Judges (Webster's Bible)

The Book of Judges has 21 Chapters

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  1. Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first to fight against them...
  2. And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to depart from 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...
  3. Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, (even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan...
  4. And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, after Ehud was dead...
  5. Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying...
  6. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years...
  7. Then Jerubbaal (who is Gideon) and all the people that were with him, rose early, and encamped beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh, in the valley...
  8. And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why hast thou treated us thus, that thou calledst us not when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? and they chid with him sharply...
  9. And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying...
  10. And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim...
  11. Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah...
  12. And the men of Ephraim assembled, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Why didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee; we will burn thy house upon thee with fire...
  13. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years...
  14. And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines...
  15. But it came to pass 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 would not suffer him to go in...
  16. Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her...
  17. And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah...
  18. In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought for themselves an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day all their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel...
  19. And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite dwelling on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah...
  20. Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD in Mizpeh...
  21. Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife...