be
bound.
And
Samson
answered
her:
If thou plattest
the
seven
locks
of
my
head
with
a lace,
and tying
them round
about
a nail fastenest
it
in
the ground,
I
shall be weak.
\VS{14}And
when Dalila
had done this, she
said
to
him:
The
Philistines
are
upon thee,
Samson.
And awaking
out
of
his
sleep
he drew
out
the nail
with
the hairs
and
the lace.
\VS{15}And Dalila
said
to
him:
How dost thou
say thou lovest
me,
when thy
mind
is
not
with
me? Thou hast
told
me lies
these
three
times,
and wouldst
not
tell
me wherein thy
great
strength lieth.
\VS{16}And
when
she
pressed
him
much,
and
continually hung
upon
him
for many
days, giving
him
no
time
to
rest,
his
soul fainted
away,
and
was wearied
even until
death.
\VS{17}Then opening
the truth
of
the
thing,
he
said
to
her:
The razor hath
never
come
upon
my
head,
for
I
am
a Nazarite,
that
is
to
say,
consecrated
to
God
from
my
mother’s
womb:
if
my
head
be shaven,
my
strength
shall
depart
from
me,
and
I
shall
become
weak,
and
shall
be
like
other
men.
\VS{18}Then
seeing
that
be
had discovered
to
her
all
his
mind,
she
sent
to
the princes
of
the
Philistines,
saying:
Come
up
this
once
more,
for
now
he hath
opened
his
heart
to
me.
And
they
went
up taking
with
them
the
money which
they
had
promised.
\VS{19}But
she
made
him
sleep
upon
her
knees,
and lay
his
head
in
her bosom.
And
she
called
a barber,
and
shaved
his
seven
locks,
and
began
to drive
him
away,
and thrust
him
from
her:
for immediately
his
strength
departed
from
him.
\VS{20}And
she
said:
The
Philistines
are
upon thee,
Samson.
And awaking
from
sleep,
he
said
in
his
mind:
I
will
go
out
as
I
did
before,
and
shake
myself,
not
knowing
that
the
Lord
was
departed
from
him.
\VS{21}Then
the
Philistines
seized
upon
him,
and forthwith pulled
out
his
eyes,
and led
him
bound
in
chains
to
Gaza,
and shutting
him
up
in
prison
made
him
grind.
\VS{22}And now
his
hair
began
to
grow
again.
\VS{23}And
the princes
of
the
Philistines
assembled
together,
to
offer
great
sacrifices
to
Dagon
their
god,
and
to
make merry,
saying:
Our
god hath
delivered
our
enemy
Samson
into
our
hands.
\VS{24}And
the
people
also
seeing
this,
praised
their
god,
and
said
the
same:
Our
god hath
delivered
our adversary
into
our bands,
him
that
destroyed
our
country
and
killed very
many.
\VS{25}And
rejoicing
in
their feasts,
when
they
had
now
taken
their
good cheer,
they
commanded
that
Samson
should
be
called,
and
should
play
before
them.
And
being
brought
out
of
prison
he
played
before
them,
and
they
made
him
stand
between
two
pillars.
\VS{26}And
he
said
to
the
lad
that guided
his steps:
Suffer
me
to touch
the
pillars
which
support
the whole
house,
and let
me
lean
upon
them,
and
rest
a little.
\VS{27}Now
the
house
was
full
of
men
and
women,
and
all
the princes
of
the
Philistines
were
there. Moreover
about
three
thousand
persons
of
both sexes
from
the
roof
and
the higher
part
of
the
house,
were beholding
Samson’s
play.
\VS{28}But
he
called
upon
the
Lord,
saying:
O
Lord
God,
remember
me,
and restore
to
me
now
my former
strength,
O
my
God,
that
I
may
revenge myself
on
my enemies,
and
for
the loss
of
my
two
eyes
I
may
take
one
revenge.
\VS{29}And laying
hold
on
both
the
pillars
on
which
the
house
rested,
and holding
the
one
with
his
right
hand,
and
the
other
with
his
left,
\VS{30}He
said:
Let
me
die
with
the
Philistines.
And
when
he
had strongly shook
the pillars,
the
house
fell
upon
all
the princes,
and
the
rest
of
the multitude
that
was
there:
and
he
killed
many
more
at
his
death,
than
he
had
killed
before
in
his
life.
\VS{31}And
his
brethren
and
all
his kindred,
going
down
took
his body,
and
buried
it
between Saraa
and Esthaol
in
the buryingplace
of
his
father Manue:
and
he
judged
Israel
twenty
years.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}There
was
at
that
time
a
man
of
mount
Ephraim
whose
name
was Michas,
\VS{2}Who
said
to
his
mother:
The eleven
hundred pieces
of
silver,
which thou hadst
put aside
for thyself,
and
concerning
which thou didst swear
in
my
hearing,
behold
I
have,
and
they
are
with
me.
And
she
said
to
him:
Blessed
be
my
son
by
the
Lord.
\VS{3}So
he
restored
them
to
his
mother,
who
said
to
him:
I
have
consecrated
and vowed
this
silver
to
the
Lord,
that
my
son
may receive
it
at
my
hand,
and
make
a
graven
and
a molten
god,
so
now
I deliver
it
to thee.
\VS{4}And
he
restored
them
to
his
mother:
and
she
took
two
hundred pieces
of
silver
and
gave
them
to
the
silversmith,
to
make
of
them
a
graven
and
a molten
god,
which
was
in
the
house
of Michas.
\VS{5}And
he separated
also therein
a little
temple
for
the
god,
and
made
an
ephod,
and theraphim,
that
is
to say,
a
priestly garment,
and
idols:
and
he
filled
the
hand
of
one
of
his
sons,
and
he
became
his
priest.
\VS{6}In
those
days
there
was
no
king
in
Israel,
but
every
one
did
that
which
seemed
right
to
himself.
\VS{7}There
was
also another
young
man
of
Bethlehem Juda,
of
the kindred thereof:
and
he
was
a
Levite,
and dwelt
there.
\VS{8}Now
he
went
out
from
the
city
of
Bethlehem,
and desired
to sojourn wheresoever
he
should
find
it convenient
for
him.
And
when
he
was
come
to
mount
Ephraim,
as
he
was
on
his
journey,
and
had
turned aside
a little
into
the
house
of Michas,
\VS{9}He
was
asked
by
him whence
he
came.
And
he
answered:
I
am
a
Levite
of
Bethlehem Juda,
and
I
am
going
to
dwell
where
I
can,
and
where
I
shall
find
a
place
to
my advantage.
\VS{10}And Michas
said:
Stay
with
me,
and
be unto
me
a
father
and
a
priest,
and
I
will
give thee
every
year
ten pieces
of
silver,
and
a double
suit
of apparel,
and thy victuals.
\VS{11}He
was content,
and
abode
with
the
man,
and
was unto
him
as
one
of
his
sons.
\VS{12}And Michas
filled
his
hand,
and
had
the
young
man
with
him,
for
his
priest, saying:
\VS{13}Now
I
know
God
will
do
me
good,
since
I
have
a
priest
of
the race
of
the
Levites.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
those
days
there
was
no
king
in
Israel,
and
the
tribe
of Dan
sought
them
an
inheritance
to
dwell
in:
for unto
that
day
they
had
not received
their
lot
among
the
other
tribes.
\VS{2}So
the
children
of
Dan
sent
five most
valiant
men
of
their stock
and
family
from Saraa
and Esthaol,
to
spy
out
the
land,
and
to view
it diligently:
and
they
said
to
them:
Go,
and view
the
land.
They
went
on
their
way,
and
when
they
came
to
mount
Ephraim,
they
went
into
the
house
of Michas,
and rested
there:
\VS{3}And knowing
the
voice
of
the
young
man
the
Levite,
and lodging
with
him,
they
said
to
him:
Who
brought thee hither?
what dost thou
here?
why wouldst thou
come hither?
\VS{4}He
answered
them: Michas hath
done
such
and
such
things
for
me,
and hath
hired
me
to
be
his
priest.
\VS{5}Then
they
desired
him
to
consult
the Lord,
that
they
might
know whether
their
journey
should
be
prosperous,
and
the
thing
should
have effect.
\VS{6}He
answered
them: Go
in
peace,
the
Lord looketh
on
your
way,
and
the
journey
that
you go.
\VS{7}So
the
five
men
going
on
came
to Lais:
and
they
saw
how
the
people
dwelt therein
without
any fear,
according
to
the
custom
of
the
Sidonians,
secure
and easy,
having
no
man
at
all
to oppose
them, being very rich,
and
living separated,
at
a
distance
from Sidon
and
from
all
men.
\VS{8}And
they
returned
to
their
brethren
in Saraa
and Esthaol,
who
asked
them
what
they
had done?
to whom
they
answered:
\VS{9}Arise,
and
let
us
go
up
to
them:
for
we
have
seen
the
land which
is
exceeding rich
and fruitful: neglect
not, lose
no time:
let
us
go
and
possess
it,
there
will
be
no difficulty.
\VS{10}We
shall
come
to
a
people
that
is
secure,
into
a
spacious
country,
and
the Lord
will
deliver
the
place
to
us,
in
which
there
is
no
want
of
any
thing
that groweth
on
the
earth.
\VS{11}There
went therefore
of
the kindred
of Dan,
to wit,
from Saraa
and Esthaol,
six
hundred
men, furnished
with arms
for
war,
\VS{12}And
going
up
they lodged
in Cariathiarim
of Juda:
which
place
from
that
time
is
called
the
camp
of Dan,
and
is
behind Cariathiarim.
\VS{13}From thence
they
passed
into
mount
Ephraim.
And
when
they
were
come
to
the
house
of Michas,
\VS{14}The
five
men,
that
before
had
been
sent
to view
the
land
of Lais,
said
to
the rest
of
their
brethren:
You
know
that
in
these
houses
there
is
an
ephod,
and theraphim,
and
a
graven,
and
a molten
god:
see
what
you
are pleased
to
do.
\VS{15}And
when
they
had
turned
a little
aside,
they
went
into
the
house
of
the
young
man
the
Levite,
who
was
in
the
house
of Michas:
and
they saluted
him
with words
of
peace.
\VS{16}And
the
six
hundred
men
stood before
the
door, appointed
with
their arms.
\VS{17}But
they
that
were
gone
into
the house
of
the young
man,
went
about
to
take
away
the
graven god,
and
the
ephod,
and
the theraphim,
and
the molten god,
and
the
priest
stood before
the
door,
the
six
hundred valiant
men
waiting
not far
off.
\VS{18}So
they
that
were
gone
in
took
away
the
graven thing,
the
ephod,
and
the
idols,
and
the molten
god.
And
the
priest
said
to
them:
What
are
you
doing?
\VS{19}And
they
said
to
him:
Hold thy peace
and
put thy finger
on thy
mouth
and
come
with
us,
that we
may
have thee
for
a
father,
and
a
priest.
Whether
is
better
for thee,
to
be
a
priest
in
the
house
of
one
man,
or
in
a
tribe
and
family
in
Israel?
\VS{20}When
he
had heard
this,
he agreed
to
their words,
and
took
the
ephod,
and
the
idols,
and
the
graven
god,
and
departed
with
them.
\VS{21}And
when
they
were going
forward,
and
had
put
before
them
the
children
and
the
cattle
and all
that
was valuable,
\VS{22}And
were now
at
a
distance
from
the
house
of Michas,
the
men
that dwelt
in
the
houses
of Michas
gathering
together followed
them,
\VS{23}And began
to shout
out
after
them.
They looked
back,
and
said
to Michas:
What aileth thee?
Why dost thou
cry?
\VS{24}And
he
answered:
You
have
taken
away
my
gods
which
I
have
made
me
and
the
priest,
and
all
that
I
have,
and
do
you
say:
What aileth thee?
\VS{25}And
the
children
of
Dan
said
to
him: See thou
say
no
more
to
us,
lest
men enraged come
upon thee,
and thou perish
with
all thy
house.
\VS{26}And
so
they
went
on
the
journey
they
had begun.
But Michas
seeing
that
they
were
stronger
than
he,
returned
to
his
house.
\VS{27}And
the six hundred
men
took
the
priest,
and
the
things
we
spoke
of
before,
and
came
to Lais
to
a
people
that
was
quiet
and
secure,
and
smote
them
with
the
edge
of
the
sword:
and
the
city
was
burnt
with
fire,
\VS{28}There being
no
man
at
all
who brought
them
any succour,
because
they
dwelt
far
from
Sidon,
and
had
no society
or
business
with
any
man.
And
the
city
was
in
the land
of Rohob:
and
they
rebuilt
it
and
dwelt therein.
\VS{29}Calling
the
name
of
the
city
Dan
after
the
name
of
their
father,
who
was
the son
of
Israel,
which
before
was
called Lais.
\VS{30}And
they
set
up
to themselves
the
graven
idol,
and
Jonathan
the
son
of Gersam
the
son
of Moses,
he
and
his
sons
were
priests
in
the
tribe
of
Dan,
until
the
day
of
their
captivity.
\VS{31}And
the
idol
of Michas
remained
with
them
all
the
time
that
the
house
of
God
was
in Silo.
In
those
days
there
was
no king
in Israel.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}There
was
a
certain
Levite,
who dwelt
on
the
side
of
mount
Ephraim,
who
took
a
wife
of
Bethlehem Juda:
\VS{2}And
she
left
him
and returned
to
her
father’s
house
in
Bethlehem,
and abode
with
him
four
months.
\VS{3}And
her
husband
followed
her, willing
to
be reconciled
with
her,
and
to
speak
kindly
to
her,
and
to
bring
her
back
with
him, having
with
him
a
servant
and
two asses:
and
she
received
him,
and
brought
him
into
her
father’s
house.
And
when
his
father
in law
had
heard
this,
and
had
seen
him,
he
met
him
with
joy,
\VS{4}And embraced
the man.
And
the son
in law tarried
in
the house
of
his
father
in law
three
days,
eating
with
him
and
drinking familiarly.
\VS{5}But
on
the
fourth
day arising
early
in
the
morning
he
desired
to depart.
But
his
father
in law kept
him,
and
said
to
him: Taste
first
a little
bread,
and
strengthen thy stomach,
and
so thou shalt depart.
\VS{6}And
they
sat
down
together,
and
ate
and
drank.
And
the
father
of
the
young
woman
said
to
his son
in law:
I
beseech thee
to
stay here today,
and
let
us
make
merry
together.
\VS{7}But
he
rising
up began
to
be
for departing.
And nevertheless
his father
in law earnestly
pressed
him,
and
made
him
stay
with
him.
\VS{8}But
when
morning
was
come,
the Levite prepared
to
go
on
his journey.
And
his
father
in law
said
to
him
again:
I
beseech thee
to take
a little meat,
and strengthening thyself,
till
the
day
be farther advanced, afterwards thou mayest depart.
And
they
ate together.
\VS{9}And
the
young
man
arose
to
set
forward
with
his wife
and
servant.
And
his
father
in law
spoke
to
him
again:
Consider
that
the
day
is declining,
and draweth
toward
evening: tarry
with
me
today
also,
and
spend
the
day
in mirth,
and
tomorrow thou shalt
depart,
that thou mayest
go
into thy house.
\VS{10}His son
in law
would
not
consent
to
his words:
but forthwith
went
forward
and
came
over
against
Jebus,
which
by
another name
is called
Jerusalem, leading
with
him
two asses laden,
and
his
concubine.
\VS{11}And
now
they
were
come
near
Jebus,
and
the
day
was
far
spent:
and
the
servant
said
to
his
master:
Come,
I
beseech thee,
let
us
turn
into
the
city
of
the
Jebusites,
and lodge
there.
\VS{12}His
master
answered
him:
I
will
not
go
into
the
town
of
another nation,
who
are
not
of
the
children
of
Israel,
but
I
will
pass
over
to Gabaa:
\VS{13}And
when
I shall
come thither, we
will lodge there,
or
at least
in
the city
of Rama.
\VS{14}So
they
passed
by Jebus,
and
went
on
their
journey,
and
the
sun
went down
upon
them
when
they
were
by Gabaa,
which
is
in
the tribe
of
Benjamin:
\VS{15}And
they
turned
into
it,
to lodge
there.
And
when
they
were
come
in,
they
sat
in
the
street
of
the
city,
for
no
man
would receive
them
to lodge.
\VS{16}And
behold
they
saw
an
old
man, returning
out
of
the
field
and
from
his
work
in
the
evening,
and
he
also
was
of
mount
Ephraim,
and dwelt
as
a stranger
in Gabaa;
but
the
men
of
that
country
were
the children
of Jemini.
\VS{17}And
the
old
man lifting
up
his
eyes,
saw
the
man sitting
with
his bundles
in
the
street
of
the
city,
and
said
to
him: Whence comest thou?
and whither goest thou?
\VS{18}He
answered
him:
We
came
out
from
Bethlehem Juda,
and
we
are
going
to
our
home,
which
is
on
the side
of
mount
Ephraim,
from whence
we
went
to
Bethlehem:
and
now
we
go
to
the
house
of
God,
and
none
will receive
us
under
his roof:
\VS{19}We
have
straw
and hay
for provender
of
the asses,
and
bread
and
wine
for
the use
of
myself
and
of thy
handmaid,
and
of
the
servant
that
is
with
me:
we
want
nothing
but lodging.
\VS{20}And
the
old
man
answered
him:
Peace
be
with thee:
I
will furnish
all
things
that
are necessary:
only
I beseech thee,
stay
not
in
the
street.
\VS{21}And
he
brought
him
into
his
house,
and
gave provender
to
his asses:
and
after
they
had
washed
their
feet,
he entertained
them
with
a
feast.
\VS{22}While
they
were making
merry,
and refreshing
their bodies
with meat
and drink,
after
the labour
of
the
journey,
the
men
of
that
city,
sons
of Belial, (that
is, without yoke,)
came
and beset
the
old
man’s
house,
and
began
to knock
at
the
door, calling
to
the
master
of
the
house,
and
saying:
Bring
forth
the
man
that
came
into thy
house,
that
we
may abuse
him.
\VS{23}And
the old
man
went
out
to
them,
and
said:
Do
not
so,
my
brethren,
do
not
so wickedly:
because
this
man
is
come
into
my lodging,
and cease
I
pray
you
from
this
folly.
\VS{24}I
have
a maiden
daughter,
and
this
man hath
a
concubine,
I
will
bring
them
out
to
you,
and
you
may humble
them,
and satisfy
your lust: only,
I
beseech
you, commit
not
this
crime
against nature
on
the
man.
\VS{25}They
would
not
be
satisfied
with
his words; which
the
man seeing,
brought
out
his
concubine
to
them,
and abandoned
her
to
their wickedness:
and
when
they
had abused
her
all
the
night,
they
let
her
go
in
the
morning.
\VS{26}But
the
woman,
at
the dawning
of
the
day,
came
to
the
door
of
the
house
where
her
lord lodged,
and
there
fell
down.
\VS{27}And
in
the
morning
the man
arose,
and
opened
the
door
that
he might
end
the
journey
he
had begun:
and
behold
his
concubine
lay
before
the
door
with
her
hands
spread
on
the threshold.
\VS{28}He
thinking
she
was
taking
her rest,
said
to
her:
Arise,
and let
us
be going.
But
as
she
made
no
answer, perceiving
she
was dead,
he
took
her
up,
and laid
her
upon
his ass,
and returned
to
his house.
\VS{29}And
when
he
was
come
home
he
took
a sword,
and divided
the dead
body
of
his wife
with
her
bones
into
twelve
parts,
and
sent
the
pieces
into
all
the
borders
of
Israel.
\VS{30}And
when
every
one
had
seen
this,
they
all cried
out:
There
was
never
such
a
thing
done
in
Israel
from
the
day
that
our fathers
came
up
out
of
Egypt,
until
this
day:
give
sentence,
and decree
in
common
what ought
to
be
done.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
all
the
children
of
Israel
went
out
and
gathered
together
as
one
man
from
Dan
to Bersabee,
with
the
land
of Galaad,
to
the
Lord
in Maspha:
\VS{2}And
all
the
chiefs
of
the
people,
and
all
the
tribes
of
Israel met
together
in
the
assembly
of
the
people
of
God,
four
hundred
thousand
footmen fit
for
war.
\VS{3}(Nor
were
the
children
of
Benjamin ignorant
that
the
children
of
Israel
were
come
up
to Maspha.)
And
the Levite
the husband
of
the woman
that
was killed,
being
asked,
how
so great
a
wickedness
had
been
committed,
\VS{4}Answered:
I
came
into Gabaa
of
Benjamin
with
my
wife,
and
there
I lodged:
\VS{5}And behold
the
men
of
that city
in
the
night beset
the
house wherein
I
was, intending
to
kill
me,
and abused
my wife
with
an incredible fury
of lust,
so
that
at
last
she
died.
\VS{6}And
I
took
her
and
cut
her
in
pieces,
and
sent
the, parts into
all
the borders
of
your
possession:
because
there never
was
so
heinous
a
crime,
and
so great
an abomination
committed
in
Israel.
\VS{7}You
are
all
here, O
children
of
Israel, determine
what
you ought
to
do.
\VS{8}And
all
the
people standing,
answered
as
by
the voice
of
one
man:
We
will
not
return
to
our
tents,
neither
shall
any
one
of
us
go
into
his
own
house:
\VS{9}But
this
we
will
do
in common
against Gabaa:
\VS{10}We
will
take
ten
men
of
a
hundred
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
and
a
hundred
out
of
a
thousand,
and
a
thousand
out
of
ten
thousand,
to
bring victuals
for
the
army,
that
we
might fight
against Gabaa
of
Benjamin,
and render
to
it
for
its wickedness,
what
it deserveth.
\VS{11}And
all
Israel
were
gathered
together
against
the
city,
as
one
man,
with
one mind,
and
one counsel:
\VS{12}And
they
sent messengers
to
all
the
tribe
of
Benjamin
to
say
to
them:
Why hath
so great
an abomination
been found
among
you?
\VS{13}Deliver
up
the
men
of Gabaa,
that
have
committed
this heinous crime,
that
they
may
die,
and
the
evil
may
be
taken
away
out
of
Israel.
But
they
would
not hearken
to
the proposition
of
their
brethren
the
children
of
Israel:
\VS{14}But
out
of
all
the
cities which
were
of
their lot,
they
gathered
themselves
together
into Gabaa,
to aid
them,
and
to
fight
against
the whole
people
of
Israel.
\VS{15}And
there
were found
of
Benjamin five
and
twenty
thousand
men
that
drew
the
sword,
besides
the
inhabitants
of Gabaa,
\VS{16}Who
were
seven
hundred most valiant
men, fighting
with
the left
hand
as well
as
with
the
right:
and slinging
stones
so sure
that
they
could hit
even
a
hair,
and
not
miss
by
the stone’s going
on
either
side.
\VS{17}Of
the
men
of
Israel
also, beside
the children
of
Benjamin,
were found
four
hundred
thousand
that
drew
swords,
and
were prepared
to
fight.
\VS{18}And
they
arose
and
came
to
the house
of
God,
that
is,
to Silo:
and
they consulted
God,
and
said:
Who
shall
be
in
our
army
the
first
to
go
to
the
battle
against
the
children
of
Benjamin?
And
the
Lord
answered
them: Let Juda
be
your leader.
\VS{19}And forthwith
the
children
of
Israel
rising
in
the
morning,
camped
by Gabaa:
\VS{20}And
going
out
from thence
to
fight
against
Benjamin, began
to assault
the city.
\VS{21}And
the
children
of
Benjamin
coming
out
of Gabaa, slew
of
the
children
of
Israel
that
day
two
and
twenty
thousand
men.
\VS{22}Again
Israel trusting
in
their
strength
and
their number,
set
their
army
in
array
in
the same
place,
where
they
had fought
before:
\VS{23}Yet
so
that
they
first
went
up
and
wept
before
the
Lord
until
night:
and consulted
him,
and
said:
Shall
I
go
out
any
more
to
fight
against
the
children
of
Benjamin
my
brethren,
or
not?
And
he
answered
them:
Go
up
against
them,
and
join
battle.
\VS{24}And
when
the
children
of
Israel
went
out
the
next
day
to fight
against
the
children
of
Benjamin,
\VS{25}The
children
of
Benjamin sallied
forth
out
of
the gates
of Gabaa:
and meeting
them
made
so great
a slaughter
of
them,
as
to
kill
eighteen
thousand
men
that
drew
the
sword.
\VS{26}Wherefore
all
the
children
of
Israel
came
to
the house
of
God,
and
sat
and
wept
before
the
Lord:
and
they
fasted
that
day
till
the
evening,
and
offered
to
him holocausts,
and victims
of
peace
offerings,
\VS{27}And
inquired
of
him
concerning
their state.
At
that
time
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
Lord
was
there,
\VS{28}And Phinees
the
son
of
Eleazar
the
son
of
Aaron
was
over
the house.
So
they consulted
the
Lord
and
said:
Shall
we
go
out
any
more
to
fight
against
the
children
of
Benjamin
our
brethren,
or
shall
we
cease?
And
the
Lord
said
to
them:
Go
up,
for
tomorrow
I
will
deliver
them
into
your
hands.
\VS{29}And
the children
of
Israel
set
ambushes
round
about
the city
of Gabaa:
\VS{30}And
they drew
up
their
army
against
Benjamin
the
third
time,
as
they
had done
the
first
and second.
\VS{31}And
the
children
of
Benjamin boldly
issued
out
of
the
city,
and seeing
their enemies
flee, pursued
them
a long way,
so
as
to
wound
and
kill
some
of
them,
as
they
had done
the
first
and second day, whilst
they fled
by
two
highways, whereof
one goeth
up
to
Bethel,
and
the
other
to Gabaa,
and
they
slew
about
thirty
men:
\VS{32}For
they
thought
to cut
them
off,
as
they did
before.
But
they artfully feigning
a
flight, designed
to
draw
them
away
from
the
city,
and
by
their seeming
to
flee
to bring
them
to
the
highways aforesaid.
\VS{33}Then
all
the children
of
Israel
rising
up
out
of
the
places
where
they
were,
set
their army
in battle array,
in
the
place which
is called Baalthamar.
The
ambushes
also which
were
about
the city, began
by little
and little
to
come
forth,
\VS{34}And
to march
from
the west
side
of
the city.
And
other
ten
thousand
men
chosen
out
of
all
Israel
attacked
the inhabitants
of
the city.
And
the
battle
grew hot
against
the children
of Benjamin:
and
they
understood
not
that
present death threatened
them
on
every
side.
\VS{35}And
the
Lord
defeated
them
before
the
children
of
Israel,
and
they slew
of
them
in
that
day
five
and
twenty
thousand,
and
one
hundred,
all fighting
men
and
that
drew
the
sword.
\VS{36}But
the
children
of
Benjamin
when
they
saw
themselves
to
be too weak, began
to flee.
Which
the
children
of
Israel
seeing,
gave
them
place
to flee,
that
they
might come
to
the
ambushes
that
were prepared,
which
they
had
set near
the city.
\VS{37}And
they
that
were
in
ambush arose
on
a sudden
out
of
their coverts,
and whilst Benjamin
turned
their backs
to
the
slayers,
went
into
the
city,
and
smote
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword.
\VS{38}Now
the children
of
Israel
had given
a
sign
to
them, whom
they
had laid
in
ambushes,
that
after
they
had
taken
the
city,
they
should make
a fire:
that
by
the
smoke
rising
on
high,
they
might shew
that
the
city
was
taken.
\VS{39}And
when
the children
of
Israel saw
this
in
the
battle (for
the children
of
Benjamin
thought
they fled
and pursued
them vigorously,
killing
thirty
men
of
their
army)
\VS{40}And perceived
as
it
were
a
pillar
of
smoke
rise
up
from
the
city;
and
Benjamin looking
back,
saw
that
the
city
was
taken,
and
that
the flames
ascended
on high:
\VS{41}They
that
before
had made
as
if
they fled,
turning
their faces stood bravely
against
them; which
the children
of
Benjamin
seeing,
turned
their backs,
\VS{42}And began
to
go towards
the
way
of
the
desert,
the enemy pursuing
them thither
also.
And
they
that fired
the
city
came
also
out
to
meet
them.
\VS{43}And
so
it
was,
that
they
were slain
on both sides
by
the enemies,
and
there
was no
rest
of
their men dying.
They fell
and
were beaten
down
on
the
east
side
of
the city Gabaa.
\VS{44}And
they
that
were slain
in
the
same
place
were
eighteen
thousand
men,
all most
valiant
soldiers.
\VS{45}And
when
they
that
remained
of Benjamin saw
this,
they
fled
into
the
wilderness
and
made towards
the
rock
that
is called Remmon.
In
that
flight,
also
as
they
were straggling
and going different ways,
they
slew
of
them
five
thousand
men.
And
as
they
went farther,
they
still
pursued
them,
and
slew
also
other
two
thousand.
\VS{46}And
so
it
came
to
pass,
that
all
that
were slain
of
Benjamin
in divers
places,
were
five
and
twenty
thousand fighting
men, most
valiant
for
war.
\VS{47}And
there
remained
of
all
the number
of Benjamin only
six
hundred
men
that
were able
to
escape,
and
flee
to
the
wilderness:
and
they
abode
in
the
rock Remmon
four
months.
\VS{48}But
the
children
of
Israel
returning,
put
all
the remains
of
the
city
to
the
sword,
both
men
and
beasts,
and
all
the
cities
and villages
of
Benjamin
were consumed
with devouring flames.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
the children
of
Israel
had
also
sworn
in Maspha,
saying:
None
of
us
shall
give
of
his
daughters
to
the children
of
Benjamin
to
wife.
\VS{2}And
they
all
came
to
the house
of
God
in Silo,
and abiding
before
him
till
the
evening,
lifted
up
their
voices,
and
began
to lament
and
weep,
saying:
\VS{3}O
Lord
God
of
Israel,
why
is
so
great
an evil
come
to
pass
in thy people,
that
this
day
one
tribe
should
be
taken away
from
among
us?
\VS{4}And
rising
early
the
next
day,
they
built
an
altar:
and
offered
there holocausts,
and victims
of
peace,
and
they said:
\VS{5}Who
is
there
among
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
that
came
not
up
with
the
army
of
the
Lord?
for
they
had bound themselves
with
a
great
oath,
when
they
were
in Maspha,
that whosoever
were wanting
should
be slain.
\VS{6}And
the
children
of
Israel
being
moved
with repentance
for
their
brother
Benjamin, began
to
say:
One
tribe
is taken away
from
Israel.
\VS{7}Whence
shall
they
take
wives?
For
we
have all
in general
sworn,
not
to
give
our
daughters
to
them.
\VS{8}Therefore
they
said:
Who
is thereof
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
that
came
not
up
to
the
Lord
to Maspha.
And
behold
the inhabitants
of Jabes Galaad
were found
not
to
have
been
in
that
army.
\VS{9}(At
that time also
when
they
were
in Silo,
no
one
of
them
was
found
there.)
\VS{10}So
they
sent ten
thousand
of
the most
valiant
men,
and
commanded
them,
saying:
Go
and
put
the
inhabitants
of Jabes Galaad
to
the
sword,
with
their
wives
and
their
children.
\VS{11}And
this
is
what
you
shall
observe:
Every
male,
and
all
women
that
have
known
men,
you
shall kill,
but
the virgins
you
shall save.
\VS{12}And
there
were
found
of Jabes Galaad
four
hundred
virgins,
that
had
not
known
the
bed
of
a
man,
and
they
brought
them
to
the
camp Silo,
into
the
land
of Chanaan.
\VS{13}And
they
sent
messengers
to
the
children
of
Benjamin,
that
were
in
the
rock Remmon,
and
commanded
them
to receive
them
in
peace.
\VS{14}And
the children
of
Benjamin
came
at
that
time,
and
wives
were
given
them
of
the daughters
of Jabes Galaad:
but
they
found
no others,
whom
they
might
give
in
like
manner.
\VS{15}And all
Israel
was very
sorry,
and
repented
for
the destroying
of
one
tribe
out
of
Israel.
\VS{16}And
the ancients
said:
What
shall
we
do
with
the
rest,
that
have
not
received
wives?
for all
the
women
in
Benjamin
are dead.
\VS{17}And we
must use all care,
and provide
with great diligence,
that
one
tribe
be
not
destroyed
out
of
Israel.
\VS{18}For
as
to
our own
daughters
we
cannot
give
them,
being bound
with
an
oath
and
a
curse, whereby
we
said:
Cursed
be
he
that
shall
give
Benjamin
any
of
his
daughters
to
wife.
\VS{19}So
they
took counsel,
and
said:
Behold
there
is
a
yearly solemnity
of
the
Lord
in Silo,
which
is situate
on
the
north
of
the city
of
Bethel,
and
on
the
east
side
of
the way,
that goeth
from
Bethel
to Sichem,
and
on
the
south
of
the town
of Lebona.
\VS{20}And
they
commanded
the
children
of
Benjamin,
and
said: Go,
and
lie hid
in
the
vineyards,
\VS{21}And
when
you
shall
see
the
daughters
of Silo
come
out,
as
the custom
is,
to
dance,
come ye
on
a sudden
out
of
the
vineyards,
and
catch
you
every
man
his
wife
among
them,
and
go
into
the
land
of
Benjamin.
\VS{22}And
when
their
fathers
and
their
brethren
shall
come,
and
shall begin
to
complain
against
you,
and
to chide,
we
will
say
to
them:
Have
pity
on
them
for
they
took
them
not
away
as
by
the right
of
war
or conquest,
but
when
they
asked
to
have
them,
you
gave
them
not,
and
the
fault
was
committed
on
your
part.
\VS{23}And
the
children
of
Benjamin
did,
as
they
had
been commanded:
and
according
to
their
number,
they
carried
off
for
themselves
every
man
his
wife
of
them
that
were dancing:
and
they
went
into
their
possession
and
built
up
their
cities,
and
dwelt
in
them.
\VS{24}The
children
of
Israel
also
returned
by
their
tribes,
and
families,
to
their dwellings.
In
those days
there
was no king
in
Israel:
but
every
one
did
that
which seemed right
to
himself.
\par }