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1:1	NowAnd it came to pass after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked of the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
1:4	And Judah went up; and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slewsmote of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
1:5	And they found AdonibezekAdoni bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slewsmote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
1:6	But AdonibezekAdoni bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
1:7	And AdonibezekAdoni bezek 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 hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died there.
1:8	NowAnd the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and hadtook taken it, and smittensmote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
1:9	And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountainhill country, and in the southSouth, and in the valleylowland.
1:10	And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: now the name of Hebron beforebeforetime was KirjatharbaKiriath arba: and they slewsmote Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
1:11	And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir:. andNow the name of Debir beforebeforetime was Kirjathsepher:Kiriath sepher.
1:12	And Caleb said, He that smiteth KirjathsepherKiriath sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
1:14	And it came to pass, when she came tounto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted down from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wiltwouldest thou?
1:15	And she said unto him, Give me a blessing:; for that thou hast givenset me ain souththe land; of the South, give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
1:16	And the children of the Kenite, Moses fatherbrother in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which liethis in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt amongwith the people.
1:17	And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slewsmote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.
1:18	Also Judah took Gaza with the coastborder thereof, and AskelonAshkelon with the coastborder thereof, and Ekron with the coastborder thereof.
1:19	And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountainhill country; butfor he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
1:20	And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses saidhad spoken: and he expelleddrave out thence the three sons of Anak.
1:21	And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem;: but the Jebusites dwelldwelt with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem, unto this day.
1:22	And the house of Joseph, they also went up against BethelBeth el: and the Lord was with them.
1:23	And the house of Joseph sent to descryspy Bethelout Beth el. Now the name of the city beforebeforetime was Luz.
1:24	And the spieswatchers 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 shewdeal kindly with thee mercy.
1:25	And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, and they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man go and all his family.
1:27	NeitherAnd Manasseh did Manassehnot drive out the inhabitants of BethsheanBeth shean and her towns, nor of Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
1:28	And it came to pass, when Israel was waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tributetaskwork, and did not utterly drive them out.
1:29	NeitherAnd did Ephraim drivedrave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
1:30	NeitherZebulun diddrave Zebulunnot drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributariestributary.
1:31	NeitherAsher diddrave Ashernot drive out the inhabitants of AcchoAcco, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
1:32	Butbut the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
1:33	NeitherNaphtali diddrave Naphtalinot drive out the inhabitants of BethshemeshBeth shemesh, nor the inhabitants of BethanathBeth anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of BethshemeshBeth shemesh and of BethanathBeth anath became tributariestributary unto them.
1:34	And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountainhill country: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
1:35	Butbut the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributariestributary.
1:36	And the coastborder of the Amorites was from the goingascent upof to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
2:1	And anthe angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim,. andAnd he said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.:
2:2	Andand ye shall make no leaguecovenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throwbreak down their altars: but ye have not obeyedhearkened unto my voice: why have ye done this?
2:6	AndNow when Joshua had letsent the people goaway, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
2:7	And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great workswork of the Lord, that he didhad wrought for Israel.
2:9	And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in TimnathheresTimnath heres, in the mounthill country of Ephraim, on the north side of the hillmountain of Gaash.
2:10	And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the workswork which he had donewrought for Israel.
2:11	And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baalim:
2:12	Andand they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoplepeoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them,: and they provoked the Lord to anger.
2:13	And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
2:14	And the anger of the Lord was hotkindled 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.
2:15	Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had saidspoken, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: and they were greatlysore distressed.
2:16	NeverthelessAnd the Lord raised up judges, which deliveredsaved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
2:17	And yet they wouldhearkened not hearken unto their judges, butfor they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way whichwherein their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.
2:18	And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and deliveredsaved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groaningsgroaning by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
2:19	AndBut it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returnedturned back, and corrupteddealt themselves more corruptly 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.
2:20	And the anger of the Lord was hotkindled against Israel; and he said, Because that this peoplenation hathhave transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
2:22	Thatthat throughby them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
2:23	ThereforeSo the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
3:1	Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
3:2	Onlyonly that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforebeforetime knew nothing thereof;
3:3	Namelynamely, the five Lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the SidoniansZidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount BaalhermonBaal hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
3:4	And they were for to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
3:5	And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,; Hittitesthe Hittite, and Amoritesthe Amorite, and Perizzitesthe Perizzite, and Hivitesthe Hivite, and Jebusitesthe Jebusite:
3:6	Andand they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
3:7	And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served the Baalim and the grovesAsheroth.
3:8	Therefore the anger of the Lord was hotkindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of ChushanrishathaimCushan rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served ChushanrishathaimCushan rishathaim eight years.
3:9	And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverersaviour to the children of Israel, who deliveredsaved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Calebs younger brother.
3:10	And the Spiritspirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel,; and he went out to war:, and the Lord delivered ChushanrishathaimCushan rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand;: and his hand prevailed against ChushanrishathaimCushan rishathaim.
3:12	And the children of Israel again did that which was evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
3:13	And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek,; and went and smote Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
3:14	SoAnd the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
3:15	But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverersaviour, Ehud the son of Gera, athe Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present by him unto Eglon the king of Moab.
3:16	ButAnd Ehud made him a daggersword which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he didgirded gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
3:17	And he broughtoffered the present unto Eglon king of Moab: andnow Eglon was a very fat man.
3:18	And when he had made an end toof offeroffering the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
3:19	But he himself turned againback from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king:. whoAnd he said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
3:20	And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in ahis summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
3:21	And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the daggersword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
3:22	Andand the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, sofor that he coulddrew not draw the daggersword out of his belly; and theit dirt came out behind.
3:23	Then Ehud went forth throughinto the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
3:24	WhenNow when he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw, thatand, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked,; and they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
3:25	And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took athe key, and opened them: and, behold, their Lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
3:26	And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto SeirathSeirah.
3:27	And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountainhill country of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mounthill country, and he before them.
3:28	And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan towardagainst Moabthe Moabites, and suffered not a man to pass over.
3:29	And they slewsmote of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, allevery lusty man, and allevery menman of valour; and there escaped not a man.
3:31	And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slewsmote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also deliveredsaved Israel.
4:1	And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.
4:4	AndNow Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of LapidothLappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
4:5	And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and BethelBeth el in mountthe hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgmentjudgement.
4:6	AndAnds she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of KedeshnaphtaliKedesh naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded, saying, Go and draw towardunto mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
4:8	And Barak 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.
4:10	And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and hethere went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
4:11	Now Heber the Kenite, whichhad wassevered ofhimself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the fatherbrother in law of Moses, and had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent untoas far as the plainoak ofin ZaanaimZaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
4:12	And they shewedtold Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
4:13	And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, unto the river of Kishon.
4:15	And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; soand that Sisera lighted down offfrom his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
4:16	But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell uponby the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
4:18	And Jael went out to meet Sisera, 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, and she covered him with a mantlerug.
4:20	AgainAnd he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquireinquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
4:21	Then Jael Hebers wife took a nailtent of the tentpin, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nailpin into his temples, and fastened it pierced through into the ground:; for he was fastin asleepa anddeep weary.sleep; Soso he swooned and died.
4:22	And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came intounto her; tentand, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nailtent pin was in his temples.
4:24	And the hand of the children of Israel prospered,prevailed more and prevailedmore against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
5:2	PraiseFor yethat the Lordleaders fortook the avenginglead ofin Israel, whenfor that the people offered themselves willingly, offeredbless themselvesye the Lord.
5:3	Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.
5:4	Lord, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens also dropped, yea, the clouds also dropped water.
5:5	The mountains meltedflowed fromdown beforeat the presence of the Lord, even thatyon Sinai fromat beforethe presence of the Lord, the God of Israel.
5:7	The inhabitantsrulers ofceased thein villages ceasedIsrael, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
5:9	My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people.: Blessbless ye the Lord.
5:10	SpeakTell of it, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit inon judgmentrich carpets, and ye that walk by the way.
5:11	TheyFar that are delivered from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villagesrule in Israel:. thenThen shall the people of the Lord gowent down to the gates.
5:12	Awake, awake, Deborah:; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
5:13	Then hecame madedown hima thatremnant remainethof have dominion over the nobles amongand the people:; the Lord madecame medown havefor dominionme overagainst the mighty.
5:14	Out of Ephraim wascame theredown athey whose root ofis themin against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy peoplepeoples; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the penmarshals of the writerstaff.
5:15	And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; evenas was Issachar, andso alsowas Barak:; heinto wasthe sentvalley onthey footrushed intoforth theat valleyhis feet. ForBy the divisionswatercourses of Reuben there were great thoughtsresolves of heart.
5:16	Why abodestsatest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatingspipings offor the flocks? ForAt the divisionswatercourses of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
5:17	Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and Dan, why did Danhe remain in ships? Asher continuedsat onstill at the haven of the sea shore, and abode inby his breachescreeks.
5:18	Zebulun andwas Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, inand Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.
5:19	The kings came and fought,; then fought the kings of Canaan; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo;Meggido: they took no gain of money.
5:20	They fought from heaven;, the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
5:21	The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thoumarch haston troddenwith down strength.
5:22	Then weredid the horsehoofs brokenstamp by thereason means of the pransings, the pransings of their mightystrong ones.
5:24	Blessed above women shall Jael be, the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
5:25	He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forthhim butter in a Lordly dish.
5:26	She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmens hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote offthrough his head, whenyea, she had pierced and strickenstruck through his temples.
5:27	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.
5:28	TheThrough motherthe ofwindow Siserashe looked outforth, atand a windowcried, andthe mother of Sisera cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
5:30	Have they not sped?found, have they not divided the prey;spoil? toa everydamsel, mantwo adamsels damselto orevery twoman; to Sisera a preyspoil of divers colours, a preyspoil of divers colours of needleworkembroidery, of divers colours of needleworkembroidery on both sides, meeton for the necks of them that take the spoil?
6:1	And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
6:2	And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of theMidian Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strong holds.
6:3	And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east,; even they came up against them;
6:4	Andand they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance forin Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
6:5	For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came in as grasshopperslocusts for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they enteredcame into the land to destroy it.
6:6	And Israel was greatlybrought impoverishedvery low because of the MidianitesMidian; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.
6:7	And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord because of the MidianitesMidian,
6:8	Thatthat the Lord sent a prophet unto the children of Israel,: whichand he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
6:9	Andand 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;
6:10	Andand I said unto you, I am the Lord your God; fearye shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyedhearkened unto my voice.
6:11	And therethe came an angel of the Lord, came and sat under anthe oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshedwas beating out wheat byin the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
6:13	And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracleswondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsakencast us off, and delivered us into the handshand of the MidianitesMidian.
6:14	And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the MidianitesMidian: have not I sent thee?
6:15	And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poorthe poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fathers house.
6:17	And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me.
6:18	Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and setlay it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
6:19	And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flourmeal: 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.
6:21	Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rosewent up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes.; Thenand the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
6:22	And when Gideon perceivedsaw that he was anthe angel of the Lord,; and Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God!GOD forforasmuch becauseas I have seen anthe angel of the Lord face to face.
6:24	Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it JehovahshalomJehovah shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
6:25	And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy fathers young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the groveAsherah that is by it:
6:26	Andand build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rockstrong hold, in the orderedorderly placemanner, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrificeoffering with the wood of the groveAsherah which thou shalt cut down.
6:27	Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had saidspoken unto him: and so it wascame to pass, because he feared his fathers household, and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
6:28	And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was castbroken down, and the groveAsherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
6:29	And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquiredinquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.
6:30	Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath castbroken down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the groveAsherah that was by it.
6:31	And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? or 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 castbroken down his altar.
6:32	Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrownbroken down his altar.
6:33	Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east wereassembled gatheredthemselves together,; and wentthey passed over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
6:34	But the Spiritspirit of the Lord came upon Gideon,; and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together after him.
6:35	And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; whoand they also waswere gathered together after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
6:36	And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast saidspoken,
6:37	Beholdbehold, I will put a fleece of wool inon the threshing floor; and if thethere be dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth besideground, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast saidspoken.
6:38	And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrustpressed the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowlbowlful full of water.
6:39	And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hotkindled 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.
7:1	Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the wellspring of Harod: soand that the hostcamp of theMidian Midianiteswas were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
7:2	And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their handshand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
7:3	Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraidtrembling, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
7:6	And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, werewas three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
7:7	And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
7:8	So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the restmen of Israel every man unto his tent, andbut retained thosethe three hundred men: and the hostcamp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
7:9	And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down untointo the hostcamp; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
7:10	But if thou fear to go down, go thou with PhurahPurah thy servant down to the hostcamp:
7:11	Andand thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down untointo the hostcamp. Then went he down with PhurahPurah his servant unto the outsideoutermost part of the armed men that were in the hostcamp.
7:12	And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshopperslocusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand bywhich is upon the sea sideshore for multitude.
7:13	And when Gideon 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 hostcamp of Midian, and came unto athe tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturnedturned it upside down, that the tent lay along.
7:14	And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand God hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
7:15	And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped,; and he returned into the hostcamp of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
7:16	And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put ainto trumpetthe inhands everyof mansall handof them trumpets, withand empty pitchers, andwith lampstorches within the pitchers.
7:17	And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outsideoutermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
7:18	When I blow withthe a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, TheFor sword of the Lord, and offor Gideon.
7:19	So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outsideoutermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch;, andwhen they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
7:20	And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lampstorches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
7:21	And they stood every man in his place round about the camp;: and all the host ran,; and criedthey shouted, and fledput them to flight.
7:22	And they blew the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every mans sword against his fellow, evenand throughoutagainst all the host: and the host fled toas Bethshittahfar inas ZererathBeth shittah toward Zererah, andas tofar as the border of AbelmeholahAbel meholah, untoby Tabbath.
7:23	And the men of Israel were gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the MidianitesMidian.
7:24	And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mountthe hill country of Ephraim, saying, comeCome down against the MidianitesMidian, and take before them the waters, untoas Bethbarahfar andas Beth barah, even Jordan. ThenSo all the men of Ephraim were gathered themselves together, and took the waters untoas Bethbarahfar andas Beth barah, even Jordan.
7:25	And they took the two princes of the MidianitesMidian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb uponat the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian,: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon onbeyond the other side Jordan.
8:1	And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the MidianitesMidian? And they did chide with him sharply.
8:2	And he said unto them, What have I now done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
8:3	God hath delivered into your handshand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
8:4	And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
8:5	And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
8:7	And Gideon said,: Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
8:8	And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewisein like manner: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.
8:10	Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hostshost of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
8:12	And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled,; and he pursued after them,; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
8:13	And Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle beforefrom the sunascent wasof up,Heres.
8:14	And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquiredinquired of him: and he described untofor him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, evenseventy threescore and seventeenseven men.
8:15	And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, withconcerning whom ye did upbraidtaunt me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?
8:17	And he beatbrake down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
8:19	And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the Lord liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
8:21	Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornamentscrescents that were on their camels necks.
8:22	Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy sons son also: for thou hast deliveredsaved us fromout of the hand of Midian.
8:24	And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his preyspoil. For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.
8:25	And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his preyspoil.
8:26	And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornamentsthe crescents, and collarsthe pendants, and the purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels necks.
8:27	And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it there: whichand thingit became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
8:28	ThusSo Midian was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, soand that they lifted up their heads no more. And the countryland washad inrest quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
8:31	And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whoseand name he called his name Abimelech.
8:33	And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after the Baalim, and made BaalberithBaal berith their god.
8:34	And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the handshand of all their enemies on every side:
8:35	Neitherneither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely,who is Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
9:1	And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mothers brethren, and communedspake with them, and with all the family of the house of his mothers father, saying,
9:2	Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reignrule over you, or that one reignrule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
9:4	And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of BaalberithBaal berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light personsfellows, which followed him.
9:5	And he went unto his fathers house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstandingbut yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
9:6	And all the men of Shechem gatheredassembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plainoak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
9:9	But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to bewave promotedto and fro over the trees?
9:11	But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsakeleave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to bewave promotedto and fro over the trees?
9:12	ThenAnd said the trees said unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
9:13	And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to bewave promotedto and fro over the trees?
9:16	Now therefore, if ye have donedealt truly and sincerelyuprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;
9:17	Forfor my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
9:18	Andand ye are risen up against my fathers house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;
9:19	Ifif ye then have dealt truly and sincerelyuprightly with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:
9:20	Butbut if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
9:22	WhenAnd Abimelech hadwas reignedprince over Israel three years over Israel,.
9:23	ThenAnd God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
9:24	Thatthat the crueltyviolence done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them;, and upon the men of Shechem, which aidedstrengthened himhis inhands theto killingslay of his brethren.
9:25	And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him inon the toptops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
9:26	And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidencetrust in him.
9:27	And they went out into the fieldsfield, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and madeheld merryfestival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
9:28	And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: forbut why should we serve him?
9:31	And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privilycraftily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren beare come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortifyconstrain the city to take part against thee.
9:32	Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
9:33	Andand 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.
9:35	And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lyingthe in waitambushment.
9:36	And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the toptops of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
9:37	And Gaal spake again, and said, See, there come people down by the middle of the land, and anotherone company comecometh along by the plainway of the oak of Meonenim.
9:38	Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewiththat thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out now, I pray now, and fight with them.
9:40	And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and manythere werefell overthrownmany and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.
9:41	And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrustdrave out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
9:43	And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field,; and he looked, and, behold, the people werecame come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.
9:44	And Abimelech, and the companycompanies that waswere with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ranrushed upon all the people that were in the fieldsfield, and slewsmote them.
9:45	And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein,: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
9:46	And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thatthereof, they entered into anthe hold of the house of theEl god Berithberith.
9:47	And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
9:48	And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder,: and he said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
9:51	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 itthemselves to themin, and gat them up to the toproof of the tower.
9:53	And a certain woman cast aan pieceupper of a millstone upon Abimelechs head, and all to brake his skull.
9:54	Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slaykill me, that men say not of me, A womenwoman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
9:56	Thus God renderedrequited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
9:57	Andand all the evilwickedness of the men of Shechem did God renderrequite upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
10:1	And after Abimelech there arose to defendsave Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mountthe hill country of Ephraim.
10:3	And after him arose Jair, athe Gileadite,; and he judged Israel twenty and two years.
10:4	And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called HavothjairHavvoth jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
10:5	And Jair died, and was buried in CamonKamon.
10:6	And the children of Israel again did that which was evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines,; and they forsook the Lord, and served him not him.
10:7	And the anger of the Lord was hotkindled against Israel, and he sold them into the handshand of the Philistines, and into the handshand of the children of Ammon.
10:8	And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years, oppressed they all the children of Israel that were onbeyond the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
10:9	MoreoverAnd the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
10:10	And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, botheven because we have forsaken our God, and alsohave served the Baalim.
10:11	And the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliversave you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
10:12	The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried tounto me, and I deliveredsaved you out of their hand.
10:13	Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliversave you no more.
10:14	Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliversave you in the time of your tribulationdistress.
10:15	And the children of Israel said unto the Lord, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; only deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
10:17	Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in MizpehMizpah.
10:18	And the people, andthe princes of Gilead, 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.
11:2	And Gileads wife bare him sons; and when his wifes sons grew up, and they thrustdrave out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our fathers house; for thou art the son of aanother strange woman.
11:3	Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain menfellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.
11:4	And it came to pass inafter processa of timewhile, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
11:6	Andand they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captainchief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
11:7	And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expeldrive me out of my fathers house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
11:8	And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore are we turnturned again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight againstwith the children of Ammon, and thou shalt be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
11:9	And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight againstwith the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
11:10	And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord shall be witness between us,; ifsurely weaccording doto notthy word so accordingwill towe thy wordsdo.
11:11	Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captainchief over them: and Jephthah utteredspake all his words before the Lord in MizpehMizpah.
11:12	And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come againstunto me to fight inagainst my land?
11:13	And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when theyhe came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
11:15	Andand he said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah,: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
11:16	Butbut when Israelthey came up from Egypt, and Israel walked through the wilderness unto the Red seaSea, and came to Kadesh;
11:17	Thenthen Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom wouldhearkened not hearken thereto. And in like manner theyhe sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
11:18	Then theyhe wentwalked along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they pitched on the other side of Arnon,; but they came not within the border of Moab:, for Arnon was the border of Moab.
11:19	And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land intounto my place.
11:20	But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coastborder: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
11:21	And the Lord, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon 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.
11:22	And they possessed all the coastsborder of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
11:23	So now the Lord, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess itthem?
11:24	Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shallhath drivedispossessed out from before us, them will we possess.
11:25	And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,?
11:26	While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that beare along by the coastsside of Arnon, three hundred years?; whywherefore therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
11:27	Wherefore I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the Lord, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
11:28	Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
11:29	Then the Spiritspirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
11:30	And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shaltwilt withoutindeed fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine handshand,
11:31	Thenthen 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, it shall surely be the LordsLordS, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
11:32	So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his handshand.
11:33	And he smote them from Aroer, evenuntil till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto theAbel plain of the vineyardscheramim, with a very great slaughter. ThusSo the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
11:34	And Jephthah came to MizpehMizpah 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.
11:36	And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord,; do tounto me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
11:37	And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may godepart up and go down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellowscompanions.
11:38	And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she wentdeparted, withshe and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
11:39	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 knewhad nonot known man. And it was a custom in Israel,
11:40	Thatthat the daughters of Israel went yearly to lamentcelebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
12:1	And the men of Ephraim were gathered themselves together, and wentpassed northward,; and they said unto Jephthah, 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.
12:2	And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye deliveredsaved me not out of their handshand.
12:3	And when I saw that ye deliveredsaved me not, I put my life in my handshand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
12:4	Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim, amongye Gileadites, in the Ephraimitesmidst of Ephraim, and amongin the Manassitesmidst of Manasseh.
12:5	And the Gileadites took the passagesfords of Jordan beforeagainst the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when thoseany Ephraimitesof whichthe werefugitives escapedof Ephraim said, Let me go over;, that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
12:6	Thenthen said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth:; and he said Sibboleth:; for he could not frame to pronounce it right.; Thenthen they tooklaid hold on him, and slew him at the passagesfords of Jordan: and there fell at that time of theEphraim Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
12:8	And after him Ibzan of BethlehemBeth lehem judged Israel.
12:9	And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
12:10	ThenAnd Ibzan died Ibzan, and was buried at BethlehemBeth lehem.
12:11	And after him Elon, athe Zebulonite,Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
12:12	And Elon the ZebuloniteZebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the countryland of Zebulun.
12:13	And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, athe Pirathonite, judged Israel.
12:14	And he had forty sons and thirty nephewssons sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
12:15	And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mounthill country of the Amalekites.
13:1	And the children of Israel again did that which was evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
13:4	Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink notno wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
13:5	Forfor, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come onupon his head: for the child shall be a NazariteNazirite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliversave Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
13:6	Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of anthe angel of God, very terrible:; butand I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
13:7	Butbut he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neitherand eat not any unclean thing: for the child shall be a NazariteNazirite tounto God from the womb to the day of his death.
13:8	Then Manoah intreatedentreated the Lord, and said, OOh my Lord, I pray thee, let the man of God whichwhom thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do untoonto the child that shall be born.
13:10	And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewedtold her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.
13:12	And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass.: Howwhat shall webe orderthe manner of the child, and howwhat shall webe dohis unto himwork?
13:14	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.
13:15	And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee, untilthat we shallmay havemake made ready a kid for thee.
13:16	And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offermake ready a burnt offering, thou must offer it untoonto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was anthe angel of the Lord.
13:17	And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayingswords come to pass we may do thee honour?
13:18	And the angel of the Lord said unto him, WhyWherefore askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secretwonderful?
13:19	So Manoah took athe kid with athe meatmeal offering, and offered it upon athe rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wonderously;wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
13:20	For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar.: Andand Manoah and his wife looked on; it, and they fell on their faces to the ground.
13:21	But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah andor to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was anthe angel of the Lord.
13:23	But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meatmeal offering at our handshand, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
13:25	And the Spiritspirit of the Lord began to move him at times in theMahaneh campdan, of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
14:1	And Samson went down to TimnathTimnah, and saw a woman in TimnathTimnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
14:2	And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in TimnathTimnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
14:4	But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord,; thatfor he sought an occasion against the Philistines:. forNow at that time the Philistines had dominionrule over Israel.
14:5	Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to TimnathTimnah, and came to the vineyards of TimnathTimnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
14:6	And the Spiritspirit of the Lord 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.
14:8	And after a timewhile 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 carcasebody of the lion, and honey.
14:9	And he took thereofit ininto his hands, and went on, eating as he went, and he came to his father and mother, and he gave unto them, and they did eat: but he told them not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcasebody of the lion.
14:10	SoAnd his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
14:12	And Samson said unto them, ILet willme 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 sheetslinen garments and thirty changechanges of garmentsraiment:
14:13	Butbut if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheetslinen garments and thirty changechanges of garmentsraiment. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.
14:14	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 expounddeclare the riddle.
14:15	And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samsons wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy fathers house with fire: have ye called us to takeimpoverish that we haveus? is it not so?
14:17	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 laypressed him sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
14:18	And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? Andand what is stronger than a lion? andAnd he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
14:19	And the Spiritspirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slewsmote thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave changethe changes of garmentsraiment unto them whichthat expoundeddeclared the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his fathers house.
15:1	But it came to pass withinafter a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson 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.
15:3	And Samson said concerningunto them, NowThis time shall I be more blameless thanin regard of the Philistines, thoughwhen I do them a displeasuremischief.
15:4	And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.
15:5	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, withand also the vineyards and olivesoliveyards.
15:6	Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answeredsaid, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he hadhath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
15:7	And Samson said unto them, ThoughIf ye havedo doneafter this manner, yetsurely I will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
15:8	And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the topcleft of the rock of Etam.
15:10	And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answeredsaid, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
15:11	Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the topcleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
15:13	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 cordsropes, and brought him up from the rock.
15:14	AndWhen when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted againstas they met him: and the Spiritspirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cordsropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands looseddropped from off his hands.
15:15	And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slewsmote a thousand men therewith.
15:16	And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawjawbone of an ass have I slainsmitten a thousand men.
15:17	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 Ramathlehiwas called Ramath lehi.
15:18	And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance intoby the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?.
15:19	But God clave anthe hollow place that wasis in the jawLehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkorewas called En hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.
16:1	ThenAnd Samson went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
16:2	And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson 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, InLet thebe till morning light, whenthen it is day, we shallwill kill him.
16:3	And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and tooklaid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and wentplucked awaythem with themup, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of anthe hillmountain that is before Hebron.
16:5	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.
16:7	And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withswithes that were never dried, then shall I bebecome weak, and be as another man.
16:8	Then the Lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withswithes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
16:9	Now thereshe werehad menliers lying in wait, abiding with her in the inner chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withswithes, as a threadstring of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
16:11	And he said unto her, If they only bind me fast with new ropes thatwherewith neverno werework occupiedhath been done, then shall I bebecome weak, and be as another man.
16:12	So Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And therethe were liers in wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
16:14	And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and wentplucked away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
16:16	And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;.
16:17	ThatAnd he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a NazariteNazirite unto God from my mothers womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
16:18	And when Delilah 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 shewedtold me all his heart. Then the Lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought the money in their hand.
16:19	And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and sheshaved caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
16:20	And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. AndBut he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.
16:21	ButAnd the Philistines tooklaid hold on him, and put out his eyes,; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
16:23	ThenAnd the Lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
16:24	And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our handshand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slewhath slain many of us.
16:25	And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made sport before them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
16:26	Andand Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standethresteth, that I may lean upon them.
16:28	And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God,GOD remember member me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
16:29	And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stoodrested, and onleaned whichupon it was borne upthem, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
17:1	And there was a man of mountthe hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
17:2	And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekelspieces of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedstdidst utter a curse, and spakestdidst of also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thoumy son of the Lord, my son.
17:3	And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekelspieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, I hadverily whollydedicate dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
17:4	YetAnd when he restored the money unto his mother;, and his mother took two hundred shekelspieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and theyit werewas in the house of Micah.
17:5	And the man Micah had an house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
17:6	In those days there was no king in Israel,: but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
17:7	And there was a young man out of BethlehemjudahBeth lehem judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
17:8	And the man departed out of the city, fromout Bethlehemjudahof Beth lehem judah, to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mountthe hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
17:9	And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of BethlehemjudahBeth lehem judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
17:10	And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekelspieces of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
17:12	And Micah consecrated the Levite;, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
18:1	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.
18:2	And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coastswhole number, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: whoand when they came to mountthe hill country of Ephraim, tounto the house of Micah, theyand lodged there.
18:3	When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned inaside thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makestdoest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
18:4	And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealethhath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest.
18:7	Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt carelessin security, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; andfor there was nonone magistrate in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in any thing;, and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no businessdealings with any man.
18:9	And they said, Arise, thatand welet mayus go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothfulslofthful to go, and to enter in to possess the land.
18:10	When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and tothe aland is large land: for God hath given it into your handshand; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
18:11	And there wentset forth from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointedgirt with weapons of war.
18:12	And they went up, and pitchedencamped in KirjathjearimKiriath jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place MahanehdanMahaneh dan unto this day: behold, it is behind KirjathjearimKirjath jearim.
18:13	And they passed thence unto mountthe hill country of Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
18:15	And they turned thitherwardaside thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and salutedasked him of his welfare.
18:16	And the six hundred men appointedgirt with their weapons of war, whichwho were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
18:17	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 inby the entering of the gate with the six hundred men thatgirt were appointed with weapons of war.
18:18	And when these went into Micahs house, and fetched the carvedgraven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image., Then said the priest said unto them, What do ye?
18:19	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 thatto thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
18:21	So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriagegoods before them.
18:22	AndWhen when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micahs house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
18:24	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 whathow isthen thissay that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
18:25	And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows runfall upon theeyou, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.
18:27	And they took thethat things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure:, and they smote them with the edge of the sword,; and they burnt the city with fire.
18:28	And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no businessdealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by BethrehobBeth rehob. And they built athe city, and dwelt therein.
18:30	And the children of Dan set up for themselves the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of ManassehMoses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Danthe Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
18:31	AndSo they set them up Micahs graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
19:1	And it came to pass in thosethese days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of mountthe hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of BethlehemjudahBeth lehem judah.
19:2	And his concubine played the whoreharlot against him, and went away from him unto her fathers house to BethlehemjudahBeth lehem judah, and was there the space of four whole months.
19:3	And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendlykindly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her fathers house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
19:5	And it came to pass on the fourth day, whenthat they arose early in the morning, thatand he rose up to depart: and the damsels father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye shall go your way.
19:6	AndSo they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together: forand the damsels father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
19:7	And when the man rose up to depart,; but his father in law urged him:, thereforeand he lodged there again.
19:8	And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the damsels father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee., Andand theytarry tarriedye until afternoon,the day declineth; and they did eat, both of them.
19:9	And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsels 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 totomorrow morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
19:10	But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, whichthe same is Jerusalem;: and there were with him twoa couple of asses saddled,; his concubine also was with him.
19:11	AndWhen when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn inaside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
19:12	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; but we will pass over to Gibeah.
19:13	And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places; toand lodgewe allwill night,lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
19:14	AndSo they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them whennear theyto were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
19:15	And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, heand sat him down in athe street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodginglodge.
19:16	And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even,; whichnow the man was alsoof the hill country of mount Ephraim;, and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
19:17	And when he had lifted up his eyes, heand saw athe wayfaring man in the street of the city:; and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
19:18	And he said unto him, We are passing from BethlehemjudahBeth towardlehem judah unto the farther side of mountthe hill country of Ephraim; from thence am I:, and I went to Bethlehemjudah,Beth butlehem judah: and I am now going to the house of the Lord; and there is no man that receivethtaketh me tointo his house.
19:20	And the old man said, Peace be withunto thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
19:21	So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses fodder: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
19:22	NowAs as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, andbeating beat at the door,; and they 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.
19:23	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.
19:24	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 soany vilesuch a thingfolly.
19:25	But the men would not hearken to him: so the man tooklaid hold on 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.
19:26	Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the mans house where her Lord was, till it was light.
19:27	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, andwith her hands were upon the threshold.
19:28	And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going.; Butbut none answered.: Thenthen thehe man took her up upon anthe ass,; and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
19:29	And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, togetherlimb withby her boneslimb, into twelve pieces, and sent her intothroughout all the coastsborders of Israel.
19:30	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 came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advicecounsel, and speak your minds.
20:1	Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gatheredassembled together as one man, from Dan even to BeershebaBeer sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord inat MizpehMizpah.
20:2	And the chiefchiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
20:3	Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to MizpehMizpah. ThenAnd said the children of Israel said, Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?
20:4	And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slainmurdered, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
20:5	And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night,; andme they thought to have slain, me: and my concubine have they forced, thatand she is dead.
20:7	Behold, ye are all children of Israel;, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
20:8	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 intounto his house.
20:9	But now this shallis be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up against it by lot against it;
20:10	Andand 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 of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
20:12	And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is donecome to pass among you?
20:13	Now therefore deliver usup the men, the childrensons of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
20:14	ButAnd the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
20:15	And the children of Benjamin were numbered aton that timeday out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besidebesides the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
20:18	And the children of Israel arose, and went up to theBeth house of Godel, and asked counsel of God,; and they said, WhichWho of us shall go up for us first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first.
20:20	And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel putset themselvesthe battle in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
20:21	And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.
20:22	And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set theirthe battle again in array in the place where they putset themselves in array the first day.
20:23	And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until even,; and they asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I goagain updraw againnigh to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.
20:26	Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto theBeth house of Godel, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until even,; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
20:27	And the children of Israel enquiredasked of the Lord, for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
20:28	Andand Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days, saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up; for totomorrow morrow I will deliver themhim into thine hand.
20:29	And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah round about Gibeah.
20:30	And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and putset themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
20:31	And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to theBeth house of Godel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
20:32	And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us fleerise, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.
20:33	And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and putset themselves in array at BaaltamarBaal tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel camebrake forth out of their placesplace, even out of theMaareh meadows of Gibeahgeba.
20:34	And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was nearclose upon them.
20:35	And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of theBenjamin Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
20:36	So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the BenjamitesBenjamin, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set besideagainst Gibeah.
20:38	Now therethe was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait was, that they should make a great flamecloud withof smoke rise up out of the city.
20:39	And when the men of Israel retiredturned in the battle, and Benjamin 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..:
20:40	But when the flamecloud began to arise up out of the city within a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flamewhole of the city ascendedwent up in smoke to heaven.
20:41	And when the men of Israel turned again, and the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
20:42	Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtookfollowed hard after them; and themthey which came out of the cities they destroyed them in the midst of themthereof.
20:43	ThusThey theyenclosed inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down withat easetheir resting place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
20:45	And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursuedfollowed hard after them unto Gidom, and slewsmote of them two thousand men of them.
20:47	But six hundred men turned and fled totoward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.
20:48	And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, asboth well the menentire of every city, asand the beast,cattle and all that camethey to handfound: alsomoreover they set on fire all the cities thatwhich they camefound tothey set on fire.
21:1	Now the men of Israel had sworn in MizpehMizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
21:2	And the people came to theBeth house of Godel, and abodesat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;.
21:3	And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be totoday day one tribe lacking in Israel?
21:5	And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up within the congregationassembly unto the Lord? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up tounto the Lord to MizpehMizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
21:8	And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up tounto Mizpehthe Lord to the LordMizpah? And, behold, there came none to the camp from JabeshgileadJabesh gilead to the assembly.
21:9	For when the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of JabeshgileadJabesh gilead there.
21:10	And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of JabeshgileadJabesh gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the childrenlittle ones.
21:11	And this is the thing that ye shall do,; Yeye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
21:12	And they found among the inhabitants of JabeshgileadJabesh gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known no man by lying with any malehim: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
21:13	And the whole congregation sent someand tospake speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and toproclaimed callpeace peaceably unto them.
21:14	And Benjamin camereturned again at that time; and they gave them wivesthe women which they had saved alive of the women of JabeshgileadJabesh gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
21:17	And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that beare escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyedblotted out offrom Israel.
21:18	Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel havehad sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
21:19	ThenAnd they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord infrom Shilohyear yearlyto year in aShiloh, place which is on the north side of BethelBeth el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from BethelBeth el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
21:20	ThereforeAnd they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
21:21	Andand see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
21:22	And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, BeGrant favourable unto them forgraciously ourunto sakesus: because we reservedtook not tofor each man of them his wife in the warbattle: forneither ye did notye give them unto them; atelse thiswould time, that ye shouldnow be guilty.
21:23	And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caughtcarried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repairedbuilt the cities, and dwelt in them.