Judges:1-3

mkjv@Judges:1:1 @ And it happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?

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

mkjv@Judges:1:3 @ And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot so that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Simeon went with him.

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

mkjv@Judges:1:5 @ And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek. And, they fought against him, and they killed the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

mkjv@Judges:1:6 @ And Adoni-bezek fled. And they ran after him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

mkjv@Judges:1:7 @ And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings [with] their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

mkjv@Judges:1:8 @ And the sons of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and had struck it with the edge of the sword, and had set the city on fire.

mkjv@Judges:1:9 @ And afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.

mkjv@Judges:1:10 @ And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron; (and the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath-arba). And they killed Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

mkjv@Judges:1:11 @ And from there he went against those who lived in Debir. And the name of Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher.

mkjv@Judges:1:12 @ And Caleb said, He who strikes Kirjath-sepher and takes it, I will give Achsah my daughter to him for a wife.

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

mkjv@Judges:1:14 @ And it happened when she came, she moved him to ask for a field from her father. And she dismounted from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What do you desire?

mkjv@Judges:1:15 @ And she said to him, Give me a blessing. For you have given me a south land. Give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

mkjv@Judges:1:16 @ And the sons of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which [is] in the south of Arad. And they went and lived among the people.

mkjv@Judges:1:17 @ And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they killed the Canaanites who lived in Zephath and destroyed it. And the name of the city [was called] Hormah.

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

mkjv@Judges:1:19 @ And the LORD was with Judah. And he took possession of the mountain. But he could not drive out those who lived in the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

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

mkjv@Judges:1:21 @ And the sons of Benjamin did not expel the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem. But the Jebusites live with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

mkjv@Judges:1:22 @ And the house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD [was] with them.

mkjv@Judges:1:23 @ And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. And the name of the city before [was] Luz.

mkjv@Judges:1:24 @ And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Please show us the gate into the city, and we will show you mercy.

mkjv@Judges:1:25 @ And when he showed them the gate into the city, they struck the city with the edge of the sword. But they let the man and all his family go.

mkjv@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 [is] the name of it to this day.

mkjv@Judges:1:27 @ And Manasseh had not taken possession of Beth-shean and its daughter- villages], nor Taanach and its daughter- villages], nor [struck] the inhabitants of Dor and its daughter- villages], nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its daughter- villages], nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its daughter- villages]. For the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.

mkjv@Judges:1:28 @ And it happened, when Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not completely expel them.

mkjv@Judges:1:29 @ And Ephraim did not expel the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

mkjv@Judges:1:30 @ And Zebulun did not expel those who lived in Kitron, nor those who lived in Nahalol. But the Canaanites lived among them and became tributaries.

mkjv@Judges:1:31 @ And Asher did not expel those who lived in Accho, and the inhabitants of Sidon, and Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob.

mkjv@Judges:1:32 @ But the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, those who lived in the land, for they did not expel them.

mkjv@Judges:1:33 @ And Naphtali did not expel those who lived in Beth-shemesh, and the inhabitants of Beth-anath, and they lived among the Canaanites, those who lived in the land. But those who lived in Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became tributaries to them

mkjv@Judges:1:34 @ And the Amorites forced the sons of Dan into the mountain. For they would not allow them to come down to the valley.

mkjv@Judges:1:35 @ But the Amorites desired to stay in Mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy so that they became tributaries.

mkjv@Judges:1:36 @ And the border of the Amorites [was] from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock and upward.

mkjv@Judges:2:1 @ And the Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you go up out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land which I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break My covenant with you.

mkjv@Judges:2:2 @ And you shall make no treaty with those who live in this land. You shall throw down their altars. But you have not obeyed My voice. What [is] this that you have done?

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

mkjv@Judges:2:4 @ And it happened when the Angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

mkjv@Judges:2:5 @ And they called the name of that place The Place of Weeping. And they sacrificed there to the LORD.

mkjv@Judges:2:6 @ And when Joshua had let the people go, the sons of Israel left, each man to his inheritance, to possess the land.

mkjv@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.

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

mkjv@Judges:2:9 @ And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

mkjv@Judges:2:10 @ And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD, nor even the works which He had done for Israel.

mkjv@Judges:2:11 @ And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baals.

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

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

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

mkjv@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.

mkjv@Judges:2:16 @ But the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who spoiled them.

mkjv@Judges:2:17 @ And yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went lusting after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, for they had obeyed the commandments of the LORD; these did not do so.

mkjv@Judges:2:18 @ And when the LORD raised judges up 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 took pity because of their groanings before their oppressors and their crushers.

mkjv@Judges:2:19 @ And it happened when the judge was dead, they returned and made themselves more rotten than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

mkjv@Judges:2:20 @ And the anger of the LORD glowed against Israel. And He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,

mkjv@Judges:2:21 @ I also from now on will not expel any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

mkjv@Judges:2:22 @ so that by them I may test Israel, whether they are keeping the way of the LORD, to go in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

mkjv@Judges:2:23 @ And the LORD left those nations, without driving them out quickly. And He did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

mkjv@Judges:3:1 @ And these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

mkjv@Judges:3:2 @ only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least those who before knew nothing of it:

mkjv@Judges:3:3 @ five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon to the border of Hamath.

mkjv@Judges:3:4 @ And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commands of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

mkjv@Judges:3:5 @ And the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.

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

mkjv@Judges:3:7 @ And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baals and the Asherahs.

mkjv@Judges:3:8 @ And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia. And the sons of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.

mkjv@Judges:3:9 @ And when the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the sons of Israel, who delivered them, Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz.

mkjv@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 Chushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hand. And his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.

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

mkjv@Judges:3:12 @ And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD made Eglon the king of Moab strong against Israel because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

mkjv@Judges:3:13 @ And he gathered to him the sons of Ammon and Amalek. And he went forth and struck Israel, and took the city of palm trees.

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

mkjv@Judges:3:15 @ But when the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel sent a present to Eglon the king of Moab by him.

mkjv@Judges:3:16 @ But Ehud made himself a dagger which had two edges, a cubit long. And he tied it under his clothing upon his right thigh.

mkjv@Judges:3:17 @ And he brought the present to Eglon king of Moab. And Eglon was a very fat man.

mkjv@Judges:3:18 @ And when he had finished offering the present, he sent away the people who carried the present.

mkjv@Judges:3:19 @ But he himself turned again from the graven images by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret message for you, O, king. And he said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

mkjv@Judges:3:20 @ And Ehud came to him. And he was sitting [in] the cool roof room which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. And he rose out of his seat.

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

mkjv@Judges:3:22 @ And the haft also went in after the blade. And the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly. And the dung came out.

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

mkjv@Judges:3:24 @ And when he had gone out, his servants came. And they looked, and, behold, the doors of the roof room were locked, they said, Surely he [is] covering his feet in his cool roof room.

mkjv@Judges:3:25 @ And they waited until they were ashamed. And, behold, he did not open the doors of the room. And they took a key and opened them. And behold, their lord [had] fallen down dead on the earth.

mkjv@Judges:3:26 @ And Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the graven images, and escaped to Seirath.

mkjv@Judges:3:27 @ And it happened, when he had come, he blew a ram's horn in the mountain of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he before them.

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

mkjv@Judges:3:29 @ And they killed about ten thousand of the men of Moab at that time, all lusty, and all men of might. And there did not escape a man.

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

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

mkjv@Judges:4:1 @ And the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD when Ehud was dead.

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