display: Joshua 17:17

text: And Ioshua spake vnto the house of Ioseph, euen to Ephraim, and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: Thou shalt not haue one lot onely.


display: Joshua 17:18

Joshua

testament: OT

text: But the mountaine shalbe thine, for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it downe: and the outgoings of it shalbe thine: for thou shalt driue out the Canaanites, though they haue yron charets, and though they be strong.


display: Joshua 18:1

text: And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, & set vp the Tabernacle of the Congregation there, and the land was subdued before them.


display: Joshua 18:2

text: And there remained among the children of Israel seuen tribes, which had not yet receiued their inheritance.


display: Joshua 18:3

text: And Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, how long are you slacke to goe to possesse the lande which the LORD God of your fathers hath giuen you?


display: Joshua 18:4

text: Giue out from among you three men, for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, & goe through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them, and they shal come againe to me.


display: Joshua 18:5

text: And they shall diuide it into seuen parts: Iudah shall abide in their coast on the South, and the house of Ioseph shall abide in their coasts on the North.


display: Joshua 18:6

text: Ye shall therfore describe the land into seuen parts, and bring the description hither to me: that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.


display: Joshua 18:7

text: But the Leuites haue no part among you, for the Priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh, haue receiued their inheritance beyond Iordan on the East, which Moses the seruant of the LORD gaue them.


display: Joshua 18:8

text: ¶ And the men arose, and went away: and Ioshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Goe, and walke through the land, & describe it, and come againe to me, that I may here cast lots for you, before the LORD in Shiloh.


display: Joshua 18:9

text: And the men went, and passed thorow the land, and described it by cities, into seuen parts in a booke, and came againe to Ioshua to the hoste at Shiloh.


display: Joshua 18:10

text: ¶ And Ioshua cast lots for them in Shiloh, before the LORD: and there Ioshua diuided the land vnto the children of Israel according to their diuisions.


display: Joshua 18:11

text: ¶ And the lot of the tribe of the children of Beniamin came vp according to their families: and the coast of their lot came foorth betweene the children of Iudah, and the children of Ioseph.


display: Joshua 18:12

text: And their border on the Northside was from Iordan, and the border went vp to the side of Iericho, on the North side, and went vp through the mountaines Westward, and the goings out thereof were at the wildernesse of Beth-auen.


display: Joshua 18:13

text: And the border went ouer from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, (which is Bethel) Southward, and the border descended to Ataroth-Adar, neere the hill that lieth on the South side of the nether Beth-horon.


display: Joshua 18:14

text: And the border was drawen thence, and compassed the corner of the Sea Southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon Southward: and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-iearim) a city of the children of Iudah: This was the West quarter.


display: Joshua 18:15

text: And the South quarter was from the end of Kiriath-iearim, & the border went out on the West, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah.


display: Joshua 18:16

text: And the border came downe to the end of the mountaine, that lieth before the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the Giants on the North, and descended to the valley of Hinnom to the side of Iebusi on the South, and descended to En-Rogel,


display: Joshua 18:17

text: And was drawen frō the North, and went foorth to Enshemesh, and went foorth toward Geliloth, which is ouer against the going vp of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the sonne of Reuben,


display: Joshua 18:18

text: And passed along toward the side ouer against Arabah Northward, and went downe vnto Arabah.


display: Joshua 18:19

text: And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah Northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the North bay of the salt Sea at the South end of Iordane: This was the South coast.


display: Joshua 18:20

text: And Iordane was the border of it on the East side: this was the inheritance of the children of Beniamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.


display: Joshua 18:21

text: Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Beniamin according to their families, were Iericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,


display: Joshua 18:22

text: And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,


display: Joshua 18:23

text: And Auim, and Parah, and Ophrah,


display: Joshua 18:24

text: And Chephar-Haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba, twelue cities with their villages.


display: Joshua 18:25

text: Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,


display: Joshua 18:26

text: And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,


display: Joshua 18:27

text: And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,


display: Joshua 18:28

text: And Zela, Eleph, and Iebusi, (which is Ierusalem) Gibeath, and Kiriath, foureteene cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Beniamin according to their families.


display: Joshua 19:1

text: And the second lot came foorth to Simeon, euen for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Iudah.


display: Joshua 19:2

text: And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,


display: Joshua 19:3

text: And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,


display: Joshua 19:4

text: And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,


display: Joshua 19:5

text: And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,


display: Joshua 19:6

text: And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteene cities and their villages.


display: Joshua 19:7

text: Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan: foure cities and their villages,


display: Joshua 19:8

text: And all the villages that were round about these cities, to Baalath-Beer, Ramath of the South: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.


display: Joshua 19:9

text: Out of the portion of the children of Iudah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Iudah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.


display: Joshua 19:10

text: ¶ And the third lot came vp for the children of Zebulun, according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was vnto Sarid.


display: Joshua 19:11

text: And their border went vp toward the Sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the riuer that is before Iokneam,


display: Joshua 19:12

text: And turned from Sarid Eastward, toward the Sunne rising, vnto the border of Chisloth Tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth vp to Iaphia,


display: Joshua 19:13

text: And from thence passeth on along on the East to Gittah-Hepher, to Ittah-Kazin, and goeth out to Remmon Methoar to Neah.


display: Joshua 19:14

text: And the border compasseth it on the North side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Iiphthah-el.


display: Joshua 19:15

text: And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelue cities with their villages.


display: Joshua 19:16

text: This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.


display: Joshua 19:17

text: ¶ And the fourth lot came out to Issachar for the children of Issachar according to their families.


display: Joshua 19:18

text: And their border was toward Izreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,


display: Joshua 19:19

text: And Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,


display: Joshua 19:20

text: And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,


display: Joshua 19:21

text: And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez.


display: Joshua 19:22

text: And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimath, and Bethshemesh, and the outgoings of their border were at Iordan, sixteene cities with their villages.


display: Joshua 19:23

text: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities, and their villages.


display: Joshua 19:24

text: ¶ And the fift lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.


display: Joshua 19:25

text: And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,


display: Joshua 19:26

text: And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal, and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-Libnath,


display: Joshua 19:27

text: And turneth toward the Sunne rising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of of Iiphthahel toward the Northside of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,


display: Joshua 19:28

text: And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, euen vnto great Zidon:


display: Joshua 19:29

text: And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong citie Tyre, and the coast turneth to Hosah: and the outgoings thereof are at the Sea from the coast to Achzib.


display: Joshua 19:30

text: Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twentie and two cities with their villages.


display: Joshua 19:31

text: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.


display: Joshua 19:32

text: ¶ The sixt lot came out to the children of Naphtali: euen for the children of Naphtali according to their families.


display: Joshua 19:33

text: And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Iabneel vnto Lakum: and the outgoings thereof were at Iordan.


display: Joshua 19:34

text: And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-Tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the Southside, and reacheth to Asher on the Westside, and to Iudah vpon Iordan toward the Sun rising.


display: Joshua 19:35

text: And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Cinnereth,


display: Joshua 19:36

text: And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,


display: Joshua 19:37

text: And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,


display: Joshua 19:38

text: And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Bethanah, and Bethshemesh, nineteene cities with their villages.


display: Joshua 19:39

text: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.


display: Joshua 19:40

text: ¶ And the seuenth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families:


display: Joshua 19:41

text: And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,


display: Joshua 19:42

text: And Shaalabbin, and Aiialon, and Iethlah,


display: Joshua 19:43

text: And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,


display: Joshua 19:44

text: And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalah,


display: Joshua 19:45

text: And Iehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,


display: Joshua 19:46

text: And Meiarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Iapho.


display: Joshua 19:47

text: And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went vp to fight against Leshem, and tooke it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.


display: Joshua 19:48

text: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.


display: Joshua 19:49

text: ¶ When they had made an end of diuiding the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gaue an inheritance to Ioshua the sonne of Nun among them:


display: Joshua 19:50

text: According to the word of the LORD, they gaue him the citie which he asked, euen Timnath-Serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the citie, and dwelt therein.


display: Joshua 19:51

text: These are the inheritances which Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, diuided for an inheritance by lot, in Shiloh before the LORD, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: so they made an end of diuiding the countrey.


display: Joshua 20:1

text: The LORD also spake vnto Ioshua, saying,


display: Joshua 20:2

text: Speake to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake vnto you by the hand of Moses:


display: Joshua 20:3

text: That the slayer that killeth any person vnawares and vnwittingly, may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the auenger of blood.


display: Joshua 20:4

text: And when he that doeth flee vnto one of those cities, shall stand at the entring of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the eares of the Elders of that citie; they shall take him into the citie vnto them, and giue him a place, that he may dwell among them.


display: Joshua 20:5

text: And if the auenger of blood pursue after him, then they shal not deliuer the slayer vp into his hand: because hee smote his neighbour vnwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.


display: Joshua 20:6

text: And hee shall dwell in that citie, vntill he stand before the Congregation for iudgement, and vntill the death of the high Priest that shall bee in those dayes: then shall the slayer returne, and come vnto his owne city, and vnto his owne house, vnto the citie from whence he fled.


display: Joshua 20:7

text: ¶ And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee, in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the mountaine of Iudah.


display: Joshua 20:8

text: And on the other side Iordan by Iericho Eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wildernesse vpon the plaine, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.


display: Joshua 20:9

text: These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that soiourneth among them, that whosoeuer killeth any person at vnawares might flee thither, & not die by the hand of the auenger of blood, vntill he stood before the Congregation.


display: Joshua 21:1

text: Then came neere the heads of the fathers of the Leuites vnto Eleazar the Priest, and vnto Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and vnto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.


display: Joshua 21:2

text: And they spake vnto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commaunded by the hand of Moses, to giue vs Cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattell.


display: Joshua 21:3

text: And the children of Israel gaue vnto the Leuites out of their inheritance at the commandement of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.


display: Joshua 21:4

text: And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the Priest, which were of the Leuites, had by lot out of the tribe of Iudah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Beniamin, thirteene cities.


display: Joshua 21:5

text: And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot, out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.


display: Joshua 21:6

text: And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteene cities.


display: Joshua 21:7

text: The children of Merari by their families, had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelue cities.


display: Joshua 21:8

text: And the children of Israel gaue by lot vnto the Leuites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.


display: Joshua 21:9

text: ¶ And they gaue out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,


display: Joshua 21:10

text: Which the children of Aaron being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Leui, had: (for theirs was the first lot.)


display: Joshua 21:11

text: And they gaue them the citie of Arbah the father of Anak (which citie is Hebron) in the hill countrey of Iudah, with þ suburbs thereof round about it.


display: Joshua 21:12

text: But the fields of the citie, and the villages thereof, gaue they to Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, for his possession.


display: Joshua 21:13

text: ¶ Thus they gaue to the children of Aaron the Priest Hebron with her suburbs to bee a citie of refuge for the slayer, and Libnah with her suburbs,


display: Joshua 21:14

text: And Iattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs:


display: Joshua 21:15

text: And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs:


display: Joshua 21:16

text: And Ain with her suburbs, and Iuttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs, nine cities out of those two tribes.


display: Joshua 21:17

text: And out of the tribe of Beniamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,


display: Joshua 21:18

text: Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs, foure cities.


display: Joshua 21:19

text: All the cities of the children of Aaron the Priests, were thirteene cities with their suburbs.


display: Joshua 21:20

text: ¶ And the families of the children of Kohath the Leuites, which remained of the children of Kohath, euen they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.


display: Joshua 21:21

text: For they gaue them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a citie of refuge for the slayer: and Gezer with her suburbs,


display: Joshua 21:22

text: And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs, foure cities.


display: Joshua 21:23

text: And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibethon with her suburbs,


display: Joshua 21:24

text: Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon, with her suburbs: foure cities.


display: Joshua 21:25

text: And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs, two cities.


display: Joshua 21:26

text: All the cities were ten with their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.


display: Joshua 21:27

text: ¶ And vnto the children of Gershon of the families of the Leuites, out of the other halfe tribe of Manasseh, they gaue Golan in Bashan, with her suburbs, to be a citie of refuge for the slayer: and Beeshterah with her suburbs, two cities.


display: Joshua 21:28

text: And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,


display: Joshua 21:29

text: Iarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs, foure cities.


display: Joshua 21:30

text: And out of the tribe of Asher Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,


display: Joshua 21:31

text: Helkah with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs, foure cities.


display: Joshua 21:32

text: And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a citie of refuge for the slayer, and Hammoth-dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs, three cities.


display: Joshua 21:33

text: All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.


display: Joshua 21:34

text: ¶ And vnto the families of the children of Merari the rest of the Leuites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Iokneam, with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,


display: Joshua 21:35

text: Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs, foure cities.


display: Joshua 21:36

text: And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Iahazah with her suburbs,


display: Joshua 21:37

text: Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs, foure cities.


display: Joshua 21:38

text: And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,


display: Joshua 21:39

text: Heshbon with her suburbs, Iazer with her suburbs, foure cities in all.


display: Joshua 21:40

text: So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remayning of the families of the Leuites, were by their lot, twelue cities.


display: Joshua 21:41

text: All the cities of the Leuites within the possession of the children of Israel, were fourty and eight cities, with their suburbs.


display: Joshua 21:42

text: These cities were euery one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.


display: Joshua 21:43

text: ¶ And the LORD gaue vnto Israel all the land which hee sware to giue vnto their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.


display: Joshua 21:44

text: And the LORD gaue them rest round about, according to all that he sware vnto their fathers, and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them: the LORD deliuered all their enemies into their hand.


display: Joshua 21:45

text: There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken vnto the house of Israel: all came to passe.


display: Joshua 22:1

text: Then Ioshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh,


display: Joshua 22:2

text: And said vnto them, Yee haue kept all that Moses the seruant of the LORD commanded you, and haue obeyed my voyce in all that I commanded you.


display: Joshua 22:3

text: Yee haue not left your brethren these many dayes vnto this day, but haue kept the charge of the commandement of the LORD your God.


display: Joshua 22:4

text: And now the LORD your God hath giuen rest vnto your brethren, as hee promised them: therefore now returne yee, and get yee vnto your tents, and vnto the land of your possession, which Moses the seruant of the LORD gaue you on the other side Iordane.


display: Joshua 22:5

text: But take diligent heed, to doe the Commandement and the Law, which Moses the seruant of the LORD charged you, to loue the LORD your God, and to walke in all his wayes, and to keepe his Commaundements, and to cleaue vnto him, and to serue him with all your heart, and with all your soule.


display: Joshua 22:6

text: So Ioshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went vnto their tents.


display: Joshua 22:7

text: ¶ Now to the one halfe of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had giuen possession in Bashan: but vnto the other halfe therof gaue Ioshua among their brethren on this side Iordane Westward. And when Ioshua sent them away also vnto their tents, then hee blessed them,


display: Joshua 22:8

text: And he spake vnto them, saying; Returne with much riches vnto your tents, and with very much cattell, with siluer and with gold, and with brasse, and with iron, and with very much raiment: Diuide the spoile of your enemies with your brethren.


display: Joshua 22:9

text: ¶ And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to goe vnto the countrey of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


display: Joshua 22:10

text: ¶ And when they came vnto the borders of Iordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Iordan, a great altar to see to.


display: Joshua 22:11

text: ¶ And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh, haue built an altar ouer against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Iordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.


display: Joshua 22:12

text: And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole Congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselues together at Shiloh, to goe vp to warre against them.


display: Joshua 22:13

text: And the children of Israel sent vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh into the lande of Gilead, Phinehas son of Eleazar the Priest,


display: Joshua 22:14

text: And with him ten princes, of ech chiefe house a prince, throughout all the tribes of Israel, and each one was an head of the house of their fathers, among the thousands of Israel.


display: Joshua 22:15

text: ¶ And they came vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh vnto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,


display: Joshua 22:16

text: Thus saith the whole Congregation of the LORD, What trespasse is this that ye haue committed against the God of Israel, to turne away this day from following the LORD, in that ye haue builded you an altar, that yee might rebell this day against the LORD ?


display: Joshua 22:17

text: Is the iniquitie of Peor too litle for vs, from which we are not cleansed vntil this day, (although there was a plague in the Congregation of the LORD )


display: Joshua 22:18

text: But that ye must turne away this day from following the LORD ? And it will be, seeing yee rebell to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole Congregation of Israel.


display: Joshua 22:19

text: Notwithstanding, if the lande of your possession be vncleane, then passe yee ouer vnto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORDs Tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among vs: but rebell not against the LORD, nor rebell against vs, in building you an altar, beside the Altar of the LORD our God.


display: Joshua 22:20

text: Did not Achan the sonne of Zerah commit a trespasse in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the Congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquitie.


display: Joshua 22:21

text: ¶ Then the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh, answered and saide vnto the heads of the thousands of Israel,


display: Joshua 22:22

text: The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, hee knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it bee in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (saue vs not this day,)


display: Joshua 22:23

text: That wee haue built vs an altar to turne from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering, or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himselfe require it;


display: Joshua 22:24

text: And if we haue not rather done it for feare of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speake vnto our children, saying, What haue you to doe with the LORD God of Israel?


display: Joshua 22:25

text: For the LORD hath made Iordan a border betweene vs and you, yee children of Reuben, and children of Gad, yee haue no part in the LORD: so shal your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD:


display: Joshua 22:26

text: Therefore we said, Let vs now prepare to build vs an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice,


display: Joshua 22:27

text: But that it may bee a witnesse betweene vs and you, and our generations after vs, that we might do the seruice of the LORD before him with our burnt offrings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings, that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye haue no part in the LORD.


