Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the Covenant a Exod. 4:25 Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the Covenant a Exod. 4:25 Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

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your 1children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What meant you by these stones? 7 Then ye may answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord: for when it passed through Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: therefore these stones are a memorial unto the children of Israel forever. 8 Then the children of Israel did even so as Joshua had commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan as the Lord had said unto Joshua, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them away with them unto the lodging, and laid them down there. 9 And Joshua set up 1twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the Priests, which bare the Ark of the Covenant stood, and there have they continued unto this day. 10 ¶ So the Priests, which bare the Ark, stood in the midst of Jordan, until everything was finished that the Lord had commanded Joshua to say unto the people, according to all that Moses charged Joshua: then the people hasted and went over. 11 When all the people were clean passed over, the Ark of the Lord went over also, and the Priests 1before the people. 12 bAnd the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh went over before the children of Israel armed, as Moses had charged them. 13 Even forty thousand prepared for war, went before the 1Lord unto battle, into the plain of Jericho. 14 That day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they 1feared him, as they feared Moses all the days of his life. 15 And the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying, 16 Command the Priests that bear the 1Ark of the testimony, to come up out of Jordan. 17 Joshua therefore commanded the Priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. 18 And when the Priests that bare the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and as soon as the soles of the Priests' feet were set on the dry land, the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all the banks thereof, as they did before. 19 ¶ So the people came up out of Jordan the

tenth day of the 1first month, and pitched in Gilgal, in the East side of Jericho. 20 Also the twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, and say, What mean these stones? 22 Then ye shall show your children, and say, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land: 23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan before you, until ye were gone over as the Lord your God did the red Sea, cwhich he dried up before us, till we were gone over, 24 That all the people of the 1world may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that ye might fear the Lord your God continually. 5 1 The Canaanites are afraid of the Israelites. 2 Circumcision is commanded the second time. 10 The passover is kept. 12 Manna ceaseth. 13 The Angel appeareth unto Joshua.

b Num. 32:27,29

c Exod. 14:21,22

chapter 5

a Exod. 4:25

1 Now when all the Kings of the 1Amorites, which were beyond Jordan Westward, and all the Kings of the Canaanites which were by the Sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan before the children of Israel until they were gone over, their hearts fainted: and there was no courage in them anymore because of the children of Israel. 2 ¶ That same time the Lord said unto Joshua, aMake thee sharp knives, 1and return, and circumcise the sons of Israel the second time. 3 Then Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel in 1the hill of the foreskins. 4 And this is the cause why Joshua circumcised all the people, even the males that came out of Egypt, because all the men of war were dead in the wilderness by the way after they came out of Egypt. 5 For all the people that came out, were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way after they came out of Egypt, were 1not circumcised. 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people of the men of war that came out of Egypt, were consumed, because

4:6 1 God commandeth that not only we ourselves profit by this wonderful work, but that our posterity may know the cause thereof and glorify his Name. 4:9 1 Besides the twelve stones which were carried by the tribes and set up in Gilgal. 4:11 1 Meaning, in the presence or sight of the people. 4:13 1 That is, before the Ark. 4:14 1 Or, reverenced him. 4:16 1 Because the Ark testified God's presence, and the Tables of the Law contained therein, signified God's will toward his people.

4:19 1 Called Abib or Nisan, containing part of March and part of April. 4:24 1 God's benefits serve for a further condemnation to the wicked, and stir up his to reverence him, and obey him. 5:1 1 The Amorites were on both sides [of] Jordan, whereof two kings were slain already on the side toward Moab. 5:2 1 For now they had left it off, about 40 years. 5:3 1 Gilgal was so called, because they were there circumcised. 5:5 1 For they looked daily to remove at the Lord's commandment, which thing they that were new circumcised, could not do without great danger.

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they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not show them the land, bwhich the Lord had sworn unto their fathers, that he would give us, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. 7 So their sons whom he raised up in their stead, Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they circumcised them not by the way. 8 And when they had made an end of circumcising all the people, they abode in the places in the camp till they 1were whole. 9 After, the Lord said unto Joshua, This day I have taken away the 1shame of Egypt from you: wherefore he called the name of that place, Gilgal, unto this day. 10 ¶ So the children of Israel abode in Gilgal, and kept the feast of the Passover the fourteenth day of the month at even, in the plain of Jericho. 11 And they did eat of the corn of the land, on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened bread, and parched corn in the same day. 12 And the Manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the corn of the land, neither had the children of Israel Manna anymore, but did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. 13 ¶ And when Joshua was by Jericho, he lift up his eyes and looked: and behold, there stood a cman against him, having a sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou on our side, or on our adversaries? 14 And he said, Nay, but as a captain of the host of the Lord am I now come: then Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and 1did worship, and said unto him, What saith the Lord unto his servant? 15 And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, dLoose thy shoe of thy foot: for the place whereon thou standest, is holy: and Joshua did so. 6 2 The Lord instructeth Joshua what he should do as touching Jericho. 6 Joshua commandeth the Priests and warriors what to do. 20 The walls fall. 22 Rahab is saved. 24 All is burnt save gold and metal. 26 The curse of him that buildeth the city.

2 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Behold, I have given into thine hand Jericho and the king thereof, and the strong men of war. 3 All ye therefore that be men of war, shall compass the city, in going round about the city 1once: thus shall you do six days: 4 And seven Priests shall bear seven trumpets of 1rams' horns before the Ark: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the Priests shall blow with the trumpets, 5 And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: then shall the wall of the city fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up, every man straight before him. 6 ¶ Then Joshua the son of Nun called the Priests and said unto them, Take up the Ark of the Covenant, and let seven Priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Ark of the Lord. 7 But he said unto the people, 1Go and compass the city: and let him that is armed go forth before the Ark of the Lord. 8 ¶ And when Joshua had spoken unto the people, the seven priests bare the seven trumpets of rams' horns, and went forth before the Ark of the Lord, and blew with the trumpets, and the ark of the Covenant of the Lord followed them. 9 ¶ And the men of arms went before the priests and blew the trumpets: then the 1gathering host came after the Ark, and they went and blew the trumpets. 10 (Now Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, neither make any noise with your voice, neither shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day that I say unto you, Shout, then shall ye shout.) 11 So the Ark of the Lord compassed the city, and went about it 1once: then they returned into the host, and lodged in the camp. 12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the Priests bare the Ark of the Lord: 13 Also seven Priests bare seven trumpets of rams' horns, and went before the Ark of the Lord, and going blew with the trumpets: and the men of arms went before them, but the 1gathering host came after the Ark

b Num. 14:23

c Exod. 23:23

d Exod. 3:5

Ruth 4:7 Acts 7:33

1 Now Jericho was 1shut up, and 2closed, 3because of the children of Israel, none might go out nor enter in.

5:8 1 For their sore was so grievous, that they were not able to remove. 5:9 1 By bringing you into this promised land, contrary to the wicked opinion of the Egyptians: or the foreskin whereby you were like to the Egyptians. 5:14 1 In that that Joshua worshippeth him, he acknowledgeth him to be God: and in that that he calleth himself the Lord's captain, he declareth himself to be Christ. 6:1 1 That none could go out. 2 That none could come in. 3 For fear of the Israelites.

6:3 1 Every day one. 6:4 1 That the conquest might not be assigned to man's power, but to the mercy of God, which with most weak things can overcome that which seemeth most strong. 6:7 1 This is chiefly meant by the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh. 6:9 1 Meaning, the rearward, wherein was the standard of the tribe of Dan, Num. 10:25. 6:11 1 For that day. 6:13 1 The tribe of Dan was so called, because it marched last and gathered up whatsoever was left of others.

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of the Lord, as they went and blew the trumpets. 14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the host: thus they did six days. 15 And when the seventh day came, they rose early, even with the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner 1seven times: only that day they compassed the city seven times. 16 And when the Priests had blown the trumpets the seventh time, Joshua said unto the people, Shout: for the Lord hath given you the city. 17 And the city shall be 1an execrable thing, both it, and all that are therein, unto the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she, and all that are with her in the house: forashe hid the messengers that we sent. 18 Notwithstanding, be ye ware of the execrable thing, lest ye make yourselves execrable, and in taking of the execrable thing, make also the host of Israel bexecrable, and trouble it. 19 But all silver, and gold, and vessels of brass, and iron shall be 1consecrate unto the Lord, and shall come into the Lord's treasury. 20 So the people shouted, when they had blown trumpets: for when the people had heard the sound of the trumpets, they shouted with a great shout: and the cwall fell down flat: so the people went up into the city, every man straight before him: and they took the city. 21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the cities both man and woman, young, and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass with the edge of the sword. 22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, das ye swore to her. 23 So the young men that were spies, went in and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had: also they brought out all her family, and put them 1without the host of Israel. 24 After, they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass and iron, they put unto the treasure of the 1house of the Lord. 25 So Joshua saved Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all that she had, and she 1dwelt in Israel, even unto this day, because she had

hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 26 ¶ And Joshua swore at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up, and buildeth the city Jericho: 1he shall lay the foundation thereof in his eldest son, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it. 27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and he was famous through all the world. 7 1 The Lord is angry with Achan. 4 They of Ai put the Israelites to flight. 6 Joshua prayeth to the Lord. 16 Joshua inquireth out him that sinned, and stoneth him and all his.

chapter 6

a Josh. 2:4

b Lev. 27:21

Num. 21:2 Deut. 13:15-17

c Heb. 11:30

d Josh. 2:14

Heb. 11:31

chapter 7

a Josh. 22:20

1 Chron. 2:7

1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the 1excommunicate thing: for aAchan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah, took of the excommunicate thing: wherefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel. 2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to 1Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the East side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up, and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai, 3 And returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up, but let as it were two or three thousand men go up, and smite Ai, and make not all the people to labor thither, for they are few. 4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men, and they fled before the men of Ai. 5 And the 1men of Ai smote of them upon a thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted away like water. 6 Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of the Lord, until the eventide, he, and the Elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, and to destroy us? would God we had been content to dwell on the 1other side Jordan. 8 Oh Lord what shall I say, when Israel turn their

6:15 1 Beside every day once for the space of six days. 6:17 1 That is appointed wholly to be destroyed. 6:19 1 And therefore cannot be put to any private use, but must be first molten, and then serve for the Tabernacle. 6:23 1 For it was not lawful for strangers to dwell among the Israel­ ites, till they were purged. 6:24 1 Meaning, the Tabernacle. 6:25 1 For she was married to Salmon prince of the tribe of Judah, Matt. 1:5.

6:26 1 He shall build it to the destruction of all his stock, which thing was fulfilled in Hiel of Bethel, 1 Kings 16:34. 7:1 1 In taking that which was commanded to be destroyed. 7:2 1 This was a city of the Amorites: for there was another so called among the Amorites, Jer. 49:3. The first Ai is called Aiath, Isa. 10:28. 7:5 1 God would by this overthrow make them more earnest to search out and punish the sin committed. 7:7 1 This infirmity of his faith showeth how we are inclined of nature to distrust.

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hast done: hide it not from me. 20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus, and thus have I done. 21 I saw among the spoil a goodly 1Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, and I covered them, and took them: and behold, they lie hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. 22 ¶ Then Joshua sent messengers, which ran unto the tent, and behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. 23 Therefore they took them out of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them before the Lord. 24 Then Joshua took Achan the 1son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the 2wedge of gold, and his 3sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and all Israel with him, brought them unto the valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, 1In as much as thou hast troubled us, the Lord shall trouble thee this day: and all Israel threw stones at him, and burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. 26 And they cast upon him a great heap of stones unto this day: and so the Lord turned from his fierce wrath: therefore he called the name of that place, The valley of Achor, unto this day. 8 3 The siege, 19 and winning of Ai. 29 The king thereof is hanged. 30 Joshua setteth up an Altar. 32 He writeth the Law upon stones, 35 and readeth it to all the people.

backs before their enemies? 9 For the Canaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall compass us, and destroy our name out of the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy mighty 1Name? 10 ¶ And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up: wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? 11 Israel hath sinned, and they have transgressed my covenant, which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the excommunicate thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and have put it even with their own stuff. 12 Therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies: but have turned their backs before their enemies, because they be execrable: neither will I be with you anymore, except ye 1destroy the excommunicate from among you. 13 Up therefore, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an execrable thing among you, O Israel, therefore ye cannot stand against your enemies, until ye have put the 1execrable thing from among you. 14 In the morning therefore ye shall come according to your tribes, and the tribe which the Lord taketh, shall come according to the families: and the family which the Lord shall take, shall come by the households: and the household which the Lord shall take, shall come man by man. 15 And he that is 1taken with the excommunicate thing, shall be burnt with fire, he, and all that he hath, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel. 16 ¶ So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes: and the tribe of Judah was taken. 17 And he brought the families of Judah, and took the family of the Zarhites, and he brought the family of the Zarhites, man by man, and Zabdi was taken. 18 And he brought his household, man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah was taken. 19 Then Joshua said unto Achan, My son, I beseech thee, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and 1make confession unto him, and show me now what thou

chapter 8

a Deut. 1:29

Deut. 7:18

b Josh. 6:21

c Deut. 20:14

1 After, the Lord said unto Joshua, aFear not, neither be thou faint hearted: take all the men of war with thee and arise, go up to Ai: behold, I have given into thine hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land. 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and to the king thereof, as thou didst unto bJericho and to the king thereof: nevertheless the spoil thereof and cthe cattle thereof shall ye take unto you for a prey: thou shalt lie in wait against the city on the 1back side thereof. 3 ¶ Then Joshua arose, and all the men of war to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand strong men, and valiant, and sent them

7:9 1 When thine enemies shall blaspheme thee and say, that thou wast not able to defend us from them. 7:12 1 Then to suffer wickedness unpunished, is to refuse God will­ ingly. 7:13 1 Meaning, the man that took of the thing forbidden. 7:15 1 That is found guilty, either by lots, or by the judgment of Urim, Num. 27:21. 7:19 1 By declaring truth: for God is glorified when the truth is con­ fessed.

7:21 1 Such a rich garment as the states of Babylon did wear. 7:24 1 Or, nephew. 2 Some read a plate: others, a rod, and some a tongue. 3 This judgment only appertaineth to God, and to whom he will reveal it, to man he had commanded not to punish the child for the father's fault, Deut. 24:16. 7:25 1 He declareth that this is God's judgment because he had offended, and caused others to be slain. 8:2 1 Meaning, on the West side, as verse 9.

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Joshua, and were drawn away out of the city, 17 So that there was not a man left in Ai, nor in Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. 18 Then the Lord said unto Joshua, 1Stretch out the spear that is in thine hand, toward Ai: for I will give it into thine hand: and Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand, toward the city. 19 And they that lay in wait, arose quickly out of their place, and ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted, and set the city on fire. 20 And the men of Ai looked behind them, and saw it: for lo, the smoke of the city ascended up 1to heaven, and they had no 2power to flee this way or that way: for the people that fled to the wilderness, turned back upon the pursuers. 21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that they that lay in wait, had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city mounted up, then they turned again and slew the men of Ai. 22 Also the 1other issued out of the city against them: so were they in the midst of Israel, these being on the one side, and the rest on the other side: and they slew them, so that they let none of them dremain nor escape. 23 And the King of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 24 And when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, that is, in the wilderness where they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and 1smote it with the edge of the sword. 25 And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. 26 For Joshua drew not his hand back again which he had stretched out with the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 eOnly the cattle and the spoil of this city, Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the Lord, which he commanded Joshua. 28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap 1forever, and a wilderness unto this day. 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree, unto the evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded 1that they should take his carcass down

away by night. 4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye 1shall lie in wait against the city on the back side of the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all in a readiness. 5 And I and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and when they shall come out against us, as they did at the first time, then will we flee before them. 6 For they will come out after us, till we have brought them out of the city: for they will say, They flee before us as at the first time: so we will flee before them. 7 Then you shall rise up from lying in wait and 1destroy the city: for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand. 8 And when ye have taken the city, ye shall set it on fire: according to the commandment of the Lord shall ye do: behold, I have charged you. 9 ¶ Joshua then sent them forth, and they went to lie in wait, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the West side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night 1among the people. 10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and 1numbered the people: and he and the Elders of Israel went up before the people against Ai. 11 Also all the men of war that were with him went up and drew near, and came against the city, and pitched on the North side of Ai: and there was a valley between them and Ai. 12 And he took about five thousand men, 1and set them to lie in wait between Bethel and Ai on the West side of the city. 13 And the people set all the host that was on the North side against the city, and the liars in wait on the West, against the city: and Joshua went the same night into the 1midst of the valley. 14 ¶ And when the king of Ai saw it, then the men of the city hasted and rose up early, and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the plain: for he knew not that any lay in wait against him on the back side of the city. 15 Then Joshua and all Israel 1as beaten before them, fled by the way of the wilderness. 16 And all the people of the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after

d Deut. 7:2

e Num. 31:22,26

Josh. 8:2

8:4 1 God would not destroy Ai by miracle, as Jericho, to the intent that other nations might fear the power and policy of his people. 8:7 1 Or, drive out (the inhabitants) of the city. 8:9 1 With the rest of the army. 8:10 1 That is, viewed or mustered them, and set them in array. 8:12 1 He sent these few, that the others which lay in ambush might not be discovered. 8:13 1 To the intent that they in the city might the better discover his army.

8:15 1 As they which feigned to flee for fear. 8:18 1 Or, lift up the banner, to signify when they shall invade the city. 8:20 1 Or, toward the heavens. 2 Or, place. 8:22 1 Which came out of the ambush. 8:24 1 For the fire, which they had before set in the city, was not to consume it, but to signify unto Joshua that they were entered. 8:28 1 That it could never be built again. 8:29 1 According as it was commanded, Deut. 21:23.

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from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and flay thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day. 30 ¶ Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel, in mount Ebal, 31 As Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the gbook of the Law of Moses, an altar of whole stone, over which no man had lift an iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. 32 Also he wrote there upon the stones, a1rehearsal of the Law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. 33 And all Israel (and their Elders, and officers and their Judges stood on this side of the Ark, and on that side, before the Priests of the Levites, which bare the Ark of the covenant of the Lord) as well the stranger, as he that is born in the country: half of them were over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal, has Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the children of Israel. 34 Then afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the Law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded, which Joshua read not before all the Congregation of Israel, ias well before the 1women and the children, as the stranger that was conversant among them. 9 1 Divers Kings assemble themselves against Joshua. 3 The craft of the Gibeonites. 15 Joshua maketh a league with them. 23 For their craft they are condemned to perpetual slavery.

went, and feigned themselves ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and old bottles for wine, both rent and 1bound up, 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet: also the raiment upon them was old, and all their provision of bread was dried, and molded. 6 So they came unto Joshua into the host to Gilgal, and said unto him, and unto the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make a league with us. 7 Then the men of Israel said unto the 1Hivites, It may be that thou dwellest among us, how then can I make a league with thee? 8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. Then Joshua said unto them, Who are ye, and whence come ye? 9 And they answered him, From a very far country thy servants are come for 1the Name of the Lord thy God: for we have heard his fame and all that he hath done in Egypt, 10 And all that he hath done to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which were at Ashtaroth. 11 Wherefore our Elders, and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take vittles 1with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: now therefore make ye a league with us. 12 This our 1bread we took it hot with us for victuals out of our houses, the day we departed to come unto you: but now behold, it is dried, and it is molded. 13 Also these bottles of wine which we filled, were new, and lo, they be rent, and these our garments and our shoes are old, by reason of the exceeding great journey. 14 ¶ And the 1men accepted their tale concerning their victuals, and counseled not with the mouth of the Lord. 15 So Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, that he would suffer them to live: also the Princes of the Congregation swore unto them. 16 ¶ But at the end of three days, after they had made a league with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among

f Josh. 7:25,26

g Exod. 20:25

Deut. 27:5

h Deut. 11:29 Deut. 27:12,13

i Deut. 31:12,13

chapter 9

a 2 Sam. 21:1

1 And when all the Kings that 1were beyond Jordan, in the mountains and in the valleys, and by all the coasts of the 2great Sea over against Lebanon (as the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites) heard thereof, 2 They gathered themselves together, to fight against Joshua, and against Israel with one 1accord. 3 ¶ aBut the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho, and to Ai. 4 And therefore they wrought craftily: for they

8:32 1 Meaning, the ten commandments, which are the sum of the whole Law. 8:35 1 So neither young nor old, man nor woman, were exempted from hearing the word of the Lord. 9:1 1 In respect of the plain of Moab. 2 The main sea called Mediterranean. 9:2 1 Hebrew, one mouth. 9:4 1 Because they were all worn.

9:7 1 For the Gibeonites and the Hivites were all one people. 9:9 1 Even the idolaters for fear of death will pretend to honor the true God, and receive his religion. 9:11 1 Hebrew, in your hand. 9:12 1 The wicked lack no art, nor spare no lies to set forth their policy, when they will deceive the servants of God. 9:14 1 Some think that the Israelites ate of their victuals, and so made a league with them.

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them. 17 And the children of Israel took their 1journey, and came unto their cities the third day, and their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth and Kirjath Jearim. 18 And the children of Israel slew them not, because the Princes of the Congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel: wherefore all the Congregation 1murmured against the Princes. 19 Then all the Princes said unto all the Congregation, We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. 20 But this we will do to them, and let them live, lest the wrath be upon us, because of the 1oath which we swore unto them. 21 And the Princes said unto them again, Let them live, but they shall hew wood, and draw water unto all the Congregation, as the Princes appoint them. 22 Joshua then called them, and talked with them, and said, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you, when ye dwell among us? 23 Now therefore ye are accursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for 1the house of my God. 24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was told thy servants, that the Lord thy God had bcommanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land out of your sight, therefore we were exceeding sore afraid for our lives at the presence of you, and have done this thing: 25 And behold now, we are in thine hand: do as it seemeth good and right in thine eyes to do unto us. 26 Even so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the 1hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not. 27 And Joshua appointed them that same day to be hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the Congregation, and for the 1altar of the Lord unto this day, in the place which he should choose. 10 1 Five kings make war against Gibeon whom Joshua discomfiteth. 11 The Lord rained hailstones and slew many. 12 The Sun standeth at Joshua's prayer. 26 The five kings are hanged. 29 Many more cities and kings are

destroyed.

b Deut. 7:1

1 Now when Adoni Zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had destroyed it, (afor as he had done to Jericho and to the king thereof, so he had done to bAi and to the king thereof) and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them, 2 Then they feared exceedingly: for Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities: for it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty. 3 Wherefore 1Adoni Zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying, 4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. 5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they with all their hosts, and besieged Gibeon, and made 1war against it. 6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua, even to the host to Gilgal, saying, Withdraw not thine hand from thy servants: come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites, which dwell in the mountains, are gathered together against us. 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the men of might. 8 ¶ And the Lord said unto Joshua, 1Fear them not: for I have given them into thine hand: none of them shall stand against thee. 9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly: for he went up from Gilgal all the night. 10 And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth Horon, and smote them to Azekah, and to Makkedah. 11 And as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth Horon, the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them, until Azekah, and they died: they were more that died with the 1hailstones, than they whom the children

chapter 10

a Josh. 6:16,21

b Josh. 8:3,28,29

9:17 1 From Gilgal. 9:18 1 Fearing lest for their fault the plague of God should have light upon them all. 9:20 1 This doth not establish rash oaths, but showeth God's mercy toward his, which would not punish them for their fault. 9:23 1 For the uses of the Tabernacle and of the temple when it shall be built. 9:26 1 Who were minded to put them to death for fear of God's wrath. 9:27 1 That is, for the service of the Temple, as verse 23.

10:3 1 That is, Lord of justice: so tyrants take to themselves glori­ ous names, when indeed they be very enemies against God and all justice. 10:5 1 So envious the wicked are, when any depart from their hand. 10:8 1 Lest Joshua should have thought that God had sent this great power against him for his unlawful league with the Gibeonites, the Lord here strengtheneth him. 10:11 1 So we see that all things serve to execute God's vengeance against the wicked.

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of Israel slew with the sword. 12 ¶ Then spake Joshua to the Lord, in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, cSun, stay thou in Gibeon, and thou Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. 13 And the Sun abode, and the moon stood still, until the people avenged themselves upon their enemies: (is not this written in the book of 1Jasher?) so the Sun abode in the midst of the heaven, and hasted not to go down for a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it, nor after it, that the Lord heard the voice of a man: for the Lord 1fought for Israel. 15 ¶ After, Joshua returned, and all Israel with him unto the camp to Gilgal: 16 But the five kings fled and were hid in a cave at Makkedah. 17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. 18 Then Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them. 19 But stand ye not still: follow after your enemies, and 1smite all the hindmost, suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the Lord your God hath given them into your hand. 20 And when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with an exceeding great slaughter till they were consumed, and the rest that remained of them were entered into walled cities, 21 Then all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua at Makkedah in 1peace: no man moved his tongue against the children of Israel. 22 After, Joshua said, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out these five kings unto me forth of the cave. 23 And they did so, and brought out those five kings unto him forth of the cave, even the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. 24 And when they had brought out those kings unto Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the chief of the men of war, which went with him, Come near, set your feet upon the 1necks of these kings, and they came near, and set their feet upon their necks. 25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be faint hearted, but be strong and of a good courage: for thus will the Lord do to all your enemies, against

whom ye fight. 26 So then Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees, and they hanged still upon the trees until the evening. 27 And at the going down of the sun, Joshua gave commandment, that they should take dthem down off the trees, and cast them into the cave (wherein they had been hid) and they laid great stones upon the cave's mouth, which remain until this day. 28 ¶ And that same day Joshua took Makkedah and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof destroyed he with them, and 1all the souls that were therein, he let none remain: for he did to the king of Makkedah, as he had done unto the king of Jericho. 29 Then Joshua went from Makkedah, and all Israel with him unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah. 30 And the Lord gave it also and the king thereof into the hand of Israel: and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the 1souls that were therein: he let none remain in it: for he did unto the king thereof, as he had done unto the king of Jericho. 31 ¶ And Joshua departed from Libnah, and all Israel with him unto Lachish, and besieged it, and assaulted it. 32 And the Lord gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all as he had done to Libnah. 33 ¶ Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish: but Joshua smote him and his people, until none of his remained. 34 ¶ And from Lachish Joshua departed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged it, and assaulted it. 35 And they took it the same day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed the same day, according to all that he had done to Lachish. 36 Then Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him unto Hebron, and they fought against it. 37 And when they had taken it, they smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein: he left none remaining, according to all as he had done to Eglon: for he destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein. 38 ¶ So Joshua returned, and all Israel with him to Debir, and fought against it.

c Isa. 28:21

d Deut. 21:23

Josh. 8:29

10:13 1 Some read the book of the righteous, meaning Moses: the Chaldea text readeth in the book of the Law, but it is like that it was a book thus named, which is now lost. 10:14 1 By taking away the enemies' hearts and destroying them with hail stones. 10:19 1 Hebrew, cut off all their train or tail.

10:21 1 Or in safety, so that none gave them as much as an evil word. 10:24 1 Signifying what should become of the rest of God's enemies, seeing that kings themselves were not spared. 10:28 1 Or, every person, Josh. 6:21. 10:30 1 Or, persons.

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39 And when he had taken it, and the king thereof, and all the city thereof, they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein, he let none remain: as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof, as he had also done to Libnah, and to the king thereof. 40 ¶ So Joshua smote all the hill countries, and the South countries, and the valleys, and the 1hillsides, and all their kings, and let none remain, but utterly destroyed every soul, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded. 41 And Joshua smote them from Kadesh Barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon. 42 And all these kings, and their land did Joshua take at 1one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. 43 Afterward, Joshua and all Israel with him returned unto the camp in 1Gilgal. 11 1 Divers kings and cities, and countries overcome by Joshua. 15 Joshua did all that Moses had commanded him. 20 God hardeneth the enemies' hearts that they might be destroyed.

7 Then came Joshua and all the men of war with him, against them, by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them. 8 And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel: and they smote them, and chased them unto great Sidon, and unto 1Misrephoth, and unto the valley of Mizpah Eastward, and smote them until they had none remaining of them. 9 And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire. 10 ¶ At that time also Joshua turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the King thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms. 11 Moreover they smote all the 1persons that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying all, leaving none alive, and he burnt Hazor with fire. 12 So all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them, aas Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. 13 But Israel burnt none of the cities that stood still in their 1strength, save Hazor only, that Joshua burnt. 14 And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the children of Israel took for their prey, but they smote every 1man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, not leaving one alive. 15 ¶ As the Lord bhad commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses ccommand Joshua, and so did Joshua, he left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses. 16 So Joshua took all this land of the mountains, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the low country, and the plain, and the 1mountain of Israel, and the low country of the same, 17 From the mount 1Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto 2Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon, under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them. 18 Joshua made war [a] long time with all those Kings, 19 Neither was there any city that made peace with the children of Israel, dsave those Hivites that inhabited Gibeon: all others they took by battle.

chapter 11

a Num. 33:52

Deut. 7:2

b Exod. 34:11

c Deut. 7:2

d Josh. 9:3

1 And when Jabin king of Hazor had heard this, then he 1sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 2 And unto the kings that were by the North in the mountains and plains toward the South side of 1Chinneroth, and in the valleys, and in the borders of Dor Westward, 3 And unto the Canaanites, both by East, and by West, and unto the Amorites, and Hittites, and Perizzites, and Jebusites in the mountains, and unto the Hivites, under 1Hermon in the land of Mizpah. 4 And they came out, and all their hosts with them, many people, as the sand that is on the seashore, for multitude, with horses and chariots exceeding many. 5 So all these kings met together, and came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, for to fight against Israel. 6 ¶ Then the Lord said unto Joshua, Be not afraid for them: for tomorrow about this time will I deliver them all slain before Israel: thou shalt 1hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

10:40 1 Some read, Ashedoth, which signifieth the descents of the hills. 10:42 1 In one battle. 10:43 1 Where the ark was, there to give thanks for their victories. 11:1 1 The more that God's power appeareth, the more the wicked rage against it. 11:2 1 Which the Evangelists call the lake of Gennesaret, or Tiberias. 11:3 1 Which was mount Sion, as Deut. 4:48. 11:6 1 That neither they should serve to the use of war, nor the Isra­

elites should put their trust in them. 11:8 1 Which signifieth hot waters, or according to some, brine pits. 11:11 1 Both men, women and children. 11:13 1 Which were strong by situation and not hurt by war. 11:14 1 All mankind. 11:16 1 That is, Samaria. 11:17 1 So called, because it was bare and without trees. 2 Or, the valley of Gad.

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7 ¶ These also are the kings of the country, which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan, Westward from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon, even unto the mount 1Halak that goeth up to Seir, and Joshua gave it unto the tribes of Israel for a possession, according to their portions. 8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the 1hillsides, and in the wilderness, and in the South, where were the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 ¶ eThe King of Jericho was one: fthe king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one: 10 gThe king of Jerusalem, one: the king of Hebron, one: 11 The king of Jarmuth, one: the king of Lachish, one: 12 The king of Eglon, one: the hking of Gezer, one: 13 The iking of Debir, one: the king of Geder, one: 14 The king of Hormah, one: the king of Arad, one: 15 The jking of Libnah, one: the king of Adullam, one: 16 The kking of Makkedah, one: the king of Bethel, one: 17 The king of Tappuah, one: the king of Hepher, one: 18 The king of Aphek, one: the king of Lasharon, one: 19 The king of Madon, one: the lking of Hazor, one: 20 The king of Shimron Meron, one: the king of Achshaph, one: 21 The king of Taanach, one: the king of Megiddo, one: 22 The king of Kedesh, one: the king of Jokneam 1of Carmel, one: 23 The king of Dor, in the country of Dor, one: the king of the mnations of Gilgal, one: 24 The king of Tirzah, one. All the kings were thirty and one. 13 3 The borders and coasts of the land of Canaan. 8 The possession of the Reubenites, Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh. 14 The Lord is the inheritance of Levi. 22 Balaam was slain.

20 For it came of the Lord, to 1harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, to the intent that they should destroy them utterly, and show them no mercy, but that they should bring them to nought, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 21 ¶ And that same season came Joshua, and destroyed the Anakims out of the mountains: as out of Hebron, out of Debir, out of Anab, and out of all the mountains of Judah, and out of all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities. 22 There was no Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel, only in Gaza, 1in Gath, and in Ashdod were they left. 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had said unto Moses: and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel, eaccording to their portions through their tribes: then the land was at rest without war. 12 1, 7 What kings Joshua and the children of Israel killed on both sides of Jordan. 24 Which were in number thirty and one.

e Num. 26:53,55

chapter 12

a Num. 21:24

Deut. 3:6

b Deut. 3:17

Deut. 4:49

c Deut. 3:11

Josh. 13:12

d Num. 32:29

Deut. 3:12 Josh. 13:8

e Josh. 6:2

f Josh. 8:26

g Josh. 10:13

h Josh. 10:33

i Josh. 10:39

j Josh. 10:29,30

k Josh. 10:23

l Josh. 11:19

m Gen. 14:1

1 And these are the Kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote and possessed their land on the 1other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon, unto mount Hermon, and all the plain Eastward. 2 aSihon king of the Amorites, that dwelt in Heshbon, having dominion from Aroer, which is beside the river of Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead unto the river of Jabbok, in the border of the children of Ammon. 3 And from the plain unto the sea of Chinneroth Eastward, and unto the sea of the 1plain, even the salt sea Eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth, and from the South under the 2springs of bPisgah. 4 ¶ They conquered also the coast of Og king of Bashan of the cremnant of the giants, which dwelt at Ashtaroth, and at Edrei, 5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites, and the Maachathites, and half Gilead: even the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. 6 Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel smote them: dMoses also the servant of the Lord gave their land for a possession unto the Reubenites, and unto the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.

1 Now when Joshua was old, and 1stricken in

11:20 1 That is, to give them over to themselves: and therefore they could not but rebel against God and seek their own destruction. 11:22 1 Out of the which came Goliath, 1 Sam. 17:4. 12:1 1 From Gilgal where Joshua camped. 12:3 1 Or, wilderness.

2 Or, hillsides. 12:7 1 Read Josh. 11:17. 12:8 1 Or, in Ashdoth. 12:22 1 Or, near unto Carmel. 13:1 1 Being almost an hundred and ten years old.

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years, the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and 2grown in age, and there remaineth exceeding much land to be 3possessed: 2 This is the land that remaineth, all the 1regions of the Philistines, and all Geshuri. 3 From 1Nilus which is 2in Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron Northward: this is counted of the Canaanites, even five Lordships of the Philistines, the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, and the Avites: 4 From the South, all the land of the Canaanites, and the 1cave that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, and to the borders of the Amorites: 5 And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon toward the Sun rising from 1Baal Gad under mount Hermon, until one come to Hamath. 6 All the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon unto 1Misrephoth, and all the Sidonians, I will cast them out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites, to inherit, as I have commanded thee. 7 Now therefore divide this land to inherit, unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 8 For with half thereof the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, awhich Moses gave them beyond Jordan Eastward, even as Moses the servant of the Lord had given them. 9 From Aroer that is on the brink of the river Arnon, and from the city that is in the midst of the 1river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon, 10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the borders of the children of Ammon, 11 And Gilead, and the borders of the Geshurites and of the Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, with all Bashan unto Salcah: 12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei: (who remained of bthe rest of the giants) for these did Moses smite, and cast them out: 13 But the children of Israel 1expelled not the Geshurites nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites even unto this day. 14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance, but the sacrifices of the Lord God of

Israel are 1his inheritance, as he said unto him. 15 ¶ Moses then gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance, according to their families. 16 And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the brink of the river Arnon, and from the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain which is by Medeba: 17 Heshbon with all the cities thereof, that are in the plain: Dibon and 1Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon: 18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath: 19 Kirjathaim also, and Sibmah, and Zereth Shahar in the mount of 1Emek: 20 And Beth Peor, and cAshdoth Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth: 21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses dsmote with the Princes of Midian, Evi and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country. 22 And 1Balaam the son of Beor the soothsayer did the children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were slain. 23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan with the coasts. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, with the cities and their villages. 24 ¶ Also Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families. 25 And their coasts were Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon unto Aroer, which is before Rabbah: 26 And from Heshbon unto Ramath, Mizpah, and Betonim: and from Mahanaim unto the borders of Debir: 27 And in the valley of Beth Haram, and Beth Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon unto Jordan and the borders even unto the sea coast of Chinnereth, 1beyond Jordan Eastward. 28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad, after their families, with the cities and their villages. 29 ¶ Also Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this belonged to the half

chapter 13

a Num. 32:33

Deut. 3:13 Josh. 22:4

b Deut. 3:11

Josh. 22:4

c Deut. 3:17

d Num. 31:8

13:1 2 Hebrew, commen into years. 3 After that the enemies are overcome. 13:2 1 Or, borders. 13:3 1 Hebrew, Sihor. 2 Hebrew, upon the face of Egypt. 13:4 1 Or, Mearah. 13:5 1 Or, the plain of Gad. 13:6 1 Read Josh. 11:8. 13:9 1 Or, valley.

13:13 1 Because they destroyed not all as God had commanded, they that remained were snares and pricks to hurt them, Num. 33:35; Josh. 23:13; Judg. 2:3. 13:14 1 Levi shall live by the sacrifices, Num. 11:23. 13:17 1 Or, high places of Baal. 13:19 1 Or, the valley. 13:22 1 So that both they which obeyed wicked counsel and the wicked counselor perished by the just judgment of God. 13:27 1 That is, in the land of Moab.

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tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families. 30 And their border was from Mahanaim, even all Bashan, to wit, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, threescore cities, 31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, ewere given unto the 1children of Machir the son of Manasseh to half of the children of Machir after their families. 32 These are the heritages, which Moses did distribute in the plain of Moab beyond Jordan toward Jericho Eastