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So Simeon went with him. +001:004 Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the + Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek + ten thousand men. +001:005 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, + and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites. +001:006 But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, + and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. +001:007 Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their + great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: + as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him + to Jerusalem, and he died there. +001:008 The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, + and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. +001:009 Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against + the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, + and in the lowland. +001:010 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron + (now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and they + struck Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai. +001:011 From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. + (Now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.) +001:012 Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, + to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife. +001:013 Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: + and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. +001:014 It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask + of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; + and Caleb said to her, What would you? +001:015 She said to him, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me + in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. + Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. +001:016 The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up + out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah + into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; + and they went and lived with the people. +001:017 Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the + Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. + The name of the city was called Hormah. +001:018 Also Judah took Gaza with the border of it, and Ashkelon + with the border of it, and Ekron with the border of it. +001:019 Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out [the inhabitants of] + the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants + of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. +001:020 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: + and he drove out there the three sons of Anak. +001:021 The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who + inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children + of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. +001:022 The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; + and Yahweh was with them. +001:023 The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name + of the city before was Luz.) +001:024 The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they + said to him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, + and we will deal kindly with you. +001:025 He shown them the entrance into the city; and they struck + the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go + and all his family. +001:026 The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, + and called the name of it Luz, which is the name of it + to this day. +001:027 Manasseh did not drive out [the inhabitants of] Beth Shean and + its towns, nor [of] Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants + of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and + its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; + but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. +001:028 It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put + the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly + drive them out. +001:029 Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; + but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them. +001:030 Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the + inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, + and became subject to forced labor. +001:031 Asher didn't drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants + of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, + nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob; +001:032 but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants + of the land; for they did not drive them out. +001:033 Naphtali didn't drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, + nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived + among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: + nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath + became subject to forced labor. +001:034 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country; + for they would not allow them to come down to the valley; +001:035 but 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 subject to forced labor. +001:036 The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, + from the rock, and upward. +002:001 The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. + He said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought + you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, + I will never break my covenant with you: +002:002 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; + you shall break down their altars. But you have not listened + to my voice: why have you done this? +002:003 Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; + but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods + shall be a snare to you. +002:004 It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words + to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up + their voice, and wept. +002:005 They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed + there to Yahweh. +002:006 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel + went every man to his inheritance to possess the land. +002:007 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all + the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen + all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel. +002:008 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one + hundred ten years old. +002:009 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in + Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north + of the mountain of Gaash. +002:010 Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: + and there arose another generation after them, who didn't + know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel. +002:011 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh, and served the Baals; +002:012 and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought + them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, + of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed + themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger. +002:013 They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. +002:014 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered + them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; + and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, + so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. +002:015 Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them + for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: + and they were sore distressed. +002:016 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand + of those who despoiled them. +002:017 Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the + prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: + they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their + fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; + [but] they didn't do so. +002:018 When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, + and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days + of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning + by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them. +002:019 But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, + and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following + other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't + cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way. +002:020 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, + Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I + commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice; +002:021 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them + of the nations that Joshua left when he died; +002:022 that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep + the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did + keep it, or not. +002:023 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; + neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. +003:001 Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel + by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all + the wars of Canaan; +003:002 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, + to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it: +003:003 [namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, + and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, + from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. +003:004 They were [left], to prove Israel by them, to know whether they + would listen to the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded + their fathers by Moses. +003:005 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, + and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, + and the Jebusites: +003:006 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave + their own daughters to their sons and served their gods. +003:007 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals + and the Asheroth. +003:008 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold + them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: + and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years. +003:009 When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised + up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, + even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. +003:010 The Spirit of Yahweh came on him, and he judged Israel; + and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim + king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed + against Cushan Rishathaim. +003:011 The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died. +003:012 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh: and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab + against Israel, because they had done that which was evil + in the sight of Yahweh. +003:013 He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; + and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city + of palm trees. +003:014 The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. +003:015 But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised + them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, + a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him + to Eglon the king of Moab. +003:016 Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; + and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh. +003:017 He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was + a very fat man. +003:018 When he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away + the people who bore the tribute. +003:019 But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, + and said, I have a secret errand to you, king. He said, + Keep silence. All who stood by him went out from him. +003:020 Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool + upper room. Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. + He arose out of his seat. +003:021 Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his + right thigh, and thrust it into his body: +003:022 and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed + on the blade, for he didn't draw the sword out of his body; + and it came out behind. +003:023 Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors + of the upper room on him, and locked them. +003:024 Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, + and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, + Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber. +003:025 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn't open + the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, + and opened [them], and behold, their lord was fallen down dead + on the earth. +003:026 Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, + and escaped to Seirah. +003:027 It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in + the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went + down with him from the hill country, and he before them. +003:028 He said to them, Follow after me; for Yahweh has delivered your + enemies the Moabites into your hand. They went down after him, + and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, + and didn't allow a man to pass over. +003:029 They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, + every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped + not a man. +003:030 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. + The land had rest eighty years. +003:031 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck + of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad: + and he also saved Israel. +004:001 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead. +004:002 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, + who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, + who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles. +004:003 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred + chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed + the children of Israel. +004:004 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged + Israel at that time. +004:005 She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel + in the hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel + came up to her for judgment. +004:006 She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of + Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, Hasn't Yahweh, the God + of Israel, commanded, [saying], Go and draw to Mount Tabor, + and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali + and of the children of Zebulun? +004:007 I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain + of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; + and I will deliver him into your hand. +004:008 Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go; + but if you will not go with me, I will not go. +004:009 She said, I will surely go with you: notwithstanding, the journey + that you take shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh + will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Deborah arose, + and went with Barak to Kedesh. +004:010 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; + and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: + and Deborah went up with him. +004:011 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, + even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, + and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, + which is by Kedesh. +004:012 They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up + to Mount Tabor. +004:013 Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred + chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, + from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon. +004:014 Deborah said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Yahweh has + delivered Sisera into your hand; hasn't Yahweh gone out before you? + So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand + men after him. +004:015 Yahweh confused 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 his feet. +004:016 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, + to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the army of Sisera + fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left. +004:017 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael + the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin + the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. +004:018 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, + turn in to me; don't be afraid. He came in to her into the tent, + and she covered him with a rug. +004:019 He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink; + for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave + him drink, and covered him. +004:020 He said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, + when any man does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there + any man here? that you shall say, No. +004:021 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer + in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin + into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; + for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died. +004:022 Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, + and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. + He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent + peg was in his temples. +004:023 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before + the children of Israel. +004:024 The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more + against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed + Jabin king of Canaan. +005:001 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying, +005:002 Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people + offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh! +005:003 Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, [even] I, + will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh, + the God of Israel. +005:004 Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out + of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. + Yes, the clouds dropped water. +005:005 The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, even Sinai, + at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel. +005:006 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, + the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways. +005:007 The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; + Until I arose a mother in Israel. +005:008 They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there + a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? +005:009 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered + themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh! +005:010 Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit + on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way. +005:011 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing + water, there they will rehearse the righteous acts + of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. + Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates. +005:012 Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! + Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam. +005:013 Then a remnant of the nobles [and] the people came down. + Yahweh came down for me against the mighty. +005:014 Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, + Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. + Those who handle the marshal's staff came out of Zebulun. +005:015 The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, + so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. + By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart. +005:016 Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling + for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were + great searchings of heart. +005:017 Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? + Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks. +005:018 Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the deaths; + Naphtali also, on the high places of the field. +005:019 The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at + Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver. +005:020 From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, + they fought against Sisera. +005:021 The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, + the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength. +005:022 Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancings, + the prancings of their strong ones. +005:023 Curse Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh. Curse bitterly + its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help Yahweh, + to help Yahweh against the mighty. +005:024 Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; + blessed shall she be above women in the tent. +005:025 He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter + in a lordly dish. +005:026 She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to + the workmen's hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. + She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck + through his temples. +005:027 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, + he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. +005:028 Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera's mother + looked through the lattice. Why is his chariot so long in coming? + Why do the wheels of his chariots wait? +005:029 Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself, +005:030 Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, + two ladies to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, + A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments + embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil? +005:031 So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love + him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength. + The land had rest forty years. +006:001 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of + Midian seven years. +006:002 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of + Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are + in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. +006:003 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, + and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came + up against them; +006:004 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase + of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance + in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. +006:005 For they came up with their livestock and their tents; + they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their + camels were without number: and they came into the land + to destroy it. +006:006 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children + of Israel cried to Yahweh. +006:007 It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh + because of Midian, +006:008 that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: + and he said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I + brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of + the house of bondage; +006:009 and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, + and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them + out from before you, and gave you their land; +006:010 and I said to you, I am Yahweh your God; you shall not + fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. + But you have not listened to my voice. +006:011 The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which + was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: + and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, + to hide it from the Midianites. +006:012 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, + Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor. +006:013 Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then + has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous + works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh + bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, + and delivered us into the hand of Midian. +006:014 Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, + and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you? +006:015 He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, + my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least + in my father's house. +006:016 Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall + strike the Midianites as one man. +006:017 He said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, + then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me. +006:018 Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out + my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait + until you come again. +006:019 Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes + of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put + the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, + and presented it. +006:020 The angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened + cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. + He did so. +006:021 Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that was + in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; + and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh + and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed + out of his sight. +006:022 Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, + Alas, Lord Yahweh! because I have seen the angel of Yahweh + face to face. +006:023 Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: + you shall not die. +006:024 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it + Yahweh is Peace{or, Yahweh Shalom}: to this day it is still + in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. +006:025 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, + Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, + and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, + and cut down the Asherah that is by it; +006:026 and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, + in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer + a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you + shall cut down. +006:027 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh + had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his + father's household and the men of the city, so that he could + not do it by day, that he did it by night. +006:028 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, + the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut + down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on + the altar that was built. +006:029 They said one to another, Who has done this thing? + When they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son + of Joash has done this thing. +006:030 Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, + that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, + and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it. +006:031 Joash said to all who stood against him, Will you contend + for Baal? Or will you save him? he who will contend for him, + let him be put to death while [it is yet] morning: + if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one has + broken down his altar. +006:032 Therefore on that day he named him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal + contend against him, because he has broken down his altar. +006:033 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children + of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, + and encamped in the valley of Jezreel. +006:034 But the Spirit of Yahweh came on Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; + and Abiezer was gathered together after him. +006:035 He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were + gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, + and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. +006:036 Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, + as you have spoken, +006:037 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; + if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, + then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, + as you have spoken. +006:038 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed + the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, + a bowl full of water. +006:039 Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, + and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial + just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on + the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew. +006:040 God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, + and there was dew on all the ground. +007:001 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, + rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: + and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, + by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. +007:002 Yahweh said to Gideon, The people who are with you are + too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, + lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand + has saved me. +007:003 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is + fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. + There returned of the people twenty-two thousand; and there + remained ten thousand. +007:004 Yahweh said to Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them + down to the water, and I will try them for you there: + and it shall be, that of whom I tell you, This shall go with you, + the same shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, + This shall not go with you, the same shall not go. +007:005 So he brought down the people to the water: and Yahweh said + to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, + as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise everyone + who bows down on his knees to drink. +007:006 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, + was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed + down on their knees to drink water. +007:007 Yahweh said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped + will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand; + and let all the people go every man to his place. +007:008 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; + and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, + but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian + was beneath him in the valley. +007:009 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you + down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand. +007:010 But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant + down to the camp: +007:011 and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall + your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. + Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost + part of the armed men who were in the camp. +007:012 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of + the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; + and their camels were without number, as the sand which is + on the seashore for multitude. +007:013 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream + to his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; + and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp + of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, + and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat. +007:014 His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword + of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand + God has delivered Midian, and all the army. +007:015 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, + and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped; and he returned + into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Yahweh has + delivered into your hand the army of Midian. +007:016 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put + into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, + with torches within the pitchers. +007:017 He said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and behold, + when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, + as I do, so shall you do. +007:018 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow + you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, + For Yahweh and for Gideon. +007:019 So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, + came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning + of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: + and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers + that were in their hands. +007:020 The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, + and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets + in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried, + The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon. +007:021 They stood every man in his place round about the camp; + and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight. +007:022 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every + man's sword against his fellow, and against all the army; + and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, + as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. +007:023 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out + of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian. +007:024 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country + of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before + them the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. + So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took + the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. +007:025 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; + and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they + killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: + and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon + beyond the Jordan. +008:001 The men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you served us thus, that you + didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian? They did + chide with him sharply. +008:002 He said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? + Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than + the vintage of Abiezer? +008:003 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb + and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you? + Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. +008:004 Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three + hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing. +008:005 He said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread + to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am + pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian. +008:006 The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna + now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army? +008:007 Gideon said, Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna + into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns + of the wilderness and with briers. +008:008 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner; + and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of + Succoth had answered. +008:009 He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again + in peace, I will break down this tower. +008:010 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, + about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army + of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty + thousand men who drew sword. +008:011 Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents + on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; + for the army was secure. +008:012 Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; + and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, + and confused all the army. +008:013 Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from + the ascent of Heres. +008:014 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: + and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders + of it, seventy-seven men. +008:015 He came to the men of Succoth, and said, See Zebah and Zalmunna, + concerning whom you did taunt me, saying, Are the hands + of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give + bread to your men who are weary? +008:016 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness + and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. +008:017 He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city. +008:018 Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were + they whom you killed at Tabor? They answered, As you are, + so were they; each one resembled the children of a king. +008:019 He said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother: + as Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would + not kill you. +008:020 He said to Jether his firstborn, Up, and kill them. + But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he feared, + because he was yet a youth. +008:021 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall on us; + for as the man is, so is his strength. Gideon arose, + and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that + were on their camels' necks. +008:022 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule you over us, + both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you + have saved us out of the hand of Midian. +008:023 Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall + my son rule over you: Yahweh shall rule over you. +008:024 Gideon said to them, I would make a request of you, + that you would give me every man the earrings of his spoil. + (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) +008:025 They answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, + and did cast therein every man the earrings of his spoil. +008:026 The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand + and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the crescents, + and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on + the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about + their camels' necks. +008:027 Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: + and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; + and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house. +008:028 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they + lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years + in the days of Gideon. +008:029 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. +008:030 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; + for he had many wives. +008:031 His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, + and he named him Abimelech. +008:032 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried + in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. +008:033 It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of + Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, + and made Baal Berith their god. +008:034 The children of Israel didn't remember Yahweh their God, + who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies + on every side; +008:035 neither shown they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, + [who is] Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had + shown to Israel. +009:001 Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his + mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family + of the house of his mother's father, saying, +009:002 Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is + better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are + seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? + Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh. +009:003 His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men + of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined + to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother. +009:004 They gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of + Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, + who followed him. +009:005 He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers + the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: + but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; + for he hid himself. +009:006 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, + and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, + by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem. +009:007 When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top + of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, + and said to them, Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God + may listen to you. +009:008 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; + and they said to the olive tree, Reign you over us. +009:009 But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, + with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back + and forth over the trees? +009:010 The trees said to the fig tree, Come you, and reign over us. +009:011 But the fig tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, + and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees? +009:012 The trees said to the vine, Come you, and reign over us. +009:013 The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers + God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees? +009:014 Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come you, + and reign over us. +009:015 The bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me + king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; + and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour + the cedars of Lebanon. +009:016 Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, + in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt + well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him + according to the deserving of his hands +009:017 (for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, + and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: +009:018 and you are risen up against my father's house this day, + and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, + and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, + king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother); +009:019 if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal + and with his house this day, then rejoice you in Abimelech, + and let him also rejoice in you: +009:020 but 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. +009:021 Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, + for fear of Abimelech his brother. +009:022 Abimelech was prince over Israel three years. +009:023 God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; + and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: +009:024 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, + and that 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. +009:025 The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, + and they robbed all who came along that way by them: + and it was told Abimelech. +009:026 Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over + to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. +009:027 They went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, + and trod [the grapes], and held festival, and went into the house + of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. +009:028 Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, + that we should serve him? Isn't he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul + his officer? serve you the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: + but why should we serve him? +009:029 Would that this people were under my hand! then would I + remove Abimelech. He said to Abimelech, Increase your army, + and come out. +009:030 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal + the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. +009:031 He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, Behold, Gaal the + son of Ebed and his brothers are come to Shechem; and behold, + they constrain the city [to take part] against you. +009:032 Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, + and lie in wait in the field: +009:033 and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, + you shall rise early, and rush on the city; and behold, + when he and the people who are with him come out against you, + then may you do to them as you shall find occasion. +009:034 Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, + and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. +009:035 Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of + the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people + who were with him, from the ambush. +009:036 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come + people down from the tops of the mountains. Zebul said to him, + You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men. +009:037 Gaal spoke again and said, Behold, there come people down + by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way + of the oak of Meonenim. +009:038 Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said, + Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this + the people that you have despised? go out now, I pray, + and fight with them. +009:039 Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. +009:040 Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell + many wounded, even to the entrance of the gate. +009:041 Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and + his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem. +009:042 It happened on the next day, that the people went out into the field; + and they told Abimelech. +009:043 He took the people, and divided them into three companies, + and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, + the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, + and struck them. +009:044 Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, + and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: + and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, + and struck them. +009:045 Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took + the city, and killed the people who were therein: + and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. +009:046 When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, + they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith. +009:047 It was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem + were gathered together. +009:048 Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people + who 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 to the people + who were with him, What you have seen me do, make haste, + and do as I have done. +009:049 All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, + and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, + and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men + of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. +009:050 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, + and took it. +009:051 But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled + all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut + themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower. +009:052 Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew + near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. +009:053 A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, + and broke his skull. +009:054 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, + and said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say + of me, A woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, + and he died. +009:055 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed + every man to his place. +009:056 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did + to his father, in killing his seventy brothers; +009:057 and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite + on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham + the son of Jerubbaal. +010:001 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, + the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir + in the hill country of Ephraim. +010:002 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was + buried in Shamir. +010:003 After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged + Israel twenty-two years. +010:004 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they + had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, + which are in the land of Gilead. +010:005 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon. +010:006 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods + of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods + of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; + and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him. +010:007 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold + them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand + of the children of Ammon. +010:008 They vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: + eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel + that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, + which is in Gilead. +010:009 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also + against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house + of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed. +010:010 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have + sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, + and have served the Baals. +010:011 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, Didn't I save you from + the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, + and from the Philistines? +010:012 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, + did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out + of their hand. +010:013 Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: + therefore I will save you no more. +010:014 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save + you in the time of your distress. +010:015 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, We have sinned: + do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, + we pray you, this day. +010:016 They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; + and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. +010:017 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped + in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, + and encamped in Mizpah. +010:018 The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, + What man is he who will begin to fight against the children + of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. +011:001 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, + and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became + the father of Jephthah. +011:002 Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, + they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, You shall not inherit + in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman. +011:003 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: + and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they + went out with him. +011:004 It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made + war against Israel. +011:005 It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, + the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob; +011:006 and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we + may fight with the children of Ammon. +011:007 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Didn't you hate me, + and drive me out of my father's house? and why are you come + to me now when you are in distress? +011:008 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore are we + turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight + with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over + all the inhabitants of Gilead. +011:009 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home + again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver + them before me, shall I be your head? +011:010 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Yahweh shall be witness + between us; surely according to your word so will we do. +011:011 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people + made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all + his words before Yahweh in Mizpah. +011:012 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, + saying, What have you to do with me, that you are come to me + to fight against my land? +011:013 The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers + of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out + of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: + now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably. +011:014 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon; +011:015 and he said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take + away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon, +011:016 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went + through the wilderness to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, + and came to Kadesh; +011:017 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let + me pass through your land; but the king of Edom didn't listen. + In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: + and Israel abode in Kadesh. +011:018 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land + of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side + of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side + of the Arnon; but they didn't come within the border of Moab, + for the Arnon was the border of Moab. +011:019 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, + the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, + we pray you, through your land to my place. +011:020 But Sihon didn't trust Israel to pass through his border; + but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, + and fought against Israel. +011:021 Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his + people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: + so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants + of that country. +011:022 They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon + even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan. +011:023 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites + from before his people Israel, and should you possess them? +011:024 Won't you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? + So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, + them will we possess. +011:025 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, + king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did + he ever fight against them? +011:026 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer + and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side + of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover + them within that time? +011:027 I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong + to war against me: Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day + between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. +011:028 However the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen + to the words of Jephthah which he sent him. +011:029 Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed + over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, + and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. +011:030 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed + deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, +011:031 then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors + of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children + of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh's, and I will offer it up + for a burnt offering. +011:032 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight + against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand. +011:033 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty + cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. + So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. +011:034 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter + came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: + and she was his only child; besides her he had neither + son nor daughter. +011:035 It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, + and said, Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, + and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened + my mouth to Yahweh, and I can't go back. +011:036 She said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; + do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, + because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, + even on the children of Ammon. +011:037 She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: + let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on + the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions. +011:038 He said, Go. He sent her away for two months: + and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her + virginity on the mountains. +011:039 It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, + who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: + and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel, +011:040 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter + of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. +012:001 The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; + and they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight + against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go + with you? we will burn your house on you with fire. +012:002 Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife + with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't + save me out of their hand. +012:003 When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, + and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh + delivered them into my hand: why then are you come up to me + this day, to fight against me? +012:004 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, + and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, + because they said, You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, + in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh. +012:005 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. + It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, + Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you + an Ephraimite? If he said, No; +012:006 then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; + for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid + hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. + There fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand. +012:007 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, + and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead. +012:008 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. +012:009 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, + and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. + He judged Israel seven years. +012:010 Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem. +012:011 After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged + Israel ten years. +012:012 Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the + land of Zebulun. +012:013 After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. +012:014 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy + donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years. +012:015 Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried + in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country + of the Amalekites. +013:001 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in + the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand + of the Philistines forty years. +013:002 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, + whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear. +013:003 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, + See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, + and bear a son. +013:004 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, + and don't eat any unclean thing: +013:005 for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor + shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite + to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel + out of the hand of the Philistines. +013:006 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God + came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel + of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him whence he was, + neither did he tell me his name: +013:007 but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; + and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any + unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God + from the womb to the day of his death. +013:008 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let + the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach + us what we shall do to the child who shall be born. +013:009 God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God + came again to the woman as she sat in the field: + but Manoah, her husband, wasn't with her. +013:010 The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said + to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me + the [other] day. +013:011 Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, + and said to him, Are you the man who spoke to the woman? + He said, I am. +013:012 Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering + of the child, and [how] shall we do to him? +013:013 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said + to the woman let her beware. +013:014 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let + her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; + all that I commanded her let her observe. +013:015 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, + that we may make ready a kid for you. +013:016 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, + I won't eat of your bread; and if you will make ready + a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh. + For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh. +013:017 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, + that when your words happen, we may honor you? +013:018 The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name, + seeing it is wonderful? +013:019 So Manoah took the kid with the meal offering, and offered + it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, + and Manoah and his wife looked on. +013:020 For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky + from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in + the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; + and they fell on their faces to the ground. +013:021 But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. + Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh. +013:022 Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we + have seen God. +013:023 But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, + he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering + at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, + nor would at this time have told such things as these. +013:024 The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, + and Yahweh blessed him. +013:025 The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, + between Zorah and Eshtaol. +014:001 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of + the daughters of the Philistines. +014:002 He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, + I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: + now therefore get her for me as wife. +014:003 Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there + never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, + or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of + the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father, + Get her for me; for she pleases me well. +014:004 But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; + for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. + Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel. +014:005 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, + to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, + a young lion roared against him. +014:006 The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him + as he would have torn a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: + but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done. +014:007 He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well. +014:008 After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside + to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm + of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. +014:009 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; + and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, + and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken + the honey out of the body of the lion. +014:010 His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; + for so used the young men to do. +014:011 It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty + companions to be with him. +014:012 Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you: + if you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, + and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments + and thirty changes of clothing; +014:013 but if you can't declare it to me, then shall you give me + thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing. + They said to him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it. +014:014 He said to them, Out of the eater came forth food. + Out of the strong came forth sweetness. They couldn't + in three days declare the riddle. +014:015 It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, + Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, + lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: + have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [so]? +014:016 Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, + and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle + to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. + He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, + and shall I tell you? +014:017 She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: + and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, + because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle + to the children of her people. +014:018 The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun + went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than + a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, + you wouldn't have found out my riddle. +014:019 The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down + to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, + and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. + His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house. +014:020 But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had + used as his friend. +015:001 But it happened after a while, 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 + wouldn't allow him to go in. +015:002 Her father said, I most certainly thought that you had + utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: + isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? + Please take her, instead. +015:003 Samson said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard + of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief. +015:004 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. +015:005 When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into + the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both + the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves. +015:006 Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said, Samson, + the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, + and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, + and burnt her and her father with fire. +015:007 Samson said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I + will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. +015:008 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: + and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam. +015:009 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread + themselves in Lehi. +015:010 The men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? + They said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him + as he has done to us. +015:011 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock + of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines + are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" + He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them. +015:012 They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we + may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. + Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall + on me yourselves. +015:013 They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, + and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. + They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up + from the rock. +015:014 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: + and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes + that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, + and his bands dropped from off his hands. +015:015 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, + and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith. +015:016 Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps, + With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men. +015:017 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast + away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was + called Ramath Lehi. +015:018 He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have + given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; + and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand + of the uncircumcised. +015:019 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out + of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: + therefore the name of it was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, + to this day. +015:020 He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. +016:001 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went + in to her. +016:002 [It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. + They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate + of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] + until morning light, then we will kill him. +016:003 Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid + hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, + and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, + and carried them up to the top of the mountain that + is before Hebron. +016:004 It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley + of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. +016:005 The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, + Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, + and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind + him to afflict him: and we will each give you of us eleven + hundred [pieces] of silver. +016:006 Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great + strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you. +016:007 Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords + that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be + as another man. +016:008 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green + cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. +016:009 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner chamber. + She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke + the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. + So his strength was not known. +016:010 Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: + now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound. +016:011 He said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with + which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, + and be as another man. +016:012 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, + and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. + The ambush was waiting in the inner chamber. He broke them + off his arms like a thread. +016:013 Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, + and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. + He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head + with the web. +016:014 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines + are on you, Samson. He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked + away the pin of the beam, and the web. +016:015 She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart + is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, + and have not told me in which your great strength lies. +016:016 It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, + and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death. +016:017 He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever + come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my + mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, + and I will become weak, and be like any other man." +016:018 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 has told me all his heart. + Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought + the money in their hand. +016:019 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, + and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began + to afflict him, and his strength went from him. +016:020 She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out + of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, + and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had + departed from him. +016:021 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they + brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; + and he ground at the mill in the prison. +016:022 However the hair of his head began to grow again after + he was shaved. +016:023 The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer + a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; + for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy + into our hand. +016:024 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, + Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer + of our country, who has slain many of us. +016:025 It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, + Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. They called + for Samson out of the prison; and he made sport before them. + They set him between the pillars: +016:026 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, Allow me + that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, + that I may lean on them. +016:027 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords + of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about + three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport. +016:028 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me, + Please, and strengthen me, Please, only this once, God, that I + may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. +016:029 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the + house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, + and the other with his left. +016:030 Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. + He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell + on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. + So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those + who he killed in his life. +016:031 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, + and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between + Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. + He judged Israel twenty years. +017:001 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. +017:002 He said to his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver + that were taken from you, about which you did utter a curse, + and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; + I took it. His mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh. +017:003 He restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; + and his mother said, I most certainly dedicate the silver + to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image + and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you. +017:004 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took + two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, + who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: + and it was in the house of Micah. +017:005 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, + and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. +017:006 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did + that which was right in his own eyes. +017:007 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family + of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there. +017:008 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, + to sojourn where he could find [a place], and he came + to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, + as he traveled. +017:009 Micah said to him, Whence come you? He said to him, I am + a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where I + may find [a place]. +017:010 Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father + and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver + by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your food. + So the Levite went in. +017:011 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young + man was to him as one of his sons. +017:012 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, + and was in the house of Micah. +017:013 Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, + seeing I have a Levite to my priest. +018:001 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 to that day [their] inheritance had not fallen to them + among the tribes of Israel. +018:002 The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their + whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, + to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, + Go, search the land. They came to the hill country of Ephraim, + to the house of Micah, and lodged there. +018:003 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice + of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, + and said to him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this + place? and what have you here? +018:004 He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, + and he has hired me, and I am become his priest. +018:005 They said to him, Ask counsel, we pray you, of God, that we + may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. +018:006 The priest said to them, Go in peace: before Yahweh is your + way wherein you go. +018:007 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw + the people who were therein, how they lived in security, + after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; + for there was none in the land, possessing authority, + that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far + from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man. +018:008 They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: + and their brothers said to them, What [say] you? +018:009 They said, Arise, and let us go up against them; + for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good: + and are you still? don't be slothful to go and to enter + in to possess the land. +018:010 When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land + is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place + where there is no want of anything that is in the earth. +018:011 There set forth from there of the family of the Danites, + out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with + weapons of war. +018:012 They went up, and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah: + therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day; + behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim. +018:013 They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came + to the house of Micah. +018:014 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, + and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in + these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, + and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do. +018:015 They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young + man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him + of his welfare. +018:016 The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were + of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. +018:017 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came + in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, + and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood + by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt + with weapons of war. +018:018 When these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved image, + the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest + said to them, What do you? +018:019 They said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand on your mouth, + and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: + is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, + or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel? +018:020 The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, + and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people. +018:021 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and + the livestock and the goods before them. +018:022 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who + were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, + and overtook the children of Dan. +018:023 They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, + and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with + such a company? +018:024 He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, + and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say + you to me, What ails you? +018:025 The children of Dan said to him, "Don't let your voice be heard + among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, + with the lives of your household." +018:026 The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw + that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back + to his house. +018:027 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom + he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, + and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt + the city with fire. +018:028 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, + and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in + the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, + and lived therein. +018:029 They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan + their father, who was born to Israel: however the name + of the city was Laish at the first. +018:030 The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image: + and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his + sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day + of the captivity of the land. +018:031 So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, + all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. +019:001 It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, + that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side + of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine + out of Bethlehem Judah. +019:002 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went + away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, + and was there the space of four months. +019:003 Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, + to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple + of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; + and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced + to meet him. +019:004 His father-in-law, the young lady's father, retained him; + and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drink, + and lodged there. +019:005 It happened on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, + and he rose up to depart: and the young lady's father said + to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, + and afterward you shall go your way. +019:006 So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together: + and the young lady's father said to the man, Please be pleased + to stay all night, and let your heart be merry. +019:007 The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, + and he lodged there again. +019:008 He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; + and the young lady's father said, Please strengthen your heart + and stay until the day declines; and they ate, both of them. +019:009 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, + and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, + said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, + please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, + lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow get + you early on your way, that you may go home. +019:010 But the man wouldn't stay that night, but he rose up and departed, + and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): + and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; + his concubine also was with him. +019:011 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant + said to his master, Please come and let us turn aside into + this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. +019:012 His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city + of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; + but we will pass over to Gibeah. +019:013 He said to his servant, Come and let us draw near to one + of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah. +019:014 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down + on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. +019:015 They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: + and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; + for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge. +019:016 Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: + now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he sojourned + in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites. +019:017 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street + of the city; and the old man said, Where go you? and + whence come you? +019:018 He said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther + side of the hill country of Ephraim; from there am I, and I went + to Bethlehem Judah: and I am [now] going to the house of Yahweh; + and there is no man who takes me into his house. +019:019 Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; + and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, + and for the young man who is with your servants: + there is no want of anything. +019:020 The old man said, Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants + lie on me; only don't lodge in the street. +019:021 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; + and they washed their feet, and ate and drink. +019:022 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of + the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, + beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, + the old man, saying, Bring forth the man who came into your house, + that we may know him. +019:023 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said + to them, No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; + seeing that this man is come into my house, don't do this folly. +019:024 Behold, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine; + them I will bring out now, and humble you them, and do + with them what seems good to you: but to this man don't + do any such folly. +019:025 But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold + on his concubine, and brought her forth to 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. +019:026 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell + down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, + until it was light. +019:027 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, + with her hands on the threshold. +019:028 He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: + then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, + and got him to his place. +019:029 When he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on + his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, + and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel. +019:030 It was so, that all who 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 to this day: consider it, + take counsel, and speak. +020:001 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation + was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, + with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah. +020:002 The chiefs 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 who drew sword. +020:003 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel + had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, Tell us, + how was this wickedness brought to pass? +020:004 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, + answered, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and + my concubine, to lodge. +020:005 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house + round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, + and my concubine they forced, and she is dead. +020:006 I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her + throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; + for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. +020:007 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your + advice and counsel. +020:008 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 to his house. +020:009 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: + [we will go up] against it by lot; +020:010 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all + the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, + and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, + that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, + according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel. +020:011 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, + knit together as one man. +020:012 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, + saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you? +020:013 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, + that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. + But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers + the children of Israel. +020:014 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together + out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against + the children of Israel. +020:015 The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out + of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, + besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven + hundred chosen men. +020:016 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen + men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, + and not miss. +020:017 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred + thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war. +020:018 The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked + counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first + to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, + Judah [shall go up] first. +020:019 The children of Israel rose up in the morning, + and encamped against Gibeah. +020:020 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; + and the men of Israel set the battle in array against + them at Gibeah. +020:021 The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, + and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day + Twenty-two thousand men. +020:022 The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, + and set the battle again in array in the place where they + set themselves in array the first day. +020:023 The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; + and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near + to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? + Yahweh said, Go up against him. +020:024 The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin + the second day. +020:025 Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, + and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel + again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. +020:026 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, + and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, + and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt + offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh. +020:027 The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant + of God was there in those days, +020:028 and 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? + Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him + into your hand. +020:029 Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah. +020:030 The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin + on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, + as at other times. +020:031 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, + and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike + and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, + of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, + in the field, about thirty men of Israel. +020:032 The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, + as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, + and draw them away from the city to the highways. +020:033 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set + themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel + broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba. +020:034 There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out + of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know + that evil was close on them. +020:035 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel + destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: + all these drew the sword. +020:036 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; + for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they + trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah. +020:037 The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers + drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge + of the sword. +020:038 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers + was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up + out of the city. +020:039 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began + to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; + for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, + as in the first battle. +020:040 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar + of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, + the whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky. +020:041 The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; + for they saw that evil had come on them. +020:042 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel + to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard + after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed + them in the midst of it. +020:043 They enclosed the Benjamites round about, [and] chased them, + [and] trod them down at [their] resting place, as far as over + against Gibeah toward the sunrise. +020:044 There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] + men of valor. +020:045 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: + and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, + and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them + two thousand men. +020:046 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five + thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor. +020:047 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to + the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months. +020:048 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, + and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the + entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: + moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire. +021:001 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall + not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife. +021:002 The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, + and lifted up their voices, and wept sore. +021:003 They said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, + that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel? +021:004 It happened on the next day that the people rose early, + and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings + and peace offerings. +021:005 The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes + of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they + had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up + to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death. +021:006 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, + and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. +021:007 How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we + have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our + daughters to wives? +021:008 They said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn't + come up to Yahweh to Mizpah? Behold, there came none + to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly. +021:009 For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none + of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there. +021:010 The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, + and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants + of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women + and the little ones. +021:011 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy + every male, and every woman who has lain by man. +021:012 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred + young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; + and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in + the land of Canaan. +021:013 The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin + who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them. +021:014 Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women + whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: + and yet so they weren't enough for them. +021:015 The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made + a breach in the tribes of Israel. +021:016 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for + wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed + out of Benjamin? +021:017 They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped + of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. +021:018 However we may not give them wives of our daughters, + for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be + he who gives a wife to Benjamin. +021:019 They said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year + in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east + side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, + and on the south of Lebonah. +021:020 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie + in wait in the vineyards, +021:021 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out + to dance in the dances, then come you out of the vineyards, + and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, + and go to the land of Benjamin. +021:022 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain + to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, + because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, + neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty. +021:023 The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to + their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off: + and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built + the cities, and lived in them. +021:024 The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man + to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there + every man to his inheritance. +021:025 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did + that which was right in his own eyes. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): JUDGES *** + +This file should be named 8234.txt or 8234.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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