Judges

Chapter 1 The Fight Against the Canaanites

[Jdg 1:1 LSB] Now it happened after the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"

[Jdg 1:2 LSB] And Yahweh said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand."

Failure to Complete the Conquest

Chapter 2 The Angel of Yahweh Speaks to Israel

[Jdg 2:4 LSB] So it happened that when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

Joshua’s Death and Burial

[Jdg 2:10 LSB] And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know Yahweh or even the work which He had done for Israel.

Israel Serves Baals

[Jdg 2:11 LSB] Then the sons of Israel did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh and served the Baals,

Yahweh Raises Up Judges

[Jdg 2:16 LSB] Then Yahweh raised up judges who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.

[Jdg 2:17 LSB] Yet they did not listen to their judges either, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of Yahweh; they did not do as [their fathers].

Chapter 3 Yahweh Tests Israel

[Jdg 3:4 LSB] And they were for testing Israel, to know if they would obey the commandments of Yahweh, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

Yahweh Raises Up Othniel

Yahweh Raises Up Ehud and Shamgar

Chapter 4 Yahweh Raises Up Deborah and Barak

[Jdg 4:22 LSB] Now behold, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael came out to meet him and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking." And he entered with her, and behold, Sisera was lying dead with the tent peg in his temple.

Sin Slain by Spurgeon

Chapter 5 The Song of Deborah and Barak

[Jdg 5:31 LSB] "Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Yahweh; But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might." And the land was quiet for forty years.

Chapter 6 Midian Prevails Against Israel

Yahweh Sends Gideon to Save Israel

[Jdg 6:13 LSB] Then Gideon said to him, "O my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His wondrous deeds which our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?' But now Yahweh has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian."

[Jdg 6:22 LSB] And Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh, so he said, "Alas, O Lord Yahweh! For now I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face."

Gideon Tears Down the Altar of Baal

[Jdg 6:27 LSB] So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as Yahweh had spoken to him; and now it happened that because he was too afraid of his father's household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.

The Test of the Fleece

[Jdg 6:38 LSB] And it was so. Indeed he arose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece. And he drained the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water.

[Jdg 6:40 LSB] And God did so that night. So it was dry only on the fleece, but dew was on all the ground.

Chapter 10 Tola and Jair Judge Israel

Israel Forsakes Yahweh Again

Israel Cries Out to Yahweh

Chapter 11 Jephthah Delivers Israel

Jephthah Vows a Burnt Offering