Judges
21 chapters, 618 verses. The 7th of 66 books, in History.
How it begins
1Now 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?
2And the Lord said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
3And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
4And Judah went up; and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
Chapters
- 1Judah and Simeon fight the Canaanites
- 2The angel rebukes Israel at Bochim
- 3Debts and Eglon's oppression
- 4Deborah and Barak defeat Sisera
- 5Deborah's song of victory
- 6Gideon chosen to deliver Israel
- 7Gideon's small army defeats Midian
- 8Gideon pursues and defeats Midian
- 9Abimelech's reign at Shechem
- 10Tola and Jair judge Israel
- 11Jephthah's vow and victory over Ammon
- 12Jephthah and Ephraim's quarrel
- 13Samson's birth is foretold
- 14Samson's marriage and riddle
- 15Samson burns the Philistine fields
- 16Samson and Delilah's betrayal
- 17Micah's idolatry and priest
- 18The Danites steal Micah's idol
- 19The Levite's concubine and Gibeah's evil
- 20Israel wages war against Benjamin
- 21Wives provided for Benjamin
King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.