Judges (Basic Bible in English)

The Book of Judges has 21 Chapters

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  1. Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites...
  2. Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me...
  3. Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan...
  4. And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead...
  5. At that time Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, made this song, saying...
  6. And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years...
  7. Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley...
  8. And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him...
  9. Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father...
  10. Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim...
  11. Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father...
  12. Now the men of Ephraim came together and took up arms and went over to Zaphon; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you go over to make war against the children of Ammon without sending for us to go with you? Now we will put your house on fire over you...
  13. And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years...
  14. Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines...
  15. Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in...
  16. Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her...
  17. Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah...
  18. In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel...
  19. Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah...
  20. Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah...
  21. Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin...