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them out from before you; but they shall be themselves more than their fathers, in followas thorns in your sides, and their gods shall ing other gods to serve them, and to bow down be a snare unto you. unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, ror from their stubborn way.

4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

201 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which 5 And they called the name of that place! commanded their fathers, and have not Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the hearkened unto my voice, LORD.

6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.

21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died;

22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD, to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD that he did for Israel. 23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant without driving them out hastily neither of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. years old. CHAP. III.

9 And they buried him in the border of NOW these are the nations which the his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the LORD left, to prove Israel by them: mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the (even as many of Israel as had not known hill Gaash. all the wars of Canaan;

10 T And also all that generation were ga- 2 Only that the generations of the children thered unto their fathers: and there arose of Israel might know, to teach them war, at another generation after them, which knew the least such as before knew nothing not the LORD, nor yet the works which he thereof;) had done for Israel.

3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and 11 And the children of Israel did evil in all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim. the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering fathers, which brought them out of the land in of Hamath. of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the 4 And they were to prove Israel by them, gods of the people that were round about to know whether they would hearken unto them, and bowed themselves unto them, and the commandments of the LORD, which he provoked the LORD to anger. commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

5 ¶ And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites;

14 ¶ And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn 8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was unto them and they were greatly distressed. hot against Israel, and he sold them into the

7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesowhich delivered them out of the hand of potamia: and the children of Israel served those that spoiled them. Chushan-rishathaim eight years.

17 And yet they would not hearken unto 9 And when the children of Israel cried their judges, but they went a whoring after unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliother gods, and bowed themselves unto them: verer to the children of Israel, who delivered they turned quickly out of the way which them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's their fathers walked in, obeying the com-younger brother. mandments of the LORD; but they did 10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to 18 And when the LORD raised them up war: and the LORD delivered Chushanjudges, then the LORD was with the judge, rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his and delivered them out of the hand of their hand; and his hand prevailed against Chuenemies all the days of the judge: for it re-shan-rishathaim. pented the LORD because of their groanings, by reason of them that oppressed them, and

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vexed them.

19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted

11 And the land had rest forty years: and Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab agains

Israel, because they had done evil in the 30 So Moab was subdued that day unsight of the LORD. der the hand of Israel. And the land had

13 And he gathered unto him the children rest fourscore years. of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote 31 And after him was Shamgar the son Israel, and possessed the city of palm-trees. of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six 14 So the children of Israel served Eglon hundred men with an ox-goad: and he also the king of Moab eighteen years. delivered Israel.

15 But when the children of Israel cried|

CHAP. IV.

the children of Israel again did evil

unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a AND the sight of the LORD, when Ehud

deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, a Benja

mite, a man left-handed: and by him the was dead. children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon 2 And the LORD sold them into the hand the king of Moab.

of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in 16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisetwo edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird ra, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. it under his raiment upon his right thigh. 3 And the children of Israel cried unto the 17 And he brought the present unto Eglon LORD; for he had nine hundred chariots of king of Moab; and Eglon was a very fat man. iron: and twenty years he mightily oppress18 And when he had made an end to offer ed the children of Israel. the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.

19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer-parlour, which he had for himself alone and Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.

22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

5 And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah, between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali, and of the children of Zebulun;

7 And I will draw unto thee, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots, and his multitude: and Í will deliver him into thine hand?

8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.

9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest 24 When he was gone out, his servants shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD came; and when they saw that, behold, the shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. doors of the parlour were locked, they said, And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Surely he covereth his feet in his summer- Kedesh. chamber.

10 ¶ And Barak called Zebulun and Naph25 And they tarried till they were asham-tali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten ed; and behold, he opened not the doors of thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went the parlour: therefore they took a key and up with him. opened them, and behold, their lord was fal- 11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of len down dead on the earth.

26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.

27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.

the children of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unte the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. 13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of

28 And he said unto them, Follow after me; for the LORD hath delivered your ene- Kishon. mies the Moabites into your hand. And they 14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for went down after him, and took the fords of this is the day in which the LORD hath deli Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a vered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD man to pass over. gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.

15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and

all his chariots, and all his host, with the the gates: was there a shield or spear scen edge of the sword before Barak; so that Si- among forty thousand in Israel? sera lighted down off his chariot, and fled 9 My heart is toward the governors of Isaway on his feet. rael, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.

16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water,

17 ¶ Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet there shall they rehearse the righteous acts to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Ken-of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward ite: for there was peace between Jabin the the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then king of Hazor and the house of Heber the shall the people of the LORD go down to the Kenite.

gates.

18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said 12 Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, unto bim, Tura in, my lord, turn in to me; fear awake; utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead not. And when he had turned in unto her in-thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. to the tent, she covered him with a mantle. 13 Then he made him that remaineth have

19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray dominion over the nobles among the people : thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. the LORD made me have dominion over the And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave mighty. him drink, and covered him.

14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of 20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, of the tent; and it shall be, when any man doth among thy people: out of Machir came down come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there governors, and out of Zebulun they that any man here? that thou shalt say, No. handle the pen of the writer. 21 Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of 15 And the princes of Issachar were with the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, Deborah; even Issachar and also Barak: and went softly unto him, and smote the nail he was sent on foot into the valley. For the into his temples, and fastened it into the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts ground: (for he was fast asleep and weary :) so he died.

of heart.

16 Why abodest thou among the sheep22 And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, folds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? Jael came out to meet him, and said unto For the divisions of Reuben there were great him, Come, and I will shew thee the man searchings of heart. whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

23 1 So Godsubdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

19 The kings came and fought; then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

21. The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

3 Hear, Oye kings; give ear, O ye princes: 22 Then were the horse-hoofs broken by 1, even 1, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing the means of the prancings, the prancings of praise to the LORD God of Israel. their mighty ones.

4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, 23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the when thou marchedst out of the field of LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens thereof; because they came not to the help dropped, the clouds also dropped water. of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against 5 The mountains melted from before the the mighty. LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

CHAP. V. HEN sang Deborah, and Barak the son on day, saying,

17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea-shore, and abode in his breaches.

2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and

The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah with the hammer she smote Sisera; she arose, that i arose a mother in Israel. smote off his head, when she had pierced and

8 They chose new gods; then was war in stricken through his temples.

6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through by-ways,

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13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, befallen us? and where be all his miracles at her feet he bowed, he fell: where if the LORD be with us, why then is all this wed, there he fell down dead. The mother of Sisera looked out at a which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not w, and cried through the lattice, Why the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now us into the hands of the Midianites. chariot so long in coming? why tarry the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered heels of his chariots? Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she med answer to herself, Have they not sped? have they not dithe prey? to every man a damsel or to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey vers colours of needle-work, of divers co-wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my least in my father's house. s of needle-work on both sides, meet for family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the mecks of them that take the spoil? 1 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: let them that love him be as the sun when goeth forth in his might. And the land rest forty years. CHAP. VI.

14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?

15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord,

16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely 1 will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

17 ¶ And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.

18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until 1 and set it before thee. And he said, 1 will come unto thee, and bring forth my present, tarry until thou come again.

2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against srael: and because of the Midianites the chilren of Israel made them the dens which are in me mountains, and caves, and strong holds. 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown,

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19 And Gideon went in, and made ready
kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of
flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he
put the broth in a pot, and brought it out un-

hat the Midianites came up, and the Ama-to him under the oak, and presented it.
ekites, and the children of the east, even
hey came up against them;

4 And they encamped against them, and
destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou
come unto Gaza; and left no sustenance for
Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.

5 For they came up with their cattle and
their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for
multitude; for both they and their camels
were without number: and they entered into
the land to destroy it.

21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth
the end of the staff that was in his hand, and
touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes;
and there rose up fire out of the rock, and
consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes.
his sight.
Then the angel of the LORD departed out of

ND the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delired them into the hand of Midian seven

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22 And when Gideon perceived that be Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, an angel of the LORD face to face.

8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto the
children of Israel, which said unto them,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought
you up from Egypt, and brought you forth
out of the house of bondage;

23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be
unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the
LORD,and called itJehovah-shalom: unto this
day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

25 And it came to pass the same night,
that the LORD said unto him, Take thy fa-
ther's young bullock, even the second bullock

9 And I delivered you out of the hand of
the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that of seven years old, and throw down the altar
the grove that is by it;
oppressed you, and drave them out from be- of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down
fore you, and gave you their land:

10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD
your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites,
in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not
obeyed my voice.

26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove place, and take the second bullock, and offer which thou shalt cut down.

11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon thrashed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

27 Then Gideon took ten men of his ser-
vants, and did as the LORD had said unto
father's household, and the men of the city,
him: and so it was, because he feared his
that he could not do it by day, that he did it

12 And the angel of the LORD appeared
unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is by night.
with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

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early in the morning, behold, the altar of and afraid, let him return, and depart early Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut from mount Gilead. And there returned of down that was by it, and the second bullock the people twenty and two thousand, and was offered upon the altar that was built. there remained ten thousand. 29 And they said one to another, Who hath 4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The done this thing? And when they enquired people are yet too many; bring them down and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Jo- unto the water, and I will try them for thee ash hath done this thing. there and it shall be, that of whom I say

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30 Then the men of the city said unto Jo-Junto thee, This shall go with thee, the same ash, Bring out thy son, that he may die; be-shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say cause he hath cast down the altar of Baal, unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the and because he hath cut down the grove that same shall not go.

was by it. 5 So he brought down the people unto the 31 And Joash said unto all that stood against water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save Every one that lappeth of the water with his him? he that will plead for him, let him be tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be by himself; likewise every one that boweth a god, let him plead for himself, because one down upon his knees to drink. hath cast down his altar.

6 And the number of them that lapped, 32 Therefore on that day he called him Je-putting their hand to their mouth, were rubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, three hundred men: but all the rest of the because he hath thrown down his altar. people bowed down upon their knees to 331 Then all the Midianites, and the Ama-drink water. Jekites, and the children of the east, were ga- 7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the thered together, and went over, and pitched three hundred men that lapped will I save in the valley of Jezreel. you, and deliver the Midianites into thine

34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon hand: and let all the other people go every Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi-man unto his place. ezer was gathered after him.

8 So the people took victuals in their 35 And he sent messengers throughout all hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: rest of Israel, every man unto his tent, and and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto retained those three hundred men. And the Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came host of Midian was beneath him in the up to meet them. valley.

361 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,

9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.

37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.

10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:

11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened

38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, to go down unto the host. Then went he and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a down with Phurah his servant unto the outbowl-full of water. side of the armed men that were in the host. 12 And the Midianites, and the Amalekites,

39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will and all the children of the east, lay along in speak but this once: Let me prove, I pray the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now and their camels were without number, as be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the the sand by the sea-side for multitude. ground let there be dew. 13 And when Gideon was come, behold,

40 And God did so that night: for it was there was a man that told a dream unto his dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, on all the ground. and lo, a cake of barley-bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that rose the tent lay

CHAP. VII.

THEN Jerubbaal, (who is Gideon,) and all the people that were up early, and pitched beside the well of Ha- 14 And his fellow answered and said, This rod: so that the host of the Midianites were is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the on the north side of them, by the hill of Mo-son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his reh, in the valley. hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the

2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The host. people that are with thee are too many for 15 T And it was so, when Gideon heard me to give the Midianites into their hands, the telling of the dream, and the interpretalest Israel vaunt themselves against me, say- tion thereof, that he worshipped, and returning, Mine own hand hath saved me. ed into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful

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