Judges
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Chapter 1
The acts of Judah and Simeon – Judges 1:1-2
Adoni-bezek justly punished – Judges 1:4
Jerusalem taken – Judges 1:8
Hebron taken – Judges 1:10
Othniel is given Achsah as his wife for taking Debir – Judges 1:11
The Kenites dwell in Judah – Judges 1:16
Hormah, Gaza, Askelon and Ekron taken – Judges 1:17
The acts of Benjamin – Judges 1:21
of the house of Joseph, who take Beth-el – Judges 1:22
of Zebulun – Judges 1:30
of Asher – Judges 1:31
of Naphtali and of Dan – Judges 1:33
Chapter 2
An angel rebukes the people of Bochim – Judges 2:1
The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua – Judges 2:6
God’s anger and pity towards them – Judges 2:14
The Canaanites are left to test Israel – Judges 2:20
Chapter 3
The nations which were left to test Israel – Judges 3:1
By intermarriage the Israelites commit idolatry – Judges 3:6
Othniel delivers them from Chushan-rishathaim – Judges 3:8
Ehud frees the Israelites from Eglon – Judges 3:12
Shamgar delivers them from the Philistines – Judges 3:31
Chapter 4
Deborah and Barak save them from Jabin and Sisera – Judges 4:1-2
Chapter 5
The song of Deborah and Barak – Judges 5:1-2
Chapter 6
The Israelites are oppressed by Midian – Judges 6:1-2
A prophet rebukes them – Judges 6:8
An angel sends Gideon for their deliverance – Judges 6:11
Gideon’s present is consumed with fire – Judges 6:17
Gideon destroys Baal’s altar, and offers a sacrifice upon an altar to God – Judges 6:24
Joash defends his son, and calls him Jerubbaal – Judges 6:28
Gideon’s army – Judges 6:33-34
Gideon’s signs – Judges 6:36-37
Chapter 7
Gideon’s army of thirty-two thousand is reduced to three hundred – Judges 7:1
He is encouraged by the dream and the interpretation of the barley cake – Judges 7:9
His stratagem of trumpets and lamps in pitchers – Judges 7:16
The Ephraimites take Oreb and Zeeb – Judges 7:24
Chapter 8
Gideon pacifies the Ephraimites – Judges 8:1
Succoth and Penuel refuse to relieve Gideon’s army – Judges 8:5
Zebah and Zalmunna are taken – Judges 8:10
Succoth and Penuel are destroyed – Judges 8:13
Gideon avenges his brothers’ death on Zebah and Zalmunna – Judges 8:18
He declines to be their ruler – Judges 8:22
His ephod is the cause of idolatry – Judges 8:24
Midian subdued – Judges 8:28
Gideon’s children, and death – Judges 8:29
The Israelites’ idolatry and ingratitude – Judges 8:33
Chapter 9
Ablimelech, by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder of his brothers, is made king. – Judges 9:1-2
Jotham rebukes them and foretells their ruin – Judges 9:7
Gaal conspires with the Shechemites against Abimelech – Judges 9:22-23
Zebul reveals the conspiracy – Judges 9:30
Abimelech overcomes them and sows the city with salt – Judges 9:34
He burns the stronghold of the god Berith – Judges 9:46
At Thebez he is slain by a piece of a millstone – Judges 9:50
Jotham’s curse is fulfilled – Judges 9:56
Chapter 10
Tola judges Israel in Shamir – Judges 10:1
Jair, whose thirty sons had thirty cities – Judges 10:3
The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel – Judges 10:6
In their misery, God chides them for their false gods – Judges 10:10
Upon their repentance, He pities them – Judges 10:15
Chapter 11
The covenant between Jephthah and Gilead – Judges 11:1
The Ammonites reject Jephthah’s plea for peace – Judges 11:12
His vow and his conquest of the Ammonites – Judges 11:29
Chapter 12
The Ephraimites, quarreling with Jephthah, are slain by the Gileadites – Judges 12:1-2
Jephthah dies – Judges 12:7
Ibzan, who had thirty sons and thirty daughters – Judges 12:8-9
and Elon – Judges 12:11
and Abdon who had forty sons, and thirty nephews, judge Israel – Judges 12:13
Chapter 13
Israel conquered by the Philistines – Judges 13:1
An angel appears to Manoah’s wife, and to Manoah – Judges 13:2
Manoah’s sacrifice, whereby the angel is identified – Judges 13:15
Samson is born – Judges 13:24
Chapter 14
Samson desires a wife of the Philistines – Judges 14:1
In his journey he kills a lion – Judges 14:5
In a second journey he finds honey in the carcass – Judges 14:8
Samson’s marriage feast – Judges 14:10
His riddle is made known – Judges 14:12
He spoils thirty Philistines – Judges 14:19
His wife is married to another – Judges 14:20
Chapter 15
Samson is denied his wife – Judges 15:1
He burns the Philistines’ corn – Judges 15:3
His wife and her father are burned by the Philistines – Judges 15:6
Samson smites them hip and thigh – Judges 15:7
He is bound by the men of Judah and delivered to the Philistines – Judges 15:9
He kills one thousand of them with a jawbone – Judges 15:14
God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him – Judges 15:18
Chapter 16
Samson at Gaza escapes and carries away the gates of the city – Judges 16:1-2
Delilah, bribed by the Philistines entices Samson – Judges 16:4
She is deceived three times but at last overcomes him – Judges 16:6
The Philistines take him, and put out his eyes – Judges 16:21
His strength renewed, he pulls down the house upon the Philistines, and dies – Judges 16:22
Chapter 17
Of the money that Micah at first stole, then restored, his mother makes images – Judges 17:1-2
and the ornaments for them – Judges 17:5
He hires a Levite to be his priest – Judges 17:7
Chapter 18
The Danites send five men to seek out an inheritance – Judges 18:1
They consult with Jonathan at the house of Micah – Judges 18:3
They search Laish, and bring back news of hope – Judges 18:7
Six hundred men are sent to surprise it – Judges 18:11
On the way they rob Micah of his priest and his consecrated things – Judges 18:14
They win Laish and call it Dan – Judges 18:27
They set up idolatry – Judges 18:30
Chapter 19
A Levite goes to Beth-lehem to fetch home his wife – Judges 19:1
An old man entertains him at Gibeah – Judges 19:16
The Gibeathites cause his concubine’s death – Judges 19:22
He divides her into twelve pieces to send them to the twelve tribes – Judges 19:29
Chapter 20
The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong – Judges 20:1
The decree of the assembly – Judges 20:8
The Israelites in two battles with the Benjamites lose forty thousand – Judges 20:18
By a stratagem they destroy all the Benjamites except six hundred – Judges 20:26
Chapter 21
The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin – Judges 21:1
By destroying Jabesh-gilead they provide the tribe of Benjamin with four hundred wives – Judges 21:8
They advise them to surprise the virgins who dance at Shiloh – Judges 21:16
