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    <book number='7' name='Judges' abbreviation='jud' testament='old'>
        <chapter number='1'>
            <verse number='1'>Now <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs>it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs>shall go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>for us <strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs><strongs hebrew='8462'>first</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against them? </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>shall go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='8095'>Simeon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, Come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me into my <strongs hebrew='1486'>lot</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>likewise</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thee into thy <strongs hebrew='1486'>lot</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='8095'>Simeon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6522'>Perizzites</strongs>into their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>of them in <strongs hebrew='966'>Bezek</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='137'>Adoni</strongs>-bezek in <strongs hebrew='966'>Bezek</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>against him, and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6522'>Perizzites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>But <strongs hebrew='137'>Adoni</strongs>-bezek <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='270'>caught</strongs>him, and cut <strongs hebrew='7112'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='931 3027'>thumbs</strongs>and his great <strongs hebrew='7272'>toes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='137'>Adoni</strongs>-bezek <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>, having their <strongs hebrew='931 3027'>thumbs</strongs>and their great <strongs hebrew='7272'>toes</strongs>cut <strongs hebrew='7112'>off</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3950'>gathered</strongs><em>their</em> <em>meat</em> <strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='7979'>table</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7999'>requited</strongs>me. And they <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Now the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and had <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs>it, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs>it with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>afterward</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='8219'>valley</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='3413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2275'>Hebron</strongs>: (now the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2275'>Hebron</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7153'>Kirjath</strongs>-arba:) and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8344'>Sheshai</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='289'>Ahiman</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8526'>Talmai</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1688'>Debir</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1688'>Debir</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7158'>Kirjath</strongs>-sepher: </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='3612'>Caleb</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, He <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smiteth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7158'>Kirjath</strongs>-sepher, and <strongs hebrew='3920'>taketh</strongs>it, to him will I <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5919'>Achsah</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='6274'>Othniel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7073'>Kenaz</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3612'>Caleb</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6996'>younger</strongs><strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs>it: and he <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5919'>Achsah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when she <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><em>to</em> <em>him</em> , that she <strongs hebrew='5496'>moved</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='7592'>ask</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>: and she <strongs hebrew='6795'>lighted</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs><em>her</em> <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3612'>Caleb</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>wilt thou? </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='3051'>Give</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='1293'>blessing</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>me also <strongs hebrew='1543'>springs</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3612'>Caleb</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5942'>upper</strongs><strongs hebrew='1543'>springs</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8482'>nether</strongs><strongs hebrew='1543'>springs</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7017'>Kenite</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='2859'>father</strongs>-in-law, went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>city</strongs>of palm <strongs hebrew='8558'>trees</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='4480 4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>lieth</em> in the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6166'>Arad</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='8095'>Simeon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabited</strongs><strongs hebrew='6857'>Zephath</strongs>, and utterly <strongs hebrew='2763'>destroyed</strongs>it. And <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='2767'>Hormah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Also <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5804'>Gaza</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coast</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='831'>Askelon</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coast</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coast</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>; and he drove <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><em>the</em> <em>inhabitants</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>could <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1270'>iron</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And they <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2275'>Hebron</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3612'>Caleb</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='3423'>expelled</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6061'>Anak</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2983'>Jebusites</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabited</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>; but the <strongs hebrew='2983'>Jebusites</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3130'>Joseph</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3130'>Joseph</strongs>sent to <strongs hebrew='8446'>descry</strongs><strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>. (Now the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3870'>Luz</strongs>.) </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='8104'>spies</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='7200'>Show</strongs>us, we pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3996'>entrance</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and we will <strongs hebrew='6213 5973'>show</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And when he <strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3996'>entrance</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>; but they let <strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4940'>family</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2850'>Hittites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>thereof <strongs hebrew='3870'>Luz</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>thereof <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs hebrew='3808'>Neither</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><em>the</em> <em>inhabitants</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='1052'>Beth</strongs>-shean and her <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='8590'>Taanach</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>, nor the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1756'>Dor</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>, nor the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2991'>Ibleam</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>, nor the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4023'>Megiddo</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs><strongs hebrew='2974'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2063'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2388'>strong</strongs>, that they <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4522'>tribute</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>utterly drive them <strongs hebrew='3423 3423'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'><strongs hebrew='3808'>Neither</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1507'>Gezer</strongs>; but the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1507'>Gezer</strongs><strongs hebrew='7130'>among</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='30'><strongs hebrew='3808'>Neither</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='2074'>Zebulun</strongs>drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7003'>Kitron</strongs>, nor the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5096'>Nahalol</strongs>; but the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='7130'>among</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs><strongs hebrew='4522'>tributaries</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs hebrew='3808'>Neither</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='836'>Asher</strongs>drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5910'>Accho</strongs>, nor the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6721'>Zidon</strongs>, nor of <strongs hebrew='303'>Ahlab</strongs>, nor of <strongs hebrew='392'>Achzib</strongs>, nor of <strongs hebrew='2462'>Helbah</strongs>, nor of <strongs hebrew='663'>Aphik</strongs>, nor of <strongs hebrew='7340'>Rehob</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='32'>But the <strongs hebrew='843'>Asherites</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='7130'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>drive them <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'><strongs hebrew='3808'>Neither</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='5321'>Naphtali</strongs>drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh, nor the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1043'>Beth</strongs>-anath; but he <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='7130'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: nevertheless the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh and of <strongs hebrew='1043'>Beth</strongs>-anath <strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs><strongs hebrew='4522'>tributaries</strongs>unto them. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs><strongs hebrew='3905'>forced</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>suffer</strongs>them to come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='35'>But the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs><strongs hebrew='2974'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='2776'>Heres</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='357'>Aijalon</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='8169'>Shaalbim</strongs>: yet the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3130'>Joseph</strongs><strongs hebrew='3513'>prevailed</strongs>, so that they <strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs><strongs hebrew='4522'>tributaries</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coast</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs><em>was</em> from the going <strongs hebrew='4480 4608'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6137'>Akrabbim</strongs>, from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5553'>rock</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4605'>upward</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='2'>
            <verse number='1'>And an <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1066'>Bochim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I made you to go <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='7650'>swore</strongs>unto your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>; and I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='3808 5769'>never</strongs><strongs hebrew='6565'>break</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3772'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='1285'>league</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>; ye shall throw <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>: but ye have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>obeyed</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>have ye <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Wherefore I <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>drive them <strongs hebrew='1644 *853'>out</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>you; but they shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><em>as</em> <em>thorns</em> in your <strongs hebrew='6654'>sides</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4170'>snare</strongs>unto you. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And they <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='1066'>Bochim</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And when <strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs>had let <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3423'>possess</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='748 3117 310'>outlived</strongs><strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4639'>works</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5126'>Nun</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, <em>being</em> a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='1366'>border</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8556'>Timnath</strongs>-heres, in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, on the north <strongs hebrew='4480 6828'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2022'>hill</strongs><strongs hebrew='1608'>Gaash</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1755'>generation</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>: and there <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='1755'>generation</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='1571'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4639'>works</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, which brought them <strongs hebrew='3318 *853'>out</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>followed</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='4480 430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>them, and bowed <strongs hebrew='7812'>themselves</strongs>unto them, and <strongs hebrew='3707'>provoked</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3707'>anger</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And they <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6252'>Ashtaroth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And the <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>hot</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8154'>spoilers</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8155'>spoiled</strongs>them, and he <strongs hebrew='4376'>sold</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='4480 5439'>about</strongs>, so that they <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='5750'>longer</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='3605 834'>Whithersoever</strongs>they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>against them for <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7650'>sworn</strongs>unto them: and they were <strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs><strongs hebrew='3334'>distressed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Nevertheless the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>raised <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='3467'>delivered</strongs>them out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of those that <strongs hebrew='8154'>spoiled</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='1571'>yet</strongs>they would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>they went a <strongs hebrew='2181'>whoring</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, and bowed <strongs hebrew='7812'>themselves</strongs>unto them: they <strongs hebrew='5493'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='4118'>quickly</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in, <strongs hebrew='8085'>obeying</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <em>but</em> they <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>raised them <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs>, then the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3467'>delivered</strongs>them out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='5162'>repented</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>because of their <strongs hebrew='4480 5009'>groanings</strongs>by reason of <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>them</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3905'>oppressed</strongs>them and <strongs hebrew='1766'>vexed</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, <em>that</em> they <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7843'>corrupted</strongs><em>themselves</em> more than their <strongs hebrew='4480 1'>fathers</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>following</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>them, and to bow <strongs hebrew='7812'>down</strongs>unto them; they <strongs hebrew='5307'>ceased</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from their own <strongs hebrew='4480 4611'>doings</strongs>, nor from their stubborn <strongs hebrew='4480 1870 7186'>way</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>hot</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3282'>Because</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1471'>people</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5674'>transgressed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs>unto my <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>henceforth</strongs>drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>any</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs>when he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='4616'>That</strongs>through them I may <strongs hebrew='5254'>prove</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, whether <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs>therein, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs><em>it</em> , <strongs hebrew='518'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>Therefore the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5117'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1115'>without</strongs>driving them <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4118'>hastily</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>he them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='3'>
            <verse number='1'>Now <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5117'>left</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5254'>prove</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>by them, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>as <strongs hebrew='3605 834'>many</strongs><em>of</em> <em>Israel</em> as had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>known</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4421'>wars</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3667'>Canaan</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='7535'>Only</strongs><strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1755'>generations</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>might <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3925'>teach</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, at the <strongs hebrew='7535'>least</strongs>such <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nothing</strongs>thereof; </verse>
            <verse number='3'><em>Namely</em> , <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6722'>Sidonians</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2340'>Hivites</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='1179'>Baal</strongs>-hermon <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the entering <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5254'>prove</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>by them, to <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>whether they would <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='7130'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3669'>Canaanites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2850'>Hittites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6522'>Perizzites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2340'>Hivites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2983'>Jebusites</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And they <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>to be their <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>to their <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7911'>forgot</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Therefore the <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>hot</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4376'>sold</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3573'>Cushan</strongs>-rishathaim <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='763'>Mesopotamia</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3573'>Cushan</strongs>-rishathaim <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And when the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>raised <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3467'>deliverer</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='3467'>delivered</strongs>them, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6274'>Othniel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7073'>Kenaz</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3612'>Caleb</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6996'>younger</strongs><strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him, and he <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3573'>Cushan</strongs>-rishathaim <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='763'>Mesopotamia</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='5810'>prevailed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3573'>Cushan</strongs>-rishathaim. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='8252'>rest</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='6274'>Othniel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7073'>Kenaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5700'>Eglon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921 3588'>because</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalek</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3423'>possessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of palm <strongs hebrew='8558'>trees</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>So the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5700'>Eglon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs><strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>But when the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>raised them <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3467'>deliverer</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='261'>Ehud</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1617'>Gera</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='1121 1145'>Benjamite</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='334 3027 3225'>left</strongs>-handed: and by <strongs hebrew='3027'>him</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='5700'>Eglon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>But <strongs hebrew='261'>Ehud</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='2719'>dagger</strongs>which had <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='6366'>edges</strongs>, of a <strongs hebrew='1574'>cubit</strongs><strongs hebrew='753'>length</strongs>; and he did <strongs hebrew='2296'>gird</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>under</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4055'>raiment</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3225'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='3409'>thigh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And he <strongs hebrew='7126'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='5700'>Eglon</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='5700'>Eglon</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='1277'>fat</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>he had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7126'>offer</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs>, he sent <strongs hebrew='7971'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5375'>bore</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>But <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>himself turned <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6456'>quarries</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I have a <strongs hebrew='5643'>secret</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>errand</strongs>unto thee, O <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>: who <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Keep <strongs hebrew='2013'>silence</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>by him went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='261'>Ehud</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3427'>sitting</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='4747'>summer</strongs><strongs hebrew='5944'>parlor</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had for himself <strongs hebrew='905'>alone</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='261'>Ehud</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I have a <strongs hebrew='1697'>message</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee. And he <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='3678'>seat</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='261'>Ehud</strongs>put <strongs hebrew='7971'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8040'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2719'>dagger</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3225'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='3409'>thigh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8628'>thrust</strongs>it into his <strongs hebrew='990'>belly</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And the <strongs hebrew='5325'>haft</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3851'>blade</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='2459'>fat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5462'>closed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3851'>blade</strongs>, so <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he could <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8025'>draw</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2719'>dagger</strongs>out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 990'>belly</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='6574'>dirt</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>Then <strongs hebrew='261'>Ehud</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='4528'>porch</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5462'>shut</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5944'>parlor</strongs>upon <strongs hebrew='1157'>him</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5274'>locked</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>When <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was gone <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>; and when they <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>that, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5944'>parlor</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5274'>locked</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='389'>Surely</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='5526'>covereth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='4747'>summer</strongs><strongs hebrew='2315'>chamber</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And they <strongs hebrew='2342'>tarried</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>they were <strongs hebrew='954'>ashamed</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='6605'>opened</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5944'>parlor</strongs>; therefore they <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4668'>key</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6605'>opened</strongs><em>them</em> : and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, their <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs><em>was</em> fallen <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='261'>Ehud</strongs><strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>while</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='4102'>tarried</strongs>, and passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>beyond</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6456'>quarries</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='8167'>Seirath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when he was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='8628'>blew</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpet</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='7291'>Follow</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>me: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>your <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moabites</strongs>into your <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. And they went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4569'>fords</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>toward <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>suffered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to pass <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And they <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>about <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='8082'>lusty</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>; and there <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>So <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3665'>subdued</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='8252'>rest</strongs><strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='8044'>Shamgar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6067'>Anath</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>with an <strongs hebrew='1241'>ox</strongs><strongs hebrew='4451'>goad</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='3467'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='4'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='261'>Ehud</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='4376'>sold</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2985'>Jabin</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3667'>Canaan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2674'>Hazor</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of whose <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in Harosheth of the <strongs hebrew='2800'>Gentiles</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6817'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1270'>iron</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='2393'>mightily</strongs><strongs hebrew='3905'>oppressed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='1683'>Deborah</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='5031 802'>prophetess</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3941'>Lapidoth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>the palm <strongs hebrew='8560'>tree</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1683'>Deborah</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>her for <strongs hebrew='4941'>judgment</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And she <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='42'>Abinoam</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 6943 5320'>Kedesh</strongs>-naphtali, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, Hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>, <em>saying</em> , <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4900'>draw</strongs>toward <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='8396'>Tabor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5321'>Naphtali</strongs>and of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2074'>Zebulun</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And I will <strongs hebrew='4900'>draw</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5158'>river</strongs><strongs hebrew='7028'>Kishon</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2985'>Jabin</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6635'>army</strongs>, with his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs>; and I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>him into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>thou wilt <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me, then I will <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thou wilt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me, <em>then</em> I will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will surely <strongs hebrew='1980 1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee: <strongs hebrew='3808 57'>notwithstanding</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>journey</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>takest</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>for thine <strongs hebrew='8597'>honor</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='4376'>sell</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1683'>Deborah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6943'>Kedesh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs><strongs hebrew='2199'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2074'>Zebulun</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5321'>Naphtali</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6943'>Kedesh</strongs>; and he went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>at his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1683'>Deborah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Now <strongs hebrew='2268'>Heber</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7014'>Kenite</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>was</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2246'>Hobab</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2859'>father</strongs>-in-law of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>, had severed <strongs hebrew='6504'>himself</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 7017'>Kenites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5186'>pitched</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='436'>plain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6815'>Zaanaim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='6943'>Kedesh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='42'>Abinoam</strongs>was gone <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='8396'>Tabor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>gathered <strongs hebrew='2199'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1270'>iron</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, from Harosheth of the <strongs hebrew='4480 2800'>Gentiles</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5158'>river</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7028'>Kishon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='1683'>Deborah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Up</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: is <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>gone <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee? So <strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='8396'>Tabor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2000'>discomfited</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs>; so that <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>lighted <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariot</strongs>, and fled <strongs hebrew='5127'>away</strongs>on his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>But <strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>Harosheth of the <strongs hebrew='2800'>Gentiles</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>; <em>and</em> there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='259'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Howbeit <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>fled <strongs hebrew='5127'>away</strongs>on his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3278'>Jael</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2268'>Heber</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7017'>Kenite</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='2985'>Jabin</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2674'>Hazor</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2268'>Heber</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7017'>Kenite</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='3278'>Jael</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs><strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, Turn <strongs hebrew='5493'>in</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, turn <strongs hebrew='5493'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me; <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>. And when he had turned <strongs hebrew='5493'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her into the <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='3680'>covered</strongs>him with a <strongs hebrew='8063'>mantle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, Give me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='4592'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8248'>drink</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I am <strongs hebrew='6770'>thirsty</strongs>. And she <strongs hebrew='6605'>opened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4997'>bottle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2461'>milk</strongs>, and gave him <strongs hebrew='8248'>drink</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3680'>covered</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Again he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='5975'>Stand</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6607'>door</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>, and it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>when</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>doth <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7592'>inquire</strongs>of thee, and <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3426'>Is</strongs>there any <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs>? that thou shalt <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='369'>No</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Then <strongs hebrew='3278'>Jael</strongs><strongs hebrew='2268'>Heber</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3489'>nail</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4718'>hammer</strongs>in her <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='3814'>softly</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='8628'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3489'>nail</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='7451'>temples</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6795'>fastened</strongs>it into the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was fast <strongs hebrew='7290'>asleep</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5774'>weary</strongs>. So he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3278'>Jael</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, and I will <strongs hebrew='7200'>show</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>seekest</strongs>. And when he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>her <em>tent</em> , <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3489'>nail</strongs><em>was</em> in his <strongs hebrew='7451'>temples</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>So <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='3665'>subdued</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2985'>Jabin</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3667'>Canaan</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>prospered</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980 7186'>prevailed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2985'>Jabin</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3667'>Canaan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704 834'>until</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='3772'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2985'>Jabin</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3667'>Canaan</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='5'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='7891'>sang</strongs><strongs hebrew='1683'>Deborah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='42'>Abinoam</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='1288'>Praise</strongs>ye the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='6544 6546'>avenging</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>willingly offered <strongs hebrew='5068'>themselves</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs>, O ye <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>; give <strongs hebrew='238'>ear</strongs>, O ye <strongs hebrew='7336'>princes</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>, will <strongs hebrew='7891'>sing</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; I will <strongs hebrew='2167'>sing</strongs><em>praise</em> to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, when thou wentest <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 8165'>Seir</strongs>, when thou <strongs hebrew='6805'>marchedst</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7704'>field</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs><strongs hebrew='7493'>trembled</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>and</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heavens</strongs><strongs hebrew='5197'>dropped</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5645'>clouds</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='5197'>dropped</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>The <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs><strongs hebrew='5140'>melted</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5514'>Sinai</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>In the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8044'>Shamgar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6067'>Anath</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3278'>Jael</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='734'>highways</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='2308'>unoccupied</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1980 5410'>travelers</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>through <strongs hebrew='734 6128'>byways</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><em>The</em> <em>inhabitants</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='6520'>villages</strongs><strongs hebrew='2308'>ceased</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='2308'>ceased</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, until <strongs hebrew='5704'>that</strongs>that I <strongs hebrew='1683'>Deborah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7945 6965'>arose</strongs>, that I <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>They <strongs hebrew='977'>chose</strongs><strongs hebrew='2319'>new</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='227'>then</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3901'>war</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gates</strongs>: was there a <strongs hebrew='4043'>shield</strongs>or <strongs hebrew='7420'>spear</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>My <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><em>is</em> toward the <strongs hebrew='2710'>governors</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, that offered themselves <strongs hebrew='5068'>willingly</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='1288'>Bless</strongs>ye the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='7878'>Speak</strongs>, ye that <strongs hebrew='7392'>ride</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='6715'>white</strongs><strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs>, ye that <strongs hebrew='3427'>sit</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='4055'>judgment</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><em>They</em> <em>that</em> <em>are</em> <em>delivered</em> from the <strongs hebrew='4480 6963'>noise</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2686'>archers</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>in</strongs>the places of drawing <strongs hebrew='4857'>water</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>shall they <strongs hebrew='8567'>rehearse</strongs>the righteous <strongs hebrew='6666'>acts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>even</em> the righteous <strongs hebrew='6666'>acts</strongs><em>toward</em> <em>the</em> <em>inhabitants</em> of his <strongs hebrew='6520'>villages</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='227'>then</strongs>shall the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gates</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='5782'>Awake</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5782'>awake</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1683'>Deborah</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5782'>awake</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5782'>awake</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1696'>utter</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7892'>song</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6965'>arise</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs>, and lead thy captivity <strongs hebrew='7617 7628'>captive</strongs>, thou <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='42'>Abinoam</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs>he made him that <strongs hebrew='8300'>remaineth</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='7287'>dominion</strongs>over the <strongs hebrew='117'>nobles</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>made me have <strongs hebrew='7287'>dominion</strongs>over the <strongs hebrew='1368'>mighty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs><em>was</em> <em>there</em> a <strongs hebrew='8328'>root</strongs>of them against <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalek</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, among thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>; out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='4353'>Machir</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='2710'>governors</strongs>, and out of <strongs hebrew='4480 2074'>Zebulun</strongs>they that <strongs hebrew='4900'>handle</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>pen</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5608'>writer</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3485'>Issachar</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1683'>Deborah</strongs>; even <strongs hebrew='3485'>Issachar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3651'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='1301'>Barak</strongs>: he was <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='7272'>foot</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>. For the <strongs hebrew='6391'>divisions</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7205'>Reuben</strongs><em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2711'>thoughts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abodest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='996'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4942'>sheepfolds</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8292'>bleatings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5739'>flocks</strongs>? For the <strongs hebrew='6391'>divisions</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7205'>Reuben</strongs><em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2714'>searchings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs><strongs hebrew='7931'>abode</strongs><strongs hebrew='5676'>beyond</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs><strongs hebrew='1481'>remain</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='591'>ships</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='836'>Asher</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>continued</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs><strongs hebrew='2348'>shore</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7931'>abode</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4664'>breaches</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs hebrew='2074'>Zebulun</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5321'>Naphtali</strongs><em>were</em> a <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='2778'>jeopardized</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5315'>lives</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='4791'>places</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>The <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='227'>then</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3667'>Canaan</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8590'>Taanach</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4023'>Megiddo</strongs>; they <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='1214'>gain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>They <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='3556'>stars</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='4480 4546'>courses</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>The <strongs hebrew='5158'>river</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7028'>Kishon</strongs>swept them <strongs hebrew='1640'>away</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='6917'>ancient</strongs><strongs hebrew='5158'>river</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5158'>river</strongs><strongs hebrew='7028'>Kishon</strongs>. O my <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>, thou hast trodden <strongs hebrew='1869'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5797'>strength</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs>were the <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='6119'>hooves</strongs><strongs hebrew='1986'>broken</strongs>by the means of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1726'>prancings</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1726'>prancings</strongs>of their mighty <strongs hebrew='47'>ones</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='779'>Curse</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='4789'>Meroz</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, curse ye <strongs hebrew='779 779'>bitterly</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>thereof; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='5833'>help</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='5833'>help</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='1368'>mighty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs>above <strongs hebrew='4480 802'>women</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3278'>Jael</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2268'>Heber</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7017'>Kenite</strongs>be, <strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs>shall she be above <strongs hebrew='4480 802'>women</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>He <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, <em>and</em> she <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='2461'>milk</strongs>; she brought <strongs hebrew='7126'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2529'>butter</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='117'>lordly</strongs><strongs hebrew='5602'>dish</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>She <strongs hebrew='7971'>put</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3489'>nail</strongs>, and her right <strongs hebrew='3225'>hand</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='6001'>workmen</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1989'>hammer</strongs>; and with the hammer she <strongs hebrew='1986'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>, she smote <strongs hebrew='4277'>off</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, when she had <strongs hebrew='4272'>pierced</strongs>and stricken <strongs hebrew='2498'>through</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7451'>temples</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs hebrew='996'>At</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3766'>bowed</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>, he lay <strongs hebrew='7901'>down</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='996'>at</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3766'>bowed</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='834'>where</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3766'>bowed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>he fell <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='7703'>dead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>The <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>looked <strongs hebrew='8259'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>at</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2474'>window</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2980'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='822'>lattice</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4069'>Why</strongs><strongs hebrew='954'>is</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs><em>so</em> <strongs hebrew='954'>long</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='935'>coming</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='4069'>why</strongs><strongs hebrew='309'>tarry</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6471'>wheels</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariots</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Her <strongs hebrew='2450'>wise</strongs><strongs hebrew='8282'>ladies</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='637'>yea</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='561'>answer</strongs>to herself, </verse>
            <verse number='30'>Have they <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>sped</strongs>? have they <em>not</em> <strongs hebrew='2505'>divided</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7998'>prey</strongs>; to <strongs hebrew='7218'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='1397'>man</strongs>a damsel <em>or</em> <strongs hebrew='7356 7356'>two</strongs>; to <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7998'>prey</strongs>of divers <strongs hebrew='6648'>colors</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='7998'>prey</strongs>of divers <strongs hebrew='6648'>colors</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7553'>needlework</strongs>, of divers <strongs hebrew='6648'>colors</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7553'>needlework</strongs>on both sides, <em>meet</em> for the <strongs hebrew='6677'>necks</strongs>of <em>them</em> <em>that</em> <em>take</em> the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs hebrew='3651'>So</strongs>let <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs><strongs hebrew='6'>perish</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: but <em>let</em> them that <strongs hebrew='157'>love</strongs>him <em>be</em> as the <strongs hebrew='8121'>sun</strongs>when he goeth <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='1369'>might</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='8252'>rest</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='6'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs><strongs hebrew='5810'>prevailed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>because</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4492'>dens</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>are</em> in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4631'>caves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4679'>strongholds</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <em>so</em> it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='2232'>sown</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6003'>Amalekites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6924'>east</strongs>, even they came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>them; </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And they <strongs hebrew='2583'>encamped</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2981'>increase</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='5804'>Gaza</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4241'>sustenance</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, neither <strongs hebrew='7716'>sheep</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='7794'>ox</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>with their <strongs hebrew='4735'>cattle</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='697'>grasshoppers</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='7230'>multitude</strongs>; <em>for</em> both <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='369'>without</strongs><strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='935'>entered</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs><strongs hebrew='1809'>impoverished</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>because</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>because <strongs hebrew='5921 182'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='8'>That the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>brought you <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and brought you <strongs hebrew='3318 *853'>forth</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5650'>bondage</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And I <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs>you out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egyptians</strongs>, and out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3905'>oppressed</strongs>you, and drove them <strongs hebrew='1644 *853'>out</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>you, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto you, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>am</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='834'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>: but ye have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>obeyed</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='424'>oak</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='6084'>Ophrah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>pertained</em> unto <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='33'>Abi</strongs>-ezrite: and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='2251'>threshed</strongs><strongs hebrew='2406'>wheat</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1660'>winepress</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5127'>hide</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>appeared</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee, thou mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='994'>Oh</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>Lord</strongs>, if the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3426'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us, <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>then is <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>befallen</strongs>us? and <strongs hebrew='346'>where</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6381'>miracles</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs><strongs hebrew='5608'>told</strongs>us of, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>bring us <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>? but <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5203'>forsaken</strongs>us, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>us into the <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>looked</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Go <strongs hebrew='1980'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='3581'>might</strongs>, and thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3709'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>: have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>thee? </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='994'>Oh</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='136'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherewith</strongs>shall I <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='504'>family</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1800'>poor</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><em>am</em> the <strongs hebrew='6810'>least</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3588'>Surely</strongs>I will <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee, and thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>grace</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>, then <strongs hebrew='6213'>show</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='226'>sign</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7945 859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>talkest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs hebrew='4185'>Depart</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 2088'>hence</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, and bring <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5117'>set</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3427'>tarry</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>thou come <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, and made <strongs hebrew='6213'>ready</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1423 5795'>kid</strongs>, and unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>cakes</strongs>of an <strongs hebrew='374'>ephah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7058'>flour</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='5536'>basket</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4839'>broth</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='6517'>pot</strongs>, and brought <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413 8478'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='424'>oak</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5066'>presented</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>and the unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>cakes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5117'>lay</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1975'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs>, and pour <strongs hebrew='8210'>out</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4839'>broth</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>put <strongs hebrew='7971'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7097'>end</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4938'>staff</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5060'>touched</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>and the unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>cakes</strongs>; and there rose <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6697'>rock</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>consumed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>and the unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>cakes</strongs>. Then the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 5869'>sight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And when <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>perceived</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> an <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='162'>Alas</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='136'>Lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='3069'>GOD</strongs>! <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>because</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='7965'>Peace</strongs><em>be</em> unto thee; <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>: thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>Then <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='3073'>Jehovah</strongs>-shalom: <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>it <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6084'>Ophrah</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='33'>Abi</strongs>-ezrites. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s young <strongs hebrew='6499 7794'>bullock</strongs>, even the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='6499'>bullock</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>old, and throw <strongs hebrew='2040'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>hath, and cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>it: </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4581'>rock</strongs>, in the ordered <strongs hebrew='4634'>place</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='6499'>bullock</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs>a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>sacrifice</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6086'>wood</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou shalt cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Then <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4480 5650'>servants</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him: and <em>so</em> it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>because</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3372'>feared</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, that he could not <strongs hebrew='4480 6213'>do</strongs><em>it</em> by <strongs hebrew='3119'>day</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>it</em> by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And when the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>arose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>was cast <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs>was cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>it, and the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='6499'>bullock</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>? And when they <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquired</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1245'>asked</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>Then the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>, Bring <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, that he may <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he hath cast <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he hath cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him, Will <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='7378'>plead</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>? will <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>him? he <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='7378'>plead</strongs>for him, let him be put to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>whilst</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> <em>yet</em> <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>, let him <strongs hebrew='7378'>plead</strongs>for himself, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><em>one</em> hath cast <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>Therefore on <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs><strongs hebrew='7378'>plead</strongs>against him, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he hath thrown <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>Then <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6003'>Amalekites</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6924'>east</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3162'>together</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>But the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3847'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='8628'>blew</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpet</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='44'>Abi</strongs>-ezer was <strongs hebrew='2199'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='1931'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2199'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him: and he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='836'>Asher</strongs>, and unto <strongs hebrew='2074'>Zebulun</strongs>, and unto <strongs hebrew='5321'>Naphtali</strongs>; and they came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs><strongs hebrew='*3426'>thou</strongs>wilt <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>by mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='37'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3322'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1492'>fleece</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6785'>wool</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1637'>floor</strongs>; <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2919'>dew</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1492'>fleece</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs>, and <em>it</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='2721'>dry</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs><em>beside</em> , then shall I <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thou wilt <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>by mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>: for he rose up <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2115'>thrust</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1492'>fleece</strongs><strongs hebrew='2115'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4680'>wrung</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2919'>dew</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1492'>fleece</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='5602'>bowl</strongs><strongs hebrew='4392'>full</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='2734'>hot</strongs>against me and I will <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='389'>but</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='6471'>once</strongs>: let me <strongs hebrew='5254'>prove</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7535'>but</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='6471'>once</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1492'>fleece</strongs>; let it <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='2721'>dry</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1492'>fleece</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>let there <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='2919'>dew</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>And <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>: for it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='2721'>dry</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1492'>fleece</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs>, and there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='2919'>dew</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='7'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>who</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, rose up <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>beside</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5878'>well</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5878'>Harod</strongs>: so that the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>on the north <strongs hebrew='4480 6828'>side</strongs>of them, by the <strongs hebrew='4480 1389'>hill</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4176'>Moreh</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thee <em>are</em> too <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>for me to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>into their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6435'>lest</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>vaunt <strongs hebrew='6286'>themselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Mine own <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3467'>saved</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='6288'>Now</strongs>therefore go <strongs hebrew='4994'>to</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7121'>proclaim</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Whosoever</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3373'>fearful</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2730'>afraid</strongs>, let him <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>and depart <strongs hebrew='6852'>early</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>. And there <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>; and there <strongs hebrew='7604'>remained</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><em>too</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>; bring them <strongs hebrew='3381 *853'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, and I will <strongs hebrew='6884'>try</strongs>them for thee <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>: and it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>, <em>that</em> of <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thee, the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thee; and of <strongs hebrew='3605 834'>whomsoever</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee, the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>So he brought <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, Every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3952'>lappeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='3956'>tongue</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3611'>dog</strongs><strongs hebrew='3952'>lappeth</strongs>, him shalt thou <strongs hebrew='3322'>set</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='905'>himself</strongs>; likewise every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>boweth <strongs hebrew='3766'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1290'>knees</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of them that <strongs hebrew='3952'>lapped</strongs>, <em>putting</em> their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>bowed <strongs hebrew='3766'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1290'>knees</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, By the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3952'>lapped</strongs>will I <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>you, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: and let <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>So the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6720'>victuals</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpets</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>the</em> <em>rest</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>retained</strongs>those <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>beneath</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Arise</strongs>, get thee <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>it into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>But <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3381'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='6513'>Phurah</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And thou shalt <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1696'>say</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='310'>afterward</strongs>shall thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthened</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>. Then went he <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='6513'>Phurah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7097'>outside</strongs>of the armed <strongs hebrew='2571'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6003'>Amalekites</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6924'>east</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>lay</strongs>along in the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>like <strongs hebrew='697'>grasshoppers</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='7230'>multitude</strongs>; and their <strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>without</strongs><strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>, as the <strongs hebrew='2344'>sand</strongs><strongs hebrew='7945 5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs><strongs hebrew='8193'>side</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='7230'>multitude</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And when <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5608'>told</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2472'>dream</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='7453'>fellow</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='2492'>dreamed</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2472'>dream</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>lo</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='6742'>cake</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8184'>barley</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='2015'>tumbled</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>it that it <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2015 4605'>overturned</strongs>it, that the <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>lay <strongs hebrew='5307'>along</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And his <strongs hebrew='7453'>fellow</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2063'>This</strongs><em>is</em> nothing <strongs hebrew='369'>else</strongs><strongs hebrew='1115 518'>save</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <em>for</em> into his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so</em> , when <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4557'>telling</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2472'>dream</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7667'>interpretation</strongs>thereof, that he <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Arise</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>into your <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='2673'>divided</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><em>into</em> <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>companies</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpet</strongs>in every <strongs hebrew='3605'>man</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='7386'>empty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3537'>pitchers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3940'>lamps</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>within</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3537'>pitchers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='7200'>Look</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>on</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>likewise</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='7097'>outside</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>, it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><em>that</em> , <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>When I <strongs hebrew='8628'>blow</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpet</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me, then <strongs hebrew='8628'>blow</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpets</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>on every <strongs hebrew='5439'>side</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <em>The</em> <em>sword</em> of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>So <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='7097'>outside</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7218'>beginning</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8484'>middle</strongs><strongs hebrew='821'>watch</strongs>; and they had <strongs hebrew='389'>but</strongs>newly <strongs hebrew='6965 6965'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8104'>watch</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='8628'>blew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpets</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5310'>broke</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3537'>pitchers</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>companies</strongs><strongs hebrew='8628'>blew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpets</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7665'>broke</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3537'>pitchers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>held</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3940'>lamps</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='8040'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpets</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='3225'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8628'>blow</strongs><em>withal</em> : and they <strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And they <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>place</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs><strongs hebrew='7323'>ran</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7321'>cried</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='8628'>blew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpets</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>against his <strongs hebrew='7453'>fellow</strongs>, even throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1029'>Beth</strongs>-shittah in <strongs hebrew='6888'>Zererath</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8193'>border</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='65'>Abel</strongs>-meholah, <strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2888'>Tabbath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6817'>together</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 5321'>Naphtali</strongs>, and out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='836'>Asher</strongs>, and out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3920'>take</strongs>before them <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1012'>Beth</strongs>-barah and <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>. Then <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6817'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1012'>Beth</strongs>-barah and <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And they <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6159'>Oreb</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2062'>Zeeb</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6159'>Oreb</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='6697'>rock</strongs><strongs hebrew='6159'>Oreb</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2062'>Zeeb</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='3342'>winepress</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2062'>Zeeb</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7291 413'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>heads</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6159'>Oreb</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2062'>Zeeb</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>on the other <strongs hebrew='4480 5676'>side</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='8'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='6213'>served</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='2088'>thus</strongs>, that thou <strongs hebrew='7121'>calledst</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='1115'>not</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='1980'>wentest</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midianites</strongs>? And they did <strongs hebrew='7378'>chide</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='2394'>sharply</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>in comparison of you? <em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the gleaning of the <strongs hebrew='5955'>grapes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs>than the <strongs hebrew='4480 1210'>vintage</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='44'>Abi</strongs>-ezer? </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>into your <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6159'>Oreb</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2062'>Zeeb</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>was I <strongs hebrew='3201'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>in comparison of you? <strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='7307'>anger</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7503'>abated</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>toward</strongs>him, when he had <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>that</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>, <em>and</em> passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='5889'>faint</strongs>, yet <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursuing</strongs><em>them</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5523'>Succoth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Give</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>you</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3603'>loaves</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7272'>follow</strongs>me; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5889'>faint</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>am <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursuing</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5523'>Succoth</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Are</em> the <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>we should <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>unto thine <strongs hebrew='6635'>army</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>Therefore</strongs>when the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs>into mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, then I will <strongs hebrew='1758'>tear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>your <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6975'>thorns</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1303'>briers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6439'>Penuel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='2063'>likewise</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6439'>Penuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5523'>Succoth</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><em>him</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6439'>Penuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, When I come <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>, I will break <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Now <strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='7174'>Karkor</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='4264'>hosts</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them, about <strongs hebrew='2568 6240'>fifteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><em>men</em> , <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='3498'>left</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>hosts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6924'>east</strongs>: for there <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs><strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of them that <strongs hebrew='7931'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 6924'>east</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5025'>Nobah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3011'>Jogbehah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>: for the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='983'>secure</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And when <strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2729'>discomfited</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 4608'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2775'>sun</strongs><em>was</em> <em>up</em> , </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='3920'>caught</strongs>a young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5523'>Succoth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7592'>inquired</strongs>of him: and he <strongs hebrew='3789'>described</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5523'>Succoth</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>thereof, <em>even</em> threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657 7651'>seventeen</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5523'>Succoth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs><strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>ye did <strongs hebrew='2778'>upbraid</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <em>Are</em> the <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>we should <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>unto thy <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><em>that</em> <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3287'>weary</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6975'>thorns</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1303'>briers</strongs>, and with them he <strongs hebrew='3045'>taught</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5523'>Succoth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And he beat <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6439'>Penuel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs>, What <strongs hebrew='375'>manner</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><em>were</em> <em>they</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='8396'>Tabor</strongs>? And they <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, As <strongs hebrew='3644'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> , so <em>were</em> they; each <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='8389'>resembled</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>They</strongs><em>were</em> my <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, <em>even</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>: <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3863'>if</strongs>ye had saved them <strongs hebrew='2421 *853'>alive</strongs>, I would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2026'>slay</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3500'>Jether</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1060'>firstborn</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Up</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='2026'>slay</strongs>them. But the <strongs hebrew='5288'>youth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3372'>feared</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5288'>youth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Then <strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Rise</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6293'>fall</strongs>upon us: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>as the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><em>is,</em> <em>so</em> <em>is</em> his <strongs hebrew='1369'>strength</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2078'>Zebah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6759'>Zalmunna</strongs>, and took <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7720'>ornaments</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> on their <strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='6677'>necks</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Then the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4910'>Rule</strongs>thou over us, <strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>and</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='3467'>delivered</strongs>us from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4910'>rule</strongs>over you, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>shall my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4910'>rule</strongs>over you: the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='4910'>rule</strongs>over you. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, I would <strongs hebrew='7592'>desire</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7596'>request</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>you, that ye would <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>me every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5141'>earrings</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7998'>prey</strongs>. ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='5141'>earrings</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3459'>Ishmaelites</strongs>.) </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, We will willingly <strongs hebrew='5414 5414'>give</strongs><em>them</em> . And they <strongs hebrew='6566'>spread</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8071'>garment</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>therein</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5141'>earrings</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7998'>prey</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And the <strongs hebrew='4948'>weight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='5141'>earrings</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7592'>requested</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><em>shekels</em> of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='905 4480'>beside</strongs><strongs hebrew='7720'>ornaments</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5188'>collars</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='713'>purple</strongs><strongs hebrew='899'>raiment</strongs>that <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7945 5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='905 4480'>beside</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6060'>chains</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> about their <strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='6677'>necks</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='3322'>put</strongs>it in his <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <em>even</em> in <strongs hebrew='6084'>Ophrah</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went thither a <strongs hebrew='2181 8033'>whoring</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>it: which thing <strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4170'>snare</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, and to his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Thus was <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs><strongs hebrew='3665'>subdued</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, so that they lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='7218'>heads</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='776'>country</strongs>was in <strongs hebrew='8252'>quietness</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in his own <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs>threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='3409'>body</strongs><strongs hebrew='3318'>begotten</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And his <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='3205'>bore</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7760'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>old <strongs hebrew='7872'>age</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulcher</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='6084'>Ophrah</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='33'>Abi</strongs>-ezrites. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as soon <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>turned <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>, and went a <strongs hebrew='2181'>whoring</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='1170'>Baal</strongs>-berith their <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2142'>remembered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, who had <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>them out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hands</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>on every <strongs hebrew='4480 5439'>side</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='35'><strongs hebrew='3808'>Neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>showed</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='2617'>kindness</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>, <em>namely</em> , <strongs hebrew='1439'>Gideon</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2896'>goodness</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='6213'>showed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='9'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>communed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4940'>family</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='1696'>Speak</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>you</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Whether</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs>for you, either that <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>are</em> threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>persons</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4910'>reign</strongs>over you, <strongs hebrew='518'>or</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='4910'>reign</strongs>over you? <strongs hebrew='2142'>remember</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>am</em> your <strongs hebrew='6106'>bone</strongs>and your <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>: and their <strongs hebrew='3820'>hearts</strongs>inclined to <strongs hebrew='5186 310'>follow</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><em>is</em> our <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And they <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><em>pieces</em> of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1170'>Baal</strongs>-berith, wherewith <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='7936'>hired</strongs><strongs hebrew='7386'>vain</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6348'>light</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>persons</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>followed</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='6084'>Ophrah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>, <em>being</em> threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>persons</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>: notwithstanding yet <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6996'>youngest</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3498'>left</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he hid <strongs hebrew='2244'>himself</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>gathered <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the house of <strongs hebrew='1037'>Millo</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5973'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='436'>plain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5324'>pillar</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And when they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><em>it</em> to <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='1630'>Gerizim</strongs>, and lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hearken</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me, ye <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>The <strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='1980 1980'>forth</strongs><em>on</em> <em>a</em> <em>time</em> to <strongs hebrew='4886'>anoint</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them; and they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the olive <strongs hebrew='2132'>tree</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4427'>Reign</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>But the olive <strongs hebrew='2132'>tree</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, Should I <strongs hebrew='2308'>leave</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1880'>fatness</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>wherewith</strongs>by me they <strongs hebrew='3513'>honor</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='5128'>promoted</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to the fig <strongs hebrew='8384'>tree</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>But the fig <strongs hebrew='8384'>tree</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, Should I <strongs hebrew='2308'>forsake</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='4987'>sweetness</strongs>, and my <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='8570'>fruit</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='5128'>promoted</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1612'>vine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='1612'>vine</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, Should I <strongs hebrew='2308'>leave</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='8492'>wine</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='8055'>cheereth</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='5128'>promoted</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='329'>bramble</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='329'>bramble</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='571'>truth</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='4886'>anoint</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>you, <em>then</em> <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><em>and</em> put your <strongs hebrew='2620'>trust</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='6738'>shadow</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>, let <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='329'>bramble</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>devour</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='730'>cedars</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='571'>truly</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8549'>sincerely</strongs>, in that ye have made Abimelech <strongs hebrew='4427 *853 40'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='6213'>dealt</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>well</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>unto him according to the <strongs hebrew='1576'>deserving</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='17'>( <strongs hebrew='834'>For</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>you, and <strongs hebrew='7993'>adventured</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5048'>far</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs>you out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4080'>Midian</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>are risen <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='2026'>slain</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>persons</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>, and have made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='519'>maidservant</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>is</em> your <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>;) </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>ye then have <strongs hebrew='6213'>dealt</strongs><strongs hebrew='571'>truly</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8549'>sincerely</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <em>then</em> <strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoice</strongs>ye in <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>, and let <strongs hebrew='1931'>him</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoice</strongs>in you: </verse>
            <verse number='20'>But <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>, let <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 40'>Abimelech</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>devour</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4407'>Millo</strongs>; and let <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, and from the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4407'>Millo</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>devour</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>ran <strongs hebrew='5127'>away</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='876'>Beer</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>fear</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>When <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7786'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='23'>Then <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>dealt <strongs hebrew='898'>treacherously</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='24'>That the <strongs hebrew='2555'>cruelty</strongs><em>done</em> to the threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>might <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>them; and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388 *853 3027'>aided</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='2026'>killing</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs>liers in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>for him <strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='1497'>robbed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5674'>along</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>them: and it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='1603'>Gaal</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5651'>Ebed</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>put their <strongs hebrew='982'>confidence</strongs>in him. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='7704'>fields</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1219'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1869'>trod</strongs><em>the</em> <em>grapes</em> , and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='1974'>merry</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='935'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7043'>cursed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <strongs hebrew='1603'>Gaal</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5651'>Ebed</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>we should <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>him? <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>he</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='2083'>Zebul</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6496'>officer</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2544'>Hamor</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7928'>Shechem</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='4069'>why</strongs>should <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>him? </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And would to <strongs hebrew='4310 5414'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were under my <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>! then would I <strongs hebrew='5493'>remove</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7235'>Increase</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='6635'>army</strongs>, and come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And when <strongs hebrew='2083'>Zebul</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>ruler</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1603'>Gaal</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5651'>Ebed</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>kindled</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='8649'>privily</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1603'>Gaal</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5651'>Ebed</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>; and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='6696'>fortify</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='32'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thee, and lie in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>, <em>that</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, as soon as the <strongs hebrew='8121'>sun</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='2224'>up</strongs>, thou shalt rise <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6584'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>when</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>thee, then mayest thou <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>to them <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>occasion</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, and they laid <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>companies</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And <strongs hebrew='1603'>Gaal</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5651'>Ebed</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6607'>entering</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>lying in <strongs hebrew='3993'>wait</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And when <strongs hebrew='1603'>Gaal</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2083'>Zebul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, there come people <strongs hebrew='3381 5971'>down</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 7218'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='2083'>Zebul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='859'>Thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>seest</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6738'>shadow</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>as <em>if</em> <em>they</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>And <strongs hebrew='1603'>Gaal</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>See</strongs>there come people <strongs hebrew='3381 5971'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2872'>middle</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='259'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>company</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>along <strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='436'>plain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6049'>Meonenim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='2083'>Zebul</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='346'>Where</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='645'>now</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>wherewith</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='559'>saidst</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>we should <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>him? <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='3988'>despised</strongs>? go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='4994'>pray</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>with them. </verse>
            <verse number='39'>And <strongs hebrew='1603'>Gaal</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>And <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>chased</strongs>him, and he <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5307'>overthrown</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='2491'>wounded</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6607'>entering</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='41'>And <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='725'>Arumah</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='2083'>Zebul</strongs>thrust <strongs hebrew='1644'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1603'>Gaal</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, that they should not <strongs hebrew='4480 3427'>dwell</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='42'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='43'>And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2673'>divided</strongs>them into <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>companies</strongs>, and laid <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>looked</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>were</em> come <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>; and he rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='44'>And <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7218'>company</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, rushed <strongs hebrew='6584'>forward</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6607'>entering</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='7218'>companies</strongs><strongs hebrew='6584'>ran</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>the</em> <em>people</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>fields</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='45'>And <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> therein, and beat <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2232'>sowed</strongs>it with <strongs hebrew='4417'>salt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='46'>And when <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>that</em> , they <strongs hebrew='935'>entered</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6877'>hold</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='410'>god</strongs><strongs hebrew='1286'>Berith</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='47'>And it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>were gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='48'>And <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>got him <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='6756'>Zalmon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him; and <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>an <strongs hebrew='7134'>axe</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7754'>bough</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>took</strongs>it, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7926'>shoulder</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>, make <strongs hebrew='4116'>haste</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='3644'>I</strongs><em>have</em> <em>done</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='49'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>likewise</strongs>cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7754'>bough</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>followed</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6877'>hold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3341'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6877'>hold</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them; so that <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>, about a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='50'>Then <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8405'>Thebez</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>encamped</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='8405'>Thebez</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='51'>But there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5797'>strong</strongs><strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>within</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='1167'>they</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5462'>shut</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='1157'>to</strongs>them, and got them <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1406'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='52'>And <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>against it, and went <strongs hebrew='5066'>hard</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6607'>door</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8313'>burn</strongs>it with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='53'>And a <strongs hebrew='259'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6400'>piece</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='7393'>millstone</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and all to <strongs hebrew='7533'>broke</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1538'>skull</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='54'>Then he <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='4120'>hastily</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5375 3627'>armorbearer</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='8025'>Draw</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='6435'>that</strongs>men <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>not of me, A <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>him. And his young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>thrust him <strongs hebrew='1856'>through</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='55'>And when the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='56'>Thus <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>rendered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>wickedness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='2026'>slaying</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs><strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='57'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>render</strongs>upon their <strongs hebrew='7218'>heads</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7045'>curse</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='10'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='40'>Abimelech</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3467'>defend</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8439'>Tola</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6312'>Puah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1734'>Dodo</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3485'>Issachar</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8069'>Shamir</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8069'>Shamir</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs><strongs hebrew='2971'>Jair</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='1569'>Gileadite</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7392'>rode</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>ass <strongs hebrew='5895'>colts</strongs>, and they had <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, which are <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='2334'>Havoth</strongs>-jair <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>are</em> in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='2971'>Jair</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7056'>Camon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6252'>Ashtaroth</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6721'>Zidon</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>hot</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4376'>sold</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7492'>vexed</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7533'>oppressed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> on the other <strongs hebrew='5676'>side</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Moreover the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and against <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, and against the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>; so that <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3966'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3334'>distressed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, We have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>against thee, both <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and also <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='3413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>Did</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>I</em> <em>deliver</em> <em>you</em> from the <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egyptians</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='12'>The <strongs hebrew='6722'>Zidonians</strongs>also, and the <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalekites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4584'>Maonites</strongs>, did <strongs hebrew='3905'>oppress</strongs>you; and ye <strongs hebrew='6817'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, and I <strongs hebrew='3467'>delivered</strongs>you out of their <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Yet <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3651'>wherefore</strongs>I will <strongs hebrew='3467'>deliver</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2199'>cry</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>; let <strongs hebrew='1992'>them</strongs><strongs hebrew='3467'>deliver</strongs>you in the <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='6869'>tribulation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, We have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>unto us <strongs hebrew='3605'>whatsoever</strongs>seemeth <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='5869'>unto</strongs>thee; <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='389'>only</strongs>, we pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And they put <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5236'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 7130'>among</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and his <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7114'>grieved</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='5999'>misery</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Then the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>were gathered <strongs hebrew='6817'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>encamped</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>assembled themselves <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>encamped</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><em>is</em> <em>he</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='2490'>begin</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>? he shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='11'>
            <verse number='1'>Now <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1569'>Gileadite</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='802 2181'>harlot</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs><strongs hebrew='3205'>begot</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs><strongs hebrew='3205'>bore</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>grew <strongs hebrew='1431'>up</strongs>, and they thrust <strongs hebrew='1644'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5157'>inherit</strongs>in our <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='312'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>from</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2897'>Tob</strongs>: and there were <strongs hebrew='3950'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='7386'>vain</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in process of <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>time</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='3898'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>so, that <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='3898'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetch</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2897'>Tob</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='7101'>captain</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>, Did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='8130'>hate</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='1644'>expel</strongs>me out of my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4069'>why</strongs>are ye <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>ye are in <strongs hebrew='6862'>distress</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>Therefore</strongs>we turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, that thou mayest <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>bring me home <strongs hebrew='7725 *853'>again</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me, shall <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>witness</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>us, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>according to thy <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Then <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>made</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7101'>captain</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them: and <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>uttered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>hast thou to do with me, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thou art <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>Because</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, when they came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 769'>Arnon</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2999'>Jabbok</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore restore those <em>lands</em> <strongs hebrew='7725 *853'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>peaceably</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254 5750'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs><strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>took not <strongs hebrew='3947 3808'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, nor the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='3588'>But</strongs>when <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5488'>Red</strongs><strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6946'>Kadesh</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Then <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Let me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5674'>pass</strongs>through thy <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs><em>thereto</em> . And in like <strongs hebrew='1571'>manner</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>: but he <strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>consent</em> : and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6946'>Kadesh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then they went <strongs hebrew='1980'>along</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5437'>compassed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>by the east <strongs hebrew='4480 4217 8121'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>on the other <strongs hebrew='5676'>side</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='769'>Arnon</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>within the <strongs hebrew='1366'>border</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='769'>Arnon</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='1366'>border</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='5511'>Sihon</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2809'>Heshbon</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Let us <strongs hebrew='5674'>pass</strongs>, we pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, through thy <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>into</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>But <strongs hebrew='5511'>Sihon</strongs><strongs hebrew='539'>trusted</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5674'>pass</strongs>through his <strongs hebrew='1366'>coast</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='5511'>Sihon</strongs>gathered all his people <strongs hebrew='622 *853 3605 5971'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3096'>Jahaz</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5511'>Sihon</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them: so <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3423'>possessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>country</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And they <strongs hebrew='3423'>possessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coasts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 769'>Arnon</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2999'>Jabbok</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>So <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3423'>dispossessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and shouldest <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='3423'>possess</strongs>it? </verse>
            <verse number='24'>Wilt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='3423'>possess</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3645'>Chemosh</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>giveth thee to <strongs hebrew='3423'>possess</strongs>? So <strongs hebrew='3605 834'>whomsoever</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>shall drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>us, them will we <strongs hebrew='3423'>possess</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>any thing <strongs hebrew='2896 2896'>better</strongs>than <strongs hebrew='4480 1111'>Balak</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6834'>Zippor</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>? did he ever <strongs hebrew='7378 7378'>strive</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>or</strongs>did he ever <strongs hebrew='3898 3898'>fight</strongs>against them, </verse>
            <verse number='26'>While <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2809'>Heshbon</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='6177'>Aroer</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>be</em> along <strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>coasts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='769'>Arnon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='4069'>why</strongs>therefore did ye <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>recover</strongs><em>them</em> within <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Wherefore <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>against thee, but <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>doest</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='7451'>wrong</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>war</strongs>against me: the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8199'>Judge</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Howbeit the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7971 413'>sent</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Then the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, and he passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, and passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4708'>Mizpeh</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 4708'>Mizpeh</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>he passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><em>unto</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5087'>vowed</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5088'>vow</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>thou shalt without fail <strongs hebrew='5414 5414'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>into mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='31'>Then it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='834'>whatsoever</strongs>cometh <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1817'>doors</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>me, when I <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, shall surely <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s, and I will offer it <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>for a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>So <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against them; and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And he <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them from <strongs hebrew='4480 6177'>Aroer</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4511'>Minnith</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='58'>plain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>, with a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>. Thus the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3665'>subdued</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='8596'>timbrels</strongs>and with <strongs hebrew='4246'>dances</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><em>was</em> <em>his</em> only <strongs hebrew='3173'>child</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4480'>beside</strongs>her he had <strongs hebrew='369'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='176'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when he <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>her, that he <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='162'>Alas</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>! thou hast brought me very <strongs hebrew='3766 3766'>low</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>art</strongs>one of them that <strongs hebrew='5916'>trouble</strongs>me: for <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='6475'>opened</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and I <strongs hebrew='3808 3201'>cannot</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, My <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <em>if</em> thou hast <strongs hebrew='6475'>opened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>to me according to that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>hath proceeded <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='4480 6310'>mouth</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='310 834'>forasmuch</strongs>as the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5360'>vengeance</strongs>for thee of thine <strongs hebrew='4480 341'>enemies</strongs>, <em>even</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>for me: let me <strongs hebrew='7503 4480'>alone</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>, that I may go <strongs hebrew='1980'>up</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058 5921'>bewail</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1331'>virginity</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='7464'>fellows</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>. And he sent her <strongs hebrew='7971 *853'>away</strongs><em>for</em> <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>with her <strongs hebrew='7464'>companions</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058 5921'>bewailed</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1331'>virginity</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4480 7093'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>, that she <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>with her <em>according</em> to <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5088'>vow</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='5087'>vowed</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>. And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2706'>custom</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='40'><em>That</em> the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 3117 3117'>yearly</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8567'>lament</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1569'>Gileadite</strongs><strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='12'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6817'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5674'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='6828'>northward</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4069'>Wherefore</strongs>passedst thou <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, and didst <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs>us to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee? we will <strongs hebrew='8313'>burn</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>at great <strongs hebrew='376 7379 3966'>strife</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>; and when I <strongs hebrew='2199'>called</strongs>you, ye <strongs hebrew='3467'>delivered</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>out of their <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And when I <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='3467'>delivered</strongs><em>me</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs>, and passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into my <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherefore</strongs>then are ye come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against me? </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>Ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='1568'>Gileadites</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='6412'>fugitives</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraimites</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='8432'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manassites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gileadites</strongs><strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4569'>passages</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>before the <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraimites</strongs>: and it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so</em> , that <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>those <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraimites</strongs>which were <strongs hebrew='6412'>escaped</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let me go <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>; that the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <em>Art</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='673'>Ephraimite</strongs>? If he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>Nay</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>they unto him, <strongs hebrew='559'>Say</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='7641'>Shibboleth</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='5451'>Sibboleth</strongs>: for he could <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3559'>frame</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1696'>pronounce</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3651'>right</strongs>. Then they <strongs hebrew='270'>took</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='7819'>slew</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4569'>passages</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>: and there <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 669'>Ephraimites</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. Then <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs><strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1569'>Gileadite</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in <em>one</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='78'>Ibzan</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1035'>Bethlehem</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>, <em>whom</em> he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='2351'>abroad</strongs>, and took <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='2351'>abroad</strongs>for his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Then <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs><strongs hebrew='78'>Ibzan</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1035'>Bethlehem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='356'>Elon</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='2075'>Zebulonite</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='356'>Elon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2075'>Zebulonite</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='357'>Aijalon</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>country</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2075'>Zebulun</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5658'>Abdon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1985'>Hillel</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='6553'>Pirathonite</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121 1121'>nephews</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='7392'>rode</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs>ass <strongs hebrew='5895'>colts</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='5658'>Abdon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1985'>Hillel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6553'>Pirathonite</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6552'>Pirathon</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6003'>Amalekites</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='13'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='259'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 6681'>Zorah</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4940'>family</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1839'>Danites</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6135'>barren</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3205'>bore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>appeared</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='6135'>barren</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3205'>bearest</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>: but thou shalt <strongs hebrew='2029'>conceive</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3205'>bear</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='8104'>beware</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>nor strong <strongs hebrew='7941'>drink</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='2931'>unclean</strongs><em>thing</em> : </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>lo</strongs>, thou shalt <strongs hebrew='2029'>conceive</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3205'>bear</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4177'>razor</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5927'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5139'>Nazarite</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='990'>womb</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='2490'>begin</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3467'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Then the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>told</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, A <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me, and his <strongs hebrew='4758'>countenance</strongs><em>was</em> like the <strongs hebrew='4758'>countenance</strongs>of an <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>terrible</strongs>: but I <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='335 4480 2088'>whence</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> , <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>he me his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='7'>But he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto me, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, thou shalt <strongs hebrew='2029'>conceive</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3205'>bear</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>nor strong <strongs hebrew='7941'>drink</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='408'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='2932'>unclean</strongs><em>thing</em> : <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5139'>Nazarite</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='990'>womb</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Then <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6279 413'>entreated</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='994'>O</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='136'>Lord</strongs>, let the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou didst <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>us, and <strongs hebrew='3384'>teach</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>we shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>that shall be <strongs hebrew='3205'>born</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>her. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='4116'>haste</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7323'>ran</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7200'>appeared</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me the <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <em>Art</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spakest</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>am</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>let thy <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>come to <strongs hebrew='935'>pass</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='4100'>How</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='1961 4941'>order</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>, and <em>how</em> shall we <strongs hebrew='4639'>do</strongs>unto him? </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs>, Of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>let her <strongs hebrew='8104'>beware</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>She may <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>any</strongs><em>thing</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3318'>cometh</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1612'>vine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='408'>neither</strongs>let her <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs><strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>or strong <strongs hebrew='7941'>drink</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='408'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='2932'>unclean</strongs><em>thing</em> : <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>her let her <strongs hebrew='8104'>observe</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, let us <strongs hebrew='6113'>detain</strongs>thee, until we shall have made <strongs hebrew='6213'>ready</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1423 5795'>kid</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>for</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>Though</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='6113'>detain</strongs>me, I will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thou wilt <strongs hebrew='6213'>offer</strongs>a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>, thou must <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs>it unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> an <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>What</strongs><em>is</em> thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1697'>sayings</strongs>come to <strongs hebrew='935'>pass</strongs>we may do thee <strongs hebrew='3513'>honor</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>askest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='2088'>thus</strongs>after my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, seeing <strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='6383'>secret</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='19'>So <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1423 5795'>kid</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>a meat <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6697'>rock</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and <em>the</em> <em>angel</em> <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='6381'>wondrously</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>looked <strongs hebrew='7200'>on</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>For it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='3851'>flame</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>toward <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>ascended</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3851'>flame</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>looked <strongs hebrew='7200'>on</strongs><em>it</em> , and <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6440'>faces</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>But the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>appear</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> an <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, We shall surely <strongs hebrew='4191 4191'>die</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>But his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='3863'>If</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='2654'>pleased</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4191'>kill</strongs>us, he would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3947'>received</strongs>a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>and a meat <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>at our <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hands</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>would he have <strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>things</em> , <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs>would as at this <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='8085'>told</strongs>us <em>such</em> <em>things</em> as <strongs hebrew='2063'>these</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='3205'>bore</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='1431'>grew</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6470'>move</strongs>him at times in the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='6881'>Zorah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='847'>Eshtaol</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='14'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8553'>Timnath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8553'>Timnath</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1323'>daughters</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8553'>Timnath</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1323'>daughters</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='3947'>get</strongs>her for me to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <em>Is</em> <em>there</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>never</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, or among <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>goest</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6189'>uncircumcised</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6430'>Philistines</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Get</strongs>her for me; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs>pleaseth me <strongs hebrew='3474 5869'>well</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>But his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs><em>was</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='8385'>occasion</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='4480 6430'>Philistines</strongs>: for at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='4910'>dominion</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Then went Samson <strongs hebrew='3381 8123'>down</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8553'>Timnath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8553'>Timnath</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3715'>young</strongs><strongs hebrew='738'>lion</strongs><strongs hebrew='7580'>roared</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='6743'>mightily</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him, and he <strongs hebrew='8156'>rent</strongs>him as he would have <strongs hebrew='8156'>rent</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1423'>kid</strongs>, and <em>he</em> <em>had</em> <strongs hebrew='3972 369'>nothing</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: but he <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>or his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And he went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>talked</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>; and she pleased Samson <strongs hebrew='3474 5869 8123'>well</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And after a <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>time</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>her, and he turned <strongs hebrew='5493'>aside</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4658'>carcass</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='738'>lion</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='5712'>swarm</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1682'>bees</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1706'>honey</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1472'>carcass</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='738'>lion</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='7287'>took</strongs>thereof <strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='1980 1980'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eating</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>them, and they did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>: but he <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='7287'>taken</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1706'>honey</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1472'>carcass</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='738'>lion</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>So his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>used the young <strongs hebrew='970'>men</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>him, that they <strongs hebrew='3947'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='4828'>companions</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, I will <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>put <strongs hebrew='2330'>forth</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2420'>riddle</strongs>unto you: <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>ye can certainly <strongs hebrew='5046 5046'>declare</strongs>it me within the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>, and find <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='4672'>out</strongs>, then I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='5466'>sheets</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='2487'>change</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='899'>garments</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='13'>But <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='3201 3808'>cannot</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>declare</strongs><em>it</em> me, then shall <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='5466'>sheets</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='2487'>change</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='899'>garments</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Put <strongs hebrew='2330'>forth</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2420'>riddle</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, Out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 398'>eater</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3978'>meat</strongs>, and out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5794'>strong</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='4966'>sweetness</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>expound</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2420'>riddle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, that they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6601'>Entice</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>, that he may <strongs hebrew='5046'>declare</strongs>unto us <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2420'>riddle</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6435'>lest</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='8313'>burn</strongs>thee and thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>: have ye <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>us to take that we <strongs hebrew='3423'>have</strongs>? <em>is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>so</em> ? </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs><strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>before</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thou dost <strongs hebrew='7535'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='8130'>hate</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='157'>lovest</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>: thou hast put <strongs hebrew='2330'>forth</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2420'>riddle</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and hast <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><em>it</em> me. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><em>it</em> my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>nor my <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, and shall I <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs><em>it</em> thee? </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And she <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>before</strongs>him the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>while</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>lasted</strongs>: and it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>she lay <strongs hebrew='6693'>sore</strongs>upon him: and she <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2420'>riddle</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of her <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him on the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='2962'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2775'>sun</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='935'>down</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='4966'>sweeter</strongs>than <strongs hebrew='4480 1706'>honey</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5794'>stronger</strongs>than a <strongs hebrew='4480 738'>lion</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='3884'>If</strongs>ye had not <strongs hebrew='2790'>plowed</strongs>with my <strongs hebrew='5697'>heifer</strongs>, ye had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>found <strongs hebrew='4672'>out</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='2420'>riddle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6743'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him, and he went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='831'>Ashkelon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='2488'>spoil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>change of <strongs hebrew='2487'>garments</strongs>unto them which <strongs hebrew='5046'>expounded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2420'>riddle</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>kindled</strongs>, and he went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>But <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>given</em> to his <strongs hebrew='4828'>companion</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>he had used as his <strongs hebrew='7462'>friend</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='15'>
            <verse number='1'>But it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>within a <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>while</strongs>after, in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2406'>wheat</strongs><strongs hebrew='7105'>harvest</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='6485'>visited</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1423 5795'>kid</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='2315'>chamber</strongs>. But her <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>suffer</strongs>him to go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And her <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I verily <strongs hebrew='559 559'>thought</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thou hadst utterly <strongs hebrew='8130 8130'>hated</strongs>her; therefore I <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>her to thy <strongs hebrew='4828'>companion</strongs>: <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='6996'>younger</strongs><strongs hebrew='269'>sister</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>fairer</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>than</strongs>she? <strongs hebrew='1961'>take</strongs>her, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8478'>instead</strongs>of her. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>concerning them, <strongs hebrew='6471'>Now</strongs>shall I be more <strongs hebrew='5352'>blameless</strongs>than the <strongs hebrew='4480 6430'>Philistines</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>though</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213 5973'>do</strongs>them a <strongs hebrew='7451'>displeasure</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3920'>caught</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7776'>foxes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='3940'>firebrands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='2180'>tail</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2180'>tail</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='3940'>firebrand</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8432'>midst</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2180'>tails</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And when he had <strongs hebrew='1197'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3940'>brands</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>, he let <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>into the standing <strongs hebrew='7054'>corn</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and burnt <strongs hebrew='1197'>up</strongs>both the <strongs hebrew='4480 1430'>shocks</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>also</strongs>the standing <strongs hebrew='7054'>corn</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='2132'>olives</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Then the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>? And they <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law of the <strongs hebrew='8554'>Timnite</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>her to his <strongs hebrew='4828'>companion</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs>her and her <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='518'>Though</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>yet</strongs>will I be <strongs hebrew='5358'>avenged</strongs>of you, and after <strongs hebrew='310'>that</strongs>I will <strongs hebrew='2308'>cease</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='7785'>hip</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>and</strongs><strongs hebrew='3409'>thigh</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>: and he went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5585'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs><strongs hebrew='5862'>Etam</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and spread <strongs hebrew='5203'>themselves</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3896'>Lehi</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>are ye come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>us? And they <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, To <strongs hebrew='631'>bind</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>are we come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>to him <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to us. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Then <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3381'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5585'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs><strongs hebrew='5862'>Etam</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3045'>Knowest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='4910'>rulers</strongs>over us? <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><em>that</em> thou hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>unto us? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='834'>As</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>unto me, <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>unto them. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, We are come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='631'>bind</strongs>thee, that we may <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>thee into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='7650'>Swear</strongs>unto me, <strongs hebrew='6435'>that</strongs>ye will not <strongs hebrew='6293'>fall</strongs>upon me <strongs hebrew='859'>yourselves</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>No</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>we will bind thee <strongs hebrew='631 631'>fast</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>thee into their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: but surely we will not <strongs hebrew='4191 3808 4191'>kill</strongs>thee. And they <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2319'>new</strongs><strongs hebrew='5688'>cords</strongs>, and brought him <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><em>And</em> when <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3896'>Lehi</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='7321'>shouted</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>him: and the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='6743'>mightily</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him, and the <strongs hebrew='5688'>cords</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2220'>arms</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='6593'>flax</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1197'>burnt</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='612'>bands</strongs><strongs hebrew='4549'>loosed</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2961'>new</strongs><strongs hebrew='3895'>jawbone</strongs>of an <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>, and put <strongs hebrew='7971'>forth</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>it, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>therewith. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, With the <strongs hebrew='3895'>jawbone</strongs>of an <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>, heaps upon <strongs hebrew='2565 2565'>heaps</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='3895'>jaw</strongs>of an <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='5221'>slain</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when he had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1696'>speaking</strongs>, that he cast <strongs hebrew='7993'>away</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3895'>jawbone</strongs>out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='7437'>Ramath</strongs>-lehi. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And he was sore <strongs hebrew='6770 3966'>athirst</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>Thou</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='8668'>deliverance</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>shall I <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='6772'>thirst</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6189'>uncircumcised</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='19'>But <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1234'>cleaved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a hollow <strongs hebrew='4388'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in the <strongs hebrew='3895'>jaw</strongs>, and there <strongs hebrew='3318'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>therefrom</strongs>; and when he had <strongs hebrew='8354'>drunk</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='2421'>revived</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>wherefore</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>thereof <strongs hebrew='5875'>En</strongs>-hakkore, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3896'>Lehi</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And he <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='16'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5804'>Gaza</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='802 2181'>harlot</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><em>And</em> <em>it</em> <em>was</em> <em>told</em> the <strongs hebrew='5841'>Gazites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='2008'>hither</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='5437'>compassed</strongs><em>him</em> in, and laid <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>for him <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and were <strongs hebrew='2790'>quiet</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, In the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>when</strongs>it is <strongs hebrew='216'>day</strongs>, we shall <strongs hebrew='2026'>kill</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs><strongs hebrew='2677 3915'>midnight</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='2677 3915'>midnight</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='270'>took</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='4201'>posts</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='5265'>away</strongs>with them, bar and <strongs hebrew='5973 1280'>all</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3802'>shoulders</strongs>, and carried them <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='2022'>hill</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='2275'>Hebron</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs><strongs hebrew='310 3651'>afterward</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5158'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7796'>Sorek</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='1807'>Delilah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her, <strongs hebrew='6601'>Entice</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>wherein</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs><em>lieth</em> , and by <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>means</em> we may <strongs hebrew='3201'>prevail</strongs>against him, that we may <strongs hebrew='631'>bind</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='6031'>afflict</strongs>him: and <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>thee every <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>of us eleven <strongs hebrew='505 3967'>hundred</strongs><em>pieces</em> of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='1807'>Delilah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5046'>Tell</strongs>me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherein</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs><em>lieth</em> , and <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherewith</strongs>thou mightest be <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6031'>afflict</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='631'>bind</strongs>me with <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3892'>green</strongs><strongs hebrew='3499'>withes</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3808'>never</strongs><strongs hebrew='2717'>dried</strongs>, then shall I be <strongs hebrew='2470'>weak</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='259'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Then the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to her <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3892'>green</strongs><strongs hebrew='3499'>withes</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>been <strongs hebrew='2717'>dried</strongs>, and she <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>him with them. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Now <em>there</em> <em>were</em> men lying in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3427'>abiding</strongs>with her in the <strongs hebrew='2315'>chamber</strongs>. And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, The <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='5423'>broke</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3499'>withes</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6616'>thread</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5296'>tow</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='5423'>broken</strongs>when it <strongs hebrew='7306'>toucheth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>. So his <strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>known</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='1807'>Delilah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, thou hast <strongs hebrew='2048'>mocked</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='1696 413'>told</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3577'>lies</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherewith</strongs>thou mightest be <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>they bind me <strongs hebrew='631 631'>fast</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2319'>new</strongs><strongs hebrew='5688'>ropes</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>never</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6213 4399'>occupied</strongs>, then shall I be <strongs hebrew='2470'>weak</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='259'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='1807'>Delilah</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='2319'>new</strongs><strongs hebrew='5688'>ropes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>him therewith, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, The <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>. And <em>there</em> <em>were</em> liers in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abiding</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2315'>chamber</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='5423'>broke</strongs>them from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2220'>arms</strongs>like a <strongs hebrew='2339'>thread</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='1807'>Delilah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704 2008'>Hitherto</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='2048'>mocked</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='1696 413'>told</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3576'>lies</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherewith</strongs>thou mightest be <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='707'>weavest</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='4253'>locks</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4545'>web</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And she <strongs hebrew='8628'>fastened</strongs><em>it</em> with the <strongs hebrew='3489'>pin</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, The <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='3364'>awaked</strongs>out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 8142'>sleep</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='5265'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='3489'>pin</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='708'>beam</strongs>, and with the <strongs hebrew='4545'>web</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='349'>How</strongs>canst thou <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='157'>love</strongs>thee, when thine <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me? thou hast <strongs hebrew='2048'>mocked</strongs>me these <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>times</strongs>, and hast <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherein</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs><em>lieth</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>she <strongs hebrew='6693'>pressed</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>daily</strongs>with her <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='509'>urged</strongs>him, <em>so</em> that his <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7114'>vexed</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='17'>That he <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her, There hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>come</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4177'>razor</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>have</em> <em>been</em> a <strongs hebrew='5139'>Nazarite</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>from my <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4480 990'>womb</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>I be <strongs hebrew='1548'>shaven</strongs>, then my <strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='5493'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>me, and I shall become <strongs hebrew='2470'>weak</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>like <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And when <strongs hebrew='1807'>Delilah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='6471'>once</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>. Then the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And she made him <strongs hebrew='3462'>sleep</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1290'>knees</strongs>; and she <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, and she caused him to shave <strongs hebrew='1548'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='4253'>locks</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>; and she <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6031'>afflict</strongs>him, and his <strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='3364'>awoke</strongs>out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 8142'>sleep</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>as at other times <strongs hebrew='6471 6471'>before</strongs>, and shake <strongs hebrew='5287'>myself</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>But the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='270'>took</strongs>him, and put <strongs hebrew='5365'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, and brought him <strongs hebrew='3381 *853'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5804'>Gaza</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>him with fetters of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='1961'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='2912'>grind</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='615'>prison</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Howbeit the <strongs hebrew='8181'>hair</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to grow <strongs hebrew='6779'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>after</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='1548'>shaven</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>Then the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>gathered them <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>for to <strongs hebrew='2076'>offer</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='8057'>rejoice</strongs>: for they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Our <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>into our <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And when the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>him, they <strongs hebrew='1984'>praised</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Our <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>into our <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>our <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2717'>destroyer</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='776'>country</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>slew <strongs hebrew='7235 *853 2491'>many</strongs>of us. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3820'>hearts</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='2896'>merry</strongs>, that they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7121'>Call</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>, that he may make us <strongs hebrew='7832'>sport</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>out of the prison <strongs hebrew='4480 1004 615'>house</strongs>; and he made them <strongs hebrew='6711 6440'>sport</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5975'>set</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='2388'>held</strongs>him by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5117'>Suffer</strongs>me that I may <strongs hebrew='4184'>feel</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 5921'>whereupon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='3559'>standeth</strongs>, that I may <strongs hebrew='8172'>lean</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Now the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4390'>full</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>; and <em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1406'>roof</strongs>about <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='7200'>beheld</strongs>while <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='7832'>sport</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='136'>Lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='3069'>GOD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2142'>remember</strongs>me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthen</strongs>me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='389'>only</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>once</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, that I may be at once <strongs hebrew='5358 5359 259'>avenged</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 6430'>Philistines</strongs>for my <strongs hebrew='4480 8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='3943'>hold</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>middle</strongs><strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='3559'>stood</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>which it was borne <strongs hebrew='5564'>up</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>with his right <strongs hebrew='3225'>hand</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='259'>other</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='8040'>left</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And <strongs hebrew='8123'>Samson</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='5315'>me</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='5186'>bowed</strongs>himself with <em>all</em> <em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='3581'>might</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> therein. So the <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>at his <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>more</strongs>than <em>they</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='2416'>life</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>Then his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>took</strongs>him, and brought <em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='6881'>Zorah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='847'>Eshtaol</strongs>in the burial <strongs hebrew='6913'>place</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4495'>Manoah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='17'>
            <verse number='1'>And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4321'>Micah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, The eleven <strongs hebrew='505 3967'>hundred</strongs><em>shekels</em> of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>from thee, about which <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='422'>cursedst</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>spakest</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>in mine <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me; <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>it. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> <em>thou</em> of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And when he had <strongs hebrew='7725'>restored</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the eleven <strongs hebrew='505 3967'>hundred</strongs><em>shekels</em> of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I had wholly <strongs hebrew='6942 6942'>dedicated</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>from my <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>for my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>a graven <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>and a molten <strongs hebrew='4541'>image</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore I will <strongs hebrew='7725'>restore</strongs>it unto thee. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Yet he <strongs hebrew='7725'>restored</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><em>shekels</em> of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>them to the <strongs hebrew='6884'>founder</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>thereof a graven <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>and a molten <strongs hebrew='4541'>image</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4321'>Micah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>had a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8655'>teraphim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4390 *853 3027'>consecrated</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>In <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>but</em> every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in his own <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 1035 3063'>Bethlehem</strongs>-judah of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4940'>family</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>who</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1481'>sojourned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>city</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1035 3063'>Bethlehem</strongs>-judah to <strongs hebrew='1481'>sojourn</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>where</strongs>he could <strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs><em>a</em> <em>place</em> : and he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>, as he <strongs hebrew='6213 1870'>journeyed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='4480 370'>Whence</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>comest</strongs>thou? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><em>am</em> a <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1035 3063'>Bethlehem</strongs>-judah, and <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1481'>sojourn</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>where</strongs>I may <strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs><em>a</em> <em>place</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='3427'>Dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5978'>with</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>unto me a <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><em>shekels</em> of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3117'>year</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='6187'>suit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='899'>apparel</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='4241'>victuals</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='1980'>in</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2974'>content</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>; and the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>unto him as <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4390 *853 3027'>consecrated</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs>; and the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will do me <strongs hebrew='3190'>good</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>seeing</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='1961'>have</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs>to <em>my</em> <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='18'>
            <verse number='1'>In <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and in <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1839'>Danites</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>them an <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>in; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><em>all</em> <em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fallen</strongs>unto them <strongs hebrew='8432'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='4480 4940'>family</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>from their <strongs hebrew='4480 7098'>coasts</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 6881'>Zorah</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 847'>Eshtaol</strongs>, to spy <strongs hebrew='7270'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='2713'>search</strongs>it; and they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2713'>search</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: who when they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='3885'>lodged</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>When <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='5234'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs>: and they turned <strongs hebrew='5493'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='1988'>hither</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>makest</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>place</em> ? and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='2090'>Thus</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2090'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>dealeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>with me, and hath <strongs hebrew='7936'>hired</strongs>me, and I <strongs hebrew='1961'>am</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Ask <strongs hebrew='7592'>counsel</strongs>, we pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>whether our <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='6743'>prosperous</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5227'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> your <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Then the <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3919'>Laish</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7130'>therein</strongs>, how they <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='983'>careless</strongs>, after the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6722'>Zidonians</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8252'>quiet</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='982'>secure</strongs>; and <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3423 6114'>magistrate</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, that might put <em>them</em> to <strongs hebrew='3637'>shame</strongs>in <em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7350'>far</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 6722'>Zidonians</strongs>, and had <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>business</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6881'>Zorah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='847'>Eshtaol</strongs>: and their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>say</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Arise</strongs>, that we may go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>them: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, it <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>: and <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='2814'>still</strongs>? be not <strongs hebrew='6101 408'>slothful</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>, <em>and</em> to <strongs hebrew='935'>enter</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3423'>possess</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>When ye <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs>, ye shall <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='982'>secure</strongs>, and to a <strongs hebrew='7342'>large</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>it into your <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>; a <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>where</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4270'>want</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And there <strongs hebrew='5265'>went</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4940'>family</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1839'>Danites</strongs>, out of <strongs hebrew='4480 6881'>Zorah</strongs>and out of <strongs hebrew='4480 847'>Eshtaol</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='2296'>appointed</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3627'>weapons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7157'>Kirjath</strongs>-jearim, in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>wherefore</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='4265'>Mahaneh</strongs>-dan <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='310'>behind</strongs><strongs hebrew='7157'>Kirjath</strongs>-jearim. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And they <strongs hebrew='5674'>passed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to spy <strongs hebrew='7270'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>country</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3919'>Laish</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, Do ye <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8655'>teraphim</strongs>, and a graven <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>, and a molten <strongs hebrew='4541'>image</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='3045'>consider</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>ye have to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And they <strongs hebrew='5493'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thitherward</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs>, <em>even</em> unto the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7592 7965'>saluted</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='2296'>appointed</strongs>with their <strongs hebrew='3627'>weapons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5324'>stood</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='6607'>entering</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5927'>went</strongs>to spy <strongs hebrew='7270'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, <em>and</em> came <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the graven <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8655'>teraphim</strongs>, and the molten <strongs hebrew='4541'>image</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5324'>stood</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6607'>entering</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='2296'>appointed</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3627'>weapons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetched</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the carved <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8655'>teraphim</strongs>, and the molten <strongs hebrew='4541'>image</strongs>. Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Hold thy <strongs hebrew='2790'>peace</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7760'>lay</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>to us a <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>: <em>is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs>for thee to <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs>that thou <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>unto a <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='4940'>family</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3190'>glad</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8655'>teraphim</strongs>, and the graven <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7130'>midst</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>So they <strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the little <strongs hebrew='2945'>ones</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4735'>cattle</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3520'>carriage</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><em>And</em> when <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>were a good <strongs hebrew='7368'>way</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>near</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>were gathered <strongs hebrew='2199'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1692'>overtook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And they <strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='5437'>turned</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6440'>faces</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>aileth thee, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thou comest with such a <strongs hebrew='2199'>company</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Ye have taken <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and ye are gone <strongs hebrew='1980'>away</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>that</em> ye <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>aileth thee? </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>among</strongs>us, <strongs hebrew='6435'>lest</strongs><strongs hebrew='4751 5315'>angry</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>fellows</strongs><strongs hebrew='6293'>run</strongs>upon thee, and thou <strongs hebrew='622'>lose</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='5315'>lives</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>: and when <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>were</em> too <strongs hebrew='2389'>strong</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>for</strongs>him, he <strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs>and went <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><em>the</em> <em>things</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3919'>Laish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> at <strongs hebrew='8252'>quiet</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='982'>secure</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>deliverer</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7350'>far</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6721'>Zidon</strongs>, and they had <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>business</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs>was in the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>lieth</em> by <strongs hebrew='1050'>Beth</strongs>-rehob. And they <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>therein. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And they <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>, after the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3205'>born</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='199'>howbeit</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3919'>Laish</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>set <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the graven <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1648'>Gershom</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1839'>Dan</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1540'>captivity</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And they set them <strongs hebrew='7760'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>'s graven <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>that the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='19'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, when <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, that there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs><strongs hebrew='1481'>sojourning</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='3411'>side</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>to him a <strongs hebrew='802 6370'>concubine</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 1035 3063'>Bethlehem</strongs>-judah. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And his <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>played the <strongs hebrew='2181'>whore</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him, and went <strongs hebrew='1980'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1035 3063'>Bethlehem</strongs>-judah, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>her, to <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921 3820'>friendly</strongs>unto her, <em>and</em> to bring her <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>, having his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, and a <strongs hebrew='6776'>couple</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>: and she <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him into her <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: and when the <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5291'>damsel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>him, he <strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoiced</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And his <strongs hebrew='2859'>father</strongs>-in-law, the <strongs hebrew='5291'>damsel</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2388'>retained</strongs>him; and he <strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>: so they did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3885'>lodged</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7243'>fourth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, when they arose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, that he rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>depart</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5291'>damsel</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law, <strongs hebrew='5582'>Comfort</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='6595'>morsel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='310'>afterward</strongs>go your <strongs hebrew='1980'>way</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And they sat <strongs hebrew='3427'>down</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>of them <strongs hebrew='3162'>together</strongs>: for the <strongs hebrew='5291'>damsel</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, Be <strongs hebrew='2974'>content</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, and tarry all <strongs hebrew='3885'>night</strongs>, and let thine <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3190'>merry</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And when the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>depart</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='2859'>father</strongs>-in-law <strongs hebrew='6484'>urged</strongs>him: therefore he <strongs hebrew='3885'>lodged</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he arose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='2549'>fifth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>depart</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5291'>damsel</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5582'>Comfort</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='4102'>tarried</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs><strongs hebrew='5186 3117'>afternoon</strongs>, and they did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>of them. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And when the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>depart</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='2859'>father</strongs>-in-law, the <strongs hebrew='5291'>damsel</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='7503'>draweth</strongs>toward <strongs hebrew='6150'>evening</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>you</strongs>tarry all <strongs hebrew='3885'>night</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>groweth to an <strongs hebrew='2583'>end</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3885'>lodge</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs>, that thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>may be <strongs hebrew='3190'>merry</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs>get you <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>on your <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, that thou mayest <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='168'>home</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>But the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>tarry that <strongs hebrew='3885'>night</strongs>, but he rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='5704 5227'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2982'>Jebus</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>; and <em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6776'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs><strongs hebrew='2280'>saddled</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>also <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><em>And</em> when <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='2982'>Jebus</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3966'>far</strongs><strongs hebrew='7286'>spent</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, and let us turn <strongs hebrew='5493'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2983'>Jebusites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3885'>lodge</strongs>in it. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, We will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>turn <strongs hebrew='5493'>aside</strongs>hither <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='5237'>stranger</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; we will pass <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, and let us draw <strongs hebrew='7126'>near</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of these <strongs hebrew='4725'>places</strongs>to lodge all <strongs hebrew='3885'>night</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And they passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>on</strongs>and went their <strongs hebrew='1980'>way</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='8121'>sun</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='935'>down</strongs>upon them <em>when</em> <em>they</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='681'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>belongeth</em> to <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And they turned <strongs hebrew='5493'>aside</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>, to go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><em>and</em> to <strongs hebrew='3885'>lodge</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>: and when he went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, he sat him <strongs hebrew='3427'>down</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='7339'>street</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: for <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='622'>took</strongs>them into his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3885'>lodging</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='2205'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4639'>work</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='6153'>even</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3676'>which</strongs><em>was</em> also of <strongs hebrew='4480 2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1481'>sojourned</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='1145'>Benjamites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And when he had lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='732'>wayfaring</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7339'>street</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='2205'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 575'>Whither</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>goest</strongs>thou? and <strongs hebrew='4480 370'>whence</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>comest</strongs>thou? </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='587'>We</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='5674'>passing</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1035 3063'>Bethlehem</strongs>-judah <strongs hebrew='5704'>toward</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3411'>side</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>; from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs><em>am</em> <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>: and I <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1035 3063'>Bethlehem</strongs>-judah, but <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>am</em> <em>now</em> <strongs hebrew='1980'>going</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and there <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='622'>receiveth</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Yet there <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs><strongs hebrew='8401'>straw</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>and</strongs><strongs hebrew='4554'>provender</strongs>for our <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>; and there <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>for me, and for thy <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs>, and for the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs><em>which</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>: <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4270'>want</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='2205'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7965'>Peace</strongs><em>be</em> with thee; <strongs hebrew='7535'>howsoever</strongs><em>let</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4270'>wants</strongs><em>lie</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>me; <strongs hebrew='7535'>only</strongs><strongs hebrew='3885'>lodge</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7339'>street</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>So he <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him into his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and gave <strongs hebrew='1101'>provender</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='7364'>washed</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><em>Now</em> as <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>were making their hearts <strongs hebrew='3190 *853 3820'>merry</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='376'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1100'>Belial</strongs>, beset the house round <strongs hebrew='5437 *853 1004'>about</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='1849'>beat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>door</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1167'>master</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, the old <strongs hebrew='2205'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Bring <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1167'>master</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='408'>Nay</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, <em>nay</em> , I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>you</strongs>, do not <em>so</em> <strongs hebrew='7489 408'>wickedly</strongs>; seeing <strongs hebrew='310 834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5039'>folly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <em>here</em> <em>is</em> my <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1330'>maiden</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>; them I will bring <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6031'>humble</strongs>ye them, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>with them what <strongs hebrew='5869'>seemeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>unto you: but unto <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>so</strongs><strongs hebrew='5039'>vile</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>But the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs>to him: so the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388'>took</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>, and brought her <strongs hebrew='3318 2351'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them; and they <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs>her, and <strongs hebrew='5953'>abused</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>: and when the <strongs hebrew='7837'>day</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='5927'>spring</strongs>, they let her <strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Then <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6437'>dawning</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1242'>day</strongs>, and fell <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='6607'>door</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs><em>was</em> , <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>it was <strongs hebrew='216'>light</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And her <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6605'>opened</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>was fallen <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><em>at</em> the <strongs hebrew='6607'>door</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and her <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5592'>threshold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Up</strongs>, and let us be <strongs hebrew='1980'>going</strongs>. But <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>. Then the man <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>her <em>up</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>got</strongs>him unto his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And when he was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3979'>knife</strongs>, and laid <strongs hebrew='2388'>hold</strongs>on his <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5408'>divided</strongs>her, <em>together</em> with her <strongs hebrew='6106'>bones</strongs>, into <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='5409'>pieces</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>her into <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coasts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>so, that <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, There was <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>such</strongs>deed <strongs hebrew='1961'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>day</strongs>that the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='7760'>consider</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>it, take <strongs hebrew='5779'>advice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs><em>your</em> <em>minds</em> . </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='20'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5712'>congregation</strongs>was gathered <strongs hebrew='6950'>together</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 1835'>Dan</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='884'>Beer</strongs>-sheba, with the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='6438'>chief</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <em>even</em> of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, presented <strongs hebrew='3320'>themselves</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6951'>assembly</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376 7273'>footmen</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs><strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>(Now the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>were gone <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>.) Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1696'>Tell</strongs><em>us</em> , <strongs hebrew='349'>how</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>wickedness</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='376 3881'>Levite</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>that was <strongs hebrew='7523'>slain</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>belongeth</em> to <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3885'>lodge</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>rose</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>me, and beset the house round <strongs hebrew='5437 *853 1004'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>me by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='1819'>thought</strongs>to have <strongs hebrew='2026'>slain</strongs>me: and my <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>have they <strongs hebrew='6031'>forced</strongs>, that she is <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And I <strongs hebrew='270'>took</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubine</strongs>, and cut her in <strongs hebrew='5408'>pieces</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>her throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7704'>country</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='6213'>committed</strongs><strongs hebrew='2154'>lewdness</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5039'>folly</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, ye <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3051'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='1988'>here</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='1697'>advice</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6098'>counsel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, We will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>any</strongs><em>of</em> <em>us</em> <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>will we <strongs hebrew='376'>any</strongs><em>of</em> <em>us</em> <strongs hebrew='5493'>turn</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>But <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>we will <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>; <em>we</em> <em>will</em> <em>go</em> <em>up</em> by <strongs hebrew='1486'>lot</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>it; </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And we will <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>out of ten <strongs hebrew='7233'>thousand</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetch</strongs><strongs hebrew='6720'>victual</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, that they may <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1387'>Gibeah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5039'>folly</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>So <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, knit <strongs hebrew='2270'>together</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>through <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>wickedness</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='1961'>done</strongs>among you? </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs><em>us</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1100'>Belial</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>are</em> in <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>, that we may put them to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>, and put <strongs hebrew='1197'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>. But the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='14'>But the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>, to go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs><strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='905'>beside</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4480 3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>, which were <strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='970'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Among <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='334 3027 3225'>left</strongs>-handed; every <strongs hebrew='3605 2088'>one</strongs>could <strongs hebrew='7049'>sling</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>at</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8185'>hair</strongs><em>breadth</em> , and <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>miss</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='905'>beside</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, were <strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs><strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs><strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>these</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to the house of <strongs hebrew='1008'>God</strongs>, and asked <strongs hebrew='7592'>counsel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Which</strongs>of us shall go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='8462'>first</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>? And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>go</em> <em>up</em> <strongs hebrew='8462'>first</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>encamped</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>put themselves in <strongs hebrew='6186'>array</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>against</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='413'>at</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>, and destroyed <strongs hebrew='7843'>down</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israelites</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>encouraged <strongs hebrew='2388'>themselves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6186'>set</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6186'>array</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs>they put themselves in <strongs hebrew='6186'>array</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>(And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs><strongs hebrew='6153'>even</strongs>, and asked <strongs hebrew='7592'>counsel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Shall I go <strongs hebrew='5066'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>? And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>him.) </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='7126'>near</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>them out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroyed</strongs>down to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Then <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>unto the house of <strongs hebrew='1008'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6684'>fasted</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs><strongs hebrew='6153'>even</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>and peace <strongs hebrew='8002'>offerings</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>inquired</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, (for the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='499'>Eleazar</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>it in <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>,) <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Shall I <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>or</strongs>shall I <strongs hebrew='2308'>cease</strongs>? And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs>I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>them into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs>liers in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439 413'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and put themselves in <strongs hebrew='6186'>array</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>, as at other <strongs hebrew='6471 6471'>times</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <em>and</em> were drawn <strongs hebrew='5423'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='2491'>kill</strongs>, as at other <strongs hebrew='6471 6471'>times</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='4546'>highways</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>goeth <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to the house of <strongs hebrew='1008'>God</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='259'>other</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>, about <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>They</strongs><em>are</em> smitten <strongs hebrew='5062'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>us, as at the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>. But the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let us <strongs hebrew='5127'>flee</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5423'>draw</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4546'>highways</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>out of their <strongs hebrew='4480 4725'>place</strongs>, and put themselves in <strongs hebrew='6186'>array</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1193'>Baal</strongs>-tamar: and the liers in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='1518'>forth</strongs>out of their <strongs hebrew='4480 4725'>places</strongs>, <em>even</em> out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4629'>meadows</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1390'>Gibeah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5048'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3513'>sore</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5060'>near</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5062'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7843'>destroyed</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamites</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>So the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>they were <strongs hebrew='5062'>smitten</strongs>: for the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='982'>trusted</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the liers in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>beside</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>And the liers in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs><strongs hebrew='2363'>hasted</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6584'>rushed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>; and the liers in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>drew <em>themselves</em> <strongs hebrew='4900'>along</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>Now there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>an appointed <strongs hebrew='4150'>sign</strongs>between the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and the liers in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>, that they should make a <strongs hebrew='7235'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4864'>flame</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='6227'>smoke</strongs>rise <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'>And when the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2015'>retired</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='2491'>kill</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>about <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>persons</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='389'>Surely</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>they</strongs>are smitten <strongs hebrew='5062 5062'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>us, as <em>in</em> the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>But when the <strongs hebrew='4864'>flame</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to arise <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillar</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6227'>smoke</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamites</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>looked</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>behind</strongs>them, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3632'>flame</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>ascended <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='41'>And when the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>turned <strongs hebrew='2015'>again</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='926'>amazed</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5060'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='42'>Therefore they <strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs><em>their</em> <em>backs</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>; but the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><strongs hebrew='1692'>overtook</strongs>them; and them <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>came</em> out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>cities</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroyed</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8432'>midst</strongs>of them. </verse>
            <verse number='43'><em>Thus</em> they enclosed the Benjamites round <strongs hebrew='3803 *853 1144'>about</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='7291'>chased</strongs>them, <em>and</em> trod them <strongs hebrew='1869'>down</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='4496'>ease</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='5704 5227'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='4480 4217 8121'>sunrising</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='44'>And there <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='45'>And they <strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7417'>Rimmon</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5953'>gleaned</strongs>of them in the <strongs hebrew='4546'>highways</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; and pursued <strongs hebrew='1692'>hard</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1440'>Gidom</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='46'>So that <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>which <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='47'>But <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs><strongs hebrew='7417'>Rimmon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs><strongs hebrew='7417'>Rimmon</strongs><strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='48'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>turned <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, as well the <strongs hebrew='4974'>men</strongs>of <em>every</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='929'>beast</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that came to <strongs hebrew='4672'>hand</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7971'>set</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>that they came <strongs hebrew='4672'>to</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='21'>
            <verse number='1'>Now the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7650'>sworn</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, There shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to the house of <strongs hebrew='1008'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs><strongs hebrew='6153'>even</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6963'>voices</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs><strongs hebrew='1065 1419'>sore</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>come to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, that there should be <strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs><strongs hebrew='6485'>lacking</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>and peace <strongs hebrew='8002'>offerings</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>is</em> <em>there</em> among <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>came not <strongs hebrew='5927 3808'>up</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='1961'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='7621'>oath</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>concerning</strongs>him that came not <strongs hebrew='5927 3808'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, He shall surely be put to <strongs hebrew='4191 4191'>death</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5162'>repented</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, There is <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>cut <strongs hebrew='1438'>off</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='4100'>How</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>for them that <strongs hebrew='3498'>remain</strongs>, seeing <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='7650'>sworn</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>that we will <strongs hebrew='1115'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>them of our <strongs hebrew='4480 1323'>daughters</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><em>is</em> <em>there</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>came not <strongs hebrew='5927 3808'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>? And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808 376'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3003 1568'>Jabesh</strongs>-gilead <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>assembly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>For the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='369 376'>none</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003 1568'>Jabesh</strongs>-gilead <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='5712'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>hither</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the most <strongs hebrew='4480 1121 2428'>valiant</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003 1568'>Jabesh</strongs>-gilead with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2945'>children</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>ye shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>, Ye shall utterly <strongs hebrew='2763'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='2145'>male</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>that hath <strongs hebrew='3045 4904'>lain</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='2145'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='4480 3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003 1568'>Jabesh</strongs>-gilead <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='5291'>young</strongs><strongs hebrew='1330'>virgins</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3045'>known</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='4904'>lying</strongs>with any <strongs hebrew='2145'>male</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3667'>Canaan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='5712'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><em>some</em> to <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs><strongs hebrew='7417'>Rimmon</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>peaceably</strongs>unto them. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>they had saved <strongs hebrew='2421'>alive</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 802'>women</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003 1568'>Jabesh</strongs>-gilead: and yet <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='4672'>sufficed</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>repented <strongs hebrew='5162'>them</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>that the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6556'>breach</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Then the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5712'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>How</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>for them that <strongs hebrew='3498'>remain</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>seeing</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroyed</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 1144'>Benjamin</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>There</em> <em>must</em> <em>be</em> an <strongs hebrew='3425'>inheritance</strongs>for them that be <strongs hebrew='6413'>escaped</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, that a <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4229'>destroyed</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Howbeit <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='3201'>may</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='4480 1323'>daughters</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='7650'>sworn</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='779'>Cursed</strongs><em>be</em> he that <strongs hebrew='5414'>giveth</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Then they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 3117 3117'>yearly</strongs><em>in</em> <em>a</em> <em>place</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> on the north <strongs hebrew='4480 6828'>side</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1008'>Bethel</strongs>, on the east <strongs hebrew='4217 8121'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4546'>highway</strongs>that goeth <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1008'>Bethel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>, and on the <strongs hebrew='4480 5045'>south</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3829'>Lebonah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Therefore they <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>and lie in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2342'>dance</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4246'>dances</strongs>, then come ye <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2414'>catch</strongs>you every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1323'>daughters</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs><strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>us to <strongs hebrew='7378'>complain</strongs>, that we will <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, Be <strongs hebrew='2603'>favorable</strongs>unto them for our sakes: <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='3947'>reserved</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>to each <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>unto them at this <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>, <em>that</em> ye should be <strongs hebrew='816'>guilty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>took</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, according to their <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them that <strongs hebrew='2342'>danced</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1497'>caught</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1129'>repaired</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in them. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>and to his <strongs hebrew='4940'>family</strongs>, and they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>In <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in his own <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>. </verse>
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