display: Joshua 22:28

text: Therefore said we, that it shalbe, when they should so say to vs, or to our generations in time to come, that wee may say againe, Beholde the paterne of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offrings, nor for sacrifices, but it is a witnes betweene vs and you.


display: Joshua 22:29

text: God forbid that we should rebell against the LORD, and turne this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meate offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the Altar of the LORD our God that is before his Tabernacle.


display: Joshua 22:30

text: ¶ And when Phinehas the Priest and the Princes of the Congregation, and Heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.


display: Joshua 22:31

text: And Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest said vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceiue that the LORD is among vs, because ye haue not committed this trespasse against the LORD: now ye haue deliuered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.


display: Joshua 22:32

text: ¶ And Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest, and the Princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, vnto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, & brought them word againe.


display: Joshua 22:33

text: And the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to goe vp against them in battel, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.


display: Joshua 22:34

text: And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall bee a witnesse betweene vs, that the LORD is God.


display: Joshua 23:1

text: And it came to passe, a long time after that the LORD had giuen rest vnto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Ioshua waxed old, and stricken in age.


display: Joshua 23:2

text: And Ioshua called for all Israel, and for their Elders, & for their Heads, and for their Iudges, and for their Officers, and said vnto them; I am old, and stricken in age.


display: Joshua 23:3

text: And yee haue seene all that the LORD your God hath done vnto all these nations, because of you; for the LORD your God is hee that hath fought for you.


display: Joshua 23:4

text: Behold, I haue diuided vnto you by lot these nations that remaine, to bee an inheritance for your tribes, from Iordan, with all the nations that I haue cut off, euen vnto the great Sea Westward.


display: Joshua 23:5

text: And the LORD your God, hee shall expell them from before you, and driue them from out of your sight, & ye shall possesse their land, as the LORD your God hath promised vnto you.


display: Joshua 23:6

text: Be ye therefore very courageous to keepe and to doe all that is written in the booke of the Law of Moses, that yee turne not aside therefrom, to the right hand, or to the left,


display: Joshua 23:7

text: That yee come not among these nations, these that remaine amongst you, neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to sweare by them, neither serue them, nor bow your selues vnto them.


display: Joshua 23:8

text: But cleaue vnto the LORD your God, as yee haue done vnto this day.


display: Joshua 23:9

text: For the LORD hath driuen out from before you, great nations, and strong: But as for you, no man hath beene able to stand before you vnto this day.


display: Joshua 23:10

text: One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as hee hath promised you.


display: Joshua 23:11

text: Take good heed therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the LORD your God.


display: Joshua 23:12

text: Else, if ye do in any wise go backe, and cleaue vnto the remnant of these nations, euen these that remaine among you, and shall make marriages with them, and goe in vnto them, and they to you:


display: Joshua 23:13

text: Know for a certainety, that the LORD your God will no more driue out any of these nations from before you: but they shalbe snares and traps vnto you, and scourges in your sides, and thornes in your eyes, vntill yee perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath giuen you.


display: Joshua 23:14

text: And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth, and ye know in all your hearts, and in all your soules, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to passe vnto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.


display: Joshua 23:15

text: Therefore it shall come to passe, that as all good things are come vpon you, which the LORD your God promised you: so shall the LORD bring vpon you all euill things, vntill he haue destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath giuen you.


display: Joshua 23:16

text: When yee haue transgressed the Couenant of the LORD your God, which hee commaunded you, and haue gone and serued other gods, and bowed your selues to them: then shall the anger of the LORD bee kindled against you, and yee shall perish quickly from off the good land which hee hath giuen vnto you.


display: Joshua 24:1

text: And Ioshua gathered all the Tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the Elders of Israel, and for their Heads, and for their Iudges, and for their Officers, and they presented themselues before God.


display: Joshua 24:2

text: And Ioshua said vnto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, euen Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they serued other gods.


display: Joshua 24:3

text: And I tooke your father Abraham frō the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gaue him Isaac.


display: Joshua 24:4

text: And I gaue vnto Isaac, Iacob and Esau: & I gaue vnto Esau mount Seir, to possesse it: but Iacob and his children went downe into Egypt.


display: Joshua 24:5

text: I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did amongst them: and afterward, I brought you out.


display: Joshua 24:6

text: And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came vnto the sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with charets and horsemen vnto the red sea.


display: Joshua 24:7

text: And when they cried vnto the LORD, hee put darkenesse betweene you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea vpon them, and couered them, and your eyes haue seene what I haue done in Egypt, and ye dwelt in the wildernes a long season.


display: Joshua 24:8

text: And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Iordan: and they fought with you, and I gaue them into your hand, that ye might possesse their land, and I destroyed them from before you.


display: Joshua 24:9

text: Then Balak the sonne of Zippor king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the sonne of Beor to curse you:


display: Joshua 24:10

text: But I would not hearken vnto Balaam, therefore he blessed you still: so I deliuered you out of his hand.


display: Joshua 24:11

text: And ye went ouer Iordan, and came vnto Iericho: and the men of Iericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, & the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, and I deliuered them into your hand.


display: Joshua 24:12

text: And I sent the hornet before you, which draue them out from before you, euen the two kings of the Amorites: but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.


display: Joshua 24:13

text: And I haue giuen you a land for which ye did not labour, & cities which ye built not, and yee dwell in them: of the vineyards and Oliue-yards which ye planted not, doe ye eate.


display: Joshua 24:14

text: ¶ Now therefore, feare the LORD, and serue him in sinceritie, and in trueth, and put away the gods which your fathers serued on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt: and serue yee the LORD.


display: Joshua 24:15

text: And if it seeme euill vnto you to serue the LORD, choose you this day whome you will serue, whether the gods which your fathers serued that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose lande ye dwell: but as for mee and my house, we will serue the LORD.


display: Joshua 24:16

text: And the people answered and said, God forbid that wee should forsake the LORD, to serue other gods.


display: Joshua 24:17

text: For the LORD our God, he it is that brought vs vp and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, & which did those great signes in our sight, and preserued vs in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed.


display: Joshua 24:18

text: And the LORD draue out from before vs all the people, euen the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serue the LORD, for he is our God.


display: Joshua 24:19

text: And Ioshua said vnto the people, Ye cannot serue the LORD: for hee is an holy God: he is a ielous God, he will not forgiue your transgressions nor your sinnes.


display: Joshua 24:20

text: If yee forsake the LORD, and serue strange gods, then he will turne, and doe you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.


display: Joshua 24:21

text: And the people said vnto Ioshua, Nay, but we will serue the LORD.


display: Joshua 24:22

text: And Ioshua said vnto the people, Yee are witnesses against your selues, that yee haue chosen you the LORD, to serue him. And they said, We are witnesses.


display: Joshua 24:23

text: Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and encline your heart vnto the LORD God of Israel.


display: Joshua 24:24

text: And the people saide vnto Ioshua; The LORD our God will we serue, and his voice will we obey.


display: Joshua 24:25

text: So Ioshua made a couenant with the people that day, and set them a Statute, & an Ordinance in Shechem.


display: Joshua 24:26

text: ¶ And Ioshua wrote these words in the booke of the Law of God, and tooke a great stone, and set it vp there, vnder an oake, that was by the Sanctuary of the LORD.


display: Joshua 24:27

text: And Ioshua saide vnto all the people, Behold, this stone shalbe a witnesse vnto vs; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which hee spake vnto vs; it shall be there for a witnesse vnto you, lest ye deny your God.


display: Joshua 24:28

text: So Ioshua let the people depart, euery man vnto his inheritance.


display: Joshua 24:29

text: ¶ And it came to passe after these things, that Ioshua the sonne of Nun the seruant of the LORD died, being an hundred and ten yeeres old.


display: Joshua 24:30

text: And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the North side of the hill of Gaash.


display: Joshua 24:31

text: And Israel serued the LORD all the dayes of Ioshua, & all the dayes of the Elders that ouerliued Ioshua, and which had knowen al the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.


display: Joshua 24:32

text: ¶ And the bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel brought vp out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcell of ground which Iacob bought of the sonnes of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundred pieces of siluer; and it became the inheritance of the children of Ioseph.


display: Joshua 24:33

text: And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron died, and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was giuen him in mount Ephraim.


display: Judges 1:1

text: Now after the death of Ioshua, it came to passe, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shal goe vp for vs against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?


display: Judges 1:2

text: And the LORD sayd, Iudah shall goe vp: Behold, I haue deliuered the land into his hand.


display: Judges 1:3

text: And Iudah saide vnto Simeon his brother, Come vp with me into my lot, that wee may fight against the Canaanites, and I likewise will goe with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.


display: Judges 1:4

text: And Iudah went vp, and the LORD deliuered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.


display: Judges 1:5

text: And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.


display: Judges 1:6

text: But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbes, and his great toes.


display: Judges 1:7

text: And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore & ten kings, hauing their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meate vnder my table: as I haue done, so God hath requited mee, and they brought him to Ierusalem, and there he died.


display: Judges 1:8

text: (Now the children of Iudah had fought against Ierusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the citie on fire)


display: Judges 1:9

text: ¶ And afterward the children of Iudah went downe to fight against the Canaanites that dwelt in the moūtaine, & in the South, and in the valley.


display: Judges 1:10

text: And Iudah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron (nowe the name of Hebron before was Kiriath-arba) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.


display: Judges 1:11

text: And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir, (& the name of Debir before was Kiriath-sepher)


display: Judges 1:12

text: And Caleb said, Hee that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I giue Achsah my daughter to wife.


display: Judges 1:13

text: And Othniel the sonne of Kenaz Calebs yonger brother tooke it: and he gaue him Achsah his daughter to wife.


display: Judges 1:14

text: And it came to passe when shee came to him, that she moued him to aske of her father a field: and shee lighted from off her asse, and Caleb said vnto her, What wilt thou?


display: Judges 1:15

text: And she said vnto him, Giue me a blessing: for thou hast giuen mee a South land, giue me also springs of water. And Caleb gaue her the vpper springs, and the nether springs.


display: Judges 1:16

text: ¶ And the children of the Kenite, Moses father in law, went vp out of the citie of palme trees, with the children of Iudah into the wildernesse of Iudah, which lieth in the South of Arad, and they went and dwelt among the people.


display: Judges 1:17

text: And Iudah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and vtterly destroyed it, (and the name of the citie was called Hormah.)


display: Judges 1:18

text: Also Iudah tooke Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.


display: Judges 1:19

text: And the LORD was with Iudah, and hee draue out the inhabitants of the mountaine, but could not driue out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had charets of yron.


display: Judges 1:20

text: And they gaue Hebron vnto Caleb, as Moses saide: and hee expelled thence the three sonnes of Anak.


display: Judges 1:21

text: And the children of Beniamin did not driue out the Iebusites that inhabited Ierusalem: but the Iebusites dwel with the children of Beniamin in Ierusalem, vnto this day.


display: Judges 1:22

text: ¶ And the house of Ioseph, they also went vp against Bethel: and the LORD was with them.


display: Judges 1:23

text: And the house of Ioseph sent to descrie Bethel (now the name of the citie before was Luz)


display: Judges 1:24

text: And the spies sawe a man come forth out of the citie, and they said vnto him, Shew vs, wee pray thee, the entrance into the citie, and we will shew thee mercie.


display: Judges 1:25

text: And when hee shewed them the entrance into the citie, they smote the citie with the edge of the sword: but they let goe the man and all his familie.


display: Judges 1:26

text: And the man went into the lande of the Hittites, and built a citie, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof vnto this day.


display: Judges 1:27

text: ¶ Neither did Manasseh driue out the inhabitants of Bethshean, and her townes, nor Taanach and her townes, nor the inhabitants of Dor, and her townes, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam, and her townes, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo, and her townes: but the Canaanites would dwel in that land.


display: Judges 1:28

text: And it came to passe when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not vtterly driue them out.


display: Judges 1:29

text: ¶ Neither did Ephraim driue out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.


display: Judges 1:30

text: ¶ Neither did Zebulun driue out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol: but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.


display: Judges 1:31

text: ¶ Neither did Asher driue out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor Achzib, nor Helbath, nor Aphik, nor of Rehob:


display: Judges 1:32

text: But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not driue them out.


display: Judges 1:33

text: ¶ Neither did Naphtali driue out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath, but hee dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: neuerthelesse, the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, and of Bethanath, became tributaries vnto them.


display: Judges 1:34

text: And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountaine: for they would not suffer them to come downe to the valley.


display: Judges 1:35

text: But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aiialon, & in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Ioseph preuailed, so that they became tributaries.


display: Judges 1:36

text: And the coast of the Amorites was from the going vp to Akrabbim, from the rocke, and vpward.


display: Judges 2:1

text: And an Angel of the LORD came vp from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to goe vp out of Egypt, and haue brought you vnto the land which I sware vnto your fathers, and I said, I will neuer breake my Couenant with you.


display: Judges 2:2

text: And yee shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land, you shal throw downe their altars: But ye haue not obeyed my voyce; Why haue ye done this?


display: Judges 2:3

text: Wherefore I also said, I will not driue them out from before you: but they shalbe as thornes in your sides, and their gods shalbe a snare vnto you.


display: Judges 2:4

text: And it came to passe when the Angel of the LORD spake these words vnto all the children of Israel, that the people lift vp their voice, and wept.


display: Judges 2:5

text: And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there vnto the LORD.


display: Judges 2:6

text: ¶ And when Ioshua had let the people goe, the children of Israel went euery man vnto his inheritance, to possesse the land.


display: Judges 2:7

text: And the people serued the LORD all the dayes of Ioshua, and all the dayes of the Elders that outliued Ioshua, who had seene all the great workes of the LORD, that hee did for Israel.


display: Judges 2:8

text: And Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruant of the LORD died, being an hundred and ten yeeres old.


display: Judges 2:9

text: And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the North side of the hill Gaash.


display: Judges 2:10

text: And also all that generation were gathered vnto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the woorkes which hee had done for Israel.


display: Judges 2:11

text: ¶ And the children of Israel did euil in the sight of the LORD, and serued Baalim:


display: Judges 2:12

text: And they forsooke the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselues vnto them, and prouoked the LORD to anger.


display: Judges 2:13

text: And they forsooke the LORD, and serued Baal and Ashtaroth.


display: Judges 2:14

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


display: Judges 2:15

text: Whither soeuer they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for euill, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworne vnto them: and they were greatly distressed.


display: Judges 2:16

text: ¶ Neuerthelesse, the LORD raysed vp Iudges, which deliuered them out of the hand of those that spoyled them.


display: Judges 2:17

text: And yet they would not hearken vnto their Iudges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselues vnto them: they turned quickly out of the way, which their fathers walked in, obeying the Commandements of the LORD; but they did not so.


display: Judges 2:18

text: And when the LORD raised them vp Iudges, then the LORD was with the Iudge, and deliuered them out of the hand of their enemies, all the dayes of the Iudge (for it repented the LORD, because of their gronings by reason of them that oppressed them, and vexed them:)


display: Judges 2:19

text: And it came to passe when the Iudge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselues more then their fathers, in following other gods, to serue them, and to bow downe vnto them: they ceased not from their owne doings, nor from their stubborne way.


display: Judges 2:20

text: ¶ And the anger of the LORD was hote against Israel, and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my Couenant which I commanded their fathers, and haue not hearkened vnto my voice:


display: Judges 2:21

text: I also will not henceforth driue out any from before them of the nations which Ioshua left when he died:


display: Judges 2:22

text: That through them I may proue Israel, whether they will keepe the way of the LORD, to walke therein, as their fathers did keepe it, or not.


display: Judges 2:23

text: Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driuing them out hastily, neither deliuered he them into the hand of Ioshua.


display: Judges 3:1

text: Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prooue Israel by them, (euen as many of Israel as had not knowen all the warres of Canaan;


display: Judges 3:2

text: Onely that the generations of the children of Israel might know to teach them warre, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof:)


display: Judges 3:3

text: Namely fiue lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hiuites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-Hermon, vnto the entring in of Hamath.


display: Judges 3:4

text: And they were to prooue Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken vnto the Commandements of the LORD, which hee commaunded their fathers by the hand of Moses.


display: Judges 3:5

text: ¶ And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hiuites, and Iebusites,


display: Judges 3:6

text: And they tooke their daughters to be their wiues, and gaue their daughters to their sonnes, and serued their gods.


display: Judges 3:7

text: And the children of Israel did euill in the sight of the LORD, and forgate the LORD their God, and serued Baalim, and the groues.


display: Judges 3:8

text: ¶ Therefore the anger of the LORD was hote against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel serued Chushan-Rishathaim eight yeeres.


display: Judges 3:9

text: And when the children of Israel cryed vnto the LORD, the LORD raised vp a deliuerer to the children of Israel, who deliuered them, euen Othniel the sonne of Kenaz, Calebs yonger brother.


display: Judges 3:10

text: And the Spirit of the LORD came vpon him, and he iudged Israel, and went out to warre, & the LORD deliuered Chushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand preuailed against Chushan-Rishathaim.


display: Judges 3:11

text: And the land had rest forty yeres: and Othniel the sonne of Kenaz died.


display: Judges 3:12

text: ¶ And the children of Israel did euill againe in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done euill in the sight of the LORD.


display: Judges 3:13

text: And hee gathered vnto him the children of Ammon, and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of Palme-trees.


display: Judges 3:14

text: So the children of Israel serued Eglon the King of Moab eighteene yeeres.


display: Judges 3:15

text: But when the children of Israel cried vnto the LORD, the LORD raised them vp a deliuerer, Ehud the sonne of Gera, a Beniamite, a man left handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a Present vnto Eglon the king of Moab.


display: Judges 3:16

text: But Ehud made him a dagger (which had two edges) of a cubite length, and he did gird it vnder his raiment, vpon his right thigh,


display: Judges 3:17

text: And he brought the present vnto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.


display: Judges 3:18

text: And when he had made an end to offer the Present, he sent away the people that bare the Present.


display: Judges 3:19

text: But hee himselfe turned againe from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I haue a secret errand vnto thee, O king: who said, Keepe silence. And all that stood by him, went out from him.


display: Judges 3:20

text: And Ehud came vnto him, and he was sitting in a Summer parlour, which hee had for himselfe alone: And Ehud said, I haue a message from God vnto thee. And he arose out of his seat.


display: Judges 3:21

text: And Ehud put forth his left hand, and tooke the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.


display: Judges 3:22

text: And the haft also went in after the blade: and the fatte closed vpon the blade, so that hee could not drawe the dagger out of his belly, and the dirt came out.


display: Judges 3:23

text: Then Ehud went forth through the porche, and shut the doores of the parlour vpon him, and locked them.


display: Judges 3:24

text: When he was gone out, his seruants came, and when they saw, that behold, the doores of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he couereth his feet in his Summer chamber.


display: Judges 3:25

text: And they taried till they were ashamed: and behold, he opened not the doores of the parlour, therefore they tooke a key, and opened them: and behold, their lord was fallen downe dead on the earth.


display: Judges 3:26

text: And Ehud escaped while they taried: and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped vnto Seirath.


display: Judges 3:27

text: And it came to passe when hee was come, that hee blew a trumpet in the mountaine of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went downe with him from the mount, & he before them.


display: Judges 3:28

text: And hee said vnto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath deliuered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went downe after him, and tooke the foords of Iordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to passe ouer.


display: Judges 3:29

text: And they slewe of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour, and there escaped not a man.


display: Judges 3:30

text: So Moab was subdued that day vnder the hand of Israel: and the land had rest fourescore yeeres.


display: Judges 3:31

text: ¶ And after him was Shamgar the sonne of Anath, which slew of the Philistines sixe hundred men with an oxe goad, and he also deliuered Israel.


display: Judges 4:1

text: And the children of Israel againe did euil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.


display: Judges 4:2

text: And the LORD sold them into the hande of Iabin king of Canaan: that reigned in Hazor, the captaine of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.


display: Judges 4:3

text: And the children of Israel cried vnto the LORD: for he had nine hundred charets of yron: and twentie yeres hee mightily oppressed the children of Israel.


display: Judges 4:4

text: ¶ And Deborah a prophetesse, the wife of Lapidoth, shee iudged Israel at that time.


display: Judges 4:5

text: And shee dwelt vnder the palme tree of Deborah, betweene Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came vp to her for iudgement.


display: Judges 4:6

text: And shee sent and called Barak the sonne of Abinoam, out of Kedesh-Naphtali, and said vnto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commaunded, saying, Goe, and drawe toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali, and of the children of Zebulun?


display: Judges 4:7

text: And I wil draw vnto thee to the riuer Kishon, Sisera the captaine of Iabins army, with his charets, and his multitude, and I will deliuer him into thine hand.


display: Judges 4:8

text: And Barak said vnto her, If thou wilt goe with me, then I wil goe: but if thou wilt not goe with mee, then I will not goe.


display: Judges 4:9

text: And she said, I wil surely go with thee, notwithstanding the iourney that thou takest, shal not be for thine honor: for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, & went with Barak to Kedesh.


display: Judges 4:10

text: ¶ And Barak called Zebulun, and Naphtali to Kedesh, and he went vp with ten thousand men at his feete: and Deborah went vp with him.


display: Judges 4:11

text: Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had seuered himselfe from the Kenites, and pitched his tent vnto the plaine of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.


display: Judges 4:12

text: And they shewed Sisera, that Barak the sonne of Abinoam was gone vp to mount Tabor.


display: Judges 4:13

text: And Sisera gathered together all his charets, euen nine hundred charets of iron, and al the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, vnto the riuer of Kishon.


display: Judges 4:14

text: And Deborah said vnto Barak, Up, for this is the day in which the LORD hath deliuered Sisera into thine hand: Is not the LORD gone out before thee? so Barak went downe from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.


display: Judges 4:15

text: And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his charets, and all his hoste with the edge of the sword, before Barak: so that Sisera lighted downe off his charet, and fled away on his feet.


display: Judges 4:16

text: But Barak pursued after the charets, and after the hoste vnto Harosheth of the Gentiles, and all the host of Sisera fell vpon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.


display: Judges 4:17

text: Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet, to the tent of Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace betweene Iabin the king of Hazor, and the house of Heber the Kenite.


display: Judges 4:18

text: ¶ And Iael went out to meete Sisera, and said vnto him, Turne in, my lord, turne in to me, feare not. And when hee had turned in vnto her, into the tent, shee couered him with a mantle.


display: Judges 4:19

text: And he said vnto her, Giue me, I pray thee, a litle water to drinke, for I am thirstie. And she opened a bottle of milke, and gaue him drinke, and couered him.


display: Judges 4:20

text: Againe he said vnto her, Stand in the doore of the tent, and it shall bee when any man doeth come and enquire of thee and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.


display: Judges 4:21

text: Then Iael Hebers wife, tooke a naile of the tent, and tooke an hammer in her hand, and went softly vnto him, and smote the naile into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asleepe, and weary;) so he died.


display: Judges 4:22

text: And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Iael came out to meet him, and said vnto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the naile was in his temples.


display: Judges 4:23

text: So God subdued on that day, Iabin the king of Canaan, before the children of Israel.


display: Judges 4:24

text: And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, & preuailed against Iabin the king of Canaan, vntill they had destroyed Iabin king of Canaan.


display: Judges 5:1

text: Then sang Deborah, and Barak the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying,


display: Judges 5:2

text: Praise ye the LORD, for the auenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselues.


display: Judges 5:3

text: Heare, O ye kings, giue eare, O ye Princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the LORD, I wil sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.


display: Judges 5:4

text: LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heauens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.


display: Judges 5:5

text: The mountaines melted from before the LORD, euen that Sinai, from before the LORD God of Israel.


display: Judges 5:6

text: In the dayes of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the dayes of Iael, the high wayes were vnoccupied, and the traueilers walked thorow by-wayes.


display: Judges 5:7

text: The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, vntill that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.


display: Judges 5:8

text: They chose new gods; then was warre in the gates: was there a shield or speare seene among fourtie thousand in Israel?


display: Judges 5:9

text: My heart is toward the gouernours of Israel, that offered themselues willingly among the people: Blesse ye the LORD.


display: Judges 5:10

text: Speake yee that ride on white asses, yee that sit in Iudgement, and walke by the way.


display: Judges 5:11

text: They that are deliuered from the noise of Archers in the places of drawing water; there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, euen the righteous acts towards the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD goe downe to the gates.


display: Judges 5:12

text: Awake, awake Deborah: awake, awake, vtter a song: arise Barak, and leade thy captiuitie captiue, thou sonne of Abinoam.


display: Judges 5:13

text: Then hee made him that remaineth, haue dominion ouer the Nobles among the people: the LORD made me haue dominion ouer the mightie.


display: Judges 5:14

text: Out of Ephraim was there a roote of them against Amalek, after thee Beniamin, among thy people: Out of Machir came downe gouernours, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.


display: Judges 5:15

text: And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah: euen Issachar, and also Barak, he was sent on foot into the valley: for the diuisions of Reuben, there were great thoughts of heart.


display: Judges 5:16

text: Why abodest thou among the sheepefolds, to heare the bleatings of the flocks? for the diuisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.


display: Judges 5:17

text: Gilead abode beyond Iordan: and why did Dan remaine in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.


display: Judges 5:18

text: Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that ieoparded their liues vnto the death, in the high places of the field.


display: Judges 5:19

text: The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they tooke no gaine of money.


display: Judges 5:20

text: They fought from heauen, the starres in their courses fought against Sisera.


display: Judges 5:21

text: The riuer of Kishon swept them away, that ancient riuer, the riuer Kishon: O my soule, thou hast troden downe strength.


display: Judges 5:22

text: Then were the horse hoofes broken, by the meanes of the pransings, the pransings of their mightie ones.


display: Judges 5:23

text: Curse ye Meroz (said the Angel of the LORD ) curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof: because they came not to the helpe of the LORD, to the helpe of the LORD against the mighty.


display: Judges 5:24

text: Blessed aboue women shal Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be aboue women in the tent.


display: Judges 5:25

text: He asked water, and she gaue him milke, shee brought foorth butter in a lordly dish.


display: Judges 5:26

text: Shee put her hand to the naile, and her right hand to the workemens hammer: and with the hammer shee smote Sisera, shee smote off his head, when she had pearsed & striken through his temples.


display: Judges 5:27

text: At her feete he bowed, he fell, he lay downe: at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fel down dead.


display: Judges 5:28

text: The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattesse, Why is his charet so long in comming? Why tarie the wheeles of his charets?


display: Judges 5:29

text: Her wise ladies answered her, yea she returned answere to her selfe,


display: Judges 5:30

text: Haue they not sped? haue they not diuided the pray to euery man a damosell or two? To Sisera a pray of diuers colours, a pray of diuers colours, of needle worke, of diuers colours of needle worke on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoile?


display: Judges 5:31

text: So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that loue him, be as the Sunne when he goeth foorth in his might. And the land had rest fourtie yeeres.


display: Judges 6:1

text: And the children of Israel did euill in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD deliuered them into the hande of Midian seuen yeeres.


display: Judges 6:2

text: And the hand of Midian preuailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made them the dennes which are in the mountaines, and caues, & strong holds.


display: Judges 6:3

text: And so it was when Israel had sowen, that the Midianites came vp, & the Amalekites, & the children of the East, euen they came vp against them,


display: Judges 6:4

text: And they encamped against them, and destroyed the encrease of the earth, till thou come vnto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheepe, nor oxe, nor asse.


display: Judges 6:5

text: For they came vp with their cattell and their tents, and they came as Grashoppers for multitude, for both they and their camels were without number: and they entred into the land to destroy it.


display: Judges 6:6

text: And Israel was greatly impouerished, because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cryed vnto the LORD.


display: Judges 6:7

text: ¶ And it came to passe when the children of Israel cryed vnto the LORD, because of the Midianites,


display: Judges 6:8

text: That the LORD sent a Prophet vnto the children of Israel, which said vnto them; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you vp from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage,


display: Judges 6:9

text: And I deliuered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of al that oppressed you, and draue them out from before you, and gaue you their land:


display: Judges 6:10

text: And I said vnto you, I am the LORD your God, feare not the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwel: But ye haue not obeyed my voice.


display: Judges 6:11

text: ¶ And there came an Angel of the LORD, and sate vnder an Oake which was in Ophrah, that pertained vnto Ioash the Abi-Ezrite: and his sonne Gideon threshed wheat by the winepresse, to hide it from the Midianites.


display: Judges 6:12

text: And the Angel of the LORD appeared vnto him, and said vnto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mightie man of valour.


display: Judges 6:13

text: And Gideon said vnto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD bee with vs, why then is all this befallen vs? and where be all his miracles which our fathers tolde vs of, saying, Did not the LORD bring vs vp from Egypt? But now the LORD hath forsaken vs, and deliuered vs into the hands of the Midianites.


display: Judges 6:14

text: And the LORD looked vpon him, and said, Goe in this thy might, and thou shalt saue Israel from the hand of the Midianites: haue not I sent thee?


display: Judges 6:15

text: And hee said vnto him, Oh my lord, wherewith shall I saue Israel? behold, my family is poore in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fathers house.


display: Judges 6:16

text: And the LORD said vnto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites, as one man.


display: Judges 6:17

text: And he said vnto him, If now I haue found grace in thy sight, then shew me a signe, that thou talkest with me.


display: Judges 6:18

text: Depart not hence, I pray thee, vntil I come vnto thee, and bring forth my Present, and set it before thee. And hee saide, I will tary vntill thou come againe.


display: Judges 6:19

text: ¶ And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and vnleauened cakes of an Ephah of floure: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out vnto him vnder the oake, and presented it.


display: Judges 6:20

text: And the Angel of God sayd vnto him, Take the flesh, and the vnleauened cakes, and lay them vpon this rocke, and powre out the broth. And he did so.


display: Judges 6:21

text: ¶ Then the Angel of the LORD put foorth the end of the staffe that was in his hand, and touched the flesh, and the vnleauened cakes, and there rose vp fire out of the rocke, and consumed the flesh and the vnleauened cakes: then the Angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.


display: Judges 6:22

text: And when Gideon perceiued that hee was an Angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD: for because I haue seene an Angel of the LORD face to face.


display: Judges 6:23

text: And the LORD said vnto him, Peace be vnto thee, feare not, thou shalt not die.


display: Judges 6:24

text: Then Gideon built an Altar there vnto the Lord, and called it Iehouah shalom: vnto this day it is yet in Ophrah, of the Abi-Ezrites.


display: Judges 6:25

text: ¶ And it came to passe the same night, that the LORD said vnto him, Take thy fathers yong bullocke, euen the second bullocke of seuen yeeres old, and throw downe the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut downe the groue that is by it:


display: Judges 6:26

text: And builde an Altar vnto the LORD thy God vpon the top of this rocke, in the ordered place, and take the second bullocke, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the groue, which thou shalt cut downe.


display: Judges 6:27

text: Then Gideon tooke ten men of his seruants, and did as the LORD had said vnto him: And so it was because hee feared his fathers houshold, and the men of the city, that he could not doe it by day, that hee did it by night.


display: Judges 6:28

text: ¶ And when the men of the citie arose earely in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast downe, and the groue was cut downe that was by it, and the second bullocke was offered vpon the altar that was built.


display: Judges 6:29

text: And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the sonne of Ioash hath done this thing.


display: Judges 6:30

text: Then the men of the citie said vnto Ioash, Bring out thy sonne, that he may die: because he hath cast downe the altar of Baal, and because hee hath cut downe the groue that was by it.


display: Judges 6:31

text: And Ioash said vnto all that stood against him, Will ye pleade for Baal? will ye saue him? He that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilest it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himselfe, because one hath cast down his altar.


display: Judges 6:32

text: Therefore on that day hee called him Ierubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because hee hath throwen downe his altar.


display: Judges 6:33

text: ¶ Then all the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and the children of the East were gathered together, and went ouer, and pitched in the valley of Iezreel.


display: Judges 6:34

text: But the Spirit of the LORD came vpon Gideon, and hee blewe a trumpet, and Abiezer was gathered after him.


display: Judges 6:35

text: And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, who also was gathered after him, and hee sent messengers vnto Asher, and vnto Zebulun, and vnto Naphtali, and they came vp to meete them.


display: Judges 6:36

text: ¶ And Gideon said vnto God, If thou wilt saue Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,


display: Judges 6:37

text: Beholde, I will put a fleece of wooll in the floore: and if the deaw be on the fleece onely, and it bee drie vpon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt saue Israel by my hande, as thou hast said.


display: Judges 6:38

text: And it was so: for he rose vp early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the deaw out of the fleece, a bowle full of water.


display: Judges 6:39

text: And Gideon said vnto God, Let not thine anger be hote against me, and I will speake but this once: Let mee prooue, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece. Let it now be drie onely vpon the fleece, and vpon all the ground let there be deaw.


display: Judges 6:40

text: And God did so that night: for it was drie vpon the fleece onely, and there was deaw on all the ground.


display: Judges 7:1

text: Then Ierubbaal (who is Gideon) and all the people that were with him, rose vp earely, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the hoste of the Midianites were on the North side of them by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.


display: Judges 7:2

text: And the LORD said vnto Gideon, The people that are with thee, are too many for me to giue the Midianites into their handes, lest Israel vaunt themselues against mee, saying, Mine owne hand hath saued me.


display: Judges 7:3

text: Now therefore go to, proclaime in the eares of the people, saying, Whosoeuer is fearefull and afraid, let him returne and depart earely from mount Gilead: and there returned of the people twentie and two thousand, & there remained ten thousand.


display: Judges 7:4

text: And the LORD said vnto Gideon, The people are yet too many: bring them downe vnto the water, and I wil trie them for thee there: and it shall bee that of whome I say vnto thee, This shall goe with thee, the same shall goe with thee: and of whomsoeuer I say vnto thee, This shal not goe with thee, the same shall not goe.


display: Judges 7:5

text: So he brought downe the people vnto the water: and the LORD sayd vnto Gideon, Euery one that lappeth of the water with his tongue as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himselfe, likewise euery one that boweth downe vpon his knees to drinke.


display: Judges 7:6

text: And the number of them that lapped putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed downe vpon their knees to drinke water.


display: Judges 7:7

text: And the LORD said vnto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped, will I saue you, and deliuer the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people goe euery man vnto his place.


display: Judges 7:8

text: So the people tooke victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel, euery man vnto his tent, and reteined those three hundred men: and the hoste of Midian was beneath him in the valley.


display: Judges 7:9

text: ¶ And it came to passe the same night, that the LORD sayd vnto him, Arise, get thee downe vnto the hoste, for I haue deliuered it into thine hand.


display: Judges 7:10

text: But if thou feare to goe downe, goe thou with Phurah thy seruant downe to the hoste.


display: Judges 7:11

text: And thou shalt heare what they say, and afterward shall thine handes be strengthened to goe downe vnto the hoste. Then went hee downe, with Phurah his seruant, vnto the outside of the armed men, that were in the hoste.


display: Judges 7:12

text: And the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and all the children of the East, lay along in the valley like grashoppers for multitude, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the Sea side for multitude.


display: Judges 7:13

text: And when Gideon was come, beholde, there was a man that tolde a dreame vnto his fellow, and sayd, Behold, I dreamed a dreame, and loe, a cake of Barley bread tumbled into the hoste of Midian, and came vnto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and ouerturned it, that the tent lay along.


display: Judges 7:14

text: And his fellow answered, and said, This is nothing els saue the sword of Gideon the sonne of Ioash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God deliuered Midian, and all the hoste.


display: Judges 7:15

text: ¶ And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dreame, and the interpretation thereof, that hee worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and sayd, Arise, for the LORD hath deliuered into your hand the host of Midian.


display: Judges 7:16

text: And he diuided the three hundred men into three companies, and hee put a trumpet in euery mans hand, with empty pitchers, and lampes within the pitchers,


display: Judges 7:17

text: And hee said vnto them, Looke on mee, and doe likewise; and beholde, when I come to the outside of the campe, it shall be that as I doe, so shall ye doe.


display: Judges 7:18

text: When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with mee, then blow ye the trumpets also on euery side of all the campe, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.


display: Judges 7:19

text: ¶ So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him, came vnto the outside of the campe, in the beginning of the middle watch, and they had but newly set the watch, and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.


display: Judges 7:20

text: And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lampes in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withall: and they cryed, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.


display: Judges 7:21

text: And they stood euery man in his place, round about the campe: and all the host ranne, and cried, and fled.


display: Judges 7:22

text: And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set euery mans sword against his fellow, euen throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah, in Zererath, and to the border of Abel Meholah, vnto Tabbath.


display: Judges 7:23

text: And the men of Israel gathered themselues together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.


display: Judges 7:24

text: ¶ And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying; Come downe against the Midianites, and take before them the waters vnto Beth-barah, and Iordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselues together, and tooke the waters vnto Beth-barah, and Iordane.


display: Judges 7:25

text: And they tooke two Princes of the Midianites, Oreb, and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb vpon the rocke Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepresse of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb, to Gideon on the other side Iordan.


display: Judges 8:1

text: And the men of Ephraim said vnto him, Why hast thou serued vs thus, that thou calledst vs not when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharpely.


display: Judges 8:2

text: And he said vnto them, What haue I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better then the vintage of Abiezer?


display: Judges 8:3

text: God hath deliuered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to doe in comparison of you? then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.


display: Judges 8:4

text: ¶ And Gideon came to Iordan, and passed ouer, hee, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.


display: Judges 8:5

text: And he said vnto the men of Succoth, Giue, I pray you, loaues of bread vnto the people that follow me, for they bee faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.


display: Judges 8:6

text: ¶ And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hands, that wee should giue bread vnto thine armie?


display: Judges 8:7

text: And Gideon said, Therfore when the LORD hath deliuered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I wil teare your flesh with the thornes of the wildernesse, and with briers.


display: Judges 8:8

text: ¶ And he went vp thence to Penuel, and spake vnto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him, as the men of Succoth had answered him.


display: Judges 8:9

text: And he spake also vnto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come againe in peace, I will breake downe this towre.


display: Judges 8:10

text: ¶ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hostes with them, about fifteene thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the East: for there fell an hundred and twentie thousand men that drew sword.


display: Judges 8:11

text: ¶ And Gideon went vp by the way of them that dwelt in tents, on the East of Nobah, and Iogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.


display: Judges 8:12

text: And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah, and Zalmunna, & discomfited all the host.


display: Judges 8:13

text: ¶ And Gideon the sonne of Ioash returned from battel before the Sunne was vp,


display: Judges 8:14

text: And caught a yong man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described vnto him the princes of Succoth and the elders thereof, euen threescore and seuenteene men.


display: Judges 8:15

text: And he came vnto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did vpbraid me, saying, Are the handes of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should giue bread vnto thy men that are wearie?


display: Judges 8:16

text: And hee tooke the Elders of the citie, and thornes of the wildernes, and briers, and with them hee taught the men of Succoth.


display: Judges 8:17

text: And he beat downe the towre of Penuel, and slew the men of the citie.


display: Judges 8:18

text: ¶ Then said he vnto Zebah and Zalmunna, What maner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they, ech one resembled the children of a king.


display: Judges 8:19

text: And hee said, They were my brethren, euen the sonnes of my mother: as the LORD liueth, if yee had saued them aliue, I would not slay you.


display: Judges 8:20

text: And he said vnto Iether his first borne, Up, and slay them: but the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.


display: Judges 8:21

text: Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall vpon vs: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slewe Zebah and Zalmunna, & tooke away the ornaments that were on their camels neckes.


display: Judges 8:22

text: ¶ Then the men of Israel saide vnto Gideon, Rule thou ouer vs, both thou, and thy sonne, & thy sonnes sonne also: for thou hast deliuered vs from the hand of Midian.


display: Judges 8:23

text: And Gideon said vnto them, I will not rule ouer you, neither shall my sonne rule ouer you: the LORD shall rule ouer you.


display: Judges 8:24

text: ¶ And Gideon said vnto them, I would desire a request of you, that you would giue me euery man the earerings of his pray. For they had golden eare-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.


display: Judges 8:25

text: And they answered, We will willingly giue them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein, euery man the earerings of his pray.


display: Judges 8:26

text: And the weight of the golden eare-rings that hee requested, was a thousand and seuen hundred shekels of gold, beside ornaments, and collars, & purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chaines that were about their camels necks.


display: Judges 8:27

text: And Gideon made an Ephod thereof, and put it in his citie, euen in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it; which thing became a snare vnto Gideon, and to his house.


display: Judges 8:28

text: ¶ Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel; so that they lifted vp their heads no more: and the countrey was in quietnesse fourtie yeeres, in the dayes of Gideon.


display: Judges 8:29

text: ¶ And Ierubbaal the sonne of Ioash went & dwelt in his owne house.


display: Judges 8:30

text: And Gideon had threescore and ten sonnes of his body begotten: for he had many wiues.


display: Judges 8:31

text: And his concubine that was in Shechem, shee also bare him a sonne, whose name he called Abimelech.


display: Judges 8:32

text: ¶ And Gideon the sonne of Ioash died, in a good olde age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Ioash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrites.


display: Judges 8:33

text: And it came to passe as soone as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned againe, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-Berith their god.


display: Judges 8:34

text: And the children of Israel remembred not the LORD their God, who had deliuered them out of the hands of all their enemies, on euery side:


display: Judges 8:35

text: Neither shewed they kindnesse to the house of Ierubbaal, namely Gideon, according to all the goodnesse which he had shewed vnto Israel.


display: Judges 9:1

text: And Abimelech the sonne of Ierubbaal went to Shechem, vnto his mothers brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mothers father, saying;


display: Judges 9:2

text: Speake, I pray you, in the eares of all the men of Shechem; Whether is better for you, either that all the sonnes of Ierubbaal (which are threescore and ten persons) reigne ouer you, or that one reigne ouer you? Remember also, that I am your bone, and your flesh.


display: Judges 9:3

text: And his mothers brethren spake of him in the eares of all the men of Shechem, all these wordes, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech: for they said, He is our brother.


display: Judges 9:4

text: And they gaue him threescore and ten pieces of siluer, out of the house of Baal-Berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vaine & light persons, which followed him.


display: Judges 9:5

text: And hee went vnto his fathers house at Ophrah, and slewe his brethren the sonnes of Ierubbaal, being threescore and tenne persons, vpon one stone: notwithstanding, yet Iotham the youngest sonne of Ierubbaal was left; for he hid himselfe.


display: Judges 9:6

text: And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech King, by the plaine of the pillar that was in Shechem.


display: Judges 9:7

text: ¶ And when they told it to Iotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lift vp his voice, and cried, and said vnto them, Hearken vnto mee, you men of Shechem, that God may hearken vnto you.


display: Judges 9:8

text: The trees went foorth on a time to annoint a King ouer them, and they said vnto the Oliue tree, Reigne thou ouer vs.


display: Judges 9:9

text: But the Oliue tree saide vnto them, Should I leaue my fatnesse, wherewith by mee they honour God and man, and goe to bee promoted ouer the trees?


display: Judges 9:10

text: And the trees said to the Figge tree, Come thou, and reigne ouer vs.


display: Judges 9:11

text: But the Figge tree saide vnto them, Should I forsake my sweetenesse, and my good fruit, and goe to be promoted ouer the trees?


display: Judges 9:12

text: Then saide the trees vnto the Uine, Come thou, and reigne ouer vs.


display: Judges 9:13

text: And the Uine said vnto them, Should I leaue my wine, which cheareth God and man, and goe to bee promoted ouer the trees?


display: Judges 9:14

text: Then said all the trees vnto the Bramble, Come thou, and reigne ouer vs.


display: Judges 9:15

text: And the Bramble said vnto the trees, If in trueth ye anoint me King ouer you, then come, and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the Bramble, and deuoure the Cedars of Lebanon.


display: Judges 9:16

text: Now therefore, if yee haue done truely and sincerely, in that yee haue made Abimelech King, and if yee haue dealt well with Ierubbaal, and his house, and haue done vnto him according to the deseruing of his hands:


display: Judges 9:17

text: (For my father fought for you, and aduentured his life farre, and deliuered you out of the hand of Midian:


display: Judges 9:18

text: And yee are risen vp against my fathers house this day, and haue slaine his sonnes, threescore aud ten persons, vpon one stone, and haue made Abimelech the sonne of his maidseruant, king ouer the men of Shechem, because he is your brother.)


display: Judges 9:19

text: If yee then haue dealt truely and sincerely with Ierubbaal, and with his house this day, then reioyce yee in Abimelech, aud let him also reioyce in you.


display: Judges 9:20

text: But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and deuoure the men of Shechem and the house of Millo: and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and deuoure Abimeleeh.


display: Judges 9:21

text: And Iotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there for feare of Abimeleeh his brother.


display: Judges 9:22

text: ¶ When Abimelech had reigned three yeeres ouer Israel,


display: Judges 9:23

text: Then God sent an euill spirit betweene Abimelech & the men of Shechem: and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:


display: Judges 9:24

text: That the crueltie done to the threescore and ten sonnes of Ierubbaal might come, and their blood be laid vpon Abimelech their brother which slew them, and vpon the men of Shechem which aided him in the killing of his brethren.


display: Judges 9:25

text: And the men of Shechem set lyers in wait for him in the toppe of the mountaines, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.


display: Judges 9:26

text: And Gaal the sonne of Ebed came with his brethren, and went ouer to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.


display: Judges 9:27

text: And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eate and drinke, and cursed Abimelech.


display: Judges 9:28

text: And Gaal the sonne of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serue him? Is not he the sonne of Ierubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serue the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serue him?


display: Judges 9:29

text: And would to God this people were vnder my hand; then would I remoue Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine armie and come out.


display: Judges 9:30

text: ¶ And when Zebul the ruler of the citie heard the wordes of Gaal the sonne of Ebed, his anger was kindled.


display: Judges 9:31

text: And he sent messengers vnto Abimelech priuily, saying, Behold, Gaal the sonne of Ebed, and his brethren, be come to Shechem, and behold, they fortifie the citie against thee.


display: Judges 9:32

text: Now therefore vp by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field.


display: Judges 9:33

text: And it shalbe, that in the morning assoone as the Sunne is vp, thou shalt rise earely, and set vpon the citie: and behold, when he and the people that is with him, come out against thee, then mayest thou doe to them as thou shalt finde occasion.


display: Judges 9:34

text: ¶ And Abimelech rose vp, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in foure companies.


display: Judges 9:35

text: And Gaal the sonne of Ebed went out, and stood in the entring of the gate of the citie: and Abimelech rose vp, and the people that were with him, from lying in waite.


display: Judges 9:36

text: And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people downe frō the top of the mountaines. And Zebul saide vnto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountaines, as if they were men.


display: Judges 9:37

text: And Gaal spake againe, and said, See, there come people downe by the middle of the land, and another companie come along by the plaine of Meonenim.


display: Judges 9:38

text: Then said Zebul vnto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherwith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that wee should serue him? Is not this the people that thou hast despised? Goe out, I pray now, and fight with them.


display: Judges 9:39

text: And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.


display: Judges 9:40

text: And Abimelech chased him, and hee fledde before him, and many were ouerthrowen and wounded, euen vnto the entring of the gate.


display: Judges 9:41

text: And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.


display: Judges 9:42

text: And it came to passe on the morrow, that the people went out into the field, and they tolde Abimelech.


display: Judges 9:43

text: And he tooke the people, and diuided them into three companies, and laide waite in the field, and looked, and behold, the people were come forth out of the citie, and he rose vp against them, and smote them.


display: Judges 9:44

text: And Abimelech, and the companie that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entring of the gate of the citie: and the two other companies ranne vpon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.


display: Judges 9:45

text: And Abimelech fought against the citie all that day, and he tooke the citie, and slewe the people that was therein, and beat downe the citie, and sowed it with salt.


display: Judges 9:46

text: ¶ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entred into an holde of the house of the god Berith.


display: Judges 9:47

text: And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the towre of Shechem were gathered together.


display: Judges 9:48

text: And Abimelech gate him vp to mount Zalmon, hee and all the people that were with him, & Abimelech tooke an axe in his hand, and cut downe a bough from the trees, and tooke it, and laide it on his shoulder, and said vnto the people that were with him, What ye haue seene me doe, make haste, and doe as I haue done.


display: Judges 9:49

text: And all the people likewise cut downe euery man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the holde, and set the holde on fire vpon them: so that all the men of the towre of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.


display: Judges 9:50

text: ¶ Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and tooke it.


display: Judges 9:51

text: But there was a strong towre within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the citie, and shut it to them, and gate them vp to the top of the towre.


display: Judges 9:52

text: And Abimelech came vnto the towre, and fought against it, and went hard vnto the doore of the towre, to burne it with fire.


display: Judges 9:53

text: And a certaine woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon Abimelechs head, and all to brake his scull.


display: Judges 9:54

text: Then hee called hastily vnto the young man his armour-bearer, and said vnto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slewe him: and his young man thrust him through, and he died.


display: Judges 9:55

text: And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his place.


display: Judges 9:56

text: ¶ Thus God rendred the wickednesse of Abimelech which hee did vnto his father, in slaying his seuentie brethren.


display: Judges 9:57

text: And all the euill of the men of Shechem, did God render vpon their heads: and vpon them came the curse of Iotham the sonne of Ierubbaal.


display: Judges 10:1

text: And after Abimelech, there arose to defend Israel, Tola the sonne of Puah, the sonne of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.


display: Judges 10:2

text: And he iudged Israel twenty and three yeeres, and died, and was buried in Shamir.


display: Judges 10:3

text: ¶ And after him arose Iair a Gileadite, and iudged Israel twentie and two yeeres.


display: Judges 10:4

text: And hee had thirtie sonnes that rode on thirtie asse-colts, and they had thirtie cities, which are called Hauoth-Iair vnto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.


display: Judges 10:5

text: And Iair died, and was buried in Camon.


display: Judges 10:6

text: ¶ And the children of Israel did euill againe in the sight of the LORD, and serued Baalim and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsooke the LORD, and serued not him.


display: Judges 10:7

text: And the anger of the LORD was hot agaiust Israel, and hee solde them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.


display: Judges 10:8

text: And that yere they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteene yeeres, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Iordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.


display: Judges 10:9

text: Moreouer, the children of Ammon passed ouer Iordan, to fight also against Iudah, and against Beniamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.


display: Judges 10:10

text: ¶ And the children of Israel cried vnto the LORD, saying, Wee haue sinned against thee, both because wee haue forsaken our God, and also serued Baalim.


display: Judges 10:11

text: And the LORD said vnto the children of Israel, Did not I deliuer you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?


display: Judges 10:12

text: The Zidonians also and the Amalekites, and the Maonites did oppresse you, and ye cried to me, and I deliuered you out of their hand.


display: Judges 10:13

text: Yet ye haue forsaken me, and serued other gods: wherefore I will deliuer you no more.


display: Judges 10:14

text: Go, and cry vnto the gods which ye haue chosen, let them deliuer you in the time of your tribulation.


display: Judges 10:15

text: ¶ And the children of Israel said vnto the LORD, We haue sinned, doe thou vnto vs whatsoeuer seemeth good vnto thee, deliuer vs onely, wee pray thee, this day.


display: Judges 10:16

text: And they put away the strange gods from among them, and serued the LORD: and his soule was grieued for the misery of Israel.


display: Judges 10:17

text: Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead: and the children of Israel assembled themselues together, and encamped in Mizpeh.


display: Judges 10:18

text: And the people and Princes of Gilead, said one to another, What man is hee that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be Head ouer all the inhabitants of Gilead.


display: Judges 11:1

text: Now Iephthah the Gileadite was a mightie man of valour, and he was the sonne of an harlot: and Gilead begate Iephthah.


display: Judges 11:2

text: And Gileads wife bare him sonnes, and his wiues sonnes grew vp, and they thrust out Iephthah, and said vnto him, Thou shalt not inherite in our fathers house, for thou art the son of a strange woman.


display: Judges 11:3

text: Then Iephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vaine men to Iephthah, and went out with him.