Judges
How each chapter begins
- Judges 1
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us…
- Judges 2
Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the…
- Judges 3
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
- Judges 4
After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Judges 5
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
- Judges 6
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
- Judges 7
Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the…
- Judges 8
Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to…
- Judges 9
Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his…
- Judges 10
After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in…
- Judges 11
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
- Judges 12
Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over…
- Judges 13
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty…
- Judges 14
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
- Judges 15
Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my…
- Judges 16
One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
- Judges 17
Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
- Judges 18
In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to…
- Judges 19
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for…
- Judges 20
Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as…
- Judges 21
Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a…