Exact Word Count ked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. Kirjath-arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai. Kirjath-sepher: k of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass=hlblue>ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou? called Hormah. kelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak. with them. Luz.) strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out. her drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: herites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out. from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward. thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. htaroth. hot against Israel, and he delivered 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. against them for evil, ass=hlgree>as the Lord had said, and ass=hlgree>as the Lord had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; their fathers did keep it, or not. many of Israel ass=hlgree>as had not known all the wars of Canaan; before knew nothing thereof; hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years. a very fat man. sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat. gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. hamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord wass=hlblue>as fallen down dead on the earth. come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them. subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years. Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. dead. Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh. gone up to mount Tabor. not a man left. peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. fast ass=hlblue>asleep and weary. So he died. Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail wass=hlblue>as in his temples. war in the gates: wass=hlblue>as there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? ses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart. her continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. ked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. , when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; s. grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord. in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. one man. in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alass=hlblue>as, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face. the Lord had said unto him: and so it wass=hlblue>as, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. cast down, and the grove wass=hlblue>as cut down that wass=hlblue>as by it, and the second bullock wass=hlblue>as offered upon the altar that wass=hlblue>as built. ked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing. by it. gathered after him. gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto ass=hlblue>Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. thou hast said, thou hast said. so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. dry upon the fleece only, and there wass=hlblue>as dew on all the ground. a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. beneath him in the valley. the sand by the sea side for multitude. come, behold, there wass=hlblue>as a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. I do, so shall ye do. her, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites. I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger wass=hlblue>as abated toward him, when he had said that. the men of Succoth had answered him. secure. up, thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king. the Lord liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you. yet a youth. the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks. a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that wass=hlblue>as on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks. Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country wass=hlblue>as in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon. in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites. soon ass=hlgree>as Gideon wass=hlblue>as dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. left; for he hid himself. in Shechem. told Abimelech. kindled. soon ass=hlgree>as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them ass=hlgree>as thou shalt find occasion. if they were men. with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them. therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. I have done. a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. dead, they departed every man unto his place. buried in Shamir. s colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. buried in Camon. htaroth, 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 forsook the Lord, and served not him. hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon. sore distressed. grieved for the misery of Israel. sembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. a mighty man of valour, and he wass=hlblue>as the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: the border of Moab. his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. , my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back. the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. a custom in Israel, so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; buried in one of the cities of Gilead. buried at Beth-lehem. buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun. s colts: and he judged Israel eight years. buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites. a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name wass=hlblue>as Manoah; and his wife wass=hlblue>as barren, and bare not. like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I ass=hlblue>asked him not whence he wass=hlblue>as, neither told he me his name: she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband wass=hlblue>as not with her. an angel of the Lord. kest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret? cended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. an angel of the Lord. at this time have told us such things ass=hlgree>as these. of the Lord, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. ide to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there wass=hlblue>as a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. hkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger wass=hlblue>as kindled, and he went up to his father's house. given to his companion, whom he had used ass=hlgree>as his friend. he hath done to us. they did unto me, so have I done unto them. flax that wass=hlblue>as burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. s, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. s, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass=hlblue>ass have I slain a thousand men. sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. Delilah. another man. a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength wass=hlblue>as not known. another man. vexed unto death; at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord wass=hlblue>as departed from him. shaven. full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. a man of mount Ephraim, whose name wass=hlblue>as Micah. no king in Israel, but every man did that which wass=hlblue>as right in his own eyes. a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who wass=hlblue>as a Levite, and he sojourned there. he journeyed. content to dwell with the man; and the young man wass=hlblue>as unto him ass=hlgree>as one of his sons. in the house of Micah. no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. k counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man. glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. no deliverer, because it wass=hlblue>as far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it wass=hlblue>as in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city wass=hlblue>as Laish at the first. in Shiloh. no king in Israel, that there wass=hlblue>as a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. there four whole months. ses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. ses saddled, his concubine also wass=hlblue>as with him. far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. ide hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah. ide thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there wass=hlblue>as no man that took them into his house to lodging. also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites. ses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing. ses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink. they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. , till it wass=hlblue>as light. fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold. s, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place. come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel. so, that all that saw it said, There wass=hlblue>as no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds. gathered together ass=hlgree>as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh. sembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword. this wickedness? slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house. one man. ked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first. ked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.) there in those days, , the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand. at other times. at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways. sore: but they knew not that evil wass=hlblue>as near them. an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city. in the first battle. cended up to heaven. come upon them. well the men of every city, ass=hlgree>as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to. sembly. no king in Israel: every man did that which wass=hlblue>as right in his own eyes. |