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1:2	AndThe the Lord said, Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.
1:4	And Judah went up, and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands;, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek.
1:5	AndThey they found Adoni bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
1:7	And Adoni bezek said, Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to gather up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me. So they brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.
1:9	AndAfterward afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country and in the Negev and in the lowland.
1:13	And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Calebs younger brother, captured it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for a wife.
1:15	AndShe she said to him, Give me a blessing, since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me also springs of water. So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
1:16	AndThe the descendants of the Kenite, Moses father in law, went up from the city of palms with the sons of Judah, to the wilderness of Judah which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
1:23	AndThe the house of Joseph spied out Bethel now the name of the city was formerly Luz.
1:24	AndThe the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, Please show us the entrance to the city and we will treat you kindly.
1:26	AndThe the man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city and named it Luz which is its name to this day.
1:28	AndIt it came about when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.
1:29	NeitherEphraim did Ephraimnot drive out the Canaanites who were living in Gezer; so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
1:36	AndThe the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.
2:3	Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out before you; but they shallwill become as thorns in your sides, and their gods shallwill be a snare to you.
2:4	AndWhen it came about when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, that the people lifted up their voices and wept.
2:7	AndThe the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel.
2:10	AndAll all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.
2:11	Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals,
2:14	AndThe the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
2:17	AndYet yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do as their fathers.
2:18	AndWhen when the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.
2:20	So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,
3:4	AndThey they were for testing Israel, to find out if they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers through Moses.
3:5	AndThe the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
3:7	AndThe the sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
3:8	Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, so that He sold them into the hands of CushanrishathaimCushan rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the sons of Israel served Cushan rishathaim eight years.
3:9	AndWhen when the sons of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to deliver them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Calebs younger brother.
3:10	AndThe the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel. When he went out to war, the Lord gave Cushan rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand, so that he prevailed over Cushan rishathaim.
3:14	AndThe the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
3:16	And Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length;, and he bound it on his right thigh under his cloak.
3:17	AndHe he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
3:18	AndIt it came about when he had finished presenting the tribute, that he sent away the people who had carried the tribute.
3:20	And Ehud came to him while he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, I have a message from God for you. And he arose from his seat.
3:21	And Ehud stretched out his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh and thrust it into his belly.
3:25	AndThey they waited until they became anxious; but behold, he did not open the doors of the roof chamber. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their master had fallen to the floor dead.
3:27	AndIt it came about when he had arrived, that he blew the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was in front of them.
3:28	AndHe he said to them, Pursue them, for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hands. So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan opposite Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross.
3:29	AndThey they struck down at that time about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.
3:31	AndAfter after him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad; and he also saved Israel.
4:3	AndThe the sons of Israel cried to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel severely for twenty years.
4:5	AndShe she used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.
4:7	And I will draw out to you Sisera, the commander of Jabins army, with his chariots and his many troops to the river Kishon;, and I will give him into your hand.
4:9	AndShe she said, I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman. Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.
4:10	And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh, and ten thousand men went up with him; Deborah also went up with him.
4:11	Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the father inlawin law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.
4:13	And Sisera called together all his chariots, nine hundred iron chariots, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth hagoyim to the river Kishon.
4:14	And Deborah said to Barak, Arise! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hands; behold, the Lord has gone out before you. So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
4:15	AndThe the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot.
4:18	And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn aside, my master, turn aside to me! Do not be afraid. And he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
4:19	AndHe he said to her, Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. So she opened a bottle of milk and gave him a drink; then she covered him.
4:20	AndHe he said to her, Stand in the doorway of the tent, and it shall be if anyone comes and inquires of you, and says, Is there anyone here? that you shall say, No.
4:24	AndThe the hand of the sons of Israel pressed heavier and heavier upon Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin the king of Canaan.
5:3	Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers! I —to the Lord, I will sing, I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.
5:4	Lord, when ThouYou didstwent go out from Seir, When ThouYou didstmarched march from the field of Edom, The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped, Even the clouds dripped water.
5:10	You who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, And you who travel on the road —sing!
5:31	Thus let all ThineYour enemies perish, O Lord; But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might. And the land was undisturbed for forty years.
6:2	AndThe the power of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves the dens which were in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.
6:8	that the Lord sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and he said to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, It was I who brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out from the house of slavery.
6:9	And I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors, and dispossessed them before you and gave you their land,
6:12	AndThe the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with you, O valiant warrior.
6:14	AndThe the Lord looked at him and said, Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?
6:15	AndHe he said to Him, O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my fathers house.
6:17	So Gideon said to Him, If now I have found favor in ThyYour sight, then show me a sign that it is ThouYou who speakestspeak with me.
6:18	Please do not depart from here, until I come back to TheeYou, and bring out my offering and lay it before TheeYou. And He said, I will remain until you return.
6:19	Then Gideon went in and prepared a kidyoung goat and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them out to him under the oak, and presented them.
6:20	AndThe the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
6:23	AndThe the Lord said to him, Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.
6:25	Now on the same night it came about that the Lord said to him, Take your fathers bull and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it;
6:27	Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had spoken to him; and it came about, because he was too afraid of his fathers household and the men of the city to do it by day, that he did it by night.
6:29	AndThey they said to one another, Who did this thing? And when they searched about and inquired, they said, Gideon the son of Joash did this thing.
6:35	AndHe he sent messengers throughout Manasseh, and they also were called together to follow him; and he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.
6:36	Then Gideon said to God, If ThouYou wiltwill deliver Israel through me, as ThouYou hasthave spoken,
6:37	behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that ThouYou wiltwill deliver Israel through me, as ThouYou hasthave spoken.
6:39	Then Gideon said to God, Do not let ThineYour anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.
6:40	And God did so that night; for it was dry only on the fleece, and dew was on all the ground.
7:2	AndThe the Lord said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, lestfor Israel would become boastful, saying, My own power has delivered me.
7:5	So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink.
7:7	AndThe the Lord said to Gideon, I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his home.
7:14	AndHis his friend answered and saidreplied, This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.
7:15	AndWhen it came about when Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, that he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, Arise, for the Lord has given the camp of Midian into your hands.
7:16	AndHe he divided the 300 men into three companies, and he put trumpets and empty pitchers into the hands of all of them, with torches inside the pitchers.
7:17	AndHe he said to them, Look at me, and do likewise. And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.
7:18	When I and all who are with me blow the trumpet, then you also blow the trumpets all around the camp, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.
7:21	AndEach each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran, crying out as they fled.
7:22	AndWhen when they blew 300 trumpets, the Lord set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole army; and the army fled as far as Beth shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel meholah, by Tabbath.
7:23	AndThe the men of Israel were summoned from Naphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.
7:24	And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian and take the waters before them, as far as Beth barah and the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they took the waters as far as Beth barah and the Jordan.
7:25	AndThey they captured the two leaders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb, while they pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon from across the Jordan.
8:5	AndHe he said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread to the people who are following me, for they are weary, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
8:6	AndThe the leaders of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hands, that we should give bread to your army?
8:7	And Gideon said, All right, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will thrash your bodies with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
8:8	AndHe he went up from there to Penuel, and spoke similarly to them; and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth had answered.
8:11	And Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the camp, when the camp was unsuspecting.
8:15	AndHe he came to the men of Succoth and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?
8:16	AndHe he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and he disciplined the men of Succoth with them.
8:17	AndHe he tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
8:19	AndHe he said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if only you had let them live, I would not kill you.
8:20	So he said to Jether his first bornfirstborn, Rise, kill them. But the youth did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a youth.
8:25	AndThey they said, We will surely give them. So they spread out a garment, and every one of them threw an earring there from his spoil.
8:26	AndThe the weight of the gold earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and besides the neck bands that were on their camels necks.
8:27	And Gideon made it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
8:31	AndHis his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
8:35	nor did they show kindness to the household of Jerubbaal that is, Gideon, in accord with all the good that he had done to Israel.
9:4	AndThey they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baal berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, and they followed him.
9:5	Then he went to his fathers house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
9:6	AndAll all the men of Shechem and all Beth millo assembled together, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar which was in Shechem.
9:15	AndThe the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.
9:16	Now therefore, if you have dealt in truth and integrity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have dealt with him as he deserved—
9:18	but you have risen against my fathers house today and have killed his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your relative—
9:24	inso order that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
9:25	AndThe the men of Shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who might pass by them along the road; and it was told to Abimelech.
9:27	AndThey they went out into the field and gathered the grapes of their vineyards and trod them, and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god, and ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.
9:29	Would, therefore, that this people were under my authority! Then I would remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase your army, and come out.
9:30	AndWhen when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.
9:31	AndHe he sent messengers to Abimelech deceitfully, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem; and behold, they are stirring up the city against you.
9:33	AndIn it shall come about in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, that you shall rise early and rush upon the city; and behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you shall do to them whatever you can.
9:36	AndWhen when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains. But Zebul said to him, You are seeing the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
9:37	And Gaal spoke again and said, Behold, people are coming down from the highest part of the land, and one company comes by the way of the diviners oak.
9:40	And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded up to the entrance of the gate.
9:45	And Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who were in it; then he razed the city and sowed it with salt.
9:47	AndIt it was told Abimelech that all the leaders of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
9:49	AndAll all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech, and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
9:54	Then he called quickly to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword and kill me, lestso that it will not be said of me, A woman slew him.  So the young man pierced him through, and he died.
9:55	AndWhen when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each departed to his home.
9:56	Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father, in killing his seventy brothers.
10:2	AndHe he judged Israel twenty three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.
10:3	AndAfter after him, Jair the Gileadite arose, and judged Israel twenty two years.
10:4	AndHe he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities in the land of Gilead that are called Havvoth jair to this day.
10:7	AndThe the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the sons of Ammon.
10:8	AndThey they afflicted and crushed the sons of Israel that year; for eighteen years they afflicted all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in Gilead in the land of the Amorites.
10:9	AndThe the sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.
10:10	Then the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, We have sinned against TheeYou, for indeed, we have forsaken our God and served the Baals.
10:11	AndThe the Lord said to the sons of Israel, Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines?
10:13	Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer deliver you no more.
10:15	AndThe the sons of Israel said to the Lord, We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to TheeYou; only please deliver us this day.
10:16	So they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served the Lord; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.
10:17	Then the sons of Ammon were summoned, and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together, and camped in Mizpah.
10:18	AndThe the people, the leaders of Gilead, said to one another, Who is the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
11:2	And Gileads wife bore him sons; and when his wifes sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, You shall not have an inheritance in our fathers house, for you are the son of another woman.
11:4	AndIt it came about after a while that the sons of Ammon fought against Israel.
11:5	AndWhen it happened when the sons of Ammon fought against Israel, that the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob;
11:8	AndThe the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, For this reason we have now returned to you, that you may go with us and fight with the sons of Ammon and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
11:10	AndThe the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The Lord is witness between us; surely we will do as you have said.
11:13	AndThe the king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land when they came up from Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and the Jordan; therefore, return them peaceably now.
11:15	and they said to him, Thus says Jephthah, Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the sons of Ammon.
11:20	But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people and camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
11:21	AndThe the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
11:25	AndNow now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive with Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
11:30	And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, If ThouYou wiltwill indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,
11:33	AndHe he struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.
11:34	When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had neitherno son noror daughter.
11:35	AndWhen it came about when he saw her, that he tore his clothes and said, Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the Lord, and I cannot take it back.
11:37	AndShe she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity, I and my companions.
11:39	AndAt it came about at the end of two months that she returned to her father, who did to her according to the vow which he had made; and she had no relations with a man. Thus it became a custom in Israel,
12:2	And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon; when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.
12:3	AndWhen when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the sons of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?
12:5	AndThe the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan opposite Ephraim. And it happened when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me cross over, the men of Gilead would say to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No,
12:7	And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
12:9	AndHe he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage outside the family, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
12:14	AndHe he had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel eight years.
13:2	AndThere there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had borne no children.
13:3	Then the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and give birth to a son.
13:8	Then Manoah entreated the Lord and said, O Lord, please let the man of God whom ThouYou hasthave sent come to us again that he may teach us what to do for the boy who is to be born.
13:9	And God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her.
13:12	And Manoah said, Now when your words come to pass, what shall be the boys mode of life and his vocation?
13:15	Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Please let us detain you so that we may prepare a kidyoung goat for you.
13:16	AndThe the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I will not eat your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord. For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.
13:17	And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, What is your name, so that when your words come to pass, we may honor you?
13:19	So Manoah took the kidyoung goat with the grain offering and offered it on the rock to the Lord, and He performed wonders while Manoah and his wife looked on.
13:21	Now the angel of the Lord appeareddid nonot moreappear to Manoah or his wife again. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.
13:22	So Manoah said to his wife, We shallwill surely die, for we have seen God.
14:6	AndThe the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, so that he tore him as one tears a kidyoung goat though he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
14:11	AndWhen it came about when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
14:15	Then it came about on the fourth day that they said to Samsons wife, Entice your husband, so that he maywill tell us the riddle, lestor we will burn you and your fathers house with fire. Have you invited us to impoverish us? Is this not so?
14:16	And Samsons wife wept before him and said, You only hate me, and you do not love me; you have propounded a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told it to my father or mother; so should I tell you?
14:17	However she wept before him seven days while their feast lasted. And it came about on the seventh day that he told her because she pressed him so hard. She then told the riddle to the sons of her people.
14:19	Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of them and took their spoil, and gave the changes of clothes to those who told the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his fathers house.
15:1	But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it came about that Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, I will go in to my wife in her room. But her father did not let him enter.
15:2	AndHer her father said, I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead.
15:4	And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned the foxes tail to tail, and put one torch in the middle between two tails.
15:7	And Samson said to them, Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit.
15:8	AndHe he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
15:10	AndThe the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And they said, We have come up to bind Samson in order to do to him as he did to us.
15:12	AndThey they said to him, We have come down to bind you so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not kill me.
15:15	AndHe he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.
15:17	AndWhen it came about when he had finished speaking, that he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath lehi.
15:18	Then he became very thirsty, and he called to the Lord and said, ThouYou hasthave given this great deliverance by the hand of ThyYour servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?
15:19	But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived. Therefore, he named it En hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
16:5	AndThe the Lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see where his great strength lies and how we may overpower him that we may bind him to afflict him. Then we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.
16:7	And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have not been dried, then I shallwill become weak and be like any other man.
16:10	Then Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have deceived me and told me lies; now please tell me, how you may be bound.
16:11	AndHe he said to her, If they bind me tightly with new ropes which have not been used, then I shallwill become weak and be like any other man.
16:13	Then Delilah said to Samson, Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies; tell me how you may be bound. And he said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my hair with the web and fasten it with a pin, then I shallwill become weak and be like any other man.
16:14	So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his hair and wove them into the web. And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin of the loom and the web.
16:16	AndIt it came about when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was annoyed to death.
16:17	So he told her all that was in his heart and said to her, A razor has never come on my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mothers womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me and I shallwill become weak and be like any other man.
16:18	When Delilah saw that he had told her all that was in his heart, she sent and called the Lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up once more, for he has told me all that is in his heart. Then the Lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hands.
16:19	AndShe she made him sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his hair. Then she began to afflict him, and his strength left him.
16:20	AndShe she said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! And he awoke from his sleep and said, I will go out as at other times and shake myself free. But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.
16:29	And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and braced himself against them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.
16:31	Then his brothers and all his fathers household came down, took him, brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. Thus he had judged Israel twenty years.
17:2	AndHe he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son by the Lord.
17:9	And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I may find a place.
17:11	AndThe the Levite agreed to live with the man;, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
18:3	When they were near the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what do you have here?
18:4	AndHe he said to them, Thus and so has Micah done to me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.
18:5	AndThey they said to him, Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be prosperous.
18:6	AndThe the priest said to them, Go in peace; your way in which you are going has the Lords approval.
18:9	AndThey they said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you sit still? Do not delay to go, to enter, to possess the land.
18:10	When you enter, you shallwill come to a secure people with a spacious land; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth.
18:12	AndThey they went up and camped at Kiriath jearim in Judah. Therefore they called that place MahanehdanMahaneh dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath jearim.
18:13	AndThey they passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.
18:14	Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their kinsmen, Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.
18:15	AndThey they turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
18:16	AndThe the six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
18:18	AndWhen when these went into Micahs house and took the graven image, the ephod and household idols and the molten image, the priest said to them, What are you doing?
18:19	AndThey they said to him, Be silent, put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?
18:20	AndThe the priests heart was glad, and he took the ephod and household idols and the graven image, and went among the people.
18:23	AndThey they cried to the sons of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, What is the matter with you, that you have assembled together?
18:24	AndHe he said, You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what do I have besides? So how can you say to me, What is the matter with you?
18:25	AndThe the sons of Dan said to him, Do not let your voice be heard among us, lestor else fierce men will fall upon you and you will lose your life, with the lives of your household.
18:29	AndThey they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born in Israel; however, the name of the city formerly was Laish.
18:30	AndThe the sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
19:4	AndHis his father in law, the girls father, detained him; and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and lodged there.
19:5	Now it came about on the fourth day that they got up early in the morning, and he prepared to go; and the girls father said to his son in law, Sustain yourself with a piece of bread, and afterward you may go.
19:8	AndOn on the fifth day he arose to go early in the morning, and the girls father said, Please sustain yourself, and wait until afternoon; so both of them ate.
19:13	AndHe he said to his servant, Come and let us approach one of these places; and we will spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.
19:15	AndThey they turned aside there in order to enter and lodge in Gibeah. When they entered, they sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.
19:18	AndHe he said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, for I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. But I am now going to my house, and no man will take me into his house.
19:20	AndThe the old man said, Peace to you. Only let me take care of all your needs; however, do not spend the night in the open square.
19:22	While they were making merrycelebrating, behold, the men of the city, certain worthless fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, Bring out the man who came into your house that we may have relations with him.
19:25	But the men would not listen to him,. soSo the man seized his concubine and brought her out to them.; Andand they raped her and abused her all night until morning, then let her go at the approach of dawn.
19:27	When her master arose in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, then behold, his concubine was lying at the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
19:28	AndHe he said to her, Get up and let us go, but there was no answer. Then he placed her on the donkey; and the man arose and went to his home.
19:30	AndAll it came about that all who saw it said, Nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day when the sons of Israel came up from the land of Egypt to this day. Consider it, take counsel and speak up!
20:2	AndThe the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 foot soldiers who drew the sword.
20:14	AndThe the sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel.
20:15	AndFrom from the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were numbered, 26,000 men who draw the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were numbered, 700 choice men.
20:18	Now the sons of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, and said, Who shall go up first for us to battle against the sons of Benjamin? Then the Lord said, Judah shall go up first.
20:20	AndThe the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel arrayed for battle against them at Gibeah.
20:23	AndThe the sons of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall we again draw near for battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin? And the Lord said, Go up against him.
20:25	And Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah the second day and felled to the ground again 18,000 men of the sons of Israel; all these drew the sword.
20:27	AndThe the sons of Israel inquired of the Lord for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
20:30	AndThe the sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day and arrayed themselves against Gibeah, as at other times.
20:31	AndThe the sons of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike and kill some of the people, as at other times, on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
20:32	AndThe the sons of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the sons of Israel said, Let us flee that we may draw them away from the city to the highways.
20:38	Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that they shouldwould make a great cloud of smoke rise from the city.
21:3	AndThey they said, Why, O Lord, God of Israel, has this come about in Israel, so that one tribe should be missing today in Israel?
21:4	AndIt it came about the next day that the people arose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
21:11	AndThis this is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has lain with a man.
21:14	And Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the women of Jabesh gilead; yet they were not enough for them.
21:17	AndThey they said, There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe maywill not be blotted out from Israel.
21:22	AndIt it shall come about, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we shall say to them, Give them to us voluntarily, because we did not take for each man of Benjamin a wife in battle, nor did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.
21:23	AndThe the sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they carried away. And they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.
21:24	AndThe the sons of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and each one of them went out from there to his inheritance.