07-JUDGES
07-1:3 And
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.
07-1:14 And
it came to pass, when she came to him, that
she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
07-1:15 And
she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou
hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her
the upper springs and the nether springs.
07-1:20 And
they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and
he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
07-1:21 And
the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem;
but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
07-1:24 And
the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the
city, and we will shew thee mercy.
07-1:26 And
the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the
name thereof Luz: which is the name
thereof unto this day.
07-1:33 Neither
did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of
Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land:
nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries
unto them.
07-2:1 And
an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go
up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the
land which I sware unto your fathers; and I
said, I will never break my covenant with you.
07-2:3 Wherefore
I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods
shall be a snare unto you.
07-2:4 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.
07-2:5 And
they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.
07-2:6 And
when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
07-2:10 And
also all that generation were gathered unto
their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not
the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
07-2:12 And
they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land
of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed
themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to
anger.
07-2:15 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 unto them: and
they were greatly distressed.
07-2:17 And
yet they would not hearken unto their judges,
but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which
their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
07-2:19 And
it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that
they returned, and corrupted themselves
more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow
down unto them; they ceased not from their own
doings, nor from their stubborn way.
07-2:20 And
the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this
people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have
not hearkened unto my voice;
07-3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines,
and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount
Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering
in of Hamath.
07-3:4 And
they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded
their fathers by the hand of Moses.
07-3:9 And
when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD,
the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s
younger brother.
07-3:13 And
he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and
Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
07-3:15 But
when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD,
the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man
lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
07-3:17 And
he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab:
and Eglon was a very fat man.
07-3:19 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.
07-3:20 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.
07-3:26 And
Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
07-3:28 And
he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD
hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down
after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to
pass over.
07-4:3 And
the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for
he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed
the children of Israel.
07-4:6 And
she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, 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?
07-4:7 And
I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon
Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I
will deliver him into thine hand.
07-4:8 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.
07-4:11 Now
Heber the Kenite, which was of the
children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the
Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of
Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
07-4:13 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 Kishon.
07-4:14 And
Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath
delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So
Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
07-4:16 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.
07-4:18 And
Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him,
Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
07-4:19 And
he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little
water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him
drink, and covered him.
07-4:20 Again
he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent,
and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there
any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
07-4:21 Then
Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and
went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his
temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So
he died.
07-4:22 And,
behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou
seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold,
Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in
his temples.
07-5:3 Hear,
O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even
I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
07-5:18 Zebulun
and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
07-6:4 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.
07-6:6 And
Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of
Israel cried unto the LORD.
07-6:7 And
it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto
the LORD because of the Midianites,
07-6:8 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;
07-6:10 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.
07-6:11 And
there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite:
and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
07-6:12 And
the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and
said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
07-6:13 And
Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be
with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not
the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and
delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
07-6:15 And
he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I
save Israel? behold, my family is poor
in Manasseh, and I am the least in my
father’s house.
07-6:16 And
the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with
thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
07-6:17 And
he said unto him, If now I have found grace in
thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
07-6:18 Depart
not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee,
and bring forth my present, and set it before
thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
07-6:19 And
Gideon went in, and made ready a 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 unto
him under the oak, and presented it.
07-6:20 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.
07-6:23 And
the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto
thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
07-6:24 Then
Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and
called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
07-6:25 And
it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto
him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years
old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the
grove that is by it:
07-6:26 And
build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the
top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer
a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
07-6:27 Then
Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so
it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city,
that he could not do it by day, that
he did it by night.
07-6:30 Then
the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out
thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and
because he hath cut down the grove that was
by it.
07-6:31 And
Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will
ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put
to death whilst it is yet morning: if
he be a god, let him plead for
himself, because one hath cast down
his altar.
07-6:35 And
he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him:
and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto
Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
07-6:36 And
Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel
by mine hand, as thou hast said,
07-6:39 And
Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot
against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this
once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the
ground let there be dew.
07-7:2 And
the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest
Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
07-7:4 And
the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the
water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go
with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee,
This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
07-7:5 So
he brought down the people unto the water: and
the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that
lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by
himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
07-7:7 And
the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred
men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand:
and let all the other people go every
man unto his place.
07-7:8 So
the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men:
and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
07-7:9 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.
07-7:11 And
thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened
to go down unto the host. Then went he down with
Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed
men that were in the host.
07-7:13 And
when Gideon was come, behold, there was a
man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said,
Behold, I dreamed a dream, 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 the tent lay along.
07-7:17 And
he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise:
and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
07-7:19 So
Gideon, and the hundred men that were with
him, came unto the outside of the camp in the
beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they
blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
07-7:22 And
the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against
his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in
Zererath, and to the border of
Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
07-7:24 And
Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against
the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto
Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together,
and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
07-8:1 And
the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou
served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the
Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
07-8:2 And
he said unto them, What have I done now in
comparison of you? Is not the
gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
07-8:5 And
he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray
you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow
me; for they be faint, and I am
pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
07-8:6 And
the princes of Succoth said, Are the
hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
07-8:8 And
he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them
likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered
him.
07-8:9 And
he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When
I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
07-8:14 And
caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described
unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders
thereof, even threescore and
seventeen men.
07-8:15 And
he came unto the men of Succoth, and said,
Behold Zebah and Zalmunna with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now
in thine hand, that we should give bread unto
thy men that are weary?
07-8:18 Then
said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of
men were they whom ye slew at Tabor?
And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the
children of a king.
07-8:20 And
he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not
his sword: for he feared, because he was yet
a youth.
07-8:22 Then
the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou
over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast
delivered us from the hand of Midian.
07-8:23 And
Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you,
neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.
07-8:24 And
Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request
of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had
golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
07-8:27 And
Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it:
which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to
his house.
07-8:35 Neither
shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
07-9:1 And
Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto
his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the
house of his mother’s father, saying,
07-9:5 And
he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and
slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being
threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the
youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
07-9:7 And
when they told it to Jotham, he went
and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and
said unto them, Hearken unto
me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto
you.
07-9:8 The
trees went forth on a time to anoint
a king over them; and they said unto the olive
tree, Reign thou over us.
07-9:9 But
the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my
fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over
the trees?
07-9:11 But
the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my
sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
07-9:12 Then
said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
07-9:13 And
the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine,
which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
07-9:14 Then
said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
07-9:15 And
the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint
me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if
not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
07-9:16 Now
therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech
king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;
07-9:31 And
he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily,
saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and,
behold, they fortify the city against thee.
07-9:36 And
when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from
the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto
him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
07-9:38 Then
said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now,
and fight with them.
07-9:40 And
Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.
07-9:48 And
Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an ax
in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
07-9:52 And
Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought
against it, and went hard unto the door of the
tower to burn it with fire.
07-9:54 Then
he called hastily unto the young man his
armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword,
and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust
him through, and he died.
07-9:55 And
when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
07-9:56 Thus
God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto
his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
07-10:4 And
he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities,
which are called Havothjair unto this day, which
are in the land of Gilead.
07-10:10 And
the children of Israel cried unto the LORD,
saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and
also served Baalim.
07-10:11 And
the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the
children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
07-10:14 Go
and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let
them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
07-10:15 And
the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We
have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth
good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee,
this day.
07-11:2 And
Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out
Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not
inherit in our father’s house; for thou art
the son of a strange woman.
07-11:6 And
they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our
captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
07-11:7 And
Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not
ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
07-11:8 And
the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah,
Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight
against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of
Gilead.
07-11:9 And
Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye
bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD
deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
07-11:10 And
the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The
LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
07-11:12 And
Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the
children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come
against me to fight in my land?
07-11:13 And
the king of the children of Ammon answered unto
the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up
out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
07-11:14 And
Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of
the children of Ammon:
07-11:15 And
said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took
not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
07-11:16 But
when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
07-11:17 Then
Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom,
saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would
not hearken thereto. And in like
manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he
would not consent: and Israel abode
in Kadesh.
07-11:19 And
Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto
him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.
07-11:22 And
they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
07-11:28 Howbeit
the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto
the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
07-11:29 Then
the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh,
and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the
children of Ammon.
07-11:30 And
Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If
thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
07-11:32 So
Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon
to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
07-11:33 And
he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the
plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon
were subdued before the children of Israel.
07-11:34 And
Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and,
behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and
she was his only child; beside her he
had neither son nor daughter.
07-11:35 And
it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my
daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble
me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD,
and I cannot go back.
07-11:36 And
she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath
proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee
of thine enemies, even of the children
of Ammon.
07-11:37 And
she said unto her father, Let this thing be done
for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains,
and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
07-11:39 And
it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And
it was a custom in Israel,
07-12:1 And
the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight
against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will
burn thine house upon thee with fire.
07-12:2 And
Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at
great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me
not out of their hands.
07-12:3 And
when I saw that ye delivered me not,
I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and
the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
07-12:5 And
the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so that when those Ephraimites which
were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou
an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
07-12:6 Then
said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he
said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of
Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
07-13:3 And
the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman,
and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou
shalt conceive, and bear a son.
07-13:5 For,
lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head:
for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from
the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines.
07-13:6 Then
the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I
asked him not whence he was, neither
told he me his name:
07-13:7 But
he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and
bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite
to God from the womb to the day of his death.
07-13:8 Then
Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou
didst send come again unto us, and teach us what
we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
07-13:9 And
God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her
husband was not with her.
07-13:10 And
the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto
me the other day.
07-13:11 And
Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou
the man that spakest unto the woman? And he
said, I am.
07-13:12 And
Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto
him?
07-13:13 And
the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that
I said unto the woman let her beware.
07-13:15 And
Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray
thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
07-13:16 And
the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though
thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt
offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For
Manoah knew not that he was an angel
of the LORD.
07-13:17 And
Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to
pass we may do thee honour?
07-13:18 And
the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest
thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
07-13:19 So
Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah
and his wife looked on.
07-13:22 And
Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die,
because we have seen God.
07-13:23 But
his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased
to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at
our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
07-14:3 Then
his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the
daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a
wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto
his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
07-14:10 So
his father went down unto the woman: and Samson
made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
07-14:12 And
Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a
riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it
me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of
garments:
07-14:13 But
if ye cannot declare it me, then
shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.
07-14:14 And
he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat,
and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days
expound the riddle.
07-14:15 And
it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto
Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto
us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye
called us to take that we have? is it not
so?
07-14:16 And
Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me
not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children
of my people, and hast not told it me.
And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I
tell it thee?
07-14:18 And
the men of the city said unto him on the seventh
day before the sun went down, What is sweeter
than honey? and what is stronger than
a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not
plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
07-14:19 And
the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew
thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger
was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.
07-15:7 And
Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this,
yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
07-15:11 Then
three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to
Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this
that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto
them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
07-15: