Thematic Bible: Judges of israel


Thematic Bible



Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, "Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him?" Notwithstanding, they did not listen to the voice of their father, because the LORD intended to kill them.

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who did not fear God, and did not respect man.


Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.


It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.


Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.


After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.


After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.


Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.


After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.


Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,


And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad: and he also saved Israel.


After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.


After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.


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


Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,


When the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.


She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.




For the LORD loves justice, and doesn't forsake his holy ones. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

"But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.