Thematic Bible: Extraordinary Judges


Thematic Bible



It chanced in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite dwelling on the side of mount Ephraim, took to wife a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah: Verse ConceptsConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

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

In those days there was no king in Israel: but every man did what seemed him right. Verse ConceptsAuthority, of human institutionsKingship, HumanSelfishnessAnarchyNo King

And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted the same day, and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the causes of the children of Israel in Mizpeh. Verse ConceptsFasting, Practice OfAssemblyRepentance, Examples OfShrinesFasting, Accompanied ByReligious AwakeningsDrawing WaterPouring WaterJudging IsraelWe Have Sinned

And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life, and went about year by year, to Bethel, Gilgal and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places, and came again to Ramah: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel, and there he built an altar unto the LORD.

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

And the wife bare a son, and called his name Samson. And the lad grew, and the LORD blessed him. Verse ConceptsBecoming An AdultChildren, Good Examples OfGrowing UpBlessed By GodBabies Being A Blessingempowerment

And Gideon said unto them, "I will not reign over you, neither shall my children reign over you, but the LORD shall reign over you." Verse ConceptsGovernmentTheocracygideon

And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

and yet for all that they would not hearken unto their judges: But went a whoring after strange gods and bowed themselves unto them, and turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD, and did not so. And when the LORD raised up judges unto them, the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies all the days of the judge: for the LORD had compassion over their sorrowings which they had by the reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. 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.

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. 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.

And when he made mention of the ark of God, Eli fell from off his stool backward toward the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was old and unwieldy. And he had judged Israel forty years. Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsBackwardsPeople Tumblinglosing a loved oneDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A FatherLeadership QualitiesFalling Backwards

And what shall I more say? The time would be too short for me to tell of Gideon, of Barach, and of Samson, and of Jephthah. Also of David and Samuel, and of the prophets, Verse ConceptsDavid, Spiritual Significance Ofheroesgideon

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

And after him, Elon a Zebulunite judged Israel ten years, Verse ConceptsTen To Fourteen YearsJudging Israel

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

After this man, one Ibozan of Bethlehem judged Israel; Verse ConceptsJudging Israel

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 after him arose Jair a Gileadite, which judged Israel twenty two years. Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

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 there was one Jephthah a Gileadite, a strong man, which was the son of a harlot: Howbeit Gilead begat Jephthah. Verse ConceptsIllegitimate ChildrenHarlots

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 when the LORD raised up judges unto them, the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies all the days of the judge: for the LORD had compassion over their sorrowings which they had by the 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

Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hands of their oppressors, Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorDeliverance, Means OfLeaders, PoliticalDeliverers

And all the citizens of Shechem gathered together with all the house of Mello, and went and made Abimelech king at a certain oak that was by Shechem. Verse ConceptsPillarsObelisksOaksMaking KingsCitizens

And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth judged Israel the same time, Verse ConceptsDeborahLeaders, PoliticalRankWomenProphetessNamed WivesWomen Working

And afterward he gave unto them judges, about the space of four hundred and fifty years, unto the time of Samuel the prophet. Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord