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After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, "Who shall go up first unto the Cananites to fight against them?"

Verse ConceptsFirst To FightFighting Enemies

But as soon as Israel was waxed mighty, they put the Cananites to tribute: but expelled them not.

Verse ConceptsSlavery, In OtWarfare, Examples OfForced Labour

And when the angel of the LORD had spoken these words unto all the children of Israel, the people cried out and wept.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects Of

And when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man into his inheritance to possess the land.

And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had seen all the great works of the LORD that he did to Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness Of

And even so, all that generation were put unto their fathers. And there arose another generation after them which neither knew the LORD, nor yet the works which he did unto Israel.

Verse ConceptsBecoming An AdultGenerationsGod, Revelation OfSpiritual IgnoranceGathered To One's PeopleDeath Of A FatherRosesKnowing God

And then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim,

Verse ConceptsAdultery, SpiritualServanthood, And Worship Of GodSin, Nature OfGod's People Sinning

Wherefore the LORD waxed angry with Israel, and delivered them unto the hands of raveners to spoil them and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about them, so that they had no power any longer to stand before their enemies.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtBuying and sellingInvasions

Wherefore the LORD was angry with Israel and said, "Because this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

and that to prove Israel through them whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein as their fathers did or not."

Verse ConceptsProving, Through Testing

These are the nations which the LORD left to tempt Israel, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsMilitarySurvivors Of The NationsBattleTestsisraeltrainingexams

Only, for the learning of the generation of the children of Israel, which before knew nothing of war,

Verse ConceptsReady For War

Those remained to prove Israel by, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

And as the children of Israel dwelt among the Cananites, Hittites, Amorites, Perezites, Hivites, and Jebusites,

Verse ConceptsAmoritesDealing With The Nations

And so the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the LORD and forgot the LORD their God and served Baalim and Asheroth.

Verse ConceptsForgettingBaal Worship, HistorySuccessServing AsherahGod's People Sinning

Therefore the LORD was angry with Israel and delivered them into the hands of Cushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia. So that the children of Israel served Cushanrishathaim eight years.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahEight Or Nine Years

And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD. And the LORD stirred them up a saver and saved them: one Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Answers ToPrayer, As Asking GodRankRescueAnswered PrayerDeliverersCrying To God

And the spirit of the LORD came upon him. And he judged Israel, and went out to war. And the LORD sold Cushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. So that his hand was mighty over Cushanrishathaim.

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualPower, HumanThe Spirit Of The LordJudging IsraelThose God Gave Into Their Handsempowerment

And then the children of Israel went to again, and committed wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And then the LORD hardened Eglon the king of the Moabites, against the children of Israel, because they had committed wickedness before the LORD.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahPower, HumanGod's People Sinning

And this Eglon gathered unto him the children of Ammon, and the Amalekites, and went and smote the children of Israel, and conquered the city of palm trees.

Verse ConceptsAmalekitesenemies, of Israel and JudahAmmonitesDefeat Of God's People

And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of the Moabites eighteen years.

Verse Concepts15 To 20 YearsThose Subjected To People

And then they cried unto the LORD. And the LORD stirred them up a saver, Ehud the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, a man that could do nothing handsomely with his right hand. And when the children of Israel sent a present by him unto Eglon the king of the Moabites,

Verse ConceptsHandsTaxationTributesAnswered PrayerLeft Handed

And when he was come, he blew a trumpet in mount Ephraim. And the children of Israel went down with him off the hill and he before them.

Verse ConceptsHillsMusical Instruments, types ofTrumpets For Signalling

and so the Moabites were subdued that day, under the hands of Israel: and the land had rest eighty years.

Verse ConceptsConquest80 To 100 YearsTime Of Peace

And after him came Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad, and delivered Israel also.

Verse ConceptsGoadsDeliverersSix To Seven HundredSharp ToolsSix Hundred And AboveNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

And the children of Israel began again to do wickedly in the sight of the LORD when Ehud was dead.

Verse ConceptsGod's People Sinning

And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; He oppressed the children of Israel with power twenty years.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsOppression, God's Attitude ToPrayer, As Asking GodAnswered PrayerAfflictions, Benefits OfCrying To GodSeven To Nine Hundred20 To 30 YearsIron Objects

And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth judged Israel the same time,

Verse ConceptsDeborahLeaders, PoliticalRankWomenProphetessNamed WivesWomen Working

and dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel, in mount Ephraim. And the children of Israel came to her for judgment.

Verse ConceptsPalm TreesCourts

And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam, out of Kadesh in Naphtali, and said unto him, "The LORD God of Israel commandeth thee, that thou go and draw to mount Tabor and take with thee ten thousand men, of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun.

Verse ConceptsDeborahTens Of Thousands

And so God brought Jabin the king of Canaan into subjection that day, before the children of Israel.

And the hand of the children of Israel prospered and was sore upon Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had brought him to nought.

"Praise the LORD in them that were willing, while others sat still in Israel.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfPeople Going BeforePraise God For His BenefitsVolunteering

Hear kings and hearken lords, I will sing, and give praise unto the LORD God, of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPraiseMusicVolunteering

the mountains melted before the LORD, even mount Sinai before the LORD God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsearthquakesMountainsMountains Quaking

The villages were uninhabited in Israel; were uninhabited until I, Deborah, arose; until I arose a mother in Israel.

Verse ConceptsDeborahVillagesSpiritual Mothers

"God chose new fashions of war, for when they had war at their gates: there was not seen, among forty thousand, either shield or spear in Israel.

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpNo Help In Other GodsVolunteering

Mine heart loveth the maintainers of the law in Israel, that are willing among the people.

Verse ConceptsDeborahPeople WillingVolunteering

Now the archers did cry, where men draw water; there shall they tell of the justice of the LORD, and of the justice of his uplandish folk in Israel. And then the people of the LORD went down unto the gates.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfVoicesStanding In The Gateway

And the children of Israel committed wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Midianites seven years.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In Otenemies, of Israel and JudahSeven YearsGod Will Cause DefeatGod's People Sinning

And when the hand of the Midianites was sore upon Israel, the children of Israel made them dens in the mountains and caves and strongholds.

Verse ConceptsCavesPower, HumanSelf DefenceStrength, HumanStrongholdsFortsDensEscaping To MountainsPeople In CavesCaves As Places Of Refuge

For when Israel had sown then came the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the east country upon them and pitched their tents against them,

Verse ConceptsNomadsFarmingEnemy Attacksisraelsowing

and destroyed the increase of the earth even unto Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel; neither sheep, ox or ass,

And so was Israel exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites and cried unto the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsPoverty, Causes Of

And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,

Verse ConceptsCrying To God

the LORD sent a prophet unto them, and said unto them, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: I fetched you from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtMessengerGroups Of SlavesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And he answered him, "Oh Lord, wherewith should I save Israel? Behold my kindred is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."

Verse ConceptsExcusesClansdoubtersInferiorityMinistry, Qualifications ForModestyWeakness, PhysicalLeadershipHumility, Examples OfThe Youngest ChildWithout StrengthDepressiongideon

And Gideon said unto God, "If thou wilt save Israel by my hand as thou hast said:

Verse Conceptsartistsgideon

Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the threshing place. And if the dew be on the fleece only, and dry upon all the earth beside: then I shall be sure that thou wilt save Israel by my hand as thou saidest."

Verse ConceptsThreshing Floorstoriesgideon

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 make her vaunt to my dishonour and say, 'Our own hand hath saved us.'

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsNot Mearmygideon

And they took victuals with them for the folk, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel, every man unto his tent, and kept the three hundred with him. And the host of Midian was beneath him in a valley.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetTrumpets For BattleSending people homegideon

And his fellow answered and said, this is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel, into whose hand God hath delivered Midian and all the host."

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Handsgideon

When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and the interpretation of the same, he bowed himself to the earth and returned unto the host of Israel, and said, "Up, for the LORD hath delivered into your hands the host of the Midianites."

Verse ConceptsWorship, Times ForThose God Gave Into Their Handsadorationgideon

And the men of Israel gathered together of the tribe of Naphtali, of Asher, and of all Manasseh, and followed after the Midianites.

Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, "Reign over us, both thou, thy son and thy son's son, for thou hast delivered us out of the hands of the Midianites."

Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenThe Kingdom Of Othersgideon

And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ophrah. And all Israel went a whoring after him there, which thing was the ruin of Gideon's house.

Verse ConceptsephodsProstitutionTrapEvil Trapping

Thus were the Midianites brought low before the children of Israel, so that they lift up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyConquest40 To 50 YearsLifting HeadsTime Of Peace

But as soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned away and went a whoring after Baal, and made Baalberith their God,

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, Historygideon

And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed, every man unto his own house.

Verse ConceptsGroups going home

After Abimelech there arose, to defend Israel, one Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, which dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsDefenseRescueTribes Of Israelgrandfathers

And he judged Israel twenty three years, and then died and was buried in Shamir.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

And after him arose Jair a Gileadite, which judged Israel twenty two years.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

And the children of Israel wrought wickedness yet again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD and served him not.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBaal Worship, HistoryPolytheismServing AsherahGod's People Sinning

And the LORD was wroth with Israel, and sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon:

which pilled and oppressed the children of Israel in those days eighteen years, all that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites in Gilead.

