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rwbs@Genesis:15:14 @ And also that nation, which they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

rwbs@Genesis:16:5 @ And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

rwbs@Genesis:18:25 @ That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

rwbs@Genesis:19:9 @ And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to break the door.

rwbs@Genesis:30:6 @ And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore she called his name Daniel. (note:)Dan: that is, Judging(:note)

rwbs@Genesis:31:37 @ Though thou hast searched all my things, what hast thou found of all thy household things? set here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge between us both. (note:)searched: Hebrews. felt(:note)

rwbs@Genesis:31:53 @ The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

rwbs@Genesis:49:16 @ Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

rwbs@Exodus:2:14 @ And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. (note:)a prince: Hebrews. a man, a prince(:note)

rwbs@Exodus:5:21 @ And they said to them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made us odious in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hands to slay us. (note:)to be…: Hebrews. to stink(:note)

rwbs@Exodus:18:13 @ And it came to pass on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening.

rwbs@Exodus:18:16 @ When they have a matter, they come to me; and I judge between one and another, and I make know the statutes of God, and his laws. (note:)one…: Hebrews. a man and his fellow(:note)

rwbs@Exodus:18:22 @ And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, every great matter they shall bring to thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear with thee.

rwbs@Exodus:18:26 @ And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

rwbs@Exodus:21:6 @ Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

rwbs@Exodus:21:22 @ If men shall contend, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit shall depart, and yet no harm follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges.

rwbs@Exodus:22:8 @ If the thief shall not be found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges, whether he hath put his hand to his neighbour’s goods.

rwbs@Exodus:22:9 @ For all manner of trespass, for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for raiment, for any manner of lost thing, which challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges shall condemn, shall pay double to his neighbour.

rwbs@Exodus:22:28 @ Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse the ruler of thy people. (note:)gods: or, judges(:note)

rwbs@Leviticus:19:15 @ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

rwbs@Numbers:25:5 @ And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined to Baalpeor.

rwbs@Numbers:35:24 @ Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

rwbs@Deuteronomy:1:16 @ And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge righteously between man and his brother, and the stranger with him.

rwbs@Deuteronomy:16:18 @ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

rwbs@Deuteronomy:17:9 @ And thou shalt come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment:

rwbs@Deuteronomy:17:12 @ And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken to the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt remove the evil from Israel. (note:)and will…: Hebrews. not to hearken(:note)

rwbs@Deuteronomy:19:17 @ Then both the men, between whom the controversy, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days;

rwbs@Deuteronomy:19:18 @ And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, the witness a false witness, hath testified falsely against his brother;

rwbs@Deuteronomy:21:2 @ Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which around him that is slain:

rwbs@Deuteronomy:25:1 @ If there shall be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

rwbs@Deuteronomy:25:2 @ And it shall be, if the wicked man worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

rwbs@Deuteronomy:32:31 @ For their rock not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves judges.

rwbs@Deuteronomy:32:36 @ For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent for his servants, when he seeth that power is gone, and none shut up, or left. (note:)power: Hebrews. hand(:note)

rwbs@Joshua:8:33 @ And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them opposite mount Gerizim, and half of them opposite mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

rwbs@Joshua:23:2 @ And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them, I am old advanced in years:

rwbs@Joshua:24:1 @ And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

rwbs@Judges:1:1 @ Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

rwbs@Judges:1:2 @ And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

rwbs@Judges:1:3 @ And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

rwbs@Judges:1:4 @ And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

rwbs@Judges:1:5 @ And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

rwbs@Judges:1:6 @ But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

rwbs@Judges:1:7 @ And Adonibezek said, seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered under my table: as I have done, so God hath repaid me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. (note:)their thumbs…: Hebrews. the thumbs of their hands and of their feet(:note)gathered: or, gleaned

rwbs@Judges:1:8 @ Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

rwbs@Judges:1:9 @ And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt on the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley. (note:)valley: or, low country(:note)

rwbs@Judges:1:10 @ And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

rwbs@Judges:1:11 @ And from there he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before Kirjathsepher:

rwbs@Judges:1:12 @ And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter for a wife.

rwbs@Judges:1:13 @ And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.

rwbs@Judges:1:14 @ And it came to pass, when she came, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she got off donkey; and Caleb said to her, What wilt thou?

rwbs@Judges:1:15 @ And she said to him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

rwbs@Judges:1:16 @ And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

rwbs@Judges:1:17 @ And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.

rwbs@Judges:1:18 @ Also Judah took Gaza with its land, and Askelon with its land, and Ekron with its land.

rwbs@Judges:1:19 @ And the LORD was with Judah; and he drove out the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. (note:)drave…: or, possessed the mountain(:note)

rwbs@Judges:1:20 @ And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses said: and he drove out from there the three sons of Anak.

rwbs@Judges:1:21 @ And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

rwbs@Judges:1:22 @ And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD with them.

rwbs@Judges:1:23 @ And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before Luz.)

rwbs@Judges:1:24 @ And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will show thee mercy.

rwbs@Judges:1:25 @ And when he showed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.

rwbs@Judges:1:26 @ And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz: which its name to this day.

rwbs@Judges:1:27 @ Neither did Manasseh drive out Bethshean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

rwbs@Judges:1:28 @ And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they subjected the Canaanites to forced labour, and did not utterly drive them out.

rwbs@Judges:1:29 @ Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

rwbs@Judges:1:30 @ Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became forced labourers.

rwbs@Judges:1:31 @ Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:

rwbs@Judges:1:32 @ But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.

rwbs@Judges:1:33 @ Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became forced labourers to them.

rwbs@Judges:1:34 @ And the Amorites forced the children of Dan to the mountain: for they would not allow them to come down to the valley:

rwbs@Judges:1:35 @ But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became forced labourers. (note:)prevailed: Hebrews. was heavy(:note)

rwbs@Judges:1:36 @ And the border of the Amorites from the ascent to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward. (note:)the going…: or, Maalehacrabbim(:note)

rwbs@Judges:2:1 @ And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to depart from Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. (note:)angel: or, messenger(:note)

rwbs@Judges:2:2 @ And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

rwbs@Judges:2:3 @ Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

rwbs@Judges:2:4 @ And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

rwbs@Judges:2:5 @ And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to the LORD. (note:)Bochim: that is, Weepers(:note)

rwbs@Judges:2:6 @ And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

rwbs@Judges:2:7 @ And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel. (note:)outlived: Hebrews. prolonged days after(:note)

rwbs@Judges:2:8 @ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, an hundred and ten years old.

rwbs@Judges:2:9 @ And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. (note:)Timnathheres: also called, Timnathserah(:note)

rwbs@Judges:2:10 @ And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

rwbs@Judges:2:11 @ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

rwbs@Judges:2:12 @ And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

rwbs@Judges:2:13 @ And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

rwbs@Judges:2:14 @ And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

rwbs@Judges:2:15 @ Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.

rwbs@Judges:2:16 @ Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, who delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. (note:)delivered: Hebrews. saved(:note)

rwbs@Judges:2:17 @ And yet they would not hearken to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not so.

rwbs@Judges:2:18 @ And when the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for the LORD repented because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and burdened them.

rwbs@Judges:2:19 @ And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, they returned, and corrupted more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. (note:)corrupted…: or, were corrupt(:note)ceased…: Hebrews. let nothing fall of their

rwbs@Judges:2:20 @ And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to my voice;

rwbs@Judges:2:21 @ I also will not henceforth drive out from before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

rwbs@Judges:2:22 @ That through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk in it, as their fathers kept, or not.

rwbs@Judges:2:23 @ Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out speedily; neither did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua. (note:)left: or, suffered(:note)

rwbs@Judges:3:1 @ Now these the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

rwbs@Judges:3:2 @ Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it;

rwbs@Judges:3:3 @, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt on mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon to the entrance of Hamath.

rwbs@Judges:3:4 @ And they were to test Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken to the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

rwbs@Judges:3:5 @ And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

rwbs@Judges:3:6 @ And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

rwbs@Judges:3:7 @ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

rwbs@Judges:3:8 @ Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years. (note:)Mesopotamia: Hebrews. Aramnaharaim(:note)

rwbs@Judges:3:9 @ And when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. (note:)deliverer: Hebrews. saviour(:note)

rwbs@Judges:3:10 @ And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim. (note:)came: Hebrews. was(:note)Mesopotamia: Heb. Aram

rwbs@Judges:3:11 @ And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

rwbs@Judges:3:12 @ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

rwbs@Judges:3:13 @ And he gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.

rwbs@Judges:3:14 @ So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

rwbs@Judges:3:15 @ But when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent tribute to Eglon king of Moab. (note:)a Benjamite: or, the son of Jemini(:note)lefthanded: Hebrews. shut of his right hand

rwbs@Judges:3:16 @ But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

rwbs@Judges:3:17 @ And he brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon a very fat man.

rwbs@Judges:3:18 @ And when he had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people that bore the tribute.

rwbs@Judges:3:19 @ But he himself turned back at the quarries that by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. (note:)quarries: or, graven images(:note)

rwbs@Judges:3:20 @ And Ehud came to him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God to thee. And he arose from seat. (note:)a summer…: Hebrews. a parlour of cooling(:note)

rwbs@Judges:3:21 @ And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

rwbs@Judges:3:22 @ And the handle also entered after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. (note:)the dirt…: or, it came out at the buttocks(:note)

rwbs@Judges:3:23 @ Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

rwbs@Judges:3:24 @ When he had gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. (note:)covereth…: or, doeth his easement(:note)

rwbs@Judges:3:25 @ And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened: and, behold, their lord lay dead on the earth.

rwbs@Judges:3:26 @ And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath.

rwbs@Judges:3:27 @ And it came to pass, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.

rwbs@Judges:3:28 @ And he said to them, Follow me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and permitted not a man to pass over.

rwbs@Judges:3:29 @ And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all stout, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man. (note:)lusty: Hebrews. fat(:note)

rwbs@Judges:3:30 @ So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest eighty years.

rwbs@Judges:3:31 @ And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.

rwbs@Judges:4:1 @ And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, after Ehud was dead.

rwbs@Judges:4:2 @ And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

rwbs@Judges:4:3 @ And the children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

rwbs@Judges:4:4 @ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

rwbs@Judges:4:5 @ And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

rwbs@Judges:4:6 @ And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedeshnaphtali, and said to him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded,, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

rwbs@Judges:4:7 @ And I will draw to thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thy hand.

rwbs@Judges:4:8 @ And Barak said to her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.

rwbs@Judges:4:9 @ And she said, I will surely go with thee: however the journey that thou takest shall not be for thy honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

rwbs@Judges:4:10 @ And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

rwbs@Judges:4:11 @ Now Heber the Kenite, of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent to the plain of Zaanaim, which by Kedesh.

rwbs@Judges:4:12 @ And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to mount Tabor.

rwbs@Judges:4:13 @ And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles to the river of Kishon. (note:)together: Hebrews. by cry, or, proclamation(:note)

rwbs@Judges:4:14 @ And Deborah said to Barak, Arise; for this the day when the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thy hand: hath not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

rwbs@Judges:4:15 @ And the LORD destroyed Sisera, and all chariots, and all host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera came down from chariot, and fled away on his feet.

rwbs@Judges:4:16 @ But Barak pursued the chariots, and the host, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; there was not a man left. (note:)a man: Hebrews. unto one(:note)

rwbs@Judges:4:17 @ However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

rwbs@Judges:4:18 @ And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. (note:)mantle: or, rug, or, blanket(:note)

rwbs@Judges:4:19 @ And he said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.

rwbs@Judges:4:20 @ Again he said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.

rwbs@Judges:4:21 @ Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. (note:)and took: Hebrews. and put(:note)

rwbs@Judges:4:22 @ And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail in his temples.

rwbs@Judges:4:23 @ So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

rwbs@Judges:4:24 @ And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. (note:)prospered…: Hebrews. going went and was hard(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:1 @ Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

rwbs@Judges:5:2 @ Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

rwbs@Judges:5:3 @ Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing to the LORD God of Israel.

rwbs@Judges:5:4 @ LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou didst march out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens poured, the clouds also poured water.

rwbs@Judges:5:5 @ The mountains melted from before the LORD, that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel. (note:)melted: Hebrews. flowed(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:6 @ In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. (note:)travellers: Hebrews. walkers of paths(:note)byways: Heb. crooked ways

rwbs@Judges:5:7 @ the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

rwbs@Judges:5:8 @ They chose new gods; then war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

rwbs@Judges:5:9 @ My heart toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.

rwbs@Judges:5:10 @ Speak, ye that ride on white donkeys, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. (note:)Speak: or, Meditate(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:11 @ from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates. (note:)righteous…: Hebrews. righteousnesses(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:12 @ Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

rwbs@Judges:5:13 @ Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.

rwbs@Judges:5:14 @ Out of Ephraim a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. (note:)handle: Hebrews. draw with(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:15 @ And the princes of Issachar with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben great thoughts of heart. (note:)foot: Hebrews. his feet(:note)For: or, Inthoughts: Heb. impressions

rwbs@Judges:5:16 @ Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben great searchings of heart. (note:)For: or, In(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:17 @ Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his inlets. (note:)shore: or, port(:note)breaches: or, creeks

rwbs@Judges:5:18 @ Zebulun and Naphtali a people jeoparded their lives to death in the high places of the field. (note:)jeoparded: Hebrews. exposed to reproach(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:19 @ The kings came fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

rwbs@Judges:5:20 @ They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. (note:)courses: Hebrews. paths(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:21 @ The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

rwbs@Judges:5:22 @ Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones. (note:)pransings: or, tramplings, or, plungings(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:23 @ Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly its inhabitants; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

rwbs@Judges:5:24 @ Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

rwbs@Judges:5:25 @ He asked water, she gave milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

rwbs@Judges:5:26 @ She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and struck through his temples. (note:)with…: Hebrews. she hammered(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:27 @ At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. (note:)At: Hebrews. Between(:note)dead: Heb. destroyed

rwbs@Judges:5:28 @ The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

rwbs@Judges:5:29 @ Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, (note:)answer: Hebrews. her words(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:30 @ Have they not found? have they divided the spoil; to every man a damsel two; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments of needlework, of dyed garments of needlework on both sides, for the necks of the spoil? (note:)every…: Hebrews. the head of a man(:note)

rwbs@Judges:5:31 @ So let all thy enemies perish, O LORD: but them that love him as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

rwbs@Judges:6:1 @ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

rwbs@Judges:6:2 @ And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. (note:)prevailed: Hebrews. was strong(:note)

rwbs@Judges:6:3 @ And it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

rwbs@Judges:6:4 @ And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou comest to Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. (note:)sheep: or goat(:note)

rwbs@Judges:6:5 @ For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

rwbs@Judges:6:6 @ And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried to the LORD.

rwbs@Judges:6:7 @ And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried to the LORD because of the Midianites,

rwbs@Judges:6:8 @ That the LORD sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth from the house of bondage; (note:)a prophet: Hebrews. a man a prophet(:note)

rwbs@Judges:6:9 @ And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;

rwbs@Judges:6:10 @ And I said to you, I the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.

rwbs@Judges:6:11 @ And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which in Ophrah, that to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide from the Midianites. (note:)Gideon: Gr. Gedeon(:note)to hide…: Hebrews. to cause it to flee

rwbs@Judges:6:12 @ And the angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, The LORD with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

rwbs@Judges:6:13 @ And Gideon said to him, O my Lord, if the LORD is with us, why then hath all this befallen us? and where all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

rwbs@Judges:6:14 @ And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?

rwbs@Judges:6:15 @ And he said to him, O my Lord, how shall I save Israel? behold, my family poor in Manasseh, and I the least in my father’s house. (note:)my family…: Hebrews. my thousand is the meanest(:note)

rwbs@Judges:6:16 @ And the LORD said to him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

rwbs@Judges:6:17 @ And he said to him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then show me a sign that thou talkest with me.

rwbs@Judges:6:18 @ Depart not from here, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring forth my present, and set before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou comest again. (note:)present: or, meat offering(:note)

rwbs@Judges:6:19 @ And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought out to him under the oak, and presented. (note:)a kid: Hebrews. a kid of the goats(:note)

rwbs@Judges:6:20 @ And the angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.

rwbs@Judges:6:21 @ Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed from his sight.

rwbs@Judges:6:22 @ And when Gideon perceived that he an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.

rwbs@Judges:6:23 @ And the LORD said to him, Peace to thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.

rwbs@Judges:6:24 @ Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: to this day it yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. (note:)Jehovahshalom: that is, The LORD send peace(:note)

rwbs@Judges:6:25 @ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Take thy father’s young bull, even the second bull of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that by it: (note:)even: or, and(:note)

rwbs@Judges:6:26 @ And build an altar to the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. (note:)rock: Hebrews. strong place(:note)in the ordered…: or, in an orderly manner

rwbs@Judges:6:27 @ Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said to him: and it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do by day, that he did by night.

rwbs@Judges:6:28 @ And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that by it, and the second bull was offered upon the altar built.

rwbs@Judges:6:29 @ And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.

rwbs@Judges:6:30 @ Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that by it.

rwbs@Judges:6:31 @ And Joash said to all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death by morning: if he a god, let him plead for himself, because hath cast down his altar.

rwbs@Judges:6:32 @ Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. (note:)Jerubbaal: that is, Let Baal plead(:note)Jerubbesheth: that is, Let the shameful thing plead

rwbs@Judges:6:33 @ Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

rwbs@Judges:6:34 @ But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was called after him. (note:)came…: Hebrews. clothed(:note)gathered: Heb. called

rwbs@Judges:6:35 @ And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was called after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. (note:)gathered: Hebrews. called(:note)

rwbs@Judges:6:36 @ And Gideon said to God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,

rwbs@Judges:6:37 @ Behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the floor; if the dew shall be on the fleece only, and dry upon all the earth, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said.

rwbs@Judges:6:38 @ And it was so: for he rose early on the next morning, and pressed the fleece, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

rwbs@Judges:6:39 @ And Gideon said to God, Let not thy anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me make a test, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

rwbs@Judges:6:40 @ And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

rwbs@Judges:7:1 @ Then Jerubbaal, who Gideon, and all the people that with him, rose early, and encamped beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

rwbs@Judges:7:2 @ And the LORD said to Gideon, The people that with thee too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand hath saved me.

rwbs@Judges:7:3 @ Now therefore, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

rwbs@Judges:7:4 @ And the LORD said to Gideon, The people yet many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, of whom I say to thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomever I say to thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

rwbs@Judges:7:5 @ So he brought down the people to the water: and the LORD said to Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

rwbs@Judges:7:6 @ And the number of them that lapped, their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

rwbs@Judges:7:7 @ And the LORD said to Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand: and let all the people go every man to his place.

rwbs@Judges:7:8 @ So the people took provisions in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all Israel every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

rwbs@Judges:7:9 @ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Arise, go down to the host; for I have delivered it into thy hand.

rwbs@Judges:7:10 @ But if thou fearest to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:

rwbs@Judges:7:11 @ And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thy hands be strengthened to go down to the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant to the outside of the armed men that in the host. (note:)armed men: or, ranks by five(:note)

rwbs@Judges:7:12 @ And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

rwbs@Judges:7:13 @ And when Gideon had come, behold, a man that told a dream to his friend, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread rolled into the host of Midian, and came to a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay flat.

rwbs@Judges:7:14 @ And his friend answered and said, This nothing else except the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.

rwbs@Judges:7:15 @ And it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshipped, and returned to the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. (note:)interpretation: Hebrews. breaking(:note)

rwbs@Judges:7:16 @ And he divided the three hundred men three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. (note:)a trumpet…: Hebrews. trumpets in the hand of all of them(:note)lamps: or, firebrands, or, torches

rwbs@Judges:7:17 @ And he said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be, as I do, so shall ye do.

rwbs@Judges:7:18 @ When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, of the LORD, and of Gideon.

rwbs@Judges:7:19 @ So Gideon, and the hundred men that with him, came to the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that in their hands.

rwbs@Judges:7:20 @ And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

rwbs@Judges:7:21 @ And they stood every man in his place around the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.

rwbs@Judges:7:22 @ And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his companion, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, to the border of Abelmeholah, to Tabbath. (note:)in: or, toward(:note)border: Hebrews. lip

rwbs@Judges:7:23 @ And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites.

rwbs@Judges:7:24 @ And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters to Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters to Bethbarah and Jordan.

rwbs@Judges:7:25 @ And they took 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 Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of Jordan.

rwbs@Judges:8:1 @ And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why hast thou done this to us, that thou didst call us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did contend with him sharply. (note:)Why…: Hebrews. What thing is this thou hast done unto us(:note)sharply: Heb. strongly

rwbs@Judges:8:2 @ And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison of you? not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

rwbs@Judges:8:3 @ God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then, when he had said that, their anger toward him abated. (note:)anger: Hebrews. spirit(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:4 @ And Gideon came to Jordan, passed over, he, and the three hundred men that with him, faint, yet pursuing.

rwbs@Judges:8:5 @ And he said to the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread to the people that follow me; for they faint, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.

rwbs@Judges:8:6 @ And the princes of Succoth said, the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should give bread to thy army?

rwbs@Judges:8:7 @ And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers. (note:)tear: Hebrews. thresh(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:8 @ And he went up from there to Penuel, and spoke to them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

rwbs@Judges:8:9 @ And he spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

rwbs@Judges:8:10 @ Now Zebah and Zalmunna in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. (note:)men that…: or, every one drawing a sword(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:11 @ And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.

rwbs@Judges:8:12 @ And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and overcame all the host. (note:)discomfited: Hebrews. terrified(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:13 @ And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun,

rwbs@Judges:8:14 @ And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy and seven men. (note:)described: Hebrews. writ(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:15 @ And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye upbraided me, saying, the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should give bread to thy men weary?

rwbs@Judges:8:16 @ And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. (note:)taught: Hebrews. made to know(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:17 @ And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

rwbs@Judges:8:18 @ Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou, so they; each one resembled the children of a king. (note:)resembled…: Hebrews. according to the form, etc(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:19 @ And he said, They my brethren, the sons of my mother: the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

rwbs@Judges:8:20 @ And he said to Jether his firstborn, Arise, slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he yet a youth.

rwbs@Judges:8:21 @ Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that on their camels’ necks. (note:)ornaments: or, ornaments like the moon(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:22 @ Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

rwbs@Judges:8:23 @ And Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.

rwbs@Judges:8:24 @ And Gideon said to them, I would desire a request of you, that you would give me every man the earrings of his spoil. (For they had golden earrings, because they Ishmaelites.)

rwbs@Judges:8:25 @ And they answered, We will willingly give. And they spread a garment, and cast into it every man the earrings of his spoil.

rwbs@Judges:8:26 @ And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred of gold; besides ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that about their camels’ necks. (note:)collars: or, sweet jewels(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:27 @ And Gideon made of it an ephod, and put it in his city, in Ophrah: and all Israel went there playing the harlot with it: which thing became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.

rwbs@Judges:8:28 @ Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they raised their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

rwbs@Judges:8:29 @ And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

rwbs@Judges:8:30 @ And Gideon had seventy sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. (note:)of his…: Hebrews. going out of his thigh(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:31 @ And his concubine that in Shechem, she also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. (note:)called: Hebrews. set(:note)

rwbs@Judges:8:32 @ And Gideon 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.

rwbs@Judges:8:33 @ And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went playing the harlot with Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

rwbs@Judges:8:34 @ And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side:

rwbs@Judges:8:35 @ Neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal,, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.

rwbs@Judges:9:1 @ And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brethren, and talked with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

rwbs@Judges:9:2 @ Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Which better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, should reign over you, or that one should reign over you? remember also that I your bone and your flesh. (note:)Whether…: Hebrews. What is good? whether, etc(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:3 @ And his mother’s brethren spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He our brother. (note:)to follow: Hebrews. after(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:4 @ And they gave him seventy of silver out of the house of Baalberith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and light persons, who followed him.

rwbs@Judges:9:5 @ And he went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, upon one stone: however Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

rwbs@Judges:9:6 @ And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that in Shechem. (note:)plain: or, oak(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:7 @ And when they told to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Hearken to me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken to you.

rwbs@Judges:9:8 @ The trees went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Reign thou over us.

rwbs@Judges:9:9 @ But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? (note:)go…: or, go up and down for other trees(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:10 @ And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, reign over us.

rwbs@Judges:9:11 @ But the fig tree said to them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?

rwbs@Judges:9:12 @ Then said the trees to the vine, Come thou, reign over us.

rwbs@Judges:9:13 @ And the vine said to them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

rwbs@Judges:9:14 @ Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come thou, reign over us. (note:)bramble: or, thistle(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:15 @ And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, come put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

rwbs@Judges:9:16 @ Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands;

rwbs@Judges:9:17 @ (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you from the hand of Midian: (note:)adventured…: Hebrews. cast his life(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:18 @ And ye have risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he your brother;)

rwbs@Judges:9:19 @ If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:

rwbs@Judges:9:20 @ But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

rwbs@Judges:9:21 @ And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

rwbs@Judges:9:22 @ When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,

rwbs@Judges:9:23 @ Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

rwbs@Judges:9:24 @ That the cruelty to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, who aided him in the killing of his brethren. (note:)aided…: Hebrews. strengthened his hands to kill(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:25 @ And the men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

rwbs@Judges:9:26 @ And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.

rwbs@Judges:9:27 @ And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trod, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech. (note:)merry: or, songs(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:28 @ And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who Abimelech, and who Shechem, that we should serve him? not the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?

rwbs@Judges:9:29 @ And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thy army, and come out.

rwbs@Judges:9:30 @ And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. (note:)kindled: or, hot(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:31 @ And he sent messengers to Abimelech deceitfully, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren are come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee. (note:)privily: Hebrews. craftily or, to Tormah(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:32 @ Now therefore rise up by night, thou and the people that with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

rwbs@Judges:9:33 @ And it shall be, in the morning, as soon as the sun hath risen, thou shalt rise early, and rush upon the city: and, behold, he and the people that with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion. (note:)as thou shalt…: Hebrews. as thine hand shall find(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:34 @ And Abimelech rose, and all the people that with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

rwbs@Judges:9:35 @ And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose, and the people that with him, from lying in wait.

rwbs@Judges:9:36 @ And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said to him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as men.

rwbs@Judges:9:37 @ And Gaal spoke again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim. (note:)middle: Hebrews. navel(:note)Meonenim: or, the regarders of times

rwbs@Judges:9:38 @ Then said Zebul to him, Where now thy mouth, with which thou saidst, Who Abimelech, that we should serve him? not these the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.

rwbs@Judges:9:39 @ And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

rwbs@Judges:9:40 @ And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown wounded, to the entrance of the gate.

rwbs@Judges:9:41 @ And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

rwbs@Judges:9:42 @ And it came to pass on the next day, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

rwbs@Judges:9:43 @ And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people come out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.

rwbs@Judges:9:44 @ And Abimelech, and the company that with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies ran upon all that in the fields, and slew them.

rwbs@Judges:9:45 @ And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that in it, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

rwbs@Judges:9:46 @ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard, they entered into a strong hold of the house of the god Berith.

rwbs@Judges:9:47 @ And it was told to Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

rwbs@Judges:9:48 @ And Abimelech went up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid on his shoulder, and said to the people that with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, do as I. (note:)me do: Hebrews. I have done(:note)

rwbs@Judges:9:49 @ And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put to the strong hold, and set the strong hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

rwbs@Judges:9:50 @ Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

rwbs@Judges:9:51 @ But there was a strong tower within the city, and to there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut after them, and went up to the top of the tower.

rwbs@Judges:9:52 @ And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

rwbs@Judges:9:53 @ And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.

rwbs@Judges:9:54 @ Then he called hastily to the young man his armourbearer, and said to him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

rwbs@Judges:9:55 @ And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.

rwbs@Judges:9:56 @ Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

rwbs@Judges:9:57 @ And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

rwbs@Judges:10:1 @ And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. (note:)defend: or, deliver: Hebrews. save(:note)

rwbs@Judges:10:2 @ And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

rwbs@Judges:10:3 @ And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.

rwbs@Judges:10:4 @ And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty young donkeys, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair to this day, which in the land of Gilead. (note:)Havothjair: or, the villages of Jair(:note)

rwbs@Judges:10:5 @ And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

rwbs@Judges:10:6 @ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.

rwbs@Judges:10:7 @ And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

rwbs@Judges:10:8 @ And that year they afflicted and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that on the other side of Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which in Gilead. (note:)oppressed: Hebrews. crushed(:note)

rwbs@Judges:10:9 @ Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was greatly distressed.

rwbs@Judges:10:10 @ And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

rwbs@Judges:10:11 @ And the LORD said to the children of Israel, not from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

rwbs@Judges:10:12 @ The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

rwbs@Judges:10:13 @ Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will deliver you no more.

rwbs@Judges:10:14 @ Go and cry to the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

rwbs@Judges:10:15 @ And the children of Israel said to the LORD, We have sinned: do thou to us whatever seemeth good to thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. (note:)seemeth…: Hebrews. is good in thine eyes(:note)

rwbs@Judges:10:16 @ And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. (note:)strange…: Hebrews. gods of strangers(:note)grieved: Heb. shortened

rwbs@Judges:10:17 @ Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. (note:)gathered: Hebrews. cried(:note)

rwbs@Judges:10:18 @ And the people princes of Gilead said one to another, What man that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

rwbs@Judges:11:1 @ Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. (note:)Jephthah: Gr. Jephthae(:note)an harlot: Hebrews. a woman an harlot

rwbs@Judges:11:2 @ And Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said to him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou the son of a another woman.

rwbs@Judges:11:3 @ Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered worthless men to Jephthah, and went out with him. (note:)from: Hebrews. from the face [of](:note)

rwbs@Judges:11:4 @ And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel. (note:)in process…: Hebrews. after days(:note)

rwbs@Judges:11:5 @ And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

rwbs@Judges:11:6 @ And they said to Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

rwbs@Judges:11:7 @ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did ye not hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? and why have ye come to me now when ye are in distress?

rwbs@Judges:11:8 @ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

rwbs@Judges:11:9 @ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?

rwbs@Judges:11:10 @ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The LORD be a witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words. (note:)witness…: Hebrews. the hearer between us(:note)

rwbs@Judges:11:11 @ Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.

rwbs@Judges:11:12 @ And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou hast come against me to fight in my land?

rwbs@Judges:11:13 @ And the king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came out of Egypt, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and to Jordan: now therefore restore those again peaceably.

rwbs@Judges:11:14 @ And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon:

rwbs@Judges:11:15 @ And said to him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

rwbs@Judges:11:16 @ But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness to the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

rwbs@Judges:11:17 @ Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken. And in like manner they sent to the king of Moab: but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.

rwbs@Judges:11:18 @ Then they went along through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and encamped on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon the border of Moab.

rwbs@Judges:11:19 @ And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land to my place.

rwbs@Judges:11:20 @ But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his land: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

rwbs@Judges:11:21 @ And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

rwbs@Judges:11:22 @ And they possessed all the land of the Amorites, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan.

rwbs@Judges:11:23 @ So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

rwbs@Judges:11:24 @ Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

rwbs@Judges:11:25 @ And now thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,

rwbs@Judges:11:26 @ While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that along by the banks of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover within that time?

rwbs@Judges:11:27 @ Therefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

rwbs@Judges:11:28 @ But the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

rwbs@Judges:11:29 @ Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over the children of Ammon.

rwbs@Judges:11:30 @ And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

rwbs@Judges:11:31 @ Then it shall be, that whatever cometh out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’S, and I will offer it for a burnt offering. (note:)whatsoever…: Hebrews. that which cometh forth, which shall come forth(:note)and…: or, or I will offer it, etc

rwbs@Judges:11:32 @ So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

rwbs@Judges:11:33 @ And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou comest to Minnith, twenty cities, and to the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. (note:)the plain: or, Abel(:note)

rwbs@Judges:11:34 @ And Jephthah came to Mizpeh to his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. (note:)beside…: or, he had not of his own either son or daughter: Hebrews. of himself(:note)

rwbs@Judges:11:35 @ And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot go back.

rwbs@Judges:11:36 @ And she said to him, My father, thou hast opened thy mouth to the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thy enemies, of the children of Ammon.

rwbs@Judges:11:37 @ And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions. (note:)go up…: Hebrews. go and go down(:note)

rwbs@Judges:11:38 @ And he said, Go. And he sent her away two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

rwbs@Judges:11:39 @ And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, (note:)custom: or, ordinance(:note)

rwbs@Judges:11:40 @ the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. (note:)yearly: Hebrews. from year to year(:note)to lament: or, to talk with

rwbs@Judges:12:1 @ And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Why didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire. (note:)gathered…: Hebrews. were called(:note)

rwbs@Judges:12:2 @ And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.

rwbs@Judges:12:3 @ And when I saw that ye delivered not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: why then have ye come up to me this day, to fight against me?

rwbs@Judges:12:4 @ Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, among the Manassites.

rwbs@Judges:12:5 @ And the Gileadites took the fords of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was, that when those Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said to him, thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

rwbs@Judges:12:6 @ Then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce right. Then they took him, and slew him at the fords of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

rwbs@Judges:12:7 @ And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.

rwbs@Judges:12:8 @ And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

rwbs@Judges:12:9 @ And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

rwbs@Judges:12:10 @ Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.

rwbs@Judges:12:11 @ And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

rwbs@Judges:12:12 @ And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

rwbs@Judges:12:13 @ And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.

rwbs@Judges:12:14 @ And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, that rode on seventy young donkeys: and he judged Israel eight years. (note:)nephews: Hebrews. sons’ sons(:note)

rwbs@Judges:12:15 @ And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

rwbs@Judges:13:1 @ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. (note:)did evil…: Hebrews. added to commit, etc(:note)

rwbs@Judges:13:2 @ And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name Manoah; and his wife barren, and bore not.

rwbs@Judges:13:3 @ And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold now, thou barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

rwbs@Judges:13:4 @ Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean:

rwbs@Judges:13:5 @ For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.

rwbs@Judges:13:6 @ Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his countenance like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not where he from, neither did he tell me his name:

rwbs@Judges:13:7 @ But he said to me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

rwbs@Judges:13:8 @ Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child that shall be born.

rwbs@Judges:13:9 @ And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband not with her.

rwbs@Judges:13:10 @ And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man hath appeared to me, that came to me the day.

rwbs@Judges:13:11 @ And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, thou the man that didst speak to the woman? And he said, I.

rwbs@Judges:13:12 @ And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and shall we do to him? (note:)How shall we order…: Hebrews. What shall be the manner of the, etc(:note)how shall we do…: or, what shall he do?: Heb. what shall be his work?

rwbs@Judges:13:13 @ And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

rwbs@Judges:13:14 @ She may not eat of any that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean: all that I commanded her let her observe.

rwbs@Judges:13:15 @ And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. (note:)for thee: Hebrews. before thee(:note)

rwbs@Judges:13:16 @ And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Though thou shouldest detain me, I will not eat of thy food: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it to the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he an angel of the LORD.

rwbs@Judges:13:17 @ And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, What thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

rwbs@Judges:13:18 @ And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it wonderful? (note:)secret: or, wonderful(:note)

rwbs@Judges:13:19 @ So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered upon a rock to the LORD: and did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

rwbs@Judges:13:20 @ For it came to pass, when the flame ascended toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on, and fell on their faces to the ground.

rwbs@Judges:13:21 @ But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he an angel of the LORD.

rwbs@Judges:13:22 @ And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

rwbs@Judges:13:23 @ But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these, nor would as at this time have told us as these.

rwbs@Judges:13:24 @ And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

rwbs@Judges:13:25 @ And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. (note:)the camp…: Hebrews. Mahanehdan(:note)

rwbs@Judges:14:1 @ And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

rwbs@Judges:14:2 @ And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me for a wife.

rwbs@Judges:14:3 @ Then his father and his mother said to him, not a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. (note:)pleaseth…: Hebrews. is right in mine eyes(:note)

rwbs@Judges:14:4 @ But his father and his mother knew not that it of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

rwbs@Judges:14:5 @ Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. (note:)against…: Hebrews. in meeting him(:note)

rwbs@Judges:14:6 @ And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore him as he would have torn a kid, and nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

rwbs@Judges:14:7 @ And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

rwbs@Judges:14:8 @ And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

rwbs@Judges:14:9 @ And he took of it in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they ate: but he told them not that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.

rwbs@Judges:14:10 @ So his father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

rwbs@Judges:14:11 @ And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

rwbs@Judges:14:12 @ And Samson said to them, I will now tell a riddle to you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: (note:)sheets: or, shirts(:note)

rwbs@Judges:14:13 @ But if ye cannot declare to me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said to him, Tell thy riddle, that we may hear it. (note:)sheets: or, shirts(:note)

rwbs@Judges:14:14 @ And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

rwbs@Judges:14:15 @ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take what we possess? not? (note:)take…: Hebrews. possess us, or, impoverish us?(:note)

rwbs@Judges:14:16 @ And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast told a riddle to the children of my people, and hast not told to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told to my father nor to my mother, and shall I tell to thee?

rwbs@Judges:14:17 @ And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him so hard: and she told the riddle to the children of her people. (note:)the seven…: or, the rest of the seven days(:note)

rwbs@Judges:14:18 @ And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What sweeter than honey? and what stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

rwbs@Judges:14:19 @ And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments to them who expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house. (note:)spoil: or, apparel(:note)

rwbs@Judges:14:20 @ But Samson’s wife was to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

rwbs@Judges:15:1 @ But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not allow him to go in.

rwbs@Judges:15:2 @ And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. (note:)take…: Hebrews. let her be thine(:note)

rwbs@Judges:15:3 @ And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them harm. (note:)more…: or, blameless from the Philistines though, etc(:note)

rwbs@Judges:15:4 @ And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between two tails. (note:)firebrands: or, torches(:note)

rwbs@Judges:15:5 @ And when he had lighted the torches, he let go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing grain, with the vineyards olives.

rwbs@Judges:15:6 @ Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

rwbs@Judges:15:7 @ And Samson said to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

rwbs@Judges:15:8 @ And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

rwbs@Judges:15:9 @ Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

rwbs@Judges:15:10 @ And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come to bind Samson, to do to him as he hath done to us.

rwbs@Judges:15:11 @ Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rulers over us? what this thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them. (note:)went: Hebrews. went down(:note)

rwbs@Judges:15:12 @ And they said to him, We have come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

rwbs@Judges:15:13 @ And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind thee securely, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

rwbs@Judges:15:14 @ when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. (note:)loosed: Hebrews. were melted(:note)

rwbs@Judges:15:15 @ And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it. (note:)new: Hebrews. moist(:note)

rwbs@Judges:15:16 @ And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of a donkey have I slain a thousand men. (note:)heaps upon…: Hebrews. an heap, two heaps(:note)

rwbs@Judges:15:17 @ And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi. (note:)Ramathlehi: that is, the lifting up of the jawbone, or, casting away of the jawbone(:note)

rwbs@Judges:15:18 @ And he was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die by thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

rwbs@Judges:15:19 @ But God opened an hollow place that in the jaw, and there came water out of it; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore he called the name of it Enhakkore, which in Lehi to this day. (note:)the jaw: or, Lehi, as called in this chapter(:note)Enhakkore: that is, the well of him that called or, cried

rwbs@Judges:15:20 @ And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

rwbs@Judges:16:1 @ Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in to her. (note:)harlot: Hebrews. a woman an harlot(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:2 @ the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. And they surrounded, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. (note:)quiet: Hebrews. silence(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:3 @ And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that before Hebron. (note:)bar…: Hebrews. with the bar(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:4 @ And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name Delilah. (note:)in…: or, by the brook(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:5 @ And the lords of the Philistines came to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see where his great strength, and by what we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred of silver. (note:)afflict: or, humble(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:6 @ And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, where thy great strength, and how thou mayest be bound to afflict thee.

rwbs@Judges:16:7 @ And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven new cords that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. (note:)green…: or, new cords: Hebrews. moist(:note)another: Heb. one

rwbs@Judges:16:8 @ Then the lords of the Philistines brought to her seven new cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. (note:)green…: or, new cords: Hebrews. moist(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:9 @ Now men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said to him, The Philistines upon thee, Samson. And he broke the cords, as a string of a wick is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known. (note:)toucheth: Hebrews. smelleth(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:10 @ And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, how thou mayest be bound.

rwbs@Judges:16:11 @ And he said to her, If they bind me securely with new ropes that never were used, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. (note:)that never…: Hebrews. wherewith work hath not been done(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:12 @ Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him with them, and said to him, The Philistines upon thee, Samson. And those lying in wait abiding in the chamber. And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.

rwbs@Judges:16:13 @ And Delilah said to Samson, Until now thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me how thou mayest be bound. And he said to her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.

rwbs@Judges:16:14 @ And she fastened with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines upon thee, Samson. And he awoke from his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

rwbs@Judges:16:15 @ And she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me where thy great strength.

rwbs@Judges:16:16 @ And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death; (note:)vexed: Hebrews. shortened(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:17 @ That he told her all his heart, and said to her, There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I a Nazarite to God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any man.

rwbs@Judges:16:18 @ And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought money in their hand.

rwbs@Judges:16:19 @ And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

rwbs@Judges:16:20 @ And she said, The Philistines upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD had departed from him.

rwbs@Judges:16:21 @ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. (note:)put out: Hebrews. bored out(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:22 @ However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved. (note:)after…: or, as when he was shaven(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:23 @ Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

rwbs@Judges:16:24 @ And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who slew many of us. (note:)which…: Hebrews. and who multiplied our slain(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:25 @ And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. (note:)them: Hebrews. before them(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:26 @ And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand, Permit me to feel the pillars upon which the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.

rwbs@Judges:16:27 @ Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines there; and upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

rwbs@Judges:16:28 @ And Samson called to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

rwbs@Judges:16:29 @ And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it rested, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. (note:)on which…: or, he leaned on them(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:30 @ And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that in it. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than which he slew in his life. (note:)me: Hebrews. my soul(:note)

rwbs@Judges:16:31 @ Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

rwbs@Judges:17:1 @ And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name Micah.

rwbs@Judges:17:2 @ And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst curse, and spoke of also in my ears, behold, the silver with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed of the LORD, my son.

rwbs@Judges:17:3 @ And when he had restored the eleven hundred of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to thee.

rwbs@Judges:17:4 @ Yet he restored the money to his mother; and his mother took two hundred of silver, and gave them to the silversmith, who made of it a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

rwbs@Judges:17:5 @ And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. (note:)consecrated: Hebrews. filled the hand(:note)

rwbs@Judges:17:6 @ In those days no king in Israel, every man did right in his own eyes.

rwbs@Judges:17:7 @ And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who a Levite, and he sojourned there.

rwbs@Judges:17:8 @ And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. (note:)as he…: Hebrews. in making his way(:note)

rwbs@Judges:17:9 @ And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find.

rwbs@Judges:17:10 @ And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy sustenance. So the Levite went in. (note:)a suit…: or, a double suit, etc: Hebrews. an order of garments(:note)

rwbs@Judges:17:11 @ And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

rwbs@Judges:17:12 @ And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

rwbs@Judges:17:13 @ Then said Micah, Now I know that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for priest.

rwbs@Judges:18:1 @ In those days no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought for themselves an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

rwbs@Judges:18:2 @ And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their land, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there. (note:)men of: Hebrews. sons of(:note)

rwbs@Judges:18:3 @ When they by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in there, and said to him, Who brought thee here? and what makest thou in this? and what hast thou here?

rwbs@Judges:18:4 @ And he said to them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

rwbs@Judges:18:5 @ And they said to him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

rwbs@Judges:18:6 @ And the priest said to them, Go in peace: before the LORD your way in which ye go.

rwbs@Judges:18:7 @ Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that in it, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and no magistrate in the land, that might put to shame in thing; and they far from the Zidonians, and had no business with man. (note:)Laish: also called, Leshem(:note)magistrate: Hebrews. possessor, or, heir of restraints

rwbs@Judges:18:8 @ And they came to their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said to them, What ye?

rwbs@Judges:18:9 @ And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it very good: and ye still? be not slothful to go, to enter to possess the land.

rwbs@Judges:18:10 @ When ye go, ye shall come to a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where no want of any thing that on the earth.

rwbs@Judges:18:11 @ And there went from there of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. (note:)appointed: Hebrews. girded(:note)

rwbs@Judges:18:12 @ And they went up, and encamped in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: therefore they called that place Mahanehdan to this day: behold, behind Kirjathjearim.

rwbs@Judges:18:13 @ And they passed from there to mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

rwbs@Judges:18:14 @ Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said to their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

rwbs@Judges:18:15 @ And they turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, to the house of Micah, and greeted him. (note:)saluted…: Hebrews. asked him of peace(:note)

rwbs@Judges:18:16 @ And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, who of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

rwbs@Judges:18:17 @ And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, came in there, took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.

rwbs@Judges:18:18 @ And these went into Micah’s house, and brought the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest to them, What do ye?

rwbs@Judges:18:19 @ And they said to him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: better for thee to be a priest to the house of one man, or that thou shouldest be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

rwbs@Judges:18:20 @ And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

rwbs@Judges:18:21 @ So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the possessions before them.

rwbs@Judges:18:22 @ when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Daniel.

rwbs@Judges:18:23 @ And they cried to the children of Daniel. And they turned their faces, and said to Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company? (note:)comest…: Hebrews. art gathered together?(:note)

rwbs@Judges:18:24 @ And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye have gone away: and what have I more? and what this ye say to me, What aileth thee?

rwbs@Judges:18:25 @ And the children of Dan said to him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows rush upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household. (note:)angry: Hebrews. bitter of soul(:note)

rwbs@Judges:18:26 @ And the children of Dan departed: and when Micah saw that they too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

rwbs@Judges:18:27 @ And they took which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came to Laish, to a people at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

rwbs@Judges:18:28 @ And no deliverer, because it far from Zidon, and they had no business with man; and it was in the valley that by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt in it.

rwbs@Judges:18:29 @ And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel: but the name of the city Laish at the first.

rwbs@Judges:18:30 @ And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

rwbs@Judges:18:31 @ And they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

rwbs@Judges:19:1 @ And it came to pass in those days, when no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite dwelling on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah. (note:)a concubine: Hebrews. a woman a concubine, or, a wife a concubine(:note)

rwbs@Judges:19:2 @ And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months. (note:)four whole months: or, a year and four month: Hebrews. days, four months(:note)

rwbs@Judges:19:3 @ And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father’s house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. (note:)friendly…: Hebrews. to her heart(:note)

rwbs@Judges:19:4 @ And his father in law, the damsel’s father, detained him; and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drank, and lodged there.

rwbs@Judges:19:5 @ And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he arose to depart: and the damsel’s father said to his son in law, Strengthen thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward depart. (note:)Comfort: Hebrews. Strengthen(:note)

rwbs@Judges:19:6 @ And they sat down, and ate and drank both of them together: for the damsel’s father had said to the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry.

rwbs@Judges:19:7 @ And when the man rose to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.

rwbs@Judges:19:8 @ And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel’s father said, Strengthen thy heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they ate both of them. (note:)until afternoon: Hebrews. till the day declined(:note)

rwbs@Judges:19:9 @ And when the man arose to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said to him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day is coming to an end, lodge here, that thy heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home. (note:)draweth: Hebrews. is weak(:note)the day groweth to an end: Heb. it is the pitching time of the dayhome: Heb. to thy tent

rwbs@Judges:19:10 @ But the man would not tarry that night, but he arose and departed, and came opposite Jebus, which Jerusalem; and with him two donkeys saddled, his concubine also with him. (note:)over against: Hebrews. to over against(:note)

rwbs@Judges:19:11 @ when they by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in to this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

rwbs@Judges:19:12 @ And his master said to him, We will not turn aside here into the city of a stranger, that not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

rwbs@Judges:19:13 @ And he said to his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

rwbs@Judges:19:14 @ And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them by Gibeah, which to Benjamin.

rwbs@Judges:19:15 @ And they turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat down in a street of the city: for no man that took them into his house to lodge.

rwbs@Judges:19:16 @ And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening, who also of mount Ephraim; and he dwelt in Gibeah: but the men of the place Benjamites.

rwbs@Judges:19:17 @ And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Where goest thou? and where do you come from?

rwbs@Judges:19:18 @ And he said to him, We passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from there I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I going to the house of the LORD; and there no man that receiveth me into house. (note:)receiveth: Hebrews. gathereth(:note)

rwbs@Judges:19:19 @ Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man with thy servants: no want of any thing.

rwbs@Judges:19:20 @ And the old man said, Peace with thee; however all thy wants upon me; only lodge not in the street.

rwbs@Judges:19:21 @ So he brought him into his house, and gave fodder to the donkeys: and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

rwbs@Judges:19:22 @ as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain perverted men, beset the house on all sides, beat at the door, and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.

rwbs@Judges:19:23 @ And the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, Nay, my brethren,, I pray you, do not wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this folly.

rwbs@Judges:19:24 @ Behold, my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good to you: but to this man do not so vile a thing. (note:)so vile…: Hebrews. the matter of this folly(:note)

rwbs@Judges:19:25 @ But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

rwbs@Judges:19:26 @ Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord, till it was light.

rwbs@Judges:19:27 @ And her lord rose in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down the door of the house, and her hands upon the threshold.

rwbs@Judges:19:28 @ And he said to her, Rise, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her upon a donkey, and the man rose, and went to his place.

rwbs@Judges:19:29 @ And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the land of Israel.

rwbs@Judges:19:30 @ And it was so, that all that saw it said, There hath been no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came from the land of Egypt to this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak.

rwbs@Judges:20:1 @ Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD in Mizpeh.

rwbs@Judges:20:2 @ And the chief of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

rwbs@Judges:20:3 @ (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell, how was this wickedness?

rwbs@Judges:20:4 @ And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. (note:)the Levite: Hebrews. the man the Levite(:note)

rwbs@Judges:20:5 @ And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house upon me by night, thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. (note:)forced: Hebrews. humbled(:note)

rwbs@Judges:20:6 @ And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

rwbs@Judges:20:7 @ Behold, ye all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

rwbs@Judges:20:8 @ And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any go to his tent, neither will we any turn into his house.

rwbs@Judges:20:9 @ But now this the thing which we will do to Gibeah; by lot against it;

rwbs@Judges:20:10 @ And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch provisions for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

rwbs@Judges:20:11 @ So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. (note:)knit…: Hebrews. fellows(:note)

rwbs@Judges:20:12 @ And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness this that is done among you?

rwbs@Judges:20:13 @ Now therefore deliver the men, the perverted men, who in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and remove the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

rwbs@Judges:20:14 @ But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

rwbs@Judges:20:15 @ And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

rwbs@Judges:20:16 @ Among all this people seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair, and not miss.

rwbs@Judges:20:17 @ And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these men of war.

rwbs@Judges:20:18 @ And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah first.

rwbs@Judges:20:19 @ And the children of Israel rose in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

rwbs@Judges:20:20 @ And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

rwbs@Judges:20:21 @ And the children of Benjamin came forth from Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

rwbs@Judges:20:22 @ And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

rwbs@Judges:20:23 @ (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)

rwbs@Judges:20:24 @ And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

rwbs@Judges:20:25 @ And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

rwbs@Judges:20:26 @ Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

rwbs@Judges:20:27 @ And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God there in those days,

rwbs@Judges:20:28 @ And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thy hand.

rwbs@Judges:20:29 @ And Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

rwbs@Judges:20:30 @ And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

rwbs@Judges:20:31 @ And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. (note:)to smite…: Hebrews. to smite of the people wounded as at, etc(:note)the house…: or, Bethel

rwbs@Judges:20:32 @ And the children of Benjamin said, They smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city to the highways.

rwbs@Judges:20:33 @ And all the men of Israel rose out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and those of Israel who were in ambush came forth out of their places, out of the meadows of Gibeah.

rwbs@Judges:20:34 @ And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was fierce: but they knew not that evil near them.

rwbs@Judges:20:35 @ And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

rwbs@Judges:20:36 @ So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted to the ones lying in ambush which they had set beside Gibeah.

rwbs@Judges:20:37 @ And those in ambush hastened, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the ones lying in ambush drew along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. (note:)drew…: or, made a long sound with the trumpet(:note)

rwbs@Judges:20:38 @ Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the men in ambush, that they should make a great flame with smoke to ascend up from the city. (note:)sign: or, time(:note)and: Hebrews. withflame: Heb. elevation

rwbs@Judges:20:39 @ And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as the first battle. (note:)to smite…: Hebrews. to smite the wounded(:note)

rwbs@Judges:20:40 @ But when the flame began to ascend up from the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven. (note:)the flame of: Hebrews. the whole consumption of(:note)

rwbs@Judges:20:41 @ And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil had come upon them. (note:)was come…: Hebrews. touched them(:note)

rwbs@Judges:20:42 @ Therefore they turned before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and those who out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

rwbs@Judges:20:43 @ they inclosed the Benjamites on all sides, chased them, trod them down with ease opposite Gibeah toward the sunrising. (note:)with ease…: or, from Menuchah, etc(:note)over…: Hebrews. unto over against

rwbs@Judges:20:44 @ And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these men of valour.

rwbs@Judges:20:45 @ And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them to Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

rwbs@Judges:20:46 @ So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these men of valour.

rwbs@Judges:20:47 @ But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness to the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

rwbs@Judges:20:48 @ And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to. (note:)came to hand: Hebrews. was found(:note)they came…: Heb. were found

rwbs@Judges:21:1 @ Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.

rwbs@Judges:21:2 @ And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept bitterly;

rwbs@Judges:21:3 @ And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

rwbs@Judges:21:4 @ And it came to pass on the next morning, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

rwbs@Judges:21:5 @ And the children of Israel said, Who among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

rwbs@Judges:21:6 @ And the children of Israel repented for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

rwbs@Judges:21:7 @ How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters for wives?

rwbs@Judges:21:8 @ And they said, What one of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

rwbs@Judges:21:9 @ For the people were numbered, and, behold, none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.

rwbs@Judges:21:10 @ And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

rwbs@Judges:21:11 @ And this the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. (note:)hath lain…: Hebrews. knoweth the lying with man(:note)

rwbs@Judges:21:12 @ And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which in the land of Canaan. (note:)young…: Hebrews. young women virgins(:note)

rwbs@Judges:21:13 @ And the whole congregation sent to speak to the children of Benjamin that in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them. (note:)to speak…: Hebrews. and spake and called(:note)call…: or, proclaim peace

rwbs@Judges:21:14 @ And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

rwbs@Judges:21:15 @ And the people repented for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

rwbs@Judges:21:16 @ Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

rwbs@Judges:21:17 @ And they said, an inheritance for them that have escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

rwbs@Judges:21:18 @ But we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

rwbs@Judges:21:19 @ Then they said, Behold, a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly which on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. (note:)yearly: Hebrews. from year to year(:note)on the east…: or, toward the sunrisingof the highway: or, on the highway

rwbs@Judges:21:20 @ Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

rwbs@Judges:21:21 @ And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

rwbs@Judges:21:22 @ And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be favourable to them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give to them at this time, ye should be guilty. (note:)Be favourable…: or, Gratify us in them(:note)

rwbs@Judges:21:23 @ And the children of Benjamin did so, and took wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

rwbs@Judges:21:24 @ And the children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went from there every man to his inheritance.

rwbs@Judges:21:25 @ In those days no king in Israel: every man did right in his own eyes.

rwbs@Ruth:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to dwell in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. (note:)ruled: Hebrews. judged(:note)

rwbs@1Samuel:2:10 @ The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

rwbs@1Samuel:2:25 @ If one man shall sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man shall sin against the LORD, who shall plead for him? However they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.

rwbs@1Samuel:3:13 @ For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. (note:)For I…: or, And I will tell him(:note)vile: or, accursedrestrained…: Hebrews. frowned not upon them

rwbs@1Samuel:4:18 @ And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

rwbs@1Samuel:7:6 @ And they gathered together at Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and there said, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

rwbs@1Samuel:7:15 @ And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

rwbs@1Samuel:7:16 @ And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places. (note:)in circuit: Hebrews. and he circuited(:note)

rwbs@1Samuel:7:17 @ And his return to Ramah; for there his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar to the LORD.

rwbs@1Samuel:8:1 @ And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

rwbs@1Samuel:8:2 @ Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: judges in Beersheba.

rwbs@1Samuel:8:5 @ And said to him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

rwbs@1Samuel:8:6 @ But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the LORD. (note:)displeased: Hebrews. was evil in the eyes of(:note)

rwbs@1Samuel:8:20 @ That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

rwbs@1Samuel:24:12 @ The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but my hand shall not be upon thee.

rwbs@1Samuel:24:15 @ The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand. (note:)deliver: Hebrews. judge(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:7:7 @ In all in which I have walked with all the children of Israel have I spoken a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why do ye not build me an house of cedar? (note:)any of…: any of the judges(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:7:11 @ And as since the time that I commanded judges over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thy enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.

rwbs@2Samuel:15:4 @ Absalom said moreover, O that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!

rwbs@2Samuel:18:19 @ Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and inform the king, how the LORD hath avenged himself of his enemies. (note:)avenged…: Hebrews. judged him from the hand, etc(:note)

rwbs@1Kings:3:9 @ Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? (note:)understanding: Hebrews. hearing(:note)

rwbs@1Kings:3:28 @ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God in him, to do judgment. (note:)in him: Hebrews. in the midst of him(:note)

rwbs@1Kings:7:7 @ Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, the porch of judgment: and covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other. (note:)from…: Hebrews. from floor to floor(:note)

rwbs@1Kings:8:32 @ Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

rwbs@2Kings:23:22 @ Surely there was not held such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

rwbs@1Chronicles:16:33 @ Then shall the trees of the wood sing at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.

rwbs@1Chronicles:17:6 @ Wherever I have walked with all Israel, have I spoken a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?

rwbs@1Chronicles:17:10 @ And since the time that I commanded judges over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thy enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.

rwbs@1Chronicles:23:4 @ Of which, twenty and four thousand to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand officers and judges: (note:)set…: or, oversee(:note)

rwbs@1Chronicles:26:29 @ Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

rwbs@2Chronicles:1:2 @ Then Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the heads of the father’s.

rwbs@2Chronicles:1:10 @ Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy great people?

rwbs@2Chronicles:1:11 @ And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thy enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

rwbs@2Chronicles:6:23 @ Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by punishing the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

rwbs@2Chronicles:19:5 @ And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

rwbs@2Chronicles:19:6 @ And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who with you in the judgment. (note:)in…: Hebrews. in the matter of judgment(:note)

rwbs@2Chronicles:20:12 @ O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes upon thee.

rwbs@Ezra:7:25 @ And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that in thy hand, set magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people that beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know not.

rwbs@Ezra:10:14 @ Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them who have taken foreign wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter shall be turned from us. (note:)for this…: or, till this matter be dispatched(:note)

rwbs@Job:9:15 @ Whom, though I were righteous, would I not answer, I would make supplication to my judge.

rwbs@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of its judges; if not, where, who he?

rwbs@Job:12:17 @ He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

rwbs@Job:21:22 @ Shall teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

rwbs@Job:22:13 @ And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? (note:)How: or, What(:note)

rwbs@Job:23:7 @ There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

rwbs@Job:31:11 @ For this an heinous crime; yea, it an iniquity the judges.

rwbs@Job:31:28 @ This also an iniquity the judge: for I should have denied the God above.

rwbs@Job:36:31 @ For by them he judgeth the people; he giveth food in abundance.

rwbs@Psalms:2:10 @ Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

rwbs@Psalms:7:8 @ The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity in me.

rwbs@Psalms:7:11 @ God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry every day. (note:)judgeth…: or, is a righteous judge(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:9:8 @ And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

rwbs@Psalms:9:19 @ Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

rwbs@Psalms:10:18 @ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. (note:)oppress: or, terrify(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:26:1 @ Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; I shall not slide.

rwbs@Psalms:35:24 @ Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

rwbs@Psalms:37:33 @ The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

rwbs@Psalms:43:1 @ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. (note:)ungodly: or, unmerciful(:note)the deceitful…: Hebrews. a man of deceit and iniquity

rwbs@Psalms:50:4 @ He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

rwbs@Psalms:50:6 @ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God judge himself. Selah.

rwbs@Psalms:51:4 @ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done evil in thy sight: that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest.

rwbs@Psalms:54:1 @ Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. (note:)chief…: or, overseer(:note)Maschil: or, of instruction

rwbs@Psalms:58:1 @ Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? (note:)Altaschith…: or, Destroy not(:note)Michtam: or, A golden Psalm

rwbs@Psalms:58:11 @ So that a man shall say, Verily a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. (note:)a reward…: Hebrews. fruit of the, etc(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:67:4 @ O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah. (note:)govern: Hebrews. lead(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:68:5 @ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, God in his holy habitation.

rwbs@Psalms:72:2 @ He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

rwbs@Psalms:72:4 @ He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

rwbs@Psalms:75:2 @ When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. (note:)receive…: or, take a set time(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:75:7 @ But God the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

rwbs@Psalms:82:1 @ God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. (note:)of Asaph: or, for Asaph(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:82:2 @ How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

rwbs@Psalms:82:3 @ Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. (note:)Defend: Hebrews. Judge(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:82:8 @ Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

rwbs@Psalms:94:2 @ Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

rwbs@Psalms:96:10 @ Say among the heathen the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

rwbs@Psalms:96:13 @ Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

rwbs@Psalms:98:9 @ Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

rwbs@Psalms:109:7 @ When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. (note:)be condemned: Hebrews. go out guilty, or, wicked(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:109:31 @ For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save from those that condemn his soul. (note:)those…: Hebrews. the judges of(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:110:6 @ He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. (note:)many: or, great(:note)

rwbs@Psalms:135:14 @ For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent concerning his servants.

rwbs@Psalms:141:6 @ When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

rwbs@Psalms:148:11 @ Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:

rwbs@Proverbs:8:16 @ By me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.

rwbs@Proverbs:29:14 @ The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

rwbs@Proverbs:31:9 @ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

rwbs@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for a time there for every purpose and for every work.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:17 @ Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. (note:)relieve: or, righten(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:23 @ Thy princes rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to them.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:26 @ And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

rwbs@Isaiah:2:4 @ And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (note:)pruninghooks: or, scythes(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:3:2 @ The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

rwbs@Isaiah:3:13 @ The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

rwbs@Isaiah:5:3 @ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

rwbs@Isaiah:11:3 @ And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: (note:)quick…: Hebrews. scent or, smell(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:11:4 @ But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. (note:)reprove: or, argue(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:33:22 @ For the LORD our judge, the LORD our lawgiver, the LORD our king; he will save us. (note:)lawgiver: Hebrews. statutemaker(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:40:23 @ That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

rwbs@Isaiah:51:5 @ My righteousness near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.

rwbs@Jeremiah:5:28 @ They have become fat, they shine: yea, they exceed the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

rwbs@Jeremiah:11:20 @ But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for to thee have I revealed my cause.

rwbs@Jeremiah:21:12 @ O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver made desolate out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench, because of the evil of your doings. (note:)Execute: Hebrews. Judge(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:22:16 @ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then well not this to know me? saith the LORD.

rwbs@Lamentations:3:59 @ O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

rwbs@Ezekiel:7:3 @ Now the end upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thy abominations. (note:)recompense: Hebrews. give(:note)

rwbs@Ezekiel:7:8 @ Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish my anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thy abominations.

rwbs@Ezekiel:7:27 @ The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I the LORD. (note:)according…: Hebrews. with their judgments(:note)

rwbs@Ezekiel:11:10 @ Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I the LORD.

rwbs@Ezekiel:11:11 @ This shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel:

rwbs@Ezekiel:16:38 @ And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. (note:)as: Hebrews. with judgments of(:note)

rwbs@Ezekiel:16:52 @ Thou also, who hast judged thy sisters, bear thy own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

rwbs@Ezekiel:18:30 @ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. (note:)yourselves: or, others(:note)

rwbs@Ezekiel:20:4 @ Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers: (note:)Wilt…: or, Wilt thou plead for them(:note)

rwbs@Ezekiel:21:30 @ Shall I cause to return into its sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. (note:)Shall…: or, Cause it to return(:note)

rwbs@Ezekiel:22:2 @ Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations. (note:)judge: or, plead for(:note)bloody…: Hebrews. city of bloods?shew her: Heb. make her know

rwbs@Ezekiel:23:24 @ And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, shall commit against thee buckler and shield and helmet on every side: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

rwbs@Ezekiel:23:36 @ The LORD said moreover to me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare to them their abominations; (note:)judge: or, plead for(:note)

rwbs@Ezekiel:23:45 @ And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they adulteresses, and blood in their hands.

rwbs@Ezekiel:24:14 @ I the LORD have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will do; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

rwbs@Ezekiel:28:23 @ For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I the LORD.

rwbs@Ezekiel:33:20 @ Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

rwbs@Ezekiel:34:17 @ And you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the male goats. (note:)cattle: Hebrews. small cattle of lambs and kids(:note)he goats: Heb. great he goats

rwbs@Ezekiel:34:20 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD to them; Behold, I, I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

rwbs@Ezekiel:34:22 @ Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

rwbs@Ezekiel:35:11 @ Therefore, I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thy anger, and according to thy envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

rwbs@Ezekiel:36:19 @ And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

rwbs@Ezekiel:44:24 @ And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

rwbs@Daniel:3:2 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

rwbs@Daniel:3:3 @ Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

rwbs@Daniel:9:12 @ And he hath confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven it hath not been done as it hath been done upon Jerusalem.

rwbs@Hosea:2:13 @ And I will judge her for the days of Baalim, in which she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: none among them that calleth to me.

rwbs@Hosea:8:13 @ They sacrifice flesh the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and judge their sins: they shall return to Egypt. (note:)They sacrifice…: or, In the sacrifices of mine offerings they, etc(:note)

rwbs@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will judge their sins.

rwbs@Hosea:13:10 @ I will be thy king: where that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? (note:)I will…: rather, Where is thy king?(:note)

rwbs@Joel:3:2 @ I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will judge them there for my people and my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided my land.

rwbs@Joel:3:12 @ Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen on every side.

rwbs@Amos:2:3 @ And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it and will slay all its princes with him, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Amos:3:14 @ That in the day that I shall judge the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also judge the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. (note:)visit: or, punish Israel for(:note)

rwbs@Obadiah:1:21 @ And deliverers shall come upon mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

rwbs@Micah:3:11 @ Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us. (note:)and say: Hebrews. saying(:note)

rwbs@Micah:4:3 @ And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (note:)pruninghooks: or, scythes(:note)

rwbs@Micah:5:1 @ Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

rwbs@Micah:7:3 @ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge for a reward; and the great, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they weave it together. (note:)his…: Hebrews. the mischief of his soul(:note)

rwbs@Zephaniah:3:3 @ Her princes within her roaring lions; her judges evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the next morning.

rwbs@Zechariah:3:7 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. (note:)charge: or, ordinance(:note)places…: Hebrews. walks

rwbs@Zechariah:7:9 @ Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother: (note:)Execute…: Hebrews. Judge judgment of truth(:note)

rwbs@Zechariah:8:16 @ These the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: (note:)execute…: Hebrews. judge truth, and the judgment of peace(:note)


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