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Joshua:8:33 @ And all Israel, and their elders, and the officers, and their judges, stood on this side and on that side of the ark, opposite the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger no less than the native born: half of them turned toward mount Gerizzim, and the other half of them turned toward mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded, to bless the people of Israel at first.
lesserot@Joshua:23:2 @ That Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am become old and well stricken in age;
lesserot@Joshua:24:1 @ And Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel to Shechem; and he called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and they presented themselves before God.
lesserot@Judges:1:1 @ And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites at the first, to fight against them?
lesserot@Judges:1:2 @ And the Lord said, Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
lesserot@Judges:1:3 @ And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, and we will fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
lesserot@Judges:1:4 @ And Judah went up; and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they smote them in Bezek ten thousand men.
lesserot@Judges:1:5 @ And they found Adonibezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
lesserot@Judges:1:6 @ But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
lesserot@Judges:1:7 @ And Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered food under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
lesserot@Judges:1:8 @ And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and captured it, and they smote it with the edge of the sword, and the city they set on fire.
lesserot@Judges:1:9 @ And afterward did the children of Judah go down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the lowlands.
lesserot@Judges:1:10 @ And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron; and they smote Sheshai, and Achiman, and Talmai.
lesserot@Judges:1:11 @ And he went from there against the inhabitants of Debir; and the name of Debir was formerly Kiryathsepher:
lesserot@Judges:1:12 @ And Caleb said, He that will smite Kiryathsepher, and capture it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter for wife.
lesserot@Judges:1:13 @ And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Calebs younger brother, captured it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter for wife.
lesserot@Judges:1:14 @ And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she persuaded him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What aileth thee?
lesserot@Judges:1:15 @ And she said unto him, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a dry land: give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
lesserot@Judges:1:16 @ And the children of the Kenite, the fatherinlaw of Moses, went up out of the city of palmtrees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is at the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.
lesserot@Judges:1:17 @ And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and devoted it. And the name of the city was called Chormah.
lesserot@Judges:1:18 @ And Judah captured Gazzah with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.
lesserot@Judges:1:19 @ And the Lord was with Judah; and he took possession of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
lesserot@Judges:1:20 @ And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses had spoken; and he drove out thence the three sons of Anak.
lesserot@Judges:1:21 @ And the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem, the children of Benjamin did not drive out; but the Jebusites dwelt with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this day.
lesserot@Judges:1:22 @ And the house of Joseph, these also, went up against Bethel; and the Lord was with them.
lesserot@Judges:1:23 @ And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel: now the name of the city formerly was Luz.
lesserot@Judges:1:24 @ And the watchers saw a man coming forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will show thee kindness.
lesserot@Judges:1:25 @ And he showed them the entrance into the city, and they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but the man and all his family they let go free.
lesserot@Judges:1:26 @ And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz: this is its name unto this day.
lesserot@Judges:1:27 @ Neither did Menasseh drive out Bethshean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Yibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites succeeded to remain in this land.
lesserot@Judges:1:28 @ And it came to pass, when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but they did not drive them out entirely.
lesserot@Judges:1:29 @ Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; and the Canaanites dwelt in the midst of them at Gezer.
lesserot@Judges:1:30 @ Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; and the Canaanites dwelt in the midst of them, and became tributary.
lesserot@Judges:1:31 @ Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Akko, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Achlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Chelbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rechob;
lesserot@Judges:1:32 @ And the Asherites dwelt in the midst of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
lesserot@Judges:1:33 @ Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; and he dwelt in the midst of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributary unto them.
lesserot@Judges:1:34 @ And the Emorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain; for they would not suffer them to come down into the valley;
lesserot@Judges:1:35 @ And the Emorites succeeded to remain on mount Cheres, in Ayalon, and in Shaalbim; but when the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, they became tributary.
lesserot@Judges:1:36 @ And the territory of the Emorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the Rock upward.
lesserot@Judges:2:1 @ And a messenger of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, And he said, I caused you to go up out of Egypt, and I brought you unto the land which I had sworn unto your fathers; and I said, I will not break my covenant with you for ever.
lesserot@Judges:2:2 @ But ye for your part shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; their altars shall ye throw down; but ye have not obeyed my voice: what is this ye have done?
lesserot@Judges:2:3 @ And I also have said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be evil neighbors to you, and their gods shall become a snare unto you.
lesserot@Judges:2:4 @ And it came to pass, when the messenger of the Lord spoke these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
lesserot@Judges:2:5 @ And they called the name of that place, Bochim; and they sacrificed there unto the Lord.
lesserot@Judges:2:6 @ And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to take possession of the land.
lesserot@Judges:2:7 @ And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that lived many days after Joshua, who had seen all the great deeds of the Lord, which he had done for Israel.
lesserot@Judges:2:8 @ Then died Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, being one hundred and ten years old.
lesserot@Judges:2:9 @ And they buried him on the border of his inheritance in Timnathcheres, in the mountain of Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaash.
lesserot@Judges:2:10 @ And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who knew not the Lord, and likewise not the deeds which he had done for Israel.
lesserot@Judges:2:11 @ And the children of Israel did the evil in the eyes of the Lord, and served the Bealim:
lesserot@Judges:2:12 @ And they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they went after other gods, of the gods of the nations that were round about them, and they bowed themselves unto them, and incensed the Lord.
lesserot@Judges:2:13 @ And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
lesserot@Judges:2:14 @ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of spoilers who spoiled them, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they were not able any longer to stand before their enemies.
lesserot@Judges:2:15 @ Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
lesserot@Judges:2:16 @ And the Lord raised up judges, and they delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
lesserot@Judges:2:17 @ But also unto their judges they did not hearken; but they went astray after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers had walked in, to obey the commandments of the Lord; they did not so.
lesserot@Judges:2:18 @ And when the Lord raised them up judges, then was the Lord with the judge, and he delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord bethought himself because of their groaning by reason of those that oppressed them and illtreated them.
lesserot@Judges:2:19 @ And it came to pass, when the judge died, that they returned, and became more corrupt than their fathers, in going after other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them: they omitted nothing from their doings, and from their stubborn way.
lesserot@Judges:2:20 @ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel; and he said, For the cause that this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice:
lesserot@Judges:2:21 @ So will I also for my part not drive out henceforth any man from before them out of the nations which Joshua left when he died;
lesserot@Judges:2:22 @ In order to prove through them the Israelites, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
lesserot@Judges:2:23 @ And thus did the Lord leave these nations, so as not to drive them out speedily; and he delivered them not into the hand of Joshua.
lesserot@Judges:3:1 @ Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to prove by them the Israelites, namely, all those who had not experienced all the wars of Canaan;
lesserot@Judges:3:2 @ Only in order that the future generations of the children of Israel might obtain knowledge, to teach them war; but only such as before had learned nothing thereof;
lesserot@Judges:3:3 @ Namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Zidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt on mount Lebanon, from mount Baalchermon unto the entrance of Chamath.
lesserot@Judges:3:4 @ And they were left to prove by them the Israelites, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
lesserot@Judges:3:5 @ And the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Emorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
lesserot@Judges:3:6 @ And they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods.
lesserot@Judges:3:7 @ And the children of Israel did the evil in the eyes of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Bealim and the groves.
lesserot@Judges:3:8 @ Wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushanrishathayim the king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushanrishathayim eight years.
lesserot@Judges:3:9 @ And the children of Israel cried then unto the Lord, and the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, namely, Othniel the son of Kenaz, the younger brother of Caleb.
lesserot@Judges:3:10 @ And the spirit of the Lord came over him, and he judged Israel, and went out to battle: and the Lord delivered Cushanrishathayim the king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed over Cushanrishathayim.
lesserot@Judges:3:11 @ And the land had rest forty years; and then died Othniel the son of Kenaz.
lesserot@Judges:3:12 @ And the children of Israel did again the evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done the evil in the eyes of the Lord.
lesserot@Judges:3:13 @ And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and smote Israel, and took possession of the city of palmtrees.
lesserot@Judges:3:14 @ And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
lesserot@Judges:3:15 @ But the children of Israel cried then unto the Lord; and the Lord raised up unto them a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera a Benjamite, a man who was lamed in his right hand; and the children of Israel sent by him a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
lesserot@Judges:3:16 @ But Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his garments upon his right thigh.
lesserot@Judges:3:17 @ And he brought the present near unto Eglon the king of Moab; now Eglon was a very fat man.
lesserot@Judges:3:18 @ And it came to pass when he had made an end to offer the present, that he sent away the people who had borne the present.
lesserot@Judges:3:19 @ But he himself returned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret word unto thee, O King. And he said, Keep silence. And thereupon went out from his presence all that stood by him.
lesserot@Judges:3:20 @ And Ehud came in unto him; and he was sitting in the summer upper chamber, which was for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a word of God unto thee. And he arose out of his chair.
lesserot@Judges:3:21 @ And Ehud stretched forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.
lesserot@Judges:3:22 @ And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade; for he did not draw the sword out of his body, and it passed into the fundament.
lesserot@Judges:3:23 @ And Ehud went forth into the anteroom, and shut the doors of the upper chamber after him, and locked them.
lesserot@Judges:3:24 @ He was just gone out, when his servants came; and they saw, behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said, Surely he covereth his feet in the summer chamber.
lesserot@Judges:3:25 @ And they tarried till they were ashamed; and behold, he opened not the doors of the upper chamber; wherefore they took the key and opened them: and, behold, their lord was lying dead on the floor.
lesserot@Judges:3:26 @ And Ehud had escaped while they were tarrying, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.
lesserot@Judges:3:27 @ And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew the cornet on the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he before them.
lesserot@Judges:3:28 @ And he said unto them, Pursue after me; for the Lord hath delivered your enemies, the Moabites, into your hand. And they went down after him, and seized on the fords of the Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
lesserot@Judges:3:29 @ And they smote of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valor; and there escaped not a man.
lesserot@Judges:3:30 @ And Moab was humbled that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.
lesserot@Judges:3:31 @ And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad; and he also delivered Israel.
lesserot@Judges:4:1 @ And the children of Israel again did the evil in the eyes of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.
lesserot@Judges:4:2 @ And the Lord sold them into the hand of Yabin the king of Canaan, that reigned in Chazor; and the captain of his army was Sissera, who dwelt in Charoshethhagoyim.
lesserot@Judges:4:3 @ And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he oppressed the children of Israel with might twenty years.
lesserot@Judges:4:4 @ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth,she judged Israel at that time.
lesserot@Judges:4:5 @ And she held her sitting under the palmtree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel on the mountain of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
lesserot@Judges:4:6 @ And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali; and she said unto him, Behold, the Lord the God of Israel hath commanded, Go and lead on toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun.
lesserot@Judges:4:7 @ And I will draw unto thee, to the brook Kishon, Sissera, the captain of Yabins army, and his chariots and his multitude; and I will give him up into thy hand.
lesserot@Judges:4:8 @ And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then will I go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.
lesserot@Judges:4:9 @ And she said, I will indeed go with thee; nevertheless it will not be for thy honor, on the way which thou goest; for into the hand of a woman will the Lord deliver Sissera; and Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
lesserot@Judges:4:10 @ And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up in his train ten thousand men; also Deborah went up with him.
lesserot@Judges:4:11 @ Now Cheber the Kenite had severed himself from the Kenites, from the children of Chobab the fatherinlaw of Moses; and he had pitched his tent as far as Elonbezaanannim, which is near Kedesh.
lesserot@Judges:4:12 @ And they told Sissera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
lesserot@Judges:4:13 @ And Sissera called together all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Charoshethhagoyim unto the brook Kishon.
lesserot@Judges:4:14 @ And Deborah said unto Barak, Up! for this is the day on which the Lord hath given Sissera into thy hand; behold, the Lord is gone out before thee: so Barak went down from mount Tabor, with ten thousand men after him.
lesserot@Judges:4:15 @ And the Lord confounded Sissera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sissera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on foot.
lesserot@Judges:4:16 @ And Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, unto Charoshethhagoyim: and all the army of Sissera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not left even one.
lesserot@Judges:4:17 @ But Sissera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Cheber the Kenite; for there was peace between Yabin the king of Chazor and the house of Cheber the Kenite.
lesserot@Judges:4:18 @ And Jael went out to meet Sissera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in unto me, fear not: and he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a blanket.
lesserot@Judges:4:19 @ And he said unto her, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water; for I am thirsty: and she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him up.
lesserot@Judges:4:20 @ And he said unto her, Stand at the door of the tent; and it shall be, that, when any man should come and ask of thee, and say, Is there any man here? thou shalt say, No.
lesserot@Judges:4:21 @ And Jael the wife of Cheber took thereupon the nail of the tent, and placed a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and struck the nail into his temple, and it became fastened in the ground; but he was fast asleep and weary; so he died.
lesserot@Judges:4:22 @ And, behold, Barak came in pursuit of Sissera, and Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou art seeking: and he came to her, and behold, Sissera was lying dead, with the nail in his temple.
lesserot@Judges:4:23 @ So did God humble on that day Yabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
lesserot@Judges:4:24 @ And the hand of the children of Israel became constantly heavier upon Yabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Yabin the king of Canaan.
lesserot@Judges:5:1 @ Then sang Deborah with Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
lesserot@Judges:5:2 @ When depravity had broken out in Israel, then did the people offer themselves willingly; praise ye the Lord.
lesserot@Judges:5:3 @ Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; Iunto the Lord will I sing; I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.
lesserot@Judges:5:4 @ Lord, at thy going forth out of Seir, at thy marching along out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, also the heavens dropped, also the clouds dropped water.
lesserot@Judges:5:5 @ The mountains melted away because of the presence of the Lord, yonder Sinai, because of the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel.
lesserot@Judges:5:6 @ In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and those who travelled on roads walked through crooked bypaths.
lesserot@Judges:5:7 @ Desolate were the open towns in Israel, they were desolate, until that I arose, Deborah, that I arose a mother in Israel.
lesserot@Judges:5:8 @ They chose new gods, then was there war in the gates: was there a shield seen or a spear among forty thousand in Israel?
lesserot@Judges:5:9 @ My heart to the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people: praise ye the Lord.
lesserot@Judges:5:10 @ Ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and ye who walk on the way, utter praise!
lesserot@Judges:5:11 @ by the voice of those who divide between the watering wells, there shall they rehearse the benefits of the Lord, the benefits toward his open towns in Israel; now go down to the gates the people of the Lord.
lesserot@Judges:5:12 @ Awake, awake, Deborah! awake, awake, utter a song! up, Barak, and lead away thy captives, son of Abinoam.
lesserot@Judges:5:13 @ Then obtained dominion a few that had escaped for the nobles among the peoplethe Lord gave me dominion over the mighty.
lesserot@Judges:5:14 @ They whose root is out of Ephraim were against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, with thy armies; out of Machir came down lawgivers, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
lesserot@Judges:5:15 @ And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; yea Issachar, the support of Barak; into the valley he hastened down in his train; at the streams of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
lesserot@Judges:5:16 @ Why didst thou sit among the sheepfolds to hear the bleatings of the flocks? At the streams of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
lesserot@Judges:5:17 @ Gilad abode beyond the Jordan; and Danwhy would he tarry in ships? Asher remained on the seashore, and abode near his bays.
lesserot@Judges:5:18 @ Zebulun is a people that jeoparded its life unto death, and Naphtalion the high places of the field.
lesserot@Judges:5:19 @ There came kings, fought, then fought the kings of Canaan, in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: gain of money they took not away.
lesserot@Judges:5:20 @ From heaven they foughtthe stars in their courses fought against Sissera.
lesserot@Judges:5:21 @ The stream of Kishon swept them away, that ancient stream, the stream of Kishon: step along, O my soul, in victorious strength.
lesserot@Judges:5:22 @ Then were crushed the hoofs of the horses, through the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.
lesserot@Judges:5:23 @ Curse ye Meroz, saith the messenger of the Lord, yea, curse ye bitterly its inhabitants; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the mighty.
lesserot@Judges:5:24 @ Blessed above women shall be Jael the wife of Cheber the Kenite, above women in the tent may she be blessed.
lesserot@Judges:5:25 @ Water he asked, milk she gave: in a lordly dish she brought him cream.
lesserot@Judges:5:26 @ Her hand she put forth to the nail, and her right hand to the laborious workmens hammer; and she hammered Sissera, she struck his head, and crushed and smote through his temple.
lesserot@Judges:5:27 @ Between her feet he bent, he fell, he lay; between her feet he bent, he fell: where he had bent, there he fell down, bereft of life.
lesserot@Judges:5:28 @ Out of the window looked and moaned the mother of Sissera, through the lattice, Why tarrieth his chariot so long in coming? why lag the wheels of his chariot?
lesserot@Judges:5:29 @ The wise among her ladies answered her, she also returned a reply to herself.
lesserot@Judges:5:30 @ Will they not find,divide booty? one maiden, two maidens for every man, a booty of colored garments for Sissera, a booty of colored embroidered garments, colored, doubleworked garments round the necks of the captives!
lesserot@Judges:5:31 @ Thus may perish all thy enemies, O Lord; but may those that love him be as the rising of the sun in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
lesserot@Judges:6:1 @ And the children of Israel did the evil in the eyes of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
lesserot@Judges:6:2 @ And the hand of Midian prevailed over Israel; and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made for themselves the passes which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
lesserot@Judges:6:3 @ And it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, and they went up against them;
lesserot@Judges:6:4 @ And they encamped against them, and destroyed the products of the earth, as far as Gazzah, and they left no sustenance for Israel, neither lamb, nor ox, nor ass.
lesserot@Judges:6:5 @ For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and came as locusts in multitude; and both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.
lesserot@Judges:6:6 @ And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.
lesserot@Judges:6:7 @ And it came to pass, when the children of Israel had cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites,
lesserot@Judges:6:8 @ That the Lord sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, and he said unto them, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, I led you forth out of Egypt, and brought you out of the house of slavery;
lesserot@Judges:6:9 @ And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and I drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;
lesserot@Judges:6:10 @ And I said unto you, I am the Lord your God: ye shall not fear the gods of the Emorites, in whose land ye dwell; but ye have not obeyed my voice.
lesserot@Judges:6:11 @ And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat down under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite; and Gidon his son was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
lesserot@Judges:6:12 @ And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.
lesserot@Judges:6:13 @ And Gidon said unto him, Pardon, my lord, if the Lord be indeed with us, why then hath all this befallen us? and where are all his wonders of which our fathers have told us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt! But now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
lesserot@Judges:6:14 @ And the Lord turned toward him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: behold, I have sent thee.
lesserot@Judges:6:15 @ And he said unto him, Pardon my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the weakest in Menasseh, and I am the youngest of my fathers house.
lesserot@Judges:6:16 @ And the Lord said unto him, Because I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
lesserot@Judges:6:17 @ And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy eyes, then give me a sign that thou hast been speaking with me;
lesserot@Judges:6:18 @ Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thy return.
lesserot@Judges:6:19 @ And Gidon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
lesserot@Judges:6:20 @ And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and the broth pour out. And he did so.
lesserot@Judges:6:21 @ Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
lesserot@Judges:6:22 @ And when Gidon perceived that it was an angel of the Lord, Gidon said, Alas, O Lord Eternal! because I have surely seen an angel of the Lord face to face.
lesserot@Judges:6:23 @ And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
lesserot@Judges:6:24 @ And Gidon built there an altar unto the Lord, and called it Adonayshalom unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
lesserot@Judges:6:25 @ And it came to pass in the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy fathers young bullock, and the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal which belongeth to thy father, and the grove that is around it shalt thou cut down.
lesserot@Judges:6:26 @ And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, on the level place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burntsacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
lesserot@Judges:6:27 @ And Gidon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had spoken unto him; but it came to pass, because he feared his fathers household, and the men of the city, to do it by day, that he did it by night.
lesserot@Judges:6:28 @ And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was overthrown, and the grove that was around it was cut down, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar which had been built.
lesserot@Judges:6:29 @ And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And they inquired and searched, and then said, Gidon the son of Joash hath done this thing.
lesserot@Judges:6:30 @ Thereupon said the men of the city unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die; because he hath overthrown the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was around it.
lesserot@Judges:6:31 @ But Joash said unto all that stood around him, Will ye indeed contend for Baal? will ye assist him? he that will contend for him, shall be put to death; until morning: if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one hath overthrown his altar.
lesserot@Judges:6:32 @ And the people called him on that day Yerubbaal, saying, Let Baal contend against him, because he hath overthrown his altar.
lesserot@Judges:6:33 @ And all the Midianites and Amalekites and the children of the east assembled together, and went over and encamped in the valley of Yizreel.
lesserot@Judges:6:34 @ But the Spirit of the Lord endued Gidon, and he blew the cornet: and Abiezer assembled and followed him.
lesserot@Judges:6:35 @ And he sent messengers throughout all Menasseh, who also assembled and followed him; and he sent messengers through Asher, and through Zebulun, and through Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.
lesserot@Judges:6:36 @ And Gidon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast spoken,
lesserot@Judges:6:37 @ Behold, I set up this fleece of wool in the threshing floor: if now there be dew on the fleece alone, and it be dry upon all the ground, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast spoken.
lesserot@Judges:6:38 @ And it was so; and when he rose up early on the morrow, he squeezed the fleece together, and wrung dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
lesserot@Judges:6:39 @ And Gidon said unto God, Let not thy anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once; let me have a proof, I pray thee, but this once more with the fleece; let it, I pray, be dry upon the fleece alone, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
lesserot@Judges:6:40 @ And God did so that night; and it was dry upon the fleece alone, and on all the ground there was dew.
lesserot@Judges:7:1 @ Then Yerubbaal, who is Gidon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Charod; and the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
lesserot@Judges:7:2 @ And the Lord said unto Gidon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand: lest Israel should vaunt themselves against me, saying, my own hand hath saved me.
lesserot@Judges:7:3 @ Now therefore, do proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilad. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and ten thousand remained.
lesserot@Judges:7:4 @ And the Lord said unto Gidon, The people are yet too many; let them go down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I will say unto thee, This one shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee: and of whomsoever I will say unto thee, This one shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
lesserot@Judges:7:5 @ So he caused the people to go down unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gidon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as the dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that bendeth down upon his knees to drink.
lesserot@Judges:7:6 @ And the number of those that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bent down upon their knees to drink water.
lesserot@Judges:7:7 @ And the Lord said unto Gidon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
lesserot@Judges:7:8 @ And they took the provision of the people in their hand, and their cornets; and all the rest of Israel he dismissed, every man unto his tent; but those three hundred men he retained: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
lesserot@Judges:7:9 @ And it came to pass, during the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down into the camp; for I have delivered it into thy hand.
lesserot@Judges:7:10 @ And if thou fear to go down, then go thou down with Purah thy servant to the camp.
lesserot@Judges:7:11 @ And thou shalt hear what they will say; and after that shall thy hands be strengthened, and thou wilt go down unto the camp. And he went down with Purah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the camp.
lesserot@Judges:7:12 @ And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like the locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is by the seaside for multitude.
lesserot@Judges:7:13 @ And when Gidon was come, behold, a man was telling a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and, lo, a baked cake of barley bread was rolling round through the camp of Midian, and came unto the tent, and struck against it so that it fell, and it turned it bottom upward, and the tent thus tumbled down.
lesserot@Judges:7:14 @ And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gidon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; into whose hand God hath delivered Midian, and the whole camp.
lesserot@Judges:7:15 @ And it was, when Gidon heard the narration of the dream, and its interpretation, that he prostrated himself, and returned unto the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the camp of Midian.
lesserot@Judges:7:16 @ And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put cornets in the hand of all of them, with empty pitchers, and torches in the pitchers.
lesserot@Judges:7:17 @ And he said unto them, What you see me do, do ye likewise; and, behold, when I am come to the edge of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
lesserot@Judges:7:18 @ When I blow the cornet, I and all that are with me, then shall ye blow the cornets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For the Lord, and for Gidon.
lesserot@Judges:7:19 @ And Gidon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the edge of the camp in the bcginning of the middle watch; when they had but newly set the sentinels: and they blew the cornets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hand.
lesserot@Judges:7:20 @ And the three companies blew the cornets, and broke the pitchers, and seized with their left hand the torches, and with their right hand the cornets to blow; and they cried, The sword for the Lord, and for Gidon.
lesserot@Judges:7:21 @ And they remained standing every man in his place round about the camp; and all the camp ran, and shouted, and fled.
lesserot@Judges:7:22 @ And as the three hundred cornets sounded, the Lord set every mans sword against his fellow, even throughout all the camp; and the camp fled as far as Bethhashittah to Zererah, up to the border of Abelmecholah, near Tabbath.
lesserot@Judges:7:23 @ And the men of Israel were called together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Menasseh, and they pursued after the Midianites.
lesserot@Judges:7:24 @ And Gidon sent messengers throughout all the mountain of Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and seize from them the waters as far as Bethbarah and the Jordan. And all the men of Ephraim assembled themselves, and seized on the waters as far as Bethbarah and the Jordan.
lesserot@Judges:7:25 @ And they captured two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued the Midianites; and the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they brought to Gidon from the other side of the Jordan.
lesserot@Judges:8:1 @ And the men of Ephraim said unto him, What is this thing that thou hast done unto us, not to call for us, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they quarrelled with him vehemently.
lesserot@Judges:8:2 @ And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
lesserot@Judges:8:3 @ Into your hand God delivered the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what have I been able to do in comparison with you? Then was their anger abated from him, when he had spoken this speech.
lesserot@Judges:8:4 @ And Gidon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, and in pursuit.
lesserot@Judges:8:5 @ And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, a few loaves of bread unto the people that are in my train; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebach and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
lesserot@Judges:8:6 @ And the princes of Succoth said, Is the sole of the foot of Zebach and Zalmunna now already in thy hand, that we should give unto thy army bread?
lesserot@Judges:8:7 @ And Gidon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebach and Zalmunna into my hand, then will I thresh your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
lesserot@Judges:8:8 @ And he went up thence to Penuel, and spoke unto them in the same manner: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
lesserot@Judges:8:9 @ And he said also unto the men of Penuel thus, When I return again in peace, I will break down this tower.
lesserot@Judges:8:10 @ Now Zebach and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their camps with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that had been left of all the camp of the children of the east; but those who had fallen were one hundred and twenty thousand men that drew the sword.
lesserot@Judges:8:11 @ And Gidon went up by the way of those that dwelt in tents, to the east of Nobach and Yogbehah, and smote the camp; but the camp thought itself secure.
lesserot@Judges:8:12 @ And Zebach and Zalmunna fled; but he pursued after them, and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebach and Zalmunna, and all the camp he discomfited.
lesserot@Judges:8:13 @ And Gidon the son of Joash returned from the battle before the rising of the sun,
lesserot@Judges:8:14 @ And he caught a young man of the people of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he wrote down for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, seventy and seven men.
lesserot@Judges:8:15 @ And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold here are Zebach and Zalmunna, with whom ye derided me, saying, Is the sole of the foot of Zebach and Zalmunna now already in thy hand, that we should give unto thy weary men bread?
lesserot@Judges:8:16 @ And he took the elders of the city, and the thorns of the wilderness and briers, and chastised with them the men of Succoth.
lesserot@Judges:8:17 @ And the tower of Penuel he beat down, and slew the men of the city.
lesserot@Judges:8:18 @ And he said unto Zebach and Zalmunna, What kind of men were those whom ye slew at Tabor! And they answered, As thou art, so were they; one was in form like that of the children of a king.
lesserot@Judges:8:19 @ And he said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother; as the Lord liveth, if ye had spared them alive, I would not slay you.
lesserot@Judges:8:20 @ And he said unto Yether his firstborn, Rise up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
lesserot@Judges:8:21 @ Then said Zebach and Zalmunna, Rise thou, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gidon arose, and slew Zebach and Zalmunna; and he took away the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.
lesserot@Judges:8:22 @ And the men of Israel said unto Gidon, Rule thou over us, both thou and thy son, and thy sons son also; for thou hast delivered us out of the hand of Midian.
lesserot@Judges:8:23 @ And Gidon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the Lord shall rule over you.
lesserot@Judges:8:24 @ And Gidon said unto them, I would ask one request of you, that ye should give me every man the earring of his booty; for they had had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.
lesserot@Judges:8:25 @ And they answered, We will willingly give. And they spread out a garment, and they cast therein every man the earring of his booty.
lesserot@Judges:8:26 @ And the weight of the golden earrings that he had requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the crescent ornaments, and eardrops, and purple garments that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels necks.
lesserot@Judges:8:27 @ And Gidon made thereof an ephod, and set it up in his city, in Ophrah: and all Israel went astray after it thither; and it became a snare unto Gidon, and to his house.
lesserot@Judges:8:28 @ And Midian was humbled before the children of Israel, so that they lifted not up their head any more. And the country was quiet forty years in the days of Gidon.
lesserot@Judges:8:29 @ And Yerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
lesserot@Judges:8:30 @ And Gidon had seventy sons begotten of his body; for he had many wives.
lesserot@Judges:8:31 @ And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he gave him the name, Abimelech.
lesserot@Judges:8:32 @ And Gidon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
lesserot@Judges:8:33 @ And it came to pass, when Gidon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went astray after the Bealim, and made themselves Baalberith for a god.
lesserot@Judges:8:34 @ And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God, who delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side.
lesserot@Judges:8:35 @ Neither showed they kindness to the house of Yerubbaal, namely, Gidon, in accordance with all the good which he had done unto Israel.
lesserot@Judges:9:1 @ And Abimelech the son of Yerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mothers brothers, and spoke unto them, and unto all the family of the house of his mothers father, saying,
lesserot@Judges:9:2 @ Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, What is better for you, either that there should rule over you seventy men, all the sons of Yerubbaal, or that there reign over you one man? and remember that I am your bone and your flesh.
lesserot@Judges:9:3 @ And his mothers brothers spoke concerning him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words; and their heart became inclined after Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
lesserot@Judges:9:4 @ And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith; and Abimelech hired therewith idle and heedless persons, who followed him.
lesserot@Judges:9:5 @ And he came unto his fathers house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Yeruhbaal, seventy persons, upon one stone; and there was yet left Yotham the youngest son of Yerubbaal; for he had hidden himself.
lesserot@Judges:9:6 @ And all the men of Shechem and all Bethmillo assembled together, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was by Shechem.