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So [Simeon](/person/simeon_2741) went with him.","osisRef":"Judg.1.3"},{"verseId":7001004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And [Judah](/person/judah_1751) went up; and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in [Bezek](/place/bezek_245) ten thousand men.","osisRef":"Judg.1.4"},{"verseId":7001005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And they found [Adoni-bezek](/person/adoni-bezek_96) in [Bezek](/place/bezek_245): and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.","osisRef":"Judg.1.5"},{"verseId":7001006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"But [Adoni-bezek](/person/adoni-bezek_96) fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.","osisRef":"Judg.1.6"},{"verseId":7001007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And [Adoni-bezek](/person/adoni-bezek_96) said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered _their_ _meat_ under my table: as I have done, so [God](/person/god_1324) hath requited me. And they brought him to [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), and there he died.","osisRef":"Judg.1.7"},{"verseId":7001008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Now the children of [Judah](/person/judah_1751) had fought against [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636), and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.","osisRef":"Judg.1.8"},{"verseId":7001009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And afterward the children of [Judah](/person/judah_1751) went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the [south](/place/negeb_885), and in the valley.","osisRef":"Judg.1.9"},{"verseId":7001010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And [Judah](/person/judah_1751) went against the Canaanites that dwelt in [Hebron](/place/hebron_551): (now the name of [Hebron](/place/hebron_551) before _was_ [Kirjath-arba](/place/kiriath-arba_697)): and they slew [Sheshai](/person/sheshai_2671), and [Ahiman](/person/ahiman_146), and [Talmai](/person/talmai_2818).","osisRef":"Judg.1.10"},{"verseId":7001011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And from thence he went against the inhabitants of [Debir](/place/debir_325): and the name of [Debir](/place/debir_325) before _was_ [Kirjath-sepher](/place/kiriath-sepher_703):","osisRef":"Judg.1.11"},{"verseId":7001012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And [Caleb](/person/caleb_537) said, He that smiteth [Kirjath-sepher](/place/kiriath-sepher_703), and taketh it, to him will I give [Achsah](/person/achsah_68) my daughter to wife.","osisRef":"Judg.1.12"},{"verseId":7001013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And [Othniel](/person/othniel_2259) the son of [Kenaz](/person/kenaz_1778), [Caleb’s](/person/caleb_537) younger brother, took it: and he gave him [Achsah](/person/achsah_68) his daughter to wife.","osisRef":"Judg.1.13"},{"verseId":7001014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when she came _to_ _him_, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off _her_ ass; and [Caleb](/person/caleb_537) said unto her, What wilt thou?","osisRef":"Judg.1.14"},{"verseId":7001015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a [south](/place/negeb_885) land; give me also springs of water. And [Caleb](/person/caleb_537) gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.","osisRef":"Judg.1.15"},{"verseId":7001016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of [Judah](/person/judah_1751) into the wilderness of [Judah](/person/judah_1751), which _lieth_ in the [south](/place/negeb_885) of [Arad](/place/arad_81); and they went and dwelt among the people.","osisRef":"Judg.1.16"},{"verseId":7001017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And [Judah](/person/judah_1751) went with [Simeon](/person/simeon_2741) his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited [Zephath](/place/zephath_1251), and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called [Hormah](/place/hormah_580).","osisRef":"Judg.1.17"},{"verseId":7001018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Also [Judah](/person/judah_1751) took [Gaza](/place/gaza_446) with the coast thereof, and [Askelon](/place/ashkelon_103) with the coast thereof, and [Ekron](/place/ekron_364) with the coast thereof.","osisRef":"Judg.1.18"},{"verseId":7001019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) was with [Judah](/person/judah_1751); and he drave out _the_ _inhabitants_ _of_ the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.","osisRef":"Judg.1.19"},{"verseId":7001020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And they gave [Hebron](/place/hebron_551) unto [Caleb](/person/caleb_537), as [Moses](/person/moses_2108) said: and he expelled thence the three sons of [Anak](/person/anak_252).","osisRef":"Judg.1.20"},{"verseId":7001021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"And the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636); but the Jebusites dwell with the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) in [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636) unto this day.","osisRef":"Judg.1.21"},{"verseId":7001022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And the house of [Joseph](/person/joseph_1710), they also went up against [Beth-el](/place/bethel_202): and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) _was_ with them.","osisRef":"Judg.1.22"},{"verseId":7001023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"And the house of [Joseph](/person/joseph_1710) sent to descry [Beth-el](/place/bethel_202). (Now the name of the city before _was_ [Luz](/place/luz_737)).","osisRef":"Judg.1.23"},{"verseId":7001024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.","osisRef":"Judg.1.24"},{"verseId":7001025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And when he shewed 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.","osisRef":"Judg.1.25"},{"verseId":7001026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof [Luz](/place/luz_738): which _is_ the name thereof unto this day.","osisRef":"Judg.1.26"},{"verseId":7001027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"Neither did [Manasseh](/person/manasseh_1928) drive out _the_ _inhabitants_ _of_ [Beth-shean](/place/beth-shean_233) and her towns, nor [Taanach](/place/taanach_1124) and her towns, nor the inhabitants of [Dor](/place/dor_341) and her towns, nor the inhabitants of [Ibleam](/place/ibleam_589) and her towns, nor the inhabitants of [Megiddo](/place/megiddo_777) and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.","osisRef":"Judg.1.27"},{"verseId":7001028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.","osisRef":"Judg.1.28"},{"verseId":7001029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"Neither did [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206) drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in [Gezer](/place/gezer_463); but the Canaanites dwelt in [Gezer](/place/gezer_463) among them.","osisRef":"Judg.1.29"},{"verseId":7001030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"Neither did [Zebulun](/person/zebulun_3002) drive out the inhabitants of [Kitron](/place/kitron_706), nor the inhabitants of [Nahalol](/place/nahalol_871); but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.","osisRef":"Judg.1.30"},{"verseId":7001031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"Neither did [Asher](/person/asher_337) drive out the inhabitants of [Accho](/place/acco_15), nor the inhabitants of [Zidon](/place/sidon_1093), nor of [Ahlab](/place/ahlab_35), nor of [Achzib](/place/achzib_19), nor of [Helbah](/place/helbah_553), nor of [Aphik](/place/aphik_75), nor of [Rehob](/place/rehob_989):","osisRef":"Judg.1.31"},{"verseId":7001032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.","osisRef":"Judg.1.32"},{"verseId":7001033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"Neither did [Naphtali](/person/naphtali_2149) drive out the inhabitants of [Beth-shemesh](/place/beth-shemesh_236), nor the inhabitants of [Beth-anath](/place/beth-anath_184); but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of [Beth-shemesh](/place/beth-shemesh_236) and of [Beth-anath](/place/beth-anath_184) became tributaries unto them.","osisRef":"Judg.1.33"},{"verseId":7001034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"And the Amorites forced the children of [Dan](/person/dan_973) into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:","osisRef":"Judg.1.34"},{"verseId":7001035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"But the Amorites would dwell in mount [Heres](/place/mount_heres_840) in [Aijalon](/place/aijalon_40), and in [Shaalbim](/place/shaalbim_1053): yet the hand of the house of [Joseph](/person/joseph_1710) prevailed, so that they became tributaries.","osisRef":"Judg.1.35"},{"verseId":7001036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"And the coast of the Amorites _was_ from the going up to [Akrabbim](/place/akrabbim_44), from the [rock](/place/sela_1044), and upward.","osisRef":"Judg.1.36"}]},{"title":"Judg 2","chapterNum":2,"osisRef":"Judg.2","verses":[{"verseId":7002001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And an angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) came up from [Gilgal](/place/gilgal_476) to [Bochim](/place/bochim_252), and said, I made you to go up out of [Egypt](/place/egypt_362), and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.","osisRef":"Judg.2.1"},{"verseId":7002002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"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?","osisRef":"Judg.2.2"},{"verseId":7002003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be _as_ _thorns_ in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.","osisRef":"Judg.2.3"},{"verseId":7002004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) spake these words unto all the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682), that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.","osisRef":"Judg.2.4"},{"verseId":7002005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And they called the name of that place [Bochim](/place/bochim_252): and they sacrificed there unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Judg.2.5"},{"verseId":7002006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And when [Joshua](/person/joshua_1727) had let the people go, the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.","osisRef":"Judg.2.6"},{"verseId":7002007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And the people served the [LORD](/person/god_1324) all the days of [Joshua](/person/joshua_1727), and all the days of the elders that outlived [Joshua](/person/joshua_1727), who had seen all the great works of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), that he did for Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.2.7"},{"verseId":7002008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And [Joshua](/person/joshua_1727) the son of [Nun](/person/nun_2214), the servant of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), died, _being_ an hundred and ten years old.","osisRef":"Judg.2.8"},{"verseId":7002009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in [Timnath-heres](/place/timnath-heres_1166), in the mount of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206), on the north side of the hill [Gaash](/place/gaash_429).","osisRef":"Judg.2.9"},{"verseId":7002010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the [LORD](/person/god_1324), nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.2.10"},{"verseId":7002011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) did evil in the sight of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and served Baalim:","osisRef":"Judg.2.11"},{"verseId":7002012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And they forsook the [LORD](/person/god_1324) God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of [Egypt](/place/egypt_362), and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that _were_ round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the [LORD](/person/god_1324) to anger.","osisRef":"Judg.2.12"},{"verseId":7002013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And they forsook the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and served [Baal](/person/baal_573) and Ashtaroth.","osisRef":"Judg.2.13"},{"verseId":7002014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And the anger of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) 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 round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.","osisRef":"Judg.2.14"},{"verseId":7002015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) was against them for evil, as the [LORD](/person/god_1324) had said, and as the [LORD](/person/god_1324) had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.","osisRef":"Judg.2.15"},{"verseId":7002016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Nevertheless the [LORD](/person/god_1324) raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.","osisRef":"Judg.2.16"},{"verseId":7002017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the [LORD](/person/god_1324); _but_ they did not so.","osisRef":"Judg.2.17"},{"verseId":7002018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And when the [LORD](/person/god_1324) raised them up judges, then the [LORD](/person/god_1324) was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the [LORD](/person/god_1324) because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.","osisRef":"Judg.2.18"},{"verseId":7002019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, _that_ they returned, and corrupted _themselves_ more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.","osisRef":"Judg.2.19"},{"verseId":7002020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And the anger of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;","osisRef":"Judg.2.20"},{"verseId":7002021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which [Joshua](/person/joshua_1727) left when he died:","osisRef":"Judg.2.21"},{"verseId":7002022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) to walk therein, as their fathers did keep _it_, or not.","osisRef":"Judg.2.22"},{"verseId":7002023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"Therefore the [LORD](/person/god_1324) left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of [Joshua](/person/joshua_1727).","osisRef":"Judg.2.23"}]},{"title":"Judg 3","chapterNum":3,"osisRef":"Judg.3","verses":[{"verseId":7003001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Now these _are_ the nations which the [LORD](/person/god_1324) left, to prove Israel by them, _even_ as many _of_ _Israel_ as had not known all the wars of [[Canaan](/person/canaan_914)](/place/canaan_272);","osisRef":"Judg.3.1"},{"verseId":7003002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Only that the generations of the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;","osisRef":"Judg.3.2"},{"verseId":7003003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"_Namely_, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount [Lebanon](/place/mount_lebanon_846), from mount [Baal-hermon](/place/mount_baalhermon_829) unto the entering in of [Hamath](/place/lebo-hamath_723).","osisRef":"Judg.3.3"},{"verseId":7003004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), which he commanded their fathers by the hand of [Moses](/person/moses_2108).","osisRef":"Judg.3.4"},{"verseId":7003005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:","osisRef":"Judg.3.5"},{"verseId":7003006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.","osisRef":"Judg.3.6"},{"verseId":7003007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) did evil in the sight of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and forgat the [LORD](/person/god_1324) their [God](/person/god_1324), and served Baalim and the groves.","osisRef":"Judg.3.7"},{"verseId":7003008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Therefore the anger of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of [Chushan-rishathaim](/person/chushan-rishathaim_944) king of [Mesopotamia](/place/mesopotamia_790): and the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) served [Chushan-rishathaim](/person/chushan-rishathaim_944) eight years.","osisRef":"Judg.3.8"},{"verseId":7003009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And when the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) cried unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324), the [LORD](/person/god_1324) raised up a deliverer to the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682), who delivered them, _even_ [Othniel](/person/othniel_2259) the son of [Kenaz](/person/kenaz_1778), [Caleb’s](/person/caleb_537) younger brother.","osisRef":"Judg.3.9"},{"verseId":7003010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) delivered [Chushan-rishathaim](/person/chushan-rishathaim_944) king of [Mesopotamia](/place/mesopotamia_790) into his hand; and his hand prevailed against [Chushan-rishathaim](/person/chushan-rishathaim_944).","osisRef":"Judg.3.10"},{"verseId":7003011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And the land had rest forty years. And [Othniel](/person/othniel_2259) the son of [Kenaz](/person/kenaz_1778) died.","osisRef":"Judg.3.11"},{"verseId":7003012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) did evil again in the sight of the [LORD](/person/god_1324): and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) strengthened [Eglon](/person/eglon_1037) the king of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815) against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the [LORD](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Judg.3.12"},{"verseId":7003013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and [Amalek](/person/amalek_197), and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.","osisRef":"Judg.3.13"},{"verseId":7003014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"So the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) served [Eglon](/person/eglon_1037) the king of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815) eighteen years.","osisRef":"Judg.3.14"},{"verseId":7003015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"But when the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) cried unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324), the [LORD](/person/god_1324) raised them up a deliverer, [Ehud](/person/ehud_1039) the son of [Gera](/person/gera_1298), a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) sent a present unto [Eglon](/person/eglon_1037) the king of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815).","osisRef":"Judg.3.15"},{"verseId":7003016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"But [Ehud](/person/ehud_1039) made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.","osisRef":"Judg.3.16"},{"verseId":7003017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And he brought the present unto [Eglon](/person/eglon_1037) king of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815): and [Eglon](/person/eglon_1037) _was_ a very fat man.","osisRef":"Judg.3.17"},{"verseId":7003018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.","osisRef":"Judg.3.18"},{"verseId":7003019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"But he himself turned again from the quarries that _were_ by [Gilgal](/place/gilgal_476), and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.","osisRef":"Judg.3.19"},{"verseId":7003020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And [Ehud](/person/ehud_1039) came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And [Ehud](/person/ehud_1039) said, I have a message from [God](/person/god_1324) unto thee. And he arose out of _his_ seat.","osisRef":"Judg.3.20"},{"verseId":7003021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"And [Ehud](/person/ehud_1039) put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:","osisRef":"Judg.3.21"},{"verseId":7003022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"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 dirt came out.","osisRef":"Judg.3.22"},{"verseId":7003023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"Then [Ehud](/person/ehud_1039) went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.","osisRef":"Judg.3.23"},{"verseId":7003024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour _were_ locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.","osisRef":"Judg.3.24"},{"verseId":7003025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened _them_: and, behold, their lord _was_ fallen down dead on the earth.","osisRef":"Judg.3.25"},{"verseId":7003026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"And [Ehud](/person/ehud_1039) escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto [Seirath](/place/seirah_1043).","osisRef":"Judg.3.26"},{"verseId":7003027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206), and the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) went down with him from the mount, and he before them.","osisRef":"Judg.3.27"},{"verseId":7003028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the [LORD](/person/god_1324) hath delivered your enemies the [Moabites](/person/moab_2103) into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of [Jordan](/place/jordan_653) toward [Moab](/person/moab_2103), and suffered not a man to pass over.","osisRef":"Judg.3.28"},{"verseId":7003029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And they slew of [Moab](/person/moab_2103) at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.","osisRef":"Judg.3.29"},{"verseId":7003030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"So [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815) was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.","osisRef":"Judg.3.30"},{"verseId":7003031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"And after him was [Shamgar](/person/shamgar_2534) the son of [Anath](/person/anath_261), which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.3.31"}]},{"title":"Judg 4","chapterNum":4,"osisRef":"Judg.4","verses":[{"verseId":7004001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) again did evil in the sight of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), when [Ehud](/person/ehud_1039) was dead.","osisRef":"Judg.4.1"},{"verseId":7004002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) sold them into the hand of [Jabin](/person/jabin_677) king of [[Canaan](/person/canaan_914)](/place/canaan_272), that reigned in [Hazor](/place/hazor_545); the captain of whose host _was_ [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757), which dwelt in [Harosheth](/place/harosheth-hagoyim_530) of the Gentiles.","osisRef":"Judg.4.2"},{"verseId":7004003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) cried unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324): for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682).","osisRef":"Judg.4.3"},{"verseId":7004004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And [Deborah](/person/deborah_997), a prophetess, the wife of [Lapidoth](/person/lapidoth_1810), she judged Israel at that time.","osisRef":"Judg.4.4"},{"verseId":7004005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And she dwelt under the palm tree of [Deborah](/person/deborah_997) between [Ramah](/place/ramah_972) and [Beth-el](/place/bethel_202) in mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206): and the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) came up to her for judgment.","osisRef":"Judg.4.5"},{"verseId":7004006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And she sent and called [Barak](/person/barak_401) the son of [Abinoam](/person/abinoam_46) out of [Kedesh-naphtali](/place/kedesh-naphtali_679), and said unto him, Hath not the [LORD](/person/god_1324) God of Israel commanded, _saying_, Go and draw toward mount [Tabor](/place/mount_tabor_857), and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of [Naphtali](/person/naphtali_2149) and of the children of [Zebulun](/person/zebulun_3002)?","osisRef":"Judg.4.6"},{"verseId":7004007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And I will draw unto thee to the river [Kishon](/place/kishon_705) [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757), the captain of [Jabin’s](/person/jabin_677) army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.","osisRef":"Judg.4.7"},{"verseId":7004008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And [Barak](/person/barak_401) said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, _then_ I will not go.","osisRef":"Judg.4.8"},{"verseId":7004009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the [LORD](/person/god_1324) shall sell [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) into the hand of a woman. And [Deborah](/person/deborah_997) arose, and went with [Barak](/person/barak_401) to [Kedesh](/place/kedesh_676).","osisRef":"Judg.4.9"},{"verseId":7004010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And [Barak](/person/barak_401) called [Zebulun](/person/zebulun_3002) and [Naphtali](/person/naphtali_2149) to [Kedesh](/place/kedesh_676); and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and [Deborah](/person/deborah_997) went up with him.","osisRef":"Judg.4.10"},{"verseId":7004011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Now [Heber](/person/heber_1470) the Kenite, _which_ _was_ of the children of [Hobab](/person/hobab_1537) the father in law of [Moses](/person/moses_2108), had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of [Zaanaim](/place/zaanannim_1235), which _is_ by [Kedesh](/place/kedesh_676).","osisRef":"Judg.4.11"},{"verseId":7004012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And they shewed [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) that [Barak](/person/barak_401) the son of [Abinoam](/person/abinoam_46) was gone up to mount [Tabor](/place/mount_tabor_857).","osisRef":"Judg.4.12"},{"verseId":7004013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) gathered together all his chariots, _even_ nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that _were_ with him, from [Harosheth](/place/harosheth-hagoyim_530) of the Gentiles unto the river of [Kishon](/place/kishon_705).","osisRef":"Judg.4.13"},{"verseId":7004014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And [Deborah](/person/deborah_997) said unto [Barak](/person/barak_401), Up; for this _is_ the day in which the [LORD](/person/god_1324) hath delivered [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) into thine hand: is not the [LORD](/person/god_1324) gone out before thee? So [Barak](/person/barak_401) went down from mount [Tabor](/place/mount_tabor_857), and ten thousand men after him.","osisRef":"Judg.4.14"},{"verseId":7004015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) discomfited [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757), and all _his_ chariots, and all _his_ host, with the edge of the sword before [Barak](/person/barak_401); so that [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) lighted down off _his_ chariot, and fled away on his feet.","osisRef":"Judg.4.15"},{"verseId":7004016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"But [Barak](/person/barak_401) pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto [Harosheth](/place/harosheth-hagoyim_530) of the Gentiles: and all the host of [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) fell upon the edge of the sword; _and_ there was not a man left.","osisRef":"Judg.4.16"},{"verseId":7004017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Howbeit [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) fled away on his feet to the tent of [Jael](/person/jael_689) the wife of [Heber](/person/heber_1470) the Kenite: for _there_ _was_ peace between [Jabin](/person/jabin_677) the king of [Hazor](/place/hazor_545) and the house of [Heber](/person/heber_1470) the Kenite.","osisRef":"Judg.4.17"},{"verseId":7004018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And [Jael](/person/jael_689) went out to meet [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757), and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.","osisRef":"Judg.4.18"},{"verseId":7004019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And he said unto 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 drink, and covered him.","osisRef":"Judg.4.19"},{"verseId":7004020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"Again he said unto 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.","osisRef":"Judg.4.20"},{"verseId":7004021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Then [Jael](/person/jael_689) [Heber’s](/person/heber_1470) wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.","osisRef":"Judg.4.21"},{"verseId":7004022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And, behold, as [Barak](/person/barak_401) pursued [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757), [Jael](/person/jael_689) came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her _tent_, behold, [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) lay dead, and the nail _was_ in his temples.","osisRef":"Judg.4.22"},{"verseId":7004023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"So [God](/person/god_1324) subdued on that day [Jabin](/person/jabin_677) the king of [[Canaan](/person/canaan_914)](/place/canaan_272) before the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682).","osisRef":"Judg.4.23"},{"verseId":7004024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And the hand of the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) prospered, and prevailed against [Jabin](/person/jabin_677) the king of [[Canaan](/person/canaan_914)](/place/canaan_272), until they had destroyed [Jabin](/person/jabin_677) king of [[Canaan](/person/canaan_914)](/place/canaan_272).","osisRef":"Judg.4.24"}]},{"title":"Judg 5","chapterNum":5,"osisRef":"Judg.5","verses":[{"verseId":7005001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Then sang [Deborah](/person/deborah_997) and [Barak](/person/barak_401) the son of [Abinoam](/person/abinoam_46) on that day, saying,","osisRef":"Judg.5.1"},{"verseId":7005002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Praise ye the [LORD](/person/god_1324) for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.","osisRef":"Judg.5.2"},{"verseId":7005003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, _even_ I, will sing unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324); I will sing _praise_ to the [LORD](/person/god_1324) God of Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.5.3"},{"verseId":7005004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"[LORD](/person/god_1324), when thou wentest out of [Seir](/place/seir_1042), when thou marchedst out of the field of [[Edom](/person/esau_1216)](/place/edom_357), the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.","osisRef":"Judg.5.4"},{"verseId":7005005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"The mountains melted from before the [LORD](/person/god_1324), _even_ that [Sinai](/place/sinai_1098) from before the [LORD](/person/god_1324) God of Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.5.5"},{"verseId":7005006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"In the days of [Shamgar](/person/shamgar_2534) the son of [Anath](/person/anath_261), in the days of [Jael](/person/jael_689), the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.","osisRef":"Judg.5.6"},{"verseId":7005007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"_The_ _inhabitants_ _of_ the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I [Deborah](/person/deborah_997) arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.5.7"},{"verseId":7005009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"My heart _is_ toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the [LORD](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Judg.5.9"},{"verseId":7005010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.","osisRef":"Judg.5.10"},{"verseId":7005011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"_They_ _that_ _are_ _delivered_ from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), _even_ the righteous acts _toward_ _the_ _inhabitants_ of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) go down to the gates.","osisRef":"Judg.5.11"},{"verseId":7005012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Awake, awake, [Deborah](/person/deborah_997): awake, awake, utter a song: arise, [Barak](/person/barak_401), and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of [Abinoam](/person/abinoam_46).","osisRef":"Judg.5.12"},{"verseId":7005013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the [LORD](/person/god_1324) made me have dominion over the mighty.","osisRef":"Judg.5.13"},{"verseId":7005014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Out of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206) _was_ _there_ a root of them against [Amalek](/person/amalek_197); after thee, [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463), among thy people; out of [Machir](/person/machir_1877) came down governors, and out of [Zebulun](/person/zebulun_3002) they that handle the pen of the writer.","osisRef":"Judg.5.14"},{"verseId":7005015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And the princes of [Issachar](/person/issachar_645) _were_ with [Deborah](/person/deborah_997); even [Issachar](/person/issachar_645), and also [Barak](/person/barak_401): he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of [Reuben](/person/reuben_2429) _there_ _were_ great thoughts of heart.","osisRef":"Judg.5.15"},{"verseId":7005016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of [Reuben](/person/reuben_2429) _there_ _were_ great searchings of heart.","osisRef":"Judg.5.16"},{"verseId":7005017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"[Gilead](/place/gilead_475) abode beyond [Jordan](/place/jordan_653): and why did [Dan](/person/dan_973) remain in ships? [Asher](/person/asher_337) continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.","osisRef":"Judg.5.17"},{"verseId":7005018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"[Zebulun](/person/zebulun_3002) and [Naphtali](/person/naphtali_2149) _were_ a people _that_ jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.","osisRef":"Judg.5.18"},{"verseId":7005019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"The kings came _and_ fought, then fought the kings of [[Canaan](/person/canaan_914)](/place/canaan_272) in [Taanach](/place/taanach_1124) by the waters of [Megiddo](/place/megiddo_777); they took no gain of money.","osisRef":"Judg.5.19"},{"verseId":7005020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757).","osisRef":"Judg.5.20"},{"verseId":7005021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"The river of [Kishon](/place/kishon_705) swept them away, that ancient river, the river [Kishon](/place/kishon_705). O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.","osisRef":"Judg.5.21"},{"verseId":7005022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.","osisRef":"Judg.5.22"},{"verseId":7005023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"Curse ye [Meroz](/place/meroz_786), said the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), to the help of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) against the mighty.","osisRef":"Judg.5.23"},{"verseId":7005024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"Blessed above women shall [Jael](/person/jael_689) the wife of [Heber](/person/heber_1470) the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.","osisRef":"Judg.5.24"},{"verseId":7005025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"He asked water, _and_ she gave _him_ milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.","osisRef":"Judg.5.25"},{"verseId":7005026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757), she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.","osisRef":"Judg.5.26"},{"verseId":7005027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"Judg.5.27"},{"verseId":7005028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"The mother of [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot _so_ long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?","osisRef":"Judg.5.28"},{"verseId":7005029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,","osisRef":"Judg.5.29"},{"verseId":7005030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"Have they not sped? have they _not_ divided the prey; to every man a damsel _or_ two; to [Sisera](/person/sisera_2757) a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, _meet_ for the necks of _them_ _that_ _take_ the spoil?","osisRef":"Judg.5.30"},{"verseId":7005031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"So let all thine enemies perish, O [LORD](/person/god_1324): but _let_ them that love him _be_ as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.","osisRef":"Judg.5.31"}]},{"title":"Judg 6","chapterNum":6,"osisRef":"Judg.6","verses":[{"verseId":7006001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) did evil in the sight of the [LORD](/person/god_1324): and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) delivered them into the hand of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796) seven years.","osisRef":"Judg.6.1"},{"verseId":7006002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And the hand of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796) prevailed against Israel: _and_ because of the Midianites the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) made them the dens which _are_ in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.","osisRef":"Judg.6.2"},{"verseId":7006003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And _so_ it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the [east](/place/east_348), even they came up against them;","osisRef":"Judg.6.3"},{"verseId":7006004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto [Gaza](/place/gaza_446), and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.","osisRef":"Judg.6.4"},{"verseId":7006005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; _for_ both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.","osisRef":"Judg.6.5"},{"verseId":7006006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the [Midianites](/place/midian_796); and the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) cried unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Judg.6.6"},{"verseId":7006007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) cried unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324) because of the [Midianites](/place/midian_796),","osisRef":"Judg.6.7"},{"verseId":7006008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"That the [LORD](/person/god_1324) sent a prophet unto the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682), which said unto them, Thus saith the [LORD](/person/god_1324) God of Israel, I brought you up from [Egypt](/place/egypt_362), and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;","osisRef":"Judg.6.8"},{"verseId":7006009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;","osisRef":"Judg.6.9"},{"verseId":7006010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And I said unto you, I _am_ the [LORD](/person/god_1324) your [God](/person/god_1324); fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.","osisRef":"Judg.6.10"},{"verseId":7006011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And there came an angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and sat under an oak which _was_ in [Ophrah](/place/ophrah_914), that _pertained_ unto [Joash](/person/joash_1630) the Abiezrite: and his son [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide _it_ from the Midianites.","osisRef":"Judg.6.11"},{"verseId":7006012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) appeared unto him, and said unto him, The [LORD](/person/god_1324) _is_ with thee, thou mighty man of valour.","osisRef":"Judg.6.12"},{"verseId":7006013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) said unto him, Oh my [Lord](/person/god_1324), if the [LORD](/person/god_1324) be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where _be_ all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the [LORD](/person/god_1324) bring us up from [Egypt](/place/egypt_362)? but now the [LORD](/person/god_1324) hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the [Midianites](/place/midian_796).","osisRef":"Judg.6.13"},{"verseId":7006014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the [Midianites](/place/midian_796): have not I sent thee?","osisRef":"Judg.6.14"},{"verseId":7006015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And he said unto him, Oh my [Lord](/person/god_1324), wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family _is_ poor in [Manasseh](/person/manasseh_1928), and I _am_ the least in my father’s house.","osisRef":"Judg.6.15"},{"verseId":7006016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.","osisRef":"Judg.6.16"},{"verseId":7006017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.","osisRef":"Judg.6.17"},{"verseId":7006018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set _it_ before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.","osisRef":"Judg.6.18"},{"verseId":7006019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) 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 _it_ out unto him under the oak, and presented _it_.","osisRef":"Judg.6.19"},{"verseId":7006020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And the angel of [God](/person/god_1324) said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay _them_ upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.","osisRef":"Judg.6.20"},{"verseId":7006021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Then the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) put forth the end of the staff that _was_ in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) departed out of his sight.","osisRef":"Judg.6.21"},{"verseId":7006022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And when [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) perceived that he _was_ an angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) said, Alas, O [Lord](/person/god_1324) GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) face to face.","osisRef":"Judg.6.22"},{"verseId":7006023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto him, Peace _be_ unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.","osisRef":"Judg.6.23"},{"verseId":7006024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"Then [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) built an altar there unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it _is_ yet in [Ophrah](/place/ophrah_914) of the Abiezrites.","osisRef":"Judg.6.24"},{"verseId":7006025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And it came to pass the same night, that the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of [Baal](/person/baal_573) that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that _is_ by it:","osisRef":"Judg.6.25"},{"verseId":7006026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"And build an altar unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324) thy [God](/person/god_1324) upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.","osisRef":"Judg.6.26"},{"verseId":7006027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"Then [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) took ten men of his servants, and did as the [LORD](/person/god_1324) had said unto him: and _so_ it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do _it_ by day, that he did _it_ by night.","osisRef":"Judg.6.27"},{"verseId":7006028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of [Baal](/person/baal_573) was cast down, and the grove was cut down that _was_ by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar _that_ _was_ built.","osisRef":"Judg.6.28"},{"verseId":7006029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) the son of [Joash](/person/joash_1630) hath done this thing.","osisRef":"Judg.6.29"},{"verseId":7006030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"Then the men of the city said unto [Joash](/person/joash_1630), Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of [Baal](/person/baal_573), and because he hath cut down the grove that _was_ by it.","osisRef":"Judg.6.30"},{"verseId":7006031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"And [Joash](/person/joash_1630) said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for [Baal](/person/baal_573)? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst _it_ _is_ _yet_ morning: if he _be_ a god, let him plead for himself, because _one_ hath cast down his altar.","osisRef":"Judg.6.31"},{"verseId":7006032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"Therefore on that day he called him [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314), saying, Let [Baal](/person/baal_573) plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.","osisRef":"Judg.6.32"},{"verseId":7006033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the [east](/place/east_348) were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of [Jezreel](/place/valley_of_jezreel_1211).","osisRef":"Judg.6.33"},{"verseId":7006034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"But the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) came upon [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), and he blew a trumpet; and [Abiezer](/person/abiezer_763) was gathered after him.","osisRef":"Judg.6.34"},{"verseId":7006035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"And he sent messengers throughout all [Manasseh](/person/manasseh_1928); who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto [Asher](/person/asher_337), and unto [Zebulun](/person/zebulun_3002), and unto [Naphtali](/person/naphtali_2149); and they came up to meet them.","osisRef":"Judg.6.35"},{"verseId":7006036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) said unto [God](/person/god_1324), If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,","osisRef":"Judg.6.36"},{"verseId":7006037,"verseNum":37,"mdText":"Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; _and_ if the dew be on the fleece only, and _it_ _be_ dry upon all the earth _beside_, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.","osisRef":"Judg.6.37"},{"verseId":7006038,"verseNum":38,"mdText":"And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.","osisRef":"Judg.6.38"},{"verseId":7006039,"verseNum":39,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) said unto [God](/person/god_1324), Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, 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.","osisRef":"Judg.6.39"},{"verseId":7006040,"verseNum":40,"mdText":"And [God](/person/god_1324) did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.","osisRef":"Judg.6.40"}]},{"title":"Judg 7","chapterNum":7,"osisRef":"Judg.7","verses":[{"verseId":7007001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Then [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314), who _is_ [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), and all the people that _were_ with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of [Harod](/place/harod_529): so that the host of the [Midianites](/place/midian_796) were on the north side of them, by the hill of [Moreh](/place/moreh_818), in the valley.","osisRef":"Judg.7.1"},{"verseId":7007002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), The people that _are_ with thee _are_ too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.","osisRef":"Judg.7.2"},{"verseId":7007003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever _is_ fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount [Gilead](/place/mount_gilead_838). And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.","osisRef":"Judg.7.3"},{"verseId":7007004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), The people _are_ yet _too_ many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, _that_ of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.","osisRef":"Judg.7.4"},{"verseId":7007005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"So he brought down the people unto the water: and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), 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.","osisRef":"Judg.7.5"},{"verseId":7007006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And the number of them that lapped, _putting_ their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.","osisRef":"Judg.7.6"},{"verseId":7007007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the [Midianites](/place/midian_796) into thine hand: and let all the _other_ people go every man unto his place.","osisRef":"Judg.7.7"},{"verseId":7007008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all _the_ _rest_ _of_ Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796) was beneath him in the valley.","osisRef":"Judg.7.8"},{"verseId":7007009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And it came to pass the same night, that the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.","osisRef":"Judg.7.9"},{"verseId":7007010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"But if thou fear to go down, go thou with [Phurah](/person/phurah_2353) thy servant down to the host:","osisRef":"Judg.7.10"},{"verseId":7007011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with [Phurah](/person/phurah_2353) his servant unto the outside of the armed men that _were_ in the host.","osisRef":"Judg.7.11"},{"verseId":7007012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the [east](/place/east_348) lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels _were_ without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.","osisRef":"Judg.7.12"},{"verseId":7007013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And when [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) was come, behold, _there_ _was_ a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796), and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.","osisRef":"Judg.7.13"},{"verseId":7007014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And his fellow answered and said, This _is_ nothing else save the sword of [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) the son of [Joash](/person/joash_1630), a man of Israel: _for_ into his hand hath [God](/person/god_1324) delivered [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796), and all the host.","osisRef":"Judg.7.14"},{"verseId":7007015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And it was _so_, when [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the [LORD](/person/god_1324) hath delivered into your hand the host of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796).","osisRef":"Judg.7.15"},{"verseId":7007016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And he divided the three hundred men _into_ three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.","osisRef":"Judg.7.16"},{"verseId":7007017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be _that_, as I do, so shall ye do.","osisRef":"Judg.7.17"},{"verseId":7007018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that _are_ with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, _The_ _sword_ of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and of [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314).","osisRef":"Judg.7.18"},{"verseId":7007019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"So [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), and the hundred men that _were_ with him, came unto 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 brake the pitchers that _were_ in their hands.","osisRef":"Judg.7.19"},{"verseId":7007020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow _withal_: and they cried, The sword of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and of [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314).","osisRef":"Judg.7.20"},{"verseId":7007021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.","osisRef":"Judg.7.21"},{"verseId":7007022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to [Beth-shittah](/place/beth-shittah_237) in [Zererath](/place/zererah_1256), _and_ to the border of [Abel-meholah](/place/abel-meholah_8), unto [Tabbath](/place/tabbath_1126).","osisRef":"Judg.7.22"},{"verseId":7007023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of [Naphtali](/person/naphtali_2149), and out of [Asher](/person/asher_337), and out of all [Manasseh](/person/manasseh_1928), and pursued after the [Midianites](/place/midian_796).","osisRef":"Judg.7.23"},{"verseId":7007024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) sent messengers throughout all mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206), saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto [Beth-barah](/place/beth-barah_194) and [Jordan](/place/jordan_653). Then all the men of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206) gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto [Beth-barah](/place/beth-barah_194) and [Jordan](/place/jordan_653).","osisRef":"Judg.7.24"}]},{"title":"Judg 8","chapterNum":8,"osisRef":"Judg.8","verses":[{"verseId":7008001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And the men of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206) said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the [Midianites](/place/midian_796)? And they did chide with him sharply.","osisRef":"Judg.8.1"},{"verseId":7008002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? _Is_ not the gleaning of the grapes of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206) better than the vintage of [[Abiezer](/person/abiezer_763)](/place/abiezer_11)?","osisRef":"Judg.8.2"},{"verseId":7008003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"[God](/person/god_1324) hath delivered into your hands the princes of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796), [Oreb](/person/oreb_2255) and [Zeeb](/person/zeeb_3033): and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.","osisRef":"Judg.8.3"},{"verseId":7008004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) came to [Jordan](/place/jordan_653), _and_ passed over, he, and the three hundred men that _were_ with him, faint, yet pursuing _them_.","osisRef":"Judg.8.4"},{"verseId":7008005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And he said unto the men of [Succoth](/place/succoth_1113), Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they _be_ faint, and I am pursuing after [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983), kings of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796).","osisRef":"Judg.8.5"},{"verseId":7008006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And the princes of [Succoth](/place/succoth_1113) said, _Are_ the hands of [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983) now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?","osisRef":"Judg.8.6"},{"verseId":7008007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) said, Therefore when the [LORD](/person/god_1324) hath delivered [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983) into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.","osisRef":"Judg.8.7"},{"verseId":7008008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And he went up thence to [Penuel](/place/penuel_931), and spake unto them likewise: and the men of [Penuel](/place/penuel_931) answered him as the men of [Succoth](/place/succoth_1113) had answered _him_.","osisRef":"Judg.8.8"},{"verseId":7008009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And he spake also unto the men of [Penuel](/place/penuel_931), saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.","osisRef":"Judg.8.9"},{"verseId":7008010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Now [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983) _were_ in [Karkor](/place/karkor_669), and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand _men_, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the [east](/place/east_348): for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.","osisRef":"Judg.8.10"},{"verseId":7008011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of [Nobah](/place/nobah_901) and [Jogbehah](/place/jogbehah_645), and smote the host: for the host was secure.","osisRef":"Judg.8.11"},{"verseId":7008012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And when [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983) fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796), [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983), and discomfited all the host.","osisRef":"Judg.8.12"},{"verseId":7008013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) the son of [Joash](/person/joash_1630) returned from battle before the sun _was_ _up_,","osisRef":"Judg.8.13"},{"verseId":7008014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And caught a young man of the men of [Succoth](/place/succoth_1113), and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of [Succoth](/place/succoth_1113), and the elders thereof, _even_ threescore and seventeen men.","osisRef":"Judg.8.14"},{"verseId":7008015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And he came unto the men of [Succoth](/place/succoth_1113), and said, Behold [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983), with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, _Are_ the hands of [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983) now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men _that_ _are_ weary?","osisRef":"Judg.8.15"},{"verseId":7008016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of [Succoth](/place/succoth_1113).","osisRef":"Judg.8.16"},{"verseId":7008017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And he beat down the tower of [Penuel](/place/penuel_931), and slew the men of the city.","osisRef":"Judg.8.17"},{"verseId":7008018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Then said he unto [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983), What manner of men _were_ _they_ whom ye slew at [Tabor](/place/tabor_1128)? And they answered, As thou _art_, so _were_ they; each one resembled the children of a king.","osisRef":"Judg.8.18"},{"verseId":7008019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And he said, They _were_ my brethren, _even_ the sons of my mother: _as_ the [LORD](/person/god_1324) liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.","osisRef":"Judg.8.19"},{"verseId":7008020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And he said unto [Jether](/person/jether_906) his firstborn, Up, _and_ slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he _was_ yet a youth.","osisRef":"Judg.8.20"},{"verseId":7008021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Then [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983) said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man _is_, _so_ _is_ his strength. And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) arose, and slew [Zebah](/person/zebah_2997) and [Zalmunna](/person/zalmunna_2983), and took away the ornaments that _were_ on their camels’ necks.","osisRef":"Judg.8.21"},{"verseId":7008022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"Then the men of Israel said unto [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), 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](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796).","osisRef":"Judg.8.22"},{"verseId":7008023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the [LORD](/person/god_1324) shall rule over you.","osisRef":"Judg.8.23"},{"verseId":7008024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they _were_ Ishmaelites).","osisRef":"Judg.8.24"},{"verseId":7008025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And they answered, We will willingly give _them_. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.","osisRef":"Judg.8.25"},{"verseId":7008026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred _shekels_ of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that _was_ on the kings of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796), and beside the chains that _were_ about their camels’ necks.","osisRef":"Judg.8.26"},{"verseId":7008027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, _even_ in [Ophrah](/place/ophrah_914): and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), and to his house.","osisRef":"Judg.8.27"},{"verseId":7008028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"Thus was [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796) subdued before the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682), so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314).","osisRef":"Judg.8.28"},{"verseId":7008029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314) the son of [Joash](/person/joash_1630) went and dwelt in his own house.","osisRef":"Judg.8.29"},{"verseId":7008030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.","osisRef":"Judg.8.30"},{"verseId":7008031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"And his concubine that _was_ in [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069), she also bare him a son, whose name he called [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41).","osisRef":"Judg.8.31"},{"verseId":7008032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"And [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) the son of [Joash](/person/joash_1630) died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of [Joash](/person/joash_1630) his father, in [Ophrah](/place/ophrah_914) of the Abiezrites.","osisRef":"Judg.8.32"},{"verseId":7008033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"And it came to pass, as soon as [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314) was dead, that the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.","osisRef":"Judg.8.33"},{"verseId":7008034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) remembered not the [LORD](/person/god_1324) their [God](/person/god_1324), who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:","osisRef":"Judg.8.34"},{"verseId":7008035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"Neither shewed they kindness to the house of [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314), _namely_, [Gideon](/person/gideon_1314), according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.8.35"}]},{"title":"Judg 9","chapterNum":9,"osisRef":"Judg.9","verses":[{"verseId":7009001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) the son of [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314) went to [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069) unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,","osisRef":"Judg.9.1"},{"verseId":7009002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069), Whether _is_ better for you, either that all the sons of [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314), _which_ _are_ threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I _am_ your bone and your flesh.","osisRef":"Judg.9.2"},{"verseId":7009003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069) all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41); for they said, He _is_ our brother.","osisRef":"Judg.9.3"},{"verseId":7009004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And they gave him threescore and ten _pieces_ of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) hired vain and light persons, which followed him.","osisRef":"Judg.9.4"},{"verseId":7009006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And all the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069) gathered together, and all the house of [Millo](/place/beth-millo_224), and went, and made [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) king, by the plain of the pillar that _was_ in [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069).","osisRef":"Judg.9.6"},{"verseId":7009008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"The trees went forth _on_ _a_ _time_ to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.","osisRef":"Judg.9.8"},{"verseId":7009009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour [God](/person/god_1324) and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?","osisRef":"Judg.9.9"},{"verseId":7009010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, _and_ reign over us.","osisRef":"Judg.9.10"},{"verseId":7009011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?","osisRef":"Judg.9.11"},{"verseId":7009012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, _and_ reign over us.","osisRef":"Judg.9.12"},{"verseId":7009013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth [God](/person/god_1324) and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?","osisRef":"Judg.9.13"},{"verseId":7009014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, _and_ reign over us.","osisRef":"Judg.9.14"},{"verseId":7009015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, _then_ come _and_ put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of [Lebanon](/place/lebanon_720).","osisRef":"Judg.9.15"},{"verseId":7009016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) king, and if ye have dealt well with [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314) and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;","osisRef":"Judg.9.16"},{"verseId":7009017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of [[Midian](/person/midian_2075)](/place/midian_796):","osisRef":"Judg.9.17"},{"verseId":7009018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), the son of his maidservant, king over the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069), because he _is_ your brother);","osisRef":"Judg.9.18"},{"verseId":7009019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314) and with his house this day, _then_ rejoice ye in [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), and let him also rejoice in you:","osisRef":"Judg.9.19"},{"verseId":7009020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"But if not, let fire come out from [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), and devour the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069), and the house of [Millo](/place/beth-millo_224); and let fire come out from the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069), and from the house of [Millo](/place/beth-millo_224), and devour [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41).","osisRef":"Judg.9.20"},{"verseId":7009021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"And [Jotham](/person/jotham_1734) ran away, and fled, and went to [Beer](/place/beer_165), and dwelt there, for fear of [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) his brother.","osisRef":"Judg.9.21"},{"verseId":7009022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"When [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) had reigned three years over Israel,","osisRef":"Judg.9.22"},{"verseId":7009023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"Then [God](/person/god_1324) sent an evil spirit between [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) and the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069); and the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069) dealt treacherously with [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41):","osisRef":"Judg.9.23"},{"verseId":7009024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"That the cruelty _done_ to the threescore and ten sons of [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314) might come, and their blood be laid upon [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069), which aided him in the killing of his brethren.","osisRef":"Judg.9.24"},{"verseId":7009025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069) set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41).","osisRef":"Judg.9.25"},{"verseId":7009026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"And [Gaal](/person/gaal_1259) the son of [Ebed](/person/ebed_1027) came with his brethren, and went over to [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069): and the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069) put their confidence in him.","osisRef":"Judg.9.26"},{"verseId":7009027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode _the_ _grapes_, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41).","osisRef":"Judg.9.27"},{"verseId":7009028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And [Gaal](/person/gaal_1259) the son of [Ebed](/person/ebed_1027) said, Who _is_ [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), and who _is_ [[Shechem](/person/shechem_2588)](/place/shechem_1069), that we should serve him? _is_ not _he_ the son of [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314)? and [Zebul](/person/zebul_3001) his officer? serve the men of [Hamor](/person/hamor_1365) the father of [[Shechem](/person/shechem_2588)](/place/shechem_1069): for why should we serve him?","osisRef":"Judg.9.28"},{"verseId":7009029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And would to [God](/person/god_1324) this people were under my hand! then would I remove [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41). And he said to [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), Increase thine army, and come out.","osisRef":"Judg.9.29"},{"verseId":7009030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"And when [Zebul](/person/zebul_3001) the ruler of the city heard the words of [Gaal](/person/gaal_1259) the son of [Ebed](/person/ebed_1027), his anger was kindled.","osisRef":"Judg.9.30"},{"verseId":7009031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"And he sent messengers unto [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) privily, saying, Behold, [Gaal](/person/gaal_1259) the son of [Ebed](/person/ebed_1027) and his brethren be come to [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069); and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.","osisRef":"Judg.9.31"},{"verseId":7009033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"And it shall be, _that_ in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, _when_ he and the people that _is_ with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.","osisRef":"Judg.9.33"},{"verseId":7009034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"And [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) rose up, and all the people that _were_ with him, by night, and they laid wait against [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069) in four companies.","osisRef":"Judg.9.34"},{"verseId":7009035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"And [Gaal](/person/gaal_1259) the son of [Ebed](/person/ebed_1027) went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) rose up, and the people that _were_ with him, from lying in wait.","osisRef":"Judg.9.35"},{"verseId":7009036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"And when [Gaal](/person/gaal_1259) saw the people, he said to [Zebul](/person/zebul_3001), Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And [Zebul](/person/zebul_3001) said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as _if_ _they_ _were_ men.","osisRef":"Judg.9.36"},{"verseId":7009037,"verseNum":37,"mdText":"And [Gaal](/person/gaal_1259) spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of [Meonenim](/place/diviners_oak_338).","osisRef":"Judg.9.37"},{"verseId":7009038,"verseNum":38,"mdText":"Then said [Zebul](/person/zebul_3001) unto him, Where _is_ now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who _is_ [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), that we should serve him? _is_ not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.","osisRef":"Judg.9.38"},{"verseId":7009039,"verseNum":39,"mdText":"And [Gaal](/person/gaal_1259) went out before the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069), and fought with [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41).","osisRef":"Judg.9.39"},{"verseId":7009040,"verseNum":40,"mdText":"And [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown _and_ wounded, _even_ unto the entering of the gate.","osisRef":"Judg.9.40"},{"verseId":7009041,"verseNum":41,"mdText":"And [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) dwelt at [Arumah](/place/arumah_98): and [Zebul](/person/zebul_3001) thrust out [Gaal](/person/gaal_1259) and his brethren, that they should not dwell in [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069).","osisRef":"Judg.9.41"},{"verseId":7009042,"verseNum":42,"mdText":"And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41).","osisRef":"Judg.9.42"},{"verseId":7009043,"verseNum":43,"mdText":"And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people _were_ come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.","osisRef":"Judg.9.43"},{"verseId":7009044,"verseNum":44,"mdText":"And [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), and the company that _was_ with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two _other_ companies ran upon all _the_ _people_ that _were_ in the fields, and slew them.","osisRef":"Judg.9.44"},{"verseId":7009045,"verseNum":45,"mdText":"And [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that _was_ therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.","osisRef":"Judg.9.45"},{"verseId":7009046,"verseNum":46,"mdText":"And when all the men of the tower of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1178) heard _that_, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.","osisRef":"Judg.9.46"},{"verseId":7009047,"verseNum":47,"mdText":"And it was told [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), that all the men of the tower of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1178) were gathered together.","osisRef":"Judg.9.47"},{"verseId":7009048,"verseNum":48,"mdText":"And [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) gat him up to mount [Zalmon](/place/mount_zalmon_858), he and all the people that _were_ with him; and [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid _it_ on his shoulder, and said unto the people that _were_ with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, _and_ do as I _have_ _done_.","osisRef":"Judg.9.48"},{"verseId":7009049,"verseNum":49,"mdText":"And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), and put _them_ to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1178) died also, about a thousand men and women.","osisRef":"Judg.9.49"},{"verseId":7009050,"verseNum":50,"mdText":"Then went [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) to [Thebez](/place/thebez_1157), and encamped against [Thebez](/place/thebez_1157), and took it.","osisRef":"Judg.9.50"},{"verseId":7009051,"verseNum":51,"mdText":"But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut _it_ to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.","osisRef":"Judg.9.51"},{"verseId":7009052,"verseNum":52,"mdText":"And [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.","osisRef":"Judg.9.52"},{"verseId":7009053,"verseNum":53,"mdText":"And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon [Abimelech’s](/person/abimelech_40) head, and all to brake his skull.","osisRef":"Judg.9.53"},{"verseId":7009054,"verseNum":54,"mdText":"Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto 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.","osisRef":"Judg.9.54"},{"verseId":7009055,"verseNum":55,"mdText":"And when the men of Israel saw that [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) was dead, they departed every man unto his place.","osisRef":"Judg.9.55"},{"verseId":7009056,"verseNum":56,"mdText":"Thus [God](/person/god_1324) rendered the wickedness of [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41), which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:","osisRef":"Judg.9.56"},{"verseId":7009057,"verseNum":57,"mdText":"And all the evil of the men of [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069) did [God](/person/god_1324) render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of [Jotham](/person/jotham_1734) the son of [Jerubbaal](/person/gideon_1314).","osisRef":"Judg.9.57"}]},{"title":"Judg 10","chapterNum":10,"osisRef":"Judg.10","verses":[{"verseId":7010001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And after [Abimelech](/person/abimelech_41) there arose to defend Israel [Tola](/person/tola_2879) the son of [Puah](/person/puah_2373), the son of [Dodo](/person/dodo_1020), a man of [Issachar](/person/issachar_645); and he dwelt in [Shamir](/place/shamir_1061) in mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206).","osisRef":"Judg.10.1"},{"verseId":7010002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in [Shamir](/place/shamir_1061).","osisRef":"Judg.10.2"},{"verseId":7010003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And after him arose [Jair](/person/jair_709), a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.","osisRef":"Judg.10.3"},{"verseId":7010004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called [Havoth-jair](/place/havvoth-jair_535) unto this day, which _are_ in the land of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475).","osisRef":"Judg.10.4"},{"verseId":7010005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And [Jair](/person/jair_709) died, and was buried in [Camon](/place/kamon_665).","osisRef":"Judg.10.5"},{"verseId":7010006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) did evil again in the sight of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of [Syria](/place/syria_1122), and the gods of [Zidon](/place/sidon_1093), and the gods of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815), and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and served not him.","osisRef":"Judg.10.6"},{"verseId":7010007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And the anger of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.","osisRef":"Judg.10.7"},{"verseId":7010008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682): eighteen years, all the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) that _were_ on the other side [Jordan](/place/jordan_653) in the land of the Amorites, which _is_ in [Gilead](/place/gilead_475).","osisRef":"Judg.10.8"},{"verseId":7010009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Moreover the children of Ammon passed over [Jordan](/place/jordan_653) to fight also against [Judah](/person/judah_1751), and against [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463), and against the house of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206); so that Israel was sore distressed.","osisRef":"Judg.10.9"},{"verseId":7010010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) cried unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324), saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our [God](/person/god_1324), and also served Baalim.","osisRef":"Judg.10.10"},{"verseId":7010011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682), _Did_ not _I_ _deliver_ _you_ from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?","osisRef":"Judg.10.11"},{"verseId":7010012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.","osisRef":"Judg.10.12"},{"verseId":7010013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.","osisRef":"Judg.10.13"},{"verseId":7010014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.","osisRef":"Judg.10.14"},{"verseId":7010015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) said unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324), We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.","osisRef":"Judg.10.15"},{"verseId":7010016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the [LORD](/person/god_1324): and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.10.16"},{"verseId":7010017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in [Gilead](/place/gilead_475). And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) assembled themselves together, and encamped in [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_809).","osisRef":"Judg.10.17"},{"verseId":7010018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And the people _and_ princes of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475) said one to another, What man _is_ _he_ that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475).","osisRef":"Judg.10.18"}]},{"title":"Judg 11","chapterNum":11,"osisRef":"Judg.11","verses":[{"verseId":7011001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Now [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) the [Gileadite](/person/gilead_1318) was a mighty man of valour, and he _was_ the son of an harlot: and [Gilead](/person/gilead_1318) begat [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839).","osisRef":"Judg.11.1"},{"verseId":7011002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And [Gilead’s](/person/gilead_1317) wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839), and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou _art_ the son of a strange woman.","osisRef":"Judg.11.2"},{"verseId":7011003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Then [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of [Tob](/place/tob_1172): and there were gathered vain men to [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839), and went out with him.","osisRef":"Judg.11.3"},{"verseId":7011004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.11.4"},{"verseId":7011005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475) went to fetch [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) out of the land of [Tob](/place/tob_1172):","osisRef":"Judg.11.5"},{"verseId":7011006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And they said unto [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839), Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.","osisRef":"Judg.11.6"},{"verseId":7011007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) said unto the elders of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475), Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?","osisRef":"Judg.11.7"},{"verseId":7011008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And the elders of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475) said unto [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839), 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](/place/gilead_475).","osisRef":"Judg.11.8"},{"verseId":7011009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) said unto the elders of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475), If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) deliver them before me, shall I be your head?","osisRef":"Judg.11.9"},{"verseId":7011010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And the elders of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475) said unto [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839), The [LORD](/person/god_1324) be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.","osisRef":"Judg.11.10"},{"verseId":7011011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Then [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) went with the elders of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475), and the people made him head and captain over them: and [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) uttered all his words before the [LORD](/person/god_1324) in [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_809).","osisRef":"Judg.11.11"},{"verseId":7011012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?","osisRef":"Judg.11.12"},{"verseId":7011013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839), Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of [Egypt](/place/egypt_362), from [Arnon](/place/arnon_92) even unto [Jabbok](/place/jabbok_609), and unto [Jordan](/place/jordan_653): now therefore restore those _lands_ again peaceably.","osisRef":"Judg.11.13"},{"verseId":7011014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:","osisRef":"Judg.11.14"},{"verseId":7011015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And said unto him, Thus saith [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839), Israel took not away the land of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815), nor the land of the children of Ammon:","osisRef":"Judg.11.15"},{"verseId":7011016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"But when Israel came up from [Egypt](/place/egypt_362), and walked through the wilderness unto the [Red](/place/red_sea_986) [sea](/place/red_sea_986), and came to [Kadesh](/place/kadesh_661);","osisRef":"Judg.11.16"},{"verseId":7011017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of [[Edom](/person/esau_1216)](/place/edom_357), saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of [[Edom](/person/esau_1216)](/place/edom_357) would not hearken _thereto_. And in like manner they sent unto the king of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815): but he would not _consent_: and Israel abode in [Kadesh](/place/kadesh_661).","osisRef":"Judg.11.17"},{"verseId":7011018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of [[Edom](/person/esau_1216)](/place/edom_357), and the land of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815), and came by the east side of the land of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815), and pitched on the other side of [Arnon](/place/arnon_92), but came not within the border of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815): for [Arnon](/place/arnon_92) _was_ the border of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815).","osisRef":"Judg.11.18"},{"verseId":7011019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And Israel sent messengers unto [Sihon](/person/sihon_2739) king of the Amorites, the king of [Heshbon](/place/heshbon_565); and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.","osisRef":"Judg.11.19"},{"verseId":7011020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"But [Sihon](/person/sihon_2739) trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but [Sihon](/person/sihon_2739) gathered all his people together, and pitched in [Jahaz](/place/jahaz_617), and fought against Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.11.20"},{"verseId":7011021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) God of Israel delivered [Sihon](/person/sihon_2739) 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.","osisRef":"Judg.11.21"},{"verseId":7011022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from [Arnon](/place/arnon_92) even unto [Jabbok](/place/jabbok_609), and from the wilderness even unto [Jordan](/place/jordan_653).","osisRef":"Judg.11.22"},{"verseId":7011023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"So now the [LORD](/person/god_1324) God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?","osisRef":"Judg.11.23"},{"verseId":7011024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"Wilt not thou possess that which [Chemosh](/person/chemosh_931) thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the [LORD](/person/god_1324) our [God](/person/god_1324) shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.","osisRef":"Judg.11.24"},{"verseId":7011025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And now _art_ thou any thing better than [Balak](/person/balak_387) the son of [Zippor](/person/zippor_3094), king of [[Moab](/person/moab_2103)](/place/moab_815)? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,","osisRef":"Judg.11.25"},{"verseId":7011026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"While Israel dwelt in [Heshbon](/place/heshbon_565) and her towns, and in [Aroer](/place/aroer_93) and her towns, and in all the cities that _be_ along by the coasts of [Arnon](/place/arnon_92), three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover _them_ within that time?","osisRef":"Judg.11.26"},{"verseId":7011027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the [LORD](/person/god_1324) the [Judge](/person/god_1324) be judge this day between the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) and the children of [Ammon](/place/ammon_58).","osisRef":"Judg.11.27"},{"verseId":7011028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) which he sent him.","osisRef":"Judg.11.28"},{"verseId":7011029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"Then the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) came upon [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839), and he passed over [Gilead](/place/gilead_475), and [Manasseh](/person/manasseh_1928), and passed over [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_809) of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475), and from [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_809) of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475) he passed over _unto_ the children of Ammon.","osisRef":"Judg.11.29"},{"verseId":7011030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"And [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) vowed a vow unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,","osisRef":"Judg.11.30"},{"verseId":7011031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth 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](/person/god_1324), and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.","osisRef":"Judg.11.31"},{"verseId":7011032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"So [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) delivered them into his hands.","osisRef":"Judg.11.32"},{"verseId":7011033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"And he smote them from [Aroer](/place/aroer_94), even till thou come to [Minnith](/place/minnith_804), _even_ twenty cities, and unto the [plain](/place/abel-keramim_6) of the [vineyards](/place/abel-keramim_6), with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of [Ammon](/place/ammon_58) were subdued before the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682).","osisRef":"Judg.11.33"},{"verseId":7011034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"And [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) came to [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_809) unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she _was_ _his_ only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.","osisRef":"Judg.11.34"},{"verseId":7011035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent 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 unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and I cannot go back.","osisRef":"Judg.11.35"},{"verseId":7011036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"And she said unto him, My father, _if_ thou hast opened thy mouth unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324), do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the [LORD](/person/god_1324) hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, _even_ of the children of Ammon.","osisRef":"Judg.11.36"},{"verseId":7011037,"verseNum":37,"mdText":"And she said unto 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 fellows.","osisRef":"Judg.11.37"},{"verseId":7011038,"verseNum":38,"mdText":"And he said, Go. And he sent her away _for_ two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.","osisRef":"Judg.11.38"},{"verseId":7011039,"verseNum":39,"mdText":"And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her _according_ to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,","osisRef":"Judg.11.39"},{"verseId":7011040,"verseNum":40,"mdText":"_That_ the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) the Gileadite four days in a year.","osisRef":"Judg.11.40"}]},{"title":"Judg 12","chapterNum":12,"osisRef":"Judg.12","verses":[{"verseId":7012001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And the men of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206) gathered themselves together, and went [northward](/place/zaphon_1241), and said unto [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839), Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.","osisRef":"Judg.12.1"},{"verseId":7012002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) said unto 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.","osisRef":"Judg.12.2"},{"verseId":7012003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And when I saw that ye delivered _me_ not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?","osisRef":"Judg.12.3"},{"verseId":7012004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Then [Jephthah](/person/jephthah_839) gathered together all the men of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475), and fought with [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206): and the men of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475) smote [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206), because they said, Ye Gileadites _are_ fugitives of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206) among the Ephraimites, _and_ among the Manassites.","osisRef":"Judg.12.4"},{"verseId":7012005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And the Gileadites took the passages of [Jordan](/place/jordan_653) before the Ephraimites: and it was _so_, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475) said unto him, _Art_ thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;","osisRef":"Judg.12.5"},{"verseId":7012006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce _it_ right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of [Jordan](/place/jordan_653): and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.","osisRef":"Judg.12.6"},{"verseId":7012008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And after him [Ibzan](/person/ibzan_1588) of [Beth-lehem](/place/bethlehem_218) judged Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.12.8"},{"verseId":7012010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Then died [Ibzan](/person/ibzan_1588), and was buried at [Beth-lehem](/place/bethlehem_218).","osisRef":"Judg.12.10"},{"verseId":7012011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And after him [Elon](/person/elon_1184), a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.","osisRef":"Judg.12.11"},{"verseId":7012012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And [Elon](/person/elon_1184) the Zebulonite died, and was buried in [Aijalon](/place/aijalon_40) in the country of [Zebulun](/person/zebulun_3002).","osisRef":"Judg.12.12"},{"verseId":7012013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And after him [Abdon](/person/abdon_10) the son of [Hillel](/person/hillel_1530), a Pirathonite, judged Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.12.13"},{"verseId":7012014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.","osisRef":"Judg.12.14"},{"verseId":7012015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And [Abdon](/person/abdon_10) the son of [Hillel](/person/hillel_1530) the Pirathonite died, and was buried in [Pirathon](/place/pirathon_949) in the land of [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206), in the mount of the Amalekites.","osisRef":"Judg.12.15"}]},{"title":"Judg 13","chapterNum":13,"osisRef":"Judg.13","verses":[{"verseId":7013001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) did evil again in the sight of the [LORD](/person/god_1324); and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.","osisRef":"Judg.13.1"},{"verseId":7013002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And there was a certain man of [Zorah](/place/zorah_1275), of the family of the Danites, whose name _was_ [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933); and his wife _was_ barren, and bare not.","osisRef":"Judg.13.2"},{"verseId":7013003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou _art_ barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.","osisRef":"Judg.13.3"},{"verseId":7013004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean _thing_:","osisRef":"Judg.13.4"},{"verseId":7013005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto [God](/person/god_1324) from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.","osisRef":"Judg.13.5"},{"verseId":7013006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of [God](/person/god_1324) came unto me, and his countenance _was_ like the countenance of an angel of [God](/person/god_1324), very terrible: but I asked him not whence he _was_, neither told he me his name:","osisRef":"Judg.13.6"},{"verseId":7013007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean _thing_: for the child shall be a Nazarite to [God](/person/god_1324) from the womb to the day of his death.","osisRef":"Judg.13.7"},{"verseId":7013008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Then [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) intreated the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and said, O my [Lord](/person/god_1324), let the man of [God](/person/god_1324) which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.","osisRef":"Judg.13.8"},{"verseId":7013009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And [God](/person/god_1324) hearkened to the voice of [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933); and the angel of [God](/person/god_1324) came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) her husband _was_ not with her.","osisRef":"Judg.13.9"},{"verseId":7013010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the _other_ day.","osisRef":"Judg.13.10"},{"verseId":7013011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, _Art_ thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I _am_.","osisRef":"Judg.13.11"},{"verseId":7013012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and _how_ shall we do unto him?","osisRef":"Judg.13.12"},{"verseId":7013013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933), Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.","osisRef":"Judg.13.13"},{"verseId":7013014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"She may not eat of any _thing_ that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean _thing_: all that I commanded her let her observe.","osisRef":"Judg.13.14"},{"verseId":7013015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) said unto the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.","osisRef":"Judg.13.15"},{"verseId":7013016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933), Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324). For [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) knew not that he _was_ an angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Judg.13.16"},{"verseId":7013017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) said unto the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), What _is_ thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?","osisRef":"Judg.13.17"},{"verseId":7013018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it _is_ secret?","osisRef":"Judg.13.18"},{"verseId":7013019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"So [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) took a kid with a meat offering, and offered _it_ upon a rock unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324): and _the_ _angel_ did wondrously; and [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) and his wife looked on.","osisRef":"Judg.13.19"},{"verseId":7013020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) ascended in the flame of the altar. And [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) and his wife looked on _it_, and fell on their faces to the ground.","osisRef":"Judg.13.20"},{"verseId":7013021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"But the angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) did no more appear to [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) and to his wife. Then [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) knew that he _was_ an angel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Judg.13.21"},{"verseId":7013022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Judg.13.22"},{"verseId":7013023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"But his wife said unto him, If the [LORD](/person/god_1324) were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these _things_, nor would as at this time have told us _such_ _things_ as these.","osisRef":"Judg.13.23"},{"verseId":7013024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And the woman bare a son, and called his name [Samson](/person/samson_2468): and the child grew, and the [LORD](/person/god_1324) blessed him.","osisRef":"Judg.13.24"},{"verseId":7013025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) began to move him at times in the camp of [[Dan](/person/dan_973)](/place/mahaneh-dan_757) between [Zorah](/place/zorah_1275) and [Eshtaol](/place/eshtaol_411).","osisRef":"Judg.13.25"}]},{"title":"Judg 14","chapterNum":14,"osisRef":"Judg.14","verses":[{"verseId":7014001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) went down to [Timnath](/place/timnah_1164), and saw a woman in [Timnath](/place/timnah_1164) of the daughters of the Philistines.","osisRef":"Judg.14.1"},{"verseId":7014002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in [Timnath](/place/timnah_1164) of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.","osisRef":"Judg.14.2"},{"verseId":7014003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Then his father and his mother said unto him, _Is_ _there_ never 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](/person/samson_2468) said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.","osisRef":"Judg.14.3"},{"verseId":7014004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"But his father and his mother knew not that it _was_ of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.14.4"},{"verseId":7014005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Then went [Samson](/person/samson_2468) down, and his father and his mother, to [Timnath](/place/timnah_1164), and came to the vineyards of [Timnath](/place/timnah_1164): and, behold, a young lion roared against him.","osisRef":"Judg.14.5"},{"verseId":7014006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and _he_ _had_ nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.","osisRef":"Judg.14.6"},{"verseId":7014007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased [Samson](/person/samson_2468) well.","osisRef":"Judg.14.7"},{"verseId":7014008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, _there_ _was_ a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.","osisRef":"Judg.14.8"},{"verseId":7014009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.","osisRef":"Judg.14.9"},{"verseId":7014010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"So his father went down unto the woman: and [Samson](/person/samson_2468) made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.","osisRef":"Judg.14.10"},{"verseId":7014011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.","osisRef":"Judg.14.11"},{"verseId":7014012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find _it_ out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:","osisRef":"Judg.14.12"},{"verseId":7014013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"But if ye cannot declare _it_ me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.","osisRef":"Judg.14.13"},{"verseId":7014014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.","osisRef":"Judg.14.14"},{"verseId":7014015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto [Samson’s](/person/samson_2468) wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? _is_ _it_ not _so_?","osisRef":"Judg.14.15"},{"verseId":7014016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And [Samson’s](/person/samson_2468) wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told _it_ me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told _it_ my father nor my mother, and shall I tell _it_ thee?","osisRef":"Judg.14.16"},{"verseId":7014017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"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 lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.","osisRef":"Judg.14.17"},{"verseId":7014018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What _is_ sweeter than honey? and what _is_ stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.","osisRef":"Judg.14.18"},{"verseId":7014019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) came upon him, and he went down to [Ashkelon](/place/ashkelon_103), and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.","osisRef":"Judg.14.19"},{"verseId":7014020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"But [Samson’s](/person/samson_2468) wife was _given_ to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.","osisRef":"Judg.14.20"}]},{"title":"Judg 15","chapterNum":15,"osisRef":"Judg.15","verses":[{"verseId":7015001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that [Samson](/person/samson_2468) visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.","osisRef":"Judg.15.1"},{"verseId":7015002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: _is_ not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.","osisRef":"Judg.15.2"},{"verseId":7015003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.","osisRef":"Judg.15.3"},{"verseId":7015004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.","osisRef":"Judg.15.4"},{"verseId":7015005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And when he had set the brands on fire, he let _them_ go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards _and_ olives.","osisRef":"Judg.15.5"},{"verseId":7015006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, [Samson](/person/samson_2468), 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.","osisRef":"Judg.15.6"},{"verseId":7015007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.","osisRef":"Judg.15.7"},{"verseId":7015009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in [Judah](/person/judah_1751), and spread themselves in [Lehi](/place/lehi_726).","osisRef":"Judg.15.9"},{"verseId":7015010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And the men of [Judah](/person/judah_1751) said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind [Samson](/person/samson_2468) are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.","osisRef":"Judg.15.10"},{"verseId":7015011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Then three thousand men of [Judah](/person/judah_1751) went to the top of the rock [Etam](/place/etam_414), and said to [Samson](/person/samson_2468), Knowest thou not that the Philistines _are_ rulers over us? what _is_ this _that_ thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.","osisRef":"Judg.15.11"},{"verseId":7015012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.","osisRef":"Judg.15.12"},{"verseId":7015013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, 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.","osisRef":"Judg.15.13"},{"verseId":7015014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"_And_ when he came unto [Lehi](/place/lehi_726), the Philistines shouted against him: and the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) came mightily upon him, and the cords that _were_ upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.","osisRef":"Judg.15.14"},{"verseId":7015015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.","osisRef":"Judg.15.15"},{"verseId":7015017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place [Ramath-lehi](/place/ramath-lehi_978).","osisRef":"Judg.15.17"},{"verseId":7015018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And he was sore athirst, and called on the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?","osisRef":"Judg.15.18"},{"verseId":7015019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"But [God](/person/god_1324) clave an hollow place that _was_ in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof [En-hakkore](/place/en-hakkore_391), which _is_ in [Lehi](/place/lehi_726) unto this day.","osisRef":"Judg.15.19"},{"verseId":7015020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.","osisRef":"Judg.15.20"}]},{"title":"Judg 16","chapterNum":16,"osisRef":"Judg.16","verses":[{"verseId":7016001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Then went [Samson](/person/samson_2468) to [Gaza](/place/gaza_446), and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.","osisRef":"Judg.16.1"},{"verseId":7016002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"_And_ _it_ _was_ _told_ the Gazites, saying, [Samson](/person/samson_2468) is come hither. And they compassed _him_ in, 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.","osisRef":"Judg.16.2"},{"verseId":7016003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) 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 _them_ upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that _is_ before [Hebron](/place/hebron_551).","osisRef":"Judg.16.3"},{"verseId":7016004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of [Sorek](/place/valley_of_sorek_1220), whose name _was_ [Delilah](/person/delilah_1005).","osisRef":"Judg.16.4"},{"verseId":7016005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength _lieth_, and by what _means_ we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred _pieces_ of silver.","osisRef":"Judg.16.5"},{"verseId":7016006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And [Delilah](/person/delilah_1005) said to [Samson](/person/samson_2468), Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength _lieth_, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.","osisRef":"Judg.16.6"},{"verseId":7016007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.","osisRef":"Judg.16.7"},{"verseId":7016008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.","osisRef":"Judg.16.8"},{"verseId":7016009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Now _there_ _were_ men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines _be_ upon thee, [Samson](/person/samson_2468). And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.","osisRef":"Judg.16.9"},{"verseId":7016010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And [Delilah](/person/delilah_1005) said unto [Samson](/person/samson_2468), Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.","osisRef":"Judg.16.10"},{"verseId":7016011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.","osisRef":"Judg.16.11"},{"verseId":7016012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"[Delilah](/person/delilah_1005) therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines _be_ upon thee, [Samson](/person/samson_2468). And _there_ _were_ liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.","osisRef":"Judg.16.12"},{"verseId":7016013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And [Delilah](/person/delilah_1005) said unto [Samson](/person/samson_2468), Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.","osisRef":"Judg.16.13"},{"verseId":7016014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And she fastened _it_ with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines _be_ upon thee, [Samson](/person/samson_2468). And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.","osisRef":"Judg.16.14"},{"verseId":7016015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart _is_ not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength _lieth_.","osisRef":"Judg.16.15"},{"verseId":7016016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, _so_ that his soul was vexed unto death;","osisRef":"Judg.16.16"},{"verseId":7016017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I _have_ _been_ a Nazarite unto [God](/person/god_1324) from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any _other_ man.","osisRef":"Judg.16.17"},{"verseId":7016018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And when [Delilah](/person/delilah_1005) 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 shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.","osisRef":"Judg.16.18"},{"verseId":7016019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"Judg.16.19"},{"verseId":7016020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And she said, The Philistines _be_ upon thee, [Samson](/person/samson_2468). And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the [LORD](/person/god_1324) was departed from him.","osisRef":"Judg.16.20"},{"verseId":7016021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to [Gaza](/place/gaza_446), and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.","osisRef":"Judg.16.21"},{"verseId":7016022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.","osisRef":"Judg.16.22"},{"verseId":7016023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto [Dagon](/person/dagon_969) their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered [Samson](/person/samson_2468) our enemy into our hand.","osisRef":"Judg.16.23"},{"verseId":7016024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"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, which slew many of us.","osisRef":"Judg.16.24"},{"verseId":7016025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for [Samson](/person/samson_2468), that he may make us sport. And they called for [Samson](/person/samson_2468) out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.","osisRef":"Judg.16.25"},{"verseId":7016026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.","osisRef":"Judg.16.26"},{"verseId":7016027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines _were_ there; and _there_ _were_ upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while [Samson](/person/samson_2468) made sport.","osisRef":"Judg.16.27"},{"verseId":7016028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) called unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and said, O [Lord](/person/god_1324) GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O [God](/person/god_1324), that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.","osisRef":"Judg.16.28"},{"verseId":7016029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.","osisRef":"Judg.16.29"},{"verseId":7016030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"And [Samson](/person/samson_2468) said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with _all_ _his_ might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that _were_ therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than _they_ which he slew in his life.","osisRef":"Judg.16.30"},{"verseId":7016031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought _him_ up, and buried him between [Zorah](/place/zorah_1275) and [Eshtaol](/place/eshtaol_411) in the buryingplace of [Manoah](/person/manoah_1933) his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.","osisRef":"Judg.16.31"}]},{"title":"Judg 17","chapterNum":17,"osisRef":"Judg.17","verses":[{"verseId":7017001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And there was a man of mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206), whose name _was_ [Micah](/person/micah_2049).","osisRef":"Judg.17.1"},{"verseId":7017002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred _shekels_ of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver _is_ with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed _be_ _thou_ of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), my son.","osisRef":"Judg.17.2"},{"verseId":7017003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And when he had restored the eleven hundred _shekels_ of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324) from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.","osisRef":"Judg.17.3"},{"verseId":7017004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred _shekels_ of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of [Micah](/person/micah_2049).","osisRef":"Judg.17.4"},{"verseId":7017005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And the man [Micah](/person/micah_2049) had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.","osisRef":"Judg.17.5"},{"verseId":7017006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"In those days _there_ _was_ no king in Israel, _but_ every man did _that_ _which_ _was_ right in his own eyes.","osisRef":"Judg.17.6"},{"verseId":7017007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of [Judah](/person/judah_1751), who _was_ a Levite, and he sojourned there.","osisRef":"Judg.17.7"},{"verseId":7017008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And the man departed out of the city from Beth-lehem-judah to sojourn where he could find _a_ _place_: and he came to mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206) to the house of [Micah](/person/micah_2049), as he journeyed.","osisRef":"Judg.17.8"},{"verseId":7017009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And [Micah](/person/micah_2049) said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I _am_ a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find _a_ _place_.","osisRef":"Judg.17.9"},{"verseId":7017010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And [Micah](/person/micah_2049) said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten _shekels_ of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.","osisRef":"Judg.17.10"},{"verseId":7017011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.","osisRef":"Judg.17.11"},{"verseId":7017012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And [Micah](/person/micah_2049) consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of [Micah](/person/micah_2049).","osisRef":"Judg.17.12"},{"verseId":7017013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Then said [Micah](/person/micah_2049), Now know I that the [LORD](/person/god_1324) will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to _my_ priest.","osisRef":"Judg.17.13"}]},{"title":"Judg 18","chapterNum":18,"osisRef":"Judg.18","verses":[{"verseId":7018001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"In those days _there_ _was_ no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day _all_ _their_ inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.18.1"},{"verseId":7018002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And the children of [Dan](/person/dan_973) sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from [Zorah](/place/zorah_1275), and from [Eshtaol](/place/eshtaol_411), to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206), to the house of [Micah](/person/micah_2049), they lodged there.","osisRef":"Judg.18.2"},{"verseId":7018003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"When they _were_ by the house of [Micah](/person/micah_2049), they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this _place_? and what hast thou here?","osisRef":"Judg.18.3"},{"verseId":7018004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth [Micah](/person/micah_2049) with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.","osisRef":"Judg.18.4"},{"verseId":7018005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of [God](/person/god_1324), that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.","osisRef":"Judg.18.5"},{"verseId":7018006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the [LORD](/person/god_1324) _is_ your way wherein ye go.","osisRef":"Judg.18.6"},{"verseId":7018007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Then the five men departed, and came to [Laish](/place/laish_713), and saw the people that _were_ therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and _there_ _was_ no magistrate in the land, that might put _them_ to shame in _any_ thing; and they _were_ far from the Zidonians, and had no business with _any_ man.","osisRef":"Judg.18.7"},{"verseId":7018008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And they came unto their brethren to [Zorah](/place/zorah_1275) and [Eshtaol](/place/eshtaol_411): and their brethren said unto them, What _say_ ye?","osisRef":"Judg.18.8"},{"verseId":7018009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it _is_ very good: and _are_ ye still? be not slothful to go, _and_ to enter to possess the land.","osisRef":"Judg.18.9"},{"verseId":7018010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for [God](/person/god_1324) hath given it into your hands; a place where _there_ _is_ no want of any thing that _is_ in the earth.","osisRef":"Judg.18.10"},{"verseId":7018011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of [Zorah](/place/zorah_1275) and out of [Eshtaol](/place/eshtaol_411), six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.","osisRef":"Judg.18.11"},{"verseId":7018012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And they went up, and pitched in [Kirjath-jearim](/place/kiriath-jearim_701), in [Judah](/person/judah_1751): wherefore they called that place [Mahaneh-dan](/place/mahaneh-dan_757) unto this day: behold, _it_ _is_ behind [Kirjath-jearim](/place/kiriath-jearim_701).","osisRef":"Judg.18.12"},{"verseId":7018013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And they passed thence unto mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206), and came unto the house of [Micah](/person/micah_2049).","osisRef":"Judg.18.13"},{"verseId":7018014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of [Laish](/place/laish_713), and said unto 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.","osisRef":"Judg.18.14"},{"verseId":7018015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, _even_ unto the house of [Micah](/person/micah_2049), and saluted him.","osisRef":"Judg.18.15"},{"verseId":7018016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which _were_ of the children of [Dan](/person/dan_973), stood by the entering of the gate.","osisRef":"Judg.18.16"},{"verseId":7018017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, _and_ came in thither, _and_ took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men _that_ _were_ appointed with weapons of war.","osisRef":"Judg.18.17"},{"verseId":7018018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And these went into [Micah’s](/person/micah_2055) house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?","osisRef":"Judg.18.18"},{"verseId":7018019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: _is_ _it_ better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?","osisRef":"Judg.18.19"},{"verseId":7018020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"Judg.18.20"},{"verseId":7018021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.","osisRef":"Judg.18.21"},{"verseId":7018022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"_And_ when they were a good way from the house of [Micah](/person/micah_2049), the men that _were_ in the houses near to [Micah’s](/person/micah_2055) house were gathered together, and overtook the children of [Dan](/person/dan_973).","osisRef":"Judg.18.22"},{"verseId":7018023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"And they cried unto the children of [Dan](/person/dan_973). And they turned their faces, and said unto [Micah](/person/micah_2049), What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?","osisRef":"Judg.18.23"},{"verseId":7018024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what _is_ this _that_ ye say unto me, What aileth thee?","osisRef":"Judg.18.24"},{"verseId":7018025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And the children of [Dan](/person/dan_973) said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.","osisRef":"Judg.18.25"},{"verseId":7018026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"And the children of [Dan](/person/dan_973) went their way: and when [Micah](/person/micah_2049) saw that they _were_ too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.","osisRef":"Judg.18.26"},{"verseId":7018027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"And they took _the_ _things_ which [Micah](/person/micah_2049) had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto [Laish](/place/laish_713), unto a people _that_ _were_ at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.","osisRef":"Judg.18.27"},{"verseId":7018028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And _there_ _was_ no deliverer, because it _was_ far from [Zidon](/place/sidon_1093), and they had no business with _any_ man; and it was in the valley that _lieth_ by [Beth-rehob](/place/beth-rehob_230). And they built a city, and dwelt therein.","osisRef":"Judg.18.28"},{"verseId":7018029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And they called the name of the city [[Dan](/person/dan_973)](/place/dan_323), after the name of [[Dan](/person/dan_973)](/place/dan_323) their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city _was_ [Laish](/place/laish_713) at the first.","osisRef":"Judg.18.29"},{"verseId":7018030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"And the children of [Dan](/person/dan_973) set up the graven image: and [Jonathan](/person/jonathan_1691), the son of [Gershom](/person/gershom_1303), the son of [Manasseh](/person/manasseh_1929), he and his sons were priests to the tribe of [Dan](/person/dan_973) until the day of the captivity of the land.","osisRef":"Judg.18.30"},{"verseId":7018031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"And they set them up [Micah’s](/person/micah_2055) graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of [God](/person/god_1324) was in [Shiloh](/place/shiloh_1081).","osisRef":"Judg.18.31"}]},{"title":"Judg 19","chapterNum":19,"osisRef":"Judg.19","verses":[{"verseId":7019001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"And it came to pass in those days, when _there_ _was_ no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206), who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.","osisRef":"Judg.19.1"},{"verseId":7019002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months.","osisRef":"Judg.19.2"},{"verseId":7019003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, _and_ to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father’s house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.","osisRef":"Judg.19.3"},{"verseId":7019004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And his father in law, the damsel’s father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.","osisRef":"Judg.19.4"},{"verseId":7019005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel’s father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.","osisRef":"Judg.19.5"},{"verseId":7019006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel’s father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.","osisRef":"Judg.19.6"},{"verseId":7019007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.","osisRef":"Judg.19.7"},{"verseId":7019008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel’s father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.","osisRef":"Judg.19.8"},{"verseId":7019009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.","osisRef":"Judg.19.9"},{"verseId":7019010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against [Jebus](/place/jebus_629), which _is_ [Jerusalem](/place/jerusalem_636); and _there_ _were_ with him two asses saddled, his concubine also _was_ with him.","osisRef":"Judg.19.10"},{"verseId":7019011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"_And_ when they _were_ by [Jebus](/place/jebus_629), the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.","osisRef":"Judg.19.11"},{"verseId":7019012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that _is_ not of the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682); we will pass over to [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466).","osisRef":"Judg.19.12"},{"verseId":7019013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466), or in [Ramah](/place/ramah_972).","osisRef":"Judg.19.13"},{"verseId":7019014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them _when_ _they_ _were_ by [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466), which _belongeth_ to [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463).","osisRef":"Judg.19.14"},{"verseId":7019015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And they turned aside thither, to go in _and_ to lodge in [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466): and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for _there_ _was_ no man that took them into his house to lodging.","osisRef":"Judg.19.15"},{"verseId":7019016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which _was_ also of mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206); and he sojourned in [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466): but the men of the place _were_ Benjamites.","osisRef":"Judg.19.16"},{"verseId":7019017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?","osisRef":"Judg.19.17"},{"verseId":7019018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And he said unto him, We _are_ passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount [Ephraim](/person/ephraim_1206); from thence _am_ I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I _am_ _now_ going to the house of the [LORD](/person/god_1324); and there _is_ no man that receiveth me to house.","osisRef":"Judg.19.18"},{"verseId":7019019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man _which_ _is_ with thy servants: _there_ _is_ no want of any thing.","osisRef":"Judg.19.19"},{"verseId":7019020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And the old man said, Peace _be_ with thee; howsoever _let_ all thy wants _lie_ upon me; only lodge not in the street.","osisRef":"Judg.19.20"},{"verseId":7019021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.","osisRef":"Judg.19.21"},{"verseId":7019022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"_Now_ as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, _and_ beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.","osisRef":"Judg.19.22"},{"verseId":7019023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, _nay_, I pray you, do not _so_ wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.","osisRef":"Judg.19.23"},{"verseId":7019024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"Behold, _here_ _is_ my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.","osisRef":"Judg.19.24"},{"verseId":7019025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto 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.","osisRef":"Judg.19.25"},{"verseId":7019026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord _was_, till it was light.","osisRef":"Judg.19.26"},{"verseId":7019027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down _at_ the door of the house, and her hands _were_ upon the threshold.","osisRef":"Judg.19.27"},{"verseId":7019028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her _up_ upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.","osisRef":"Judg.19.28"},{"verseId":7019029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, _together_ with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.19.29"},{"verseId":7019030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) came up out of the land of [Egypt](/place/egypt_362) unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak _your_ _minds_.","osisRef":"Judg.19.30"}]},{"title":"Judg 20","chapterNum":20,"osisRef":"Judg.20","verses":[{"verseId":7020001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Then all the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from [[Dan](/person/dan_973)](/place/dan_323) even to [Beer-sheba](/place/beersheba_170), with the land of [Gilead](/place/gilead_475), unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324) in [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_811).","osisRef":"Judg.20.1"},{"verseId":7020002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And the chief of all the people, _even_ of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of [God](/person/god_1324), four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.","osisRef":"Judg.20.2"},{"verseId":7020003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"(Now the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) heard that the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) were gone up to [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_811)). Then said the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682), Tell _us_, how was this wickedness?","osisRef":"Judg.20.3"},{"verseId":7020004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466) that _belongeth_ to [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463), I and my concubine, to lodge.","osisRef":"Judg.20.4"},{"verseId":7020005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And the men of [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466) rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, _and_ thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.","osisRef":"Judg.20.5"},{"verseId":7020006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"Judg.20.6"},{"verseId":7020007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Behold, ye _are_ all children of [Israel](/person/israel_682); give here your advice and counsel.","osisRef":"Judg.20.7"},{"verseId":7020008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any _of_ _us_ go to his tent, neither will we any _of_ _us_ turn into his house.","osisRef":"Judg.20.8"},{"verseId":7020009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"But now this _shall_ _be_ the thing which we will do to [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466); _we_ _will_ _go_ _up_ by lot against it;","osisRef":"Judg.20.9"},{"verseId":7020010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"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 victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466) of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463), according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.20.10"},{"verseId":7020011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.","osisRef":"Judg.20.11"},{"verseId":7020012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463), saying, What wickedness _is_ this that is done among you?","osisRef":"Judg.20.12"},{"verseId":7020013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Now therefore deliver _us_ the men, the children of Belial, which _are_ in [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466), that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682):","osisRef":"Judg.20.13"},{"verseId":7020014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"But the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) gathered themselves together out of the cities unto [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466), to go out to battle against the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682).","osisRef":"Judg.20.14"},{"verseId":7020015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466), which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.","osisRef":"Judg.20.15"},{"verseId":7020016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Among all this people _there_ _were_ seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair _breadth_, and not miss.","osisRef":"Judg.20.16"},{"verseId":7020017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"And the men of Israel, beside [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463), were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these _were_ men of war.","osisRef":"Judg.20.17"},{"verseId":7020018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) arose, and went up to the [house](/place/bethel_202) of [God](/person/god_1324), and asked counsel of [God](/person/god_1324), and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463)? And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said, [Judah](/person/judah_1751) _shall_ _go_ _up_ first.","osisRef":"Judg.20.18"},{"verseId":7020019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) rose up in the morning, and encamped against [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466).","osisRef":"Judg.20.19"},{"verseId":7020020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"And the men of Israel went out to battle against [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463); and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466).","osisRef":"Judg.20.20"},{"verseId":7020021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"And the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) came forth out of [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466), and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.","osisRef":"Judg.20.21"},{"verseId":7020022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"Judg.20.22"},{"verseId":7020023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"(And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) went up and wept before the [LORD](/person/god_1324) until even, and asked counsel of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) my brother? And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said, Go up against him).","osisRef":"Judg.20.23"},{"verseId":7020024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) came near against the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) the second day.","osisRef":"Judg.20.24"},{"verseId":7020025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"And [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) went forth against them out of [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466) the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.","osisRef":"Judg.20.25"},{"verseId":7020026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"Then all the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682), and all the people, went up, and came unto the [house](/place/bethel_202) of [God](/person/god_1324), and wept, and sat there before the [LORD](/person/god_1324), and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the [LORD](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Judg.20.26"},{"verseId":7020027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) enquired of the [LORD](/person/god_1324), (for the ark of the covenant of [God](/person/god_1324) _was_ there in those days,","osisRef":"Judg.20.27"},{"verseId":7020028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"And [Phinehas](/person/phinehas_2349), the son of [Eleazar](/person/eleazar_1062), the son of [Aaron](/person/aaron_1), stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) my brother, or shall I cease? And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.","osisRef":"Judg.20.28"},{"verseId":7020029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"And Israel set liers in wait round about [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466).","osisRef":"Judg.20.29"},{"verseId":7020030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) went up against the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) on the third day, and put themselves in array against [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466), as at other times.","osisRef":"Judg.20.30"},{"verseId":7020031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"And the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) went out against the people, _and_ were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, _and_ kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the [house](/place/bethel_202) of [God](/person/god_1324), and the other to [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466) in the field, about thirty men of Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.20.31"},{"verseId":7020032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"And the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) said, They _are_ smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.","osisRef":"Judg.20.32"},{"verseId":7020033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at [Baal-tamar](/place/baal-tamar_148): and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, _even_ out of the meadows of [Gibeah](/place/maareh-geba_746).","osisRef":"Judg.20.33"},{"verseId":7020034,"verseNum":34,"mdText":"And there came against [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466) ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil _was_ near them.","osisRef":"Judg.20.34"},{"verseId":7020035,"verseNum":35,"mdText":"And the [LORD](/person/god_1324) smote [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) before Israel: and the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.","osisRef":"Judg.20.35"},{"verseId":7020036,"verseNum":36,"mdText":"So the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466).","osisRef":"Judg.20.36"},{"verseId":7020037,"verseNum":37,"mdText":"And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466); and the liers in wait drew _themselves_ along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.","osisRef":"Judg.20.37"},{"verseId":7020038,"verseNum":38,"mdText":"Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.","osisRef":"Judg.20.38"},{"verseId":7020039,"verseNum":39,"mdText":"And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) began to smite _and_ kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as _in_ the first battle.","osisRef":"Judg.20.39"},{"verseId":7020040,"verseNum":40,"mdText":"But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.","osisRef":"Judg.20.40"},{"verseId":7020041,"verseNum":41,"mdText":"And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.","osisRef":"Judg.20.41"},{"verseId":7020042,"verseNum":42,"mdText":"Therefore they turned _their_ _backs_ before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which _came_ out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.","osisRef":"Judg.20.42"},{"verseId":7020043,"verseNum":43,"mdText":"_Thus_ they inclosed the Benjamites round about, _and_ chased them, _and_ trode them down with ease over against [Gibeah](/place/gibeah_466) toward the sunrising.","osisRef":"Judg.20.43"},{"verseId":7020044,"verseNum":44,"mdText":"And there fell of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) eighteen thousand men; all these _were_ men of valour.","osisRef":"Judg.20.44"},{"verseId":7020045,"verseNum":45,"mdText":"And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of [Rimmon](/place/rimmon_1003): and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto [Gidom](/place/gidom_471), and slew two thousand men of them.","osisRef":"Judg.20.45"},{"verseId":7020046,"verseNum":46,"mdText":"So that all which fell that day of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these _were_ men of valour.","osisRef":"Judg.20.46"},{"verseId":7020047,"verseNum":47,"mdText":"But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock [Rimmon](/place/rimmon_1003), and abode in the rock [Rimmon](/place/rimmon_1003) four months.","osisRef":"Judg.20.47"},{"verseId":7020048,"verseNum":48,"mdText":"And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463), and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of _every_ city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.","osisRef":"Judg.20.48"}]},{"title":"Judg 21","chapterNum":21,"osisRef":"Judg.21","verses":[{"verseId":7021001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Now the men of Israel had sworn in [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_811), saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) to wife.","osisRef":"Judg.21.1"},{"verseId":7021002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"And the people came to the [house](/place/bethel_202) of [God](/person/god_1324), and abode there till even before [God](/person/god_1324), and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;","osisRef":"Judg.21.2"},{"verseId":7021003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And said, O [LORD](/person/god_1324) God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?","osisRef":"Judg.21.3"},{"verseId":7021004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.","osisRef":"Judg.21.4"},{"verseId":7021005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) said, Who _is_ _there_ among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the [LORD](/person/god_1324)? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the [LORD](/person/god_1324) to [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_811), saying, He shall surely be put to death.","osisRef":"Judg.21.5"},{"verseId":7021006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) repented them for [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.","osisRef":"Judg.21.6"},{"verseId":7021007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the [LORD](/person/god_1324) that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?","osisRef":"Judg.21.7"},{"verseId":7021008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And they said, What one _is_ _there_ of the tribes of Israel that came not up to [Mizpeh](/place/mizpah_811) to the [LORD](/person/god_1324)? And, behold, there came none to the camp from [Jabesh-gilead](/place/jabesh-gilead_611) to the assembly.","osisRef":"Judg.21.8"},{"verseId":7021009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"For the people were numbered, and, behold, _there_ _were_ none of the inhabitants of [Jabesh-gilead](/place/jabesh-gilead_611) there.","osisRef":"Judg.21.9"},{"verseId":7021010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of [Jabesh-gilead](/place/jabesh-gilead_611) with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.","osisRef":"Judg.21.10"},{"verseId":7021011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"And this _is_ the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.","osisRef":"Judg.21.11"},{"verseId":7021012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"And they found among the inhabitants of [Jabesh-gilead](/place/jabesh-gilead_611) four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to [Shiloh](/place/shiloh_1081), which _is_ in the land of [[Canaan](/person/canaan_914)](/place/canaan_272).","osisRef":"Judg.21.12"},{"verseId":7021013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And the whole congregation sent _some_ to speak to the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) that _were_ in the rock [Rimmon](/place/rimmon_1003), and to call peaceably unto them.","osisRef":"Judg.21.13"},{"verseId":7021014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of [Jabesh-gilead](/place/jabesh-gilead_611): and yet so they sufficed them not.","osisRef":"Judg.21.14"},{"verseId":7021015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And the people repented them for [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463), because that the [LORD](/person/god_1324) had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.","osisRef":"Judg.21.15"},{"verseId":7021016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"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](/person/benjamin_463)?","osisRef":"Judg.21.16"},{"verseId":7021019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Then they said, Behold, _there_ _is_ a feast of the [LORD](/person/god_1324) in [Shiloh](/place/shiloh_1081) yearly _in_ _a_ _place_ which _is_ on the north side of [Beth-el](/place/bethel_202), on the east side of the highway that goeth up from [Beth-el](/place/bethel_202) to [Shechem](/place/shechem_1069), and on the south of [Lebonah](/place/lebonah_724).","osisRef":"Judg.21.19"},{"verseId":7021020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"Therefore they commanded the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463), saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;","osisRef":"Judg.21.20"},{"verseId":7021021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"And see, and, behold, if the daughters of [Shiloh](/place/shiloh_1081) 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](/place/shiloh_1081), and go to the land of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463).","osisRef":"Judg.21.21"},{"verseId":7021022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, _that_ ye should be guilty.","osisRef":"Judg.21.22"},{"verseId":7021023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"And the children of [Benjamin](/person/benjamin_463) did so, and took _them_ wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.","osisRef":"Judg.21.23"},{"verseId":7021024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"And the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.","osisRef":"Judg.21.24"}]}]}]}},"pageContext":{"lookupName":"judg"}}}