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CHAPTER 5
Judges 5:1
1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, Judges
5:2
2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly
offered themselves.
Judges 5:3
3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD;
I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. Judges 5:4
4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of
Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped
water.
Judges 5:5
5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the
LORD God of Israel.
Judges 5:6
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways
were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. Judges 5:7
7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I
Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. Judges 5:8
8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear
seen among forty thousand in Israel? Judges 5:9
9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly
among the people. Bless ye the LORD. Judges 5:10
10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the
way.
Judges 5:11
11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing
water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the
righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the
people of the LORD go down  to the gates. Judges 5:12
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead
thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. Judges 5:13
13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the
people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. Judges 5:14
14 Out of Ephraim was 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. Judges 5:15
15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also
Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there
were great thoughts of heart. Judges 5:16
16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks?
For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. Judges 5:17
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued
on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. Judges 5:18
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death
in the high places of the field. Judges 5:19
19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the
waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. Judges 5:20
20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Judges 5:21
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O
my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. Judges 5:22
22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings
of their mighty ones.
Judges 5:23
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the
inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help
of the LORD  against the mighty. Judges 5:24
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed
shall she be above women in the tent. Judges 5:25
25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly
dish.
Judges 5:26
26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer;
and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had
pierced and stricken through his temples. Judges 5:27
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell:
where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judges 5:28
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice,
Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Judges 5:29
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, Judges
5:30
30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or
two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of
needlework,  of divers colours  of needlework on both sides,  meet for the
necks  of them that take the spoil? Judges 5:31
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as
the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
CHAPTER 6
Judges 6:1
1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD
delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. Judges 6:2
2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the
Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the
mountains, and caves, and strong holds. Judges 6:3
3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the
Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
Judges 6:4
4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till
thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox,
nor ass.
Judges 6:5
5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as
grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number:
and they entered into the land to destroy it. Judges 6:6
6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the
children of Israel cried unto the LORD. Judges 6:7
7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because
of the Midianites,
Judges 6:8
8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto
them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and
brought you forth  out of the house  of bondage; Judges 6:9
9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of
all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their
land;
Judges 6:10
10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice. Judges 6:11
11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in
Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed
wheat by the winepress,  to hide  it from  the Midianites. Judges 6:12
12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is
with thee, thou mighty man of valour. Judges 6:13
13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is
all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us
of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up  from Egypt?  but now the LORD hath
forsaken  us, and delivered  us into the hands  of the Midianites. Judges 6:14
14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt
save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? Judges 6:15
15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my
family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. Judges
6:16
16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite
the Midianites as one man.
Judges 6:17
17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a
sign that thou talkest with me. Judges 6:18
18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my
present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come
again.
Judges 6:19
19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah
of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and
brought it out  unto him under the oak,  and presented  it. Judges 6:20
20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes,
and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. Judges 6:21
21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was 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. Judges 6:22
22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said,
Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD  face  to face.
Judges 6:23
23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not
die.
Judges 6:24
24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom:
unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Judges 6:25
25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy
father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw
down the altar  of Baal  that thy father  hath, and cut down  the grove  that
is by it:
Judges 6:26
26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the
ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with
the wood  of the grove  which thou shalt cut down. Judges 6:27
27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto
him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of
the city,  that he could not do  it by day,  that he did  it by night.
Judges 6:28
28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar
of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the
second bullock was offered upon the altar  that was built. Judges 6:29
29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they
enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.
Judges 6:30
30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may
die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down
the grove that was by it.
Judges 6:31
31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will
ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is
yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast
down  his altar.
Judges 6:32
32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead
against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. Judges 6:33
33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were
gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. Judges
6:34
34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and
Abiezer was gathered after him.
Judges 6:35
35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after
him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali;
and they came up to meet them. Judges 6:36
36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou
hast said,
Judges 6:37
37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the
fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that
thou wilt save Israel by mine hand,  as thou hast said. Judges 6:38
38 And it was 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. Judges
6:39
39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will
speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece;
let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground  let there be
dew.
Judges 6:40
40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there
was dew on all the ground.
CHAPTER 7
Judges 7:1
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up
early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites
were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Judges 7:2
2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for
me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves
against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved  me. Judges 7:3
3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is
fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And
there returned of the people  twenty  and two  thousand;  and there remained 
ten  thousand.
Judges 7:4
4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down
unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of
whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and
of whomsoever I say  unto thee, This shall not go  with thee, the same shall
not go.
Judges 7:5
5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon,
Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him
shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees 
to drink.
Judges 7:6
6 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 down upon their knees
to drink water.
Judges 7:7
7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I
save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other
people go  every man  unto his place. Judges 7:8
8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent
all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three
hundred  men:  and the host  of Midian  was beneath him in the valley. Judges
7:9
9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get
thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. Judges 7:10
10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the
host:
Judges 7:11
11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be
strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his
servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host. Judges 7:12
12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay
along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were
without number, as the sand by the sea side  for multitude. Judges 7:13
13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his
fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread
tumbled  into the host  of Midian,  and came  unto a tent,  and smote it that
it fell,  and overturned  it, that the tent  lay along. Judges 7:14
14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of
Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered
Midian,  and all the host. Judges 7:15
15 And it was 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.
Judges 7:16
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a
trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within  the
pitchers.
Judges 7:17
17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come
to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. Judges
7:18
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the
trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD,
and of Gideon.
Judges 7:19
19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of
the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the
watch:  and they blew  the trumpets,  and brake  the pitchers  that were in
their hands.
Judges 7:20
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held
the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow 
withal: and they cried,  The sword  of the LORD,  and of Gideon. Judges 7:21
21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host
ran, and cried, and fled.
Judges 7:22
22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword
against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to
Bethshittah  in Zererath,  and to the border  of Abelmeholah,  unto Tabbath.
Judges 7:23
23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out
of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites. Judges
7:24
24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down
against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and
Jordan.  Then all the men  of Ephraim  gathered themselves together, and took 
the waters  unto Bethbarah  and Jordan. Judges 7:25
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew
Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress  of Zeeb,  and
pursued  Midian,  and brought  the heads  of Oreb  and Zeeb  to Gideon  on the
other side  Jordan.
CHAPTER 8
Judges 8:1
1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou
calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did
chide with him sharply.
Judges 8:2
2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the
gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? Judges
8:3
3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and
what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward
him, when he had said that.
Judges 8:4
4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men
that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. Judges 8:5
5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto
the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and
Zalmunna,  kings  of Midian. Judges 8:6
6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in
thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? Judges 8:7
7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna
into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness
and with briers.
Judges 8:8
8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of
Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him. Judges 8:9
9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace,
I will break down this tower. Judges 8:10
10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about
fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of
the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty  thousand  men  that drew sword.
Judges 8:11
11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of
Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure. Judges 8:12
12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two
kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host. Judges 8:13
13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,
Judges 8:14
14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he
described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even
threescore and seventeen men.
Judges 8:15
15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna,
with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in
thine hand, that we should give  bread  unto thy men  that are weary? Judges
8:16
16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers,
and with them he taught the men of Succoth. Judges 8:17
17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city. Judges
8:18
18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye
slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled
the children  of a king.
Judges 8:19
19 And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD
liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you. Judges 8:20
20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew
not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth. Judges 8:21
21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as 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. Judges 8:22
22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and
thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of
Midian.
Judges 8:23
23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son
rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you. Judges 8:24
24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would
give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings,
because they were Ishmaelites.)
Judges 8:25
25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment,
and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. Judges 8:26
26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and
seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple
raiment that was on the kings  of Midian,  and beside the chains  that were
about their camels'  necks.
Judges 8:27
27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah:
and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto
Gideon, and to his house.
Judges 8:28
28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted
up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the
days  of Gideon.
Judges 8:29
29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. Judges 8:30
30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many
wives.
Judges 8:31
31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name
he called Abimelech.
Judges 8:32
32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the
sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Judges 8:33
33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel
turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
Judges 8:34
34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had
delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: Judges 8:35
35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon,
according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.

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