Judges
Judges 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of the LORD, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”The LORD said, “Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot,...
Judges 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down...
Judges 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:the five lords of the Philistines, all...
Judges 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, when Ehud was dead.The LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.The children of Israel cried to the LORD, for...
Judges 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, LORD!“Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to the LORD. I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.“LORD, when...
Judges 6
Last Updated: October 11, 2026The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.So it was,...
Judges 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.The LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me...
Judges 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of...
Judges 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,“Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule...
Judges 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.He had thirty sons who rode...
Judges 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of...
Judges 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife...
Judges 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.The LORD’s angel appeared to the...
Judges 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”Then his father and his mother said...
Judges 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion....
Judges 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”Samson lay until midnight,...
Judges 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears–behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May the...
Judges 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor,...
Judges 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and...
Judges 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD at Mizpah.The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred...
Judges 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.They said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that...