Judges
Judges in full in the Berean Standard Bible (21 chapters): read it chapter by chapter and compare translations.
Chapters of Judges
- 1After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for…
- 2Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you…
- 3These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
- 4After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- 5On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
- 6Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
- 7Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod…
- 8Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you…
- 9Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan…
- 10After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He…
- 11Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
- 12Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you…
- 13Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines…
- 14One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
- 15Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to…
- 16One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
- 17Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
- 18In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy…
- 19Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim…
- 20Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation…
- 21Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage…