Judges 8 Cross References - VIN

¹ The men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you treated us this way, that you didn't call us when you went to fight with Midian? They rebuked him sharply. ² And he said to them, "What I have done now in comparison with you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? ³ God gave Oreb and Zeeb, the leaders of Midian, into your control. What was I able to do compared to you?" When he said this, their anger calmed down. ⁴ Gideon and his three hundred men passed over the Jordan. Their pursuit continued. ⁵ He said to the men of Succoth: "Give my troops some bread. They are tired. I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian." ⁶ The officials of Succoth said, "Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give bread to your army?" ⁷ And Gideon said Because of this, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I shall thresh your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and with briers. ⁸ He went up to Penuel and made the same request of them. The men of Penuel gave the same answer as the men of Succoth. ⁹ And Gideon said to the men of Penuel, When I return in peace, I will break down this tower. ¹⁰ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the sons of the east, for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew a sword. ¹¹ Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, which was unsuspecting. ¹² When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued them and captured them and routed the entire army. ¹³ Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres. ¹⁴ He captured a young man from Succoth and questioned him. The young man listed for him the commanders of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men. ¹⁵ And he came in to the men of Succoth, and said, Behold, Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, Is the palm of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand that we should give bread to your weary men? ¹⁶ So he took the elders of the city and disciplined the men of Succoth with thorns and briers from the desert. ¹⁷ He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city. ¹⁸ Afterwards, he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, "What were the men like whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "Like you, each one like the son of a king…" ¹⁹ He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you." ²⁰ He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up, and kill them." But the youth did not draw his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth. ²¹ And Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise and fall upon us. For as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments on their camels' necks. ²² Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.” ²³ But Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you. Nor shall my son rule over you. The Lord will rule over you. ²⁴ And he said to them: I desire one request of you: Give me the earlets of your spoils. For the Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. ²⁵ They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it. ²⁶ The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, the pendants and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks. ²⁷ Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves by worshipping it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house. ²⁸ And Midian was subdued before the Israelites, and they did not again lift up their head, and the land rested for forty years in the days of Gideon. ²⁹ Jerub-Baal son of Joash lived in his own house. ³⁰ Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives. ³¹ His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. ³² Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. ³³ Later on, as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites again committed spiritual adultery with the Baals, and appointed Baal-berith to be their god. ³⁴ and thought not on the LORD their God which had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side. ³⁵ They did not show kindness to the family of Gideon for all the good that he had done for Israel.

¹ The men of Ephraim were ready for battle. They crossed the Jordan River to Zaphon and said to Jephthah: "Why did you cross the border to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We are going to burn the house down over your head!" ² Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the Ammonites and when I called you, you didn't save me out of their hand. ³ When I saw that you wouldn't be delivering me, I took my own life in my hands, crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into my control. So why have you come here today to fight me?" ⁴ Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim because they said, You Gileadites are renegades of Ephraim from Ephraim and Manasseh. ⁵ Then Gilead captured the fords of the Jordan from Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No," ⁶ they would tell him to say "Shibboleth." But he would say "Sibboleth," because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would kill him at the Jordan River crossing. Forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed.

⁴¹ Suddenly, all the men of Israel were coming to the king. They said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, with all the men of David?"

² For vexation kills the fool, and envy slays the simple one.

⁴ And I saw all labor, and all the diligent work, that this is a man's envy from his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind. ⁵ Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy? ⁶ But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

¹¹ The angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak that was at Ophrah that belonged to Jehoash the Abiezrite; and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

³⁴ But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was called after him.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not rejoice with evil, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ endures all, trusts all, hopes all, abides all:

¹⁴ The entire Law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁵ But if you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out, or you will be consumed by each other.

² make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. ³ Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

¹⁹ My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, ²⁰ for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. ¹⁶ For where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere. ¹⁸ Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.

²⁴ Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah. ²⁵ They captured the two Midianite chiefs, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at Oreb Rock, and Zeeb at the Winepress of Zeeb. They continued to pursue the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now east of the Jordan.

³ For not with their sword did they possess the land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather it was your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them.

¹ Not to us, LORD, not to us, but to your name be given glory on account of your gracious love and faithfulness.

¹⁴ The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. ¹⁵ The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of the LORD does mighty things. ¹⁶ the LORD's right hand is exalted; the LORD's right hand does valiantly.

¹ A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

³² One slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

¹¹ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

¹⁵ Through patience a ruler may be persuaded; a gentle word can break a bone.

³⁷ For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

³ For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

⁶ We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If someone’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;

¹⁸ I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

³ Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

²⁵ They captured the two Midianite chiefs, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at Oreb Rock, and Zeeb at the Winepress of Zeeb. They continued to pursue the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now east of the Jordan.

²⁸ Then one of the people told him: "Your father forced the people to take a solemn oath, saying: 'Cursed is anyone who eats food today.'" That is why the people were exhausted. ²⁹ Jonathan answered: "My father brought trouble to the country. See how my eyes lit up when I tasted a little of this honey?

³¹ That day they struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, and the army was very weary. ³² and they pounced on the spoil, and took sheep, cattle and calves and killed them on the ground and ate them with the blood.

¹⁰ He pursued with four hundred men, and two hundred, who halted on the bank of the brook Bosor, guarded the baggage.

⁸ We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed.

¹⁶ Therefore, as I said, we do not lose heart. No, even though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

⁹ And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give up.

¹ Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us. ² Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. ⁴ In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

¹⁸ Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

¹⁷ Jacob moved on to Succoth. He built a house there for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is named Succoth.

⁴ Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.

¹⁸ Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

²⁸ brought beds and basins and objects of pottery, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, ²⁹ and honey and butter and sheep and cheese from cows, for David and for the people with him to eat. For they said, The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.

⁶ God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

⁶ They have testified to the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. ⁷ because it was for the sake of the Name that they went out, accepting nothing from pagans. ⁸ We therefore ought to welcome such, so that we may work together for the Truth.

¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

²⁵ As they sat down to eat, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying the materials for cosmetics, medicine, and embalming. They were on their way to take them to Egypt.

²⁸ Some of the Midianite traders approached. The brothers pulled Joseph out of the well and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites. They took him to Egypt.

²³ Curse Meroz, said the angel of the LORD. Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.

¹⁵ And he came in to the men of Succoth, and said, Behold, Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, Is the palm of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand that we should give bread to your weary men?

¹⁰ Nabal answered David's servants, Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days. ¹¹ Should I take my food, my water, and my meat that I've slaughtered for my shearers and give it to men who came from who knows where?"

¹¹ The king of Israel answered, Tell him, 'Don't let him who puts on his armour brag like he who takes it off'.

⁹ But Joash king of Israel sent again to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "A thistle in Lebanon sent to a cypress tree in Lebanon, saying, 'Give thy daughter to my son to wife.' But the wild beasts in Lebanon went and trod down the thistle.

²³ The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

²¹ For everyone else is looking out for his own interests, not for those of Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation he worshiped God. He returned to the camp of Israel, and called out: »Arise! the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.«

³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel, because I saw God face to face, and my life is delivered. ³¹ Then the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

²⁵ Later on, Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. He also expanded from there and built Penuel.

¹⁷ He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.

²⁷ and say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with scant bread and with scant water, until I come in peace.' ²⁸ Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, all you people."

⁵ They came with their livestock and tents, as thick as locusts. It was impossible to count the men and their camels. They entered the land and destroyed it.

¹² But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.

²² They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

² The leaders of the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand armed soldiers.

¹⁵ The Benjamites numbered twenty six thousand swordsmen out of the cities, besides the seven hundred chosen men of Gibeah.

¹⁷ The men of Israel apart from Benjamin were four hundred thousand swordsmen, all warriors.

²⁵ Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah the second day, and destroyed another eighteen thousand Israelite men, all armed with swords.

³⁵ the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the Israelites destroyed twenty five thousand one hundred armed Benjamites that day.

⁴⁶ So that day twenty-five thousand valiant fighters of Benjamin were killed.

²⁶ When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

¹⁷ Abijah and his men defeated them decisively. Five hundred thousand of the best men of Israel were killed.

⁶ In one day Pekah, son of Remaliah, killed one hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah because they had abandoned the LORD the God of their ancestors.

⁸ The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria.

⁴ As in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke of his burdens: the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.

³⁶ The angel of the LORD put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. The people got up the next morning and saw all the dead bodies!

³⁵ Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

⁴² Nobah captured Kenath and its villages. He named it Nobah after himself.

²⁷ And they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and they came to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and they put them to the sword and burned the city with fire.

³² Then Samuel said, Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites! Agag came to him confidently, thinking, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

¹⁶ So he took him down, and there they were, spread out over the surface of all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all of the abundant plunder which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

³ While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

¹⁶ And these five kings flee, and are hidden in a cave at Makkedah, ¹⁷ Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.” ¹⁸ Joshua said, "Roll large stones to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them;

²² Then Joshua said: "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings to me." ²³ They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon. ²⁴ And when they brought these kings to Joshua, Joshua called all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the fighting men who had gone with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came near and put their feet on their necks. ²⁵ Joshua said: "Do not be afraid. Do not be terrified! Be strong and have courage: for this is what the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight."

¹⁶ "To him belong strength and victory. Both deceived and deceivers are his. ¹⁷ "He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges. ¹⁸ "He takes off the bonds put on by kings and ties a belt around their waist. ¹⁹ "He leads priests away stripped and overthrows men long established. ²⁰ "He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders. ²¹ "He pours out contempt upon nobles and disarms the mighty.

¹⁹ who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹⁴ So the swift runner will not escape, the valiant will not fortify his strength, and the mighty warrior will not save his life.

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶ They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

¹⁹ Then I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. ²⁰ But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed signs on his behalf, by which he deceived those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. ²¹ The rest were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of him who sat on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves upon their bodies.

²⁴ The spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him: "Show us the entrance into the city, and we will show you mercy." ²⁵ He showed them the entrance into the city and they put the city to the sword, but they let the man go and all his family.

¹¹ Then they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David and gave him bread to eat and water to drink, ¹² They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, he revived, for he had eaten no food nor drunk any water for three days and three nights. ¹³ David said to him, "To whom do you belong and where are you from?" The Egyptian replied, "I'm a young Egyptian man, the slave of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me, because I got sick three days ago. ¹⁴ We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory that belongs to Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we set Ziklag on fire." ¹⁵ David said to him, Will you lead me down to this raiding party? He said, Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to them.

⁶ The officials of Succoth said, "Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give bread to your army?" ⁷ And Gideon said Because of this, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I shall thresh your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

⁷ And Gideon said Because of this, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I shall thresh your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

⁶ the sons of Pahath-moab, of the sons of Jeshua and Joab--2,812;"

¹³ Wisdom is found on the lips of the understanding (discerning). A rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding.

²⁹ Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the back of fools.

⁴ The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

⁹ And Gideon said to the men of Penuel, When I return in peace, I will break down this tower.

⁶ She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali and said to him, Hasn't the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded 'Go to Mount Tabor and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and Zebulun?

² Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

¹² You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

¹⁶ These men are grumblers and complainers, living according to their own evil desires; they talk big, flattering people to gain advantage.

²⁴ And when they brought these kings to Joshua, Joshua called all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the fighting men who had gone with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came near and put their feet on their necks.

³³ And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel cut Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

⁹ to carry out on them the judgment written; this is an honor for all His saints. Praise the LORD!

²⁶ The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, the pendants and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.

⁵⁴ whereupon he cried hastily to the young man who carried his armour, and said to him, Draw my sword, and kill me, that they may not say, A woman killed him. So his servant run him through, and he died.

³ The battle went badly against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him badly.

⁵ When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him.

¹ God, do not keep silent. Do not keep silent, and do not be still, God.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,

⁶ In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

⁸ "The trees went out to anoint a king over them. They said to the olive tree: 'Be our king.' ⁹ And the olive tree replied, 'Should I stop producing my oil, which by me gods and men are honored, to go sway over the trees?' ¹⁰ "'Then the trees said to the fig tree: 'Come and be our king.' ¹¹ But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I give up my good, sweet fruit to go to hold sway over the trees?' ¹² Then the trees said to the vine, Come and reign over us. ¹³ And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheers God and man, to go and sway over the trees? ¹⁴ "'So then all the trees said to the thorn bush: 'You come and be our king!" ¹⁵ The thorn bush said to the trees, 'If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; if not, let fire come out of the thorn bush and devour the cedars of Lebanon'.

⁵ and they said to him, Look, you are old and your sons don't walk in your ways; now appoint a king to judge us like all the nations.

¹² But when you saw that Nahash, king of the Ammonites, was coming to fight you, you said to me, 'No, let a king rule over us instead,' even though the LORD your God was your king.

¹⁵ Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.

¹⁸ When the LORD established judges he supported each judge. He delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days the judge lived. He had compassion for them as they groaned under those who oppressed and afflicted them.

¹⁸ The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, Who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

⁹ Jephthah said: »If you take me back home to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives me victory, will I be your ruler?« ¹⁰ The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, the LORD shall be witness between us; certainly we will do as you say. ¹¹ So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah.

⁶ Samuel was displeased when they said, "Give us a king to govern us." So Samuel prayed to the LORD. ⁷ The LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to the people in all that they say to you. In fact, it's not you they have rejected, but rather they have rejected me from being their king.

¹⁹ but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said, 'No. Set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands."

²² For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver. the LORD is our king; he is the one who will save us.

¹⁹ We are yours: you never bore rule over them; they were not called by your name.

²⁴ A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest. ²⁵ But He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called 'benefactors.' ²⁶ But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves. ²⁷ For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at the table? But I am among you as One who serves.

²⁴ Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy: for in your faith you stand firm.

³ not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

¹⁰ "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count." ¹¹ the LORD's angel also said: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael (means: God hears). the LORD has heard of your misery.

²² When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a fifth of an ounce and two gold bracelets weighing four ounces.

⁵³ And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.

³⁵ Meanwhile, the Israelites had done as Moses said; they had asked the Egyptians for objects of silver and objects of gold, and for clothes.

³ The people took off their gold earrings and handed them to Aaron.

¹¹ Should I take my food, my water, and my meat that I've slaughtered for my shearers and give it to men who came from who knows where?"

³ Your beauty should not come from outward adornment such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, ⁴ but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. ⁵ For so of old the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their own husbands,

¹⁵ Mordecai left the king's presence in royal robes of blue and white, wearing a large golden crown and a purple robe made of fine linen; and the city of Susa shouted with joy.

⁹ Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. It is the work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith. Violet and purple are their clothing. They are all the work of skilled men.

⁷ "Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt. It became your distinguishing mark. Your awning was blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah.

¹⁹ "There was once a rich man, who used to dress in purple and fine linen, and to live in luxury every day.

² The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.

⁵ When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

⁴ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and of the filthiness of her adulteries:

¹² cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble;

¹⁶ and say, 'Alas! Alas for the great city that was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and glittered with gold, precious stones, and pearls,

³³ "Do not allow them to live in your land for they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods it will be a snare to you."

⁶ and they will make the ephod of gold, blue and purple, and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman. ⁷ "It should have two shoulder straps attached at the top corners so it can be fastened. ⁸ The skillfully woven band that is on it shall be made like it, of one piece with it: of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine woven linen. ⁹ And take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Yisra El: ¹⁰ "Engrave them in order of their birth. Place six names on each stone. ¹¹ "Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the same way a jeweler engraves a signet ring. Mount them in gold settings. ¹² "Then fasten them on the shoulder straps of the ephod as reminders of who the Israelites are. In this way Aaron will carry their names on his shoulders as a reminder in the LORD's presence. ¹³ "Make gold settings. ¹⁴ And you shall make two chains of pure gold like braided cords, and fasten the braided chains to the settings. ¹⁵ "Prepare the breast piece for decision-making using a skilled craftsman. Make it like the ephod out of gold, violet, purple, and bright red yarn and out of fine linen yarn. ¹⁶ it is square, doubled, a span its length, and a span its breadth. ¹⁷ »Fasten four rows of precious stones on it. Put red quartz, topaz, and emerald in the first row. ¹⁸ and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; ¹⁹ and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ²⁰ and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings. ²¹ "The stones represent the twelve sons of Israel, by name, each stone engraved like a signet ring with the name of one of the twelve tribes. ²² And on the breastplate work twisted chains of wreathen work of pure gold: ²³ "Make two gold rings for the breastplate. Attach them to the two top corners of the breastplate. ²⁴ "Fasten the two gold ropes to the rings at the top corners of the breastplate. ²⁵ and give the two ends of the two wreaths in the two brocades; and give them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the face of the front: ²⁶ "Make two gold rings, and connect them to the other two corners of the breastplate on the inside edge next to the ephod. ²⁷ "Make two more gold rings, and fasten them to the bottom of the shoulder straps on the front of the ephod. This will be close to the seam just above the belt of the ephod. ²⁸ And they will tie the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord to be on the waistband of the ephod, and the breast piece will not come loose from the ephod. ²⁹ And Aaron shall receive the names of the sons of Israel upon the oracle of the judgment, upon the breast, entering into the holy place, as a memorial before God. ³⁰ You will put the Urim and the Thummim into the breastplate of judgment, and they will come to be on Aaron's heart when he enters before the LORD. Thus Aaron will bear the judgment of the sons of Israel on his heart before the LORD continually. ³¹ "You shall make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue. ³² "Provide an opening for the head in the center with a reinforced edge like a leather collar all around it to keep it from tearing. ³³ On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them: ³⁴ a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe. ³⁵ And it will be upon Aaron to minister. And the sound of it will be heard when he goes in to the holy place before the LORD and when he comes out, that he does not die.

¹⁶ »Destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God gives you. Do not look at them with pity. Do not serve their gods. For that would be a snare to you.

⁵ ¶ But ye shall seek the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there for his habitation, and thou shalt go there.

²⁴ Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it "The LORD is Peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

³² Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. ³³ Later on, as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites again committed spiritual adultery with the Baals, and appointed Baal-berith to be their god.

⁵ This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods and consecrated one of his sons to be his priest.

¹⁴ Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod and household gods, an engraved image and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.

¹⁷ The five men who had gone to spy out the land went in there and took the engraved image, the ephod, the household gods and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.

⁹ When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here." ¹⁰ David said, "LORD God of Israel. Your servant has definitely heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah to destroy the town because of me.

²⁷ Those who are far from you will perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

³⁹ Thus they defiled themselves by their deeds, And they prostituted themselves by their actions."

²⁰ To the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because no light is in them.

² Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

¹² My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God. ¹³ They offer sacrifices on the mountain tops, burning offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinth trees, since their shade is very good. Therefore your daughters are prostitutes and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. ¹⁴ I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

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

³⁰ So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel: and the land had rest eighty years.

³¹ “So let all your enemies perish, the LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon ¹⁰ who perished at Endor, and became as the dung of the earth. ¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹² who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."

²⁶ "the LORD Almighty will stir up enemies against you as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. His wrath will come by way of the sea, as he did in Egypt.

³² And on that day they called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead with him, because he has broken down his altar.

¹ Then Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) rose early, and all the army that was with him. They were camped beside the spring of Harod; the camp of Midian was north of the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

¹¹ Then the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel and he delivered you from the hand of your enemies on every side, so that you lived securely.

¹⁴ Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. ¹⁵ But the former governors that were before me laid burdens upon the people, and took of them for bread and wine above forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants lorded over the people; but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

²⁴ This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

⁷ Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

²⁶ All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

⁵ All those who descended from Jacob totaled 75 persons. Now Joseph was already in Egypt.

¹⁷ "He must not take many wives or his heart will turn astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.

² "Ask the men of Shechem: 'Which is better for you. To have all seventy of Gideon's sons govern you or to have just one man? Remember that Abimelech is your own flesh and blood.'"

⁵ He went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal escaped, for he hid himself.

⁴ He had thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys. They had thirty cities in the land of Gilead. They are called the villages of Jair.

⁹ He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters in marriage outside the clan and brought thirty young women from outside the clan for his sons to marry. Ibzan led Israel for seven years,

¹⁴ He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. Abdon led Israel for eight years,

² And sons were born to David in Hebron. And his first-born was Amnon, the son of Ahinoam of Jezreel. ³ his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; ⁴ the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; ⁵ And the sixth was Ithream, the son of David's wife Eglah. These were born to David in Hebron.

¹³ David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to him. ¹⁴ These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, ¹⁵ Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, ¹⁶ Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

³ He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

¹ Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria, and Jehu wrote letters, and he sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab, saying,

¹⁵ Did he not make them one? And the vestige of the spirit remains in him. And why did he make them one? He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and don't break faith with the wife of your youth.

⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." ⁷ “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?” ⁸ He said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, on account of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not so from the beginning.

³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” ³² This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. ³³ Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

¹⁵ Hagar bore Abram a son. Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

²⁴ His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

¹ 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, ² "Ask the men of Shechem: 'Which is better for you. To have all seventy of Gideon's sons govern you or to have just one man? Remember that Abimelech is your own flesh and blood.'" ³ His mother's brothers told all the men of Shechem all these words, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother. ⁴ They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men to join him. ⁵ He went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal escaped, for he hid himself.

¹⁸ and you have risen up against my father's house, and have slain his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his concubine, king over the men of Sychem, because he is your brother;

¹⁵ but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

⁸ Then Abraham breathed his last, and died in a good old age, an old man and full of days, and was added to his people.

²⁹ And after those things, Joshua the son of Nave, the servant of the Lord died at the age of a hundred and ten years; ³⁰ They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, at Timnath-Serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

²⁷ Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves by worshipping it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

²⁶ You shall come to the grave in full vigor, like a stack of grain comes up in its season.

¹⁷ And Job died, old and full of days.

¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they prostitute themselves after their gods, and they sacrifice to their gods, and they invite you, and you eat their sacrifice, ¹⁶ and you take from their daughters for your sons. and their daughters fornicate with their gods, and they lead your sons to fornicate with their gods.

³¹ Israel served the LORD for the entire lifetimes of Joshua and of the officials who outlived Joshua, that is, the ones who had personally known everything that the LORD had done for Israel.

⁷ 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 the LORD did for Israel. ⁸ Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of a hundred and ten years old. ⁹ And they buried him within the bounds of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim,—on the north of Mount Gaash. ¹⁰ After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn't know the LORD, nor the work which he had done for Israel. ¹¹ The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and they served the Baals.

¹⁷ Yet they would not listen to their judges, but prostituted themselves to other gods. They worshiped them. They turned quickly, out of the way in which their fathers walked obeying the commandments of the LORD.

¹⁹ When the judge was dead they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers. They followed other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

⁴ They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men to join him.

²⁷ And they went out into the fields and gathered in their grapes and trod them and made merry: and went into the house of their God, and did eat and drink and cursed Abimelech.

⁴⁶ When all the lords of the tower of Shechem heard, they went to the vault of the temple of El-Berith.

² And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

¹⁷ Now after the death of Jehoiada the leaders of Judah came and paid homage to the king. And the king listened to them. ¹⁸ They abandoned the LORD's temple and the God of their fathers, and they served Asherim and idols. As a result this guilt of theirs resulted in wrath coming upon Judah and Jerusalem.

⁹ "Because she was not concerned about her prostitution. She polluted the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

⁹ Only guard yourselves carefully so you won't forget the things that you saw and let them slip from your mind for the rest of your life. Tell them to your children and to your grandchildren.

⁷ The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God, and they served the Baals and the Asheroth.

¹¹ They forgot what he had done, and the wonderful works that he had showed for them.

⁴² They did not remember his power and the day he freed them from their oppressor,

¹⁸ a fire burnt in their witness - the flame burnt the wicked:

²¹ They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

¹ Remember your Creator in the days of your youth— before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them!"

³² Can a virgin forget her finery, a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

¹⁶ And now if you have acted in truth and integrity when you made Abimelech king; and if you have done well with Jerubbaal and his house; and you have done to him as his hands did, ¹⁷ (for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian; ¹⁸ and you have risen up against my father's house, and have slain his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his concubine, king over the men of Sychem, because he is your brother; ¹⁹ If then you have done what is true and upright to Jerubbaal and his family this day, may you have joy in Abimelech, and may he have joy in you;

¹⁴ There was a small city with only a few mortals in it, And a great king came against it and surrounded it, And he built great siege works against it." ¹⁵ but there was found therein, a man, poor [but] wise, and, he, delivered the city by his wisdom,—yet, no one, remembered that poor man.