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And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

And Jehovah was with Judah; and drove out the inhabitants of the hill-country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

Verse ConceptsChariotsIronWarfare, Examples OfNot Driving Them OutIron ObjectsGod Has Been With YouUnable To Expel

So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go free.

And Manasseh had not taken possession of Beth-shean and its daughter-villages, nor Taanach and its daughter-villages, nor struck the inhabitants of Dor and its daughter-villages, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its daughter-villages, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its daughter-villages. For the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.

Zebulon did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, and the inhabitants of Nahalol; and the Canaanite will dwell in his midst, and they will be for tribute.

Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherForced Labour

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

Verse ConceptsLiving Together

Naph'tali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherForced Labour

And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they, and put them to forced work.

Verse ConceptsForced Labour

And [as for] you, do not {make a covenant} with the inhabitants of this land; break down their altars.' But you did not listen to my voice. {Why would you do such a thing}?

Verse ConceptsForbidden AlliancesAllegiancesDestruction Of Satan's WorksWhat Do You Do?

And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'

Verse ConceptsIrritationTrapNot Driving Them OutEvil TrappingNo Help In Other Gods

And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.

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

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness Of

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

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

for they abandoned Him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.

Verse ConceptsServing Asherah

Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

Verse ConceptsdefeatMiseryGod OpposingGod Harmed Them

And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; but they did not so.

Verse Conceptsethics, basis ofGod's WaysProstitutionRevelation, Responses ToDifferent Gods

And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was 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.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorCruelty, God's attitude toGrace, In OtSensitivitySympathyGod Saving From EnemiesGod With Specific PeopleGod Showed Mercy

Yet for all that, as soon as the judge was dead they turned and did worse than their fathers in following strange gods, and in serving them, and ceased not from their inventions nor from their malicious ways.

Verse ConceptsHabitsSin, Nature OfSelf WillBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsDeath Of Office HoldersGod's People Sinning

Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;

Verse ConceptsMilitarySurvivors Of The NationsBattleTestsisraeltrainingexams

(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel's knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them) --

Verse ConceptsReady For War

These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sido'nians, and the Hivites who dwelt on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Ba'al-her'mon as far as the entrance of Hamath.

Verse ConceptsRulersFive People

They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

and they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods.

So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahEight Or Nine Years

But when the people of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who delivered them, Oth'ni-el the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

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

Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsTime Of Peace

And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.

Verse Concepts15 To 20 YearsThose Subjected To People

But when the people of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

Verse ConceptsHandsTaxationTributesAnswered PrayerLeft Handed

And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it on his right thigh under his clothes.

Verse ConceptsThighsTwo SidedDimensions Of Other ThingsOther Right Parts

and brought the present unto Eglon the king of the Moabites. As for Eglon, he was a very fat man.

Verse ConceptsFatnessAssassinations, CompletedOverweightFat People

But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.

Verse ConceptsInformation In SecretCurbing Speech

And Ehud came unto him; and he was 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.

Verse ConceptsHousesThe Cool Of The DayPeople Getting Up

Then Ehud reached with his left hand for the sword on his right thigh, and he thrust it into his stomach.

Verse ConceptsMurderStomachsThighsOther Right Parts

and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, for he drew not the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.

Verse ConceptsBackDefecationFat Of PeopleDischargespoop

Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.

Verse ConceptsDefecation

And when they had tarried till they were ashamed, for no man did the doors of the parlor open: then they took a key and opened them. And behold, their lord was fallen down dead upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsKeys

And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsFordsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.

Verse ConceptsConquest80 To 100 YearsTime Of Peace

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

Verse ConceptsPalm TreesCourts

And she sendeth and calleth for Barak son of Abinoam, out of Kedesh-Naphtali, and saith unto him, 'Hath not Jehovah, God of Israel, commanded? go, and thou hast drawn towards mount Tabor, and hast taken with thee ten thousand men, out of the sons of Naphtali, and out of the sons of Zebulun,

Verse ConceptsDeborahTens Of Thousands

And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

Verse ConceptsWeak Women

Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.

Verse ConceptsFighting TogetherTens Of Thousands

Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

Verse ConceptsBrothersTentsFathers In LawsOaksBrothers in law

So Sisera got together all his war-carriages, nine hundred war-carriages of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles as far as the river Kishon.

Verse ConceptsChariotsSeven To Nine HundredIron ObjectsRiver Kishon

And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

Verse ConceptsTens Of ThousandsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And the Lord sent fear on Sisera and all his war-carriages and all his army before Barak; and Sisera got down from his war-carriage and went in flight on foot.

Verse ConceptsChariotsGod Overcoming

But Barak pursued after the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all of Sisera's army fell to {the edge of the sword}; no one was left.

Verse ConceptsConquest

Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingNomadsNamed WivesTime Of Peace

And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.

Verse ConceptsDo Not Fear Men

And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

Verse ConceptsBottle, UsesMilkWaterBeverages, LiteralDairy

Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come and I will show you the man you are looking for.” So he went in with her, and there was Sisera lying dead with a tent peg through his temple!

Verse ConceptsPeople Made KnownThose Looking For People

Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfPeople Going BeforePraise God For His BenefitsVolunteering

Listen, you kings! Turn your ears to me, you rulers! As for me, to the LORD I will sing! I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPraiseMusicVolunteering

"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

My heart saith - for the governors of Israel, for the volunteers among the people, Bless ye Yahweh!

Verse ConceptsDeborahPeople WillingVolunteering

Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah, Even the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfVoicesStanding In The Gateway

Then came down a remnant of the nobles and the people; Jehovah came down for me against the mighty.

Verse ConceptsNoblesSurvivors Of The Nationsdominion

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.

Verse ConceptsPrincesRank

Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

Verse ConceptsSheepfolds


“Gilead remained beyond the Jordan;
And why did Dan live as an alien on ships?
Asher sat [still] on the seacoast,
And remained by its landings.
[These did not come to battle for God’s people.]

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsSeashoresBeyond JordanReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

From heaven came battle: for the stars, being in their course, fought against Sisera.

Curse Meroz -- said a messenger of Jehovah, Cursing, curse ye its inhabitants, For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty!

Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilAngels, Ministry To UnbelieversCursing The UngodlyNo Helpcurses


“Sisera asked for water and she gave him milk;
She brought him curds in a magnificent bowl.

Verse ConceptsButterNoblesWaterBeverages, LiteralRich Food

She reached out her hand to the peg, and her right hand for the workman's hammer; and she struck Sisera, crushed his head, and she shattered and pierced his temple.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

Her wise attendants find an answer for her; in fact, she tells the same words to herself:

Verse ConceptsAnswering People

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?

Verse ConceptsClothembroiderySpoils Of WarDividing The Spoil

"So perish all thine enemies, O LORD! But thy friends be like the sun as he rises in his might." And the land had rest for forty years.

Verse ConceptsDawnDeborahNoonThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsEnemies Of GodTime Of PeaceLove And StrengthSunPeace And Strengthcrusades

Then the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian for seven years.

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

And the hand of Mid'ian prevailed over Israel; and because of Mid'ian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves and the strongholds.

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

For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Mid'ianites and the Amal'ekites and the people of the East would come up and attack them;

Verse ConceptsNomadsFarmingEnemy Attacksisraelsowing

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.

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.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

And Israel was brought very low because of Mid'ian; and the people of Israel cried for help to the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsPoverty, Causes Of

When the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help because of Midian,

Verse ConceptsCrying To God

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.

Verse ConceptsAmoritesCommitment, to GodClaimsThe Lord Is God

And the Angel of the LORD came and sat under an oak in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the father of the Abiezrites. And his son Gideon pressed out wheat out of the ears in a press, for to flee from the Midianites.

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsAppearances Of God In OtGrainThreshingWheatWinepressWarriorsOaksActing In Secretgideon

And Jehovah will say to him, For I will be with thee, and strike thou Midian as one man.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Nature OfOnly One PersonGod With Specific PeopleOvercominggideon

And he saith unto Him, 'If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, then Thou hast done for me a sign that Thou art speaking with me.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofdoubtersAssurance in the life of faithSeeking SignsSeeking A SignYou Will Know I Am The LordFavorgideon

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.

Verse ConceptsStaffFire From HeavenBurning SacrificesDisappearance

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.

Verse ConceptsExperience, of GodBeing Face To Face With GodThose Who Saw Godgideon

Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it "The Lord is on friendly terms with me." To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Verse ConceptsCommemorationNames Of GodBuilding AltarsGod Of PeaceNames Involving GodNature Of GodPeople Naming ThingsPlaces To This Daygideon

Then build an altar for the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down."

Verse ConceptsHeightWoodAltars, Built ByAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsFirewood

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD bade him. But because he durst not do it by day for fear of his father's household and of the men of the city, he did it by night.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleDuring One NightFearing Other Peoplegideon

Then the men of the town said to Jo'ash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has pulled down the altar of Ba'al and cut down the Ashe'rah beside it."

Verse ConceptsTownDeath As Punishment

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.

That very day Gideon's father named him Jerub-Baal, because he had said, "Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down."

Verse ConceptsChanged NamesPeople Renaming People

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.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsRising EarlyPressingThose Who Rose Early

Gideon said to God, "Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew."

Verse ConceptsAskingTestingLet Not God Be AngryTestsexamsgideon

And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

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.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsNot Mearmygideon

So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand.

Verse ConceptsDesertionTens Of ThousandsTwenty Thousand And UpFear Of Enemies

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.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsSiftinggideon

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 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.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfThose God Gave Into Their Hands

But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:

Verse ConceptsFear Of Enemies

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.

Verse ConceptsEnemy Attacks

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