Judges
The Book of Judges
How each chapter begins
- Judges 1
After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of the LORD, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the…
- Judges 2
The LORD’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land…
- Judges 3
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of…
- Judges 4
The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, when Ehud was dead.
- Judges 5
Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
- Judges 6
The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian…
- Judges 7
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of…
- Judges 8
The 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…
- Judges 9
Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of…
- Judges 10
After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in…
- Judges 11
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of…
- Judges 12
The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to…
- Judges 13
The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of…
- Judges 14
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
- Judges 15
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to…
- Judges 16
Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
- Judges 17
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
- Judges 18
In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in…
- Judges 19
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill…
- Judges 20
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba…
- Judges 21
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”