Verse Conceptseast15 To 20 YearsBeyond Jordanharassment

Moreover, the children of Ammon went over Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim: so that Israel was sore cumbered.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahAttacking

Then the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee: for we have forsaken our own God, and have served Baalim."

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceSin, Nature OfWe Have Sinned

And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, "Did not the Egyptians, the Amorites, the children of Ammon, the Philistines,

Verse ConceptsCompetition

But the children of Israel said unto the LORD, "We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever please thee, and deliver us only at this time."

Verse ConceptsRescueWe Have SinnedCompetition

And they put away the strange gods from them and served the LORD. And the misery of Israel grieved his soul.

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfAbandoning ThingsPutting Away Other GodsCompetition

Then the children of Ammon gathered together and pitched in Gilead. And the children of Israel gathered them together and pitched in Mizpeh.

Verse ConceptsAssembly

But it chanced, in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

Verse Conceptsprocessreuniting

And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land, when they came out of Egypt, even from Arnon unto Jabbok and from thence unto Jordan, now therefore restore those lands again with fair means."

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsArnon

and said unto him, "Thus sayeth Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon.

But when Israel came out of Egypt, they walked through the wilderness, even unto the reed sea, and came to Kadesh,

Verse ConceptsIsrael In The WildernessComing To The Red Sea

and sent messengers unto the king of Edom saying, 'Let us, we pray thee, go through thy land.' But the king of Edom would not agree thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab, but he would not consent. And so Israel abode still in Kadesh.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutPassing Through

And then Israel sent messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorites, and king of Heshbon, and said unto him, 'Let us pass through thy land unto our own country.'

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutPassing Through

But Sihon trusted not Israel, to go through his coasts: but gathered all his people together and pitched in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

Verse ConceptsNot Believing People

But the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his folk into the hands of Israel. And so Israel smote them and conquered all the land of the Amorites, the inhabiters of the said country.

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

So now seeing the LORD God of Israel hath cast out the Amorites before his people, shouldest thou possess the land?

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Drove Them Out

And thereto art thou better than Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab? Did he strive with Israel or fight against thee,

all the while Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundredth years? Why didst thou not recover them in all that space?

Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreArnon

Wherefore I have not sinned against thee. But thou doest me wrong, to war against me. The LORD therefore be judge this day, between the children of Israel, and the children of Ammon."

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeJudgesJustification, Necessity Of

And he smote them from Aroer unto Minnith, twenty cities. And so forth to the plain of the vineyards, and made an exceeding great slaughter. And thus the children of Ammon were brought under, before the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsConquestTwentyThose Subjected To People

And it became an ordinance in Israel, year by year, that the daughters of Israel should go and lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.

Verse ConceptsLamentingFour Or Five Days

And when Jephthah had judged Israel six years, he died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsSix YearsJudging Israel

After this man, one Ibozan of Bethlehem judged Israel;

Verse ConceptsJudging Israel

And when Ibozan had judged Israel seven years, he died and was buried at Bethlehem.

And after him, Elon a Zebulunite judged Israel ten years,

Verse ConceptsTen To Fourteen YearsJudging Israel

And after him, Abdon the son of Hillel a Pirathonite judged Israel.

And when Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite had judged Israel eight years, he died and was buried in Pirathon, the land of Ephraim in the mount of the Amalekites.

And the children of Israel began again to commit wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Gift40 To 50 YearsGod Will Cause DefeatGod's People Sinning

For see, thou shalt conceive and bear a son. And there may no razor or shearers come on his head: for the lad shall be an abstainer unto God, even from the time of his birth. And he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines."

Verse ConceptsBaldness, UnnaturalBaldnessHairsHeadsDeliverersConceptionSeparated To GodFrom The Womb

But his father and mother wist not that it was the LORD's doing, and that he sought an occasion of the Philistines, which at that time reigned over Israel.

Verse ConceptsCaused By God

And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

And then his brethren and all the house of his father came down and took him up, and brought him and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

Verse ConceptsTombsCemetery20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

For in those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did what thought him best.

Verse ConceptsEyes, Figurative UseChaosSelfishnessAnarchyNo King

In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of Dan sought them an inheritance to dwell in, for unto that time there fell none inheritance unto them among the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsNo King

And they answered him, "Hold thy peace, and put thine hand upon thy mouth, and come with us, and be unto us a father and a priest. Whether is it better for thee to be a priest? Unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe or a kindred in Israel?"

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests