Thematic Bible: Judges of israel


Thematic Bible



Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.

And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

From year to year he went in turn to Beth-el and Gilgal and Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.

You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah,

If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.

Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man:


And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.


And at these words about the ark of God, Eli, falling back off his seat by the side of the doorway into the town, came down on the earth so that his neck was broken and death overtook him, for he was an old man and of great weight. He had been judging Israel for forty years.


So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah said all these things before the Lord in Mizpah.


And after him, Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, was judge of Israel.


And after him, Elon the Zebulonite was judge of Israel; and he was judge of Israel for ten years.


And Samson said, Let death overtake me with the Philistines. And he put out all his strength, and the house came down on the chiefs and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he sent to destruction by his death were more than all those on whom he had sent destruction in his life.


And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.


Then Gideon said to God, If you are going to give Israel salvation by my hand, as you have said,


And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.


Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.


And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years.


Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.


Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,


And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.


(And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)




For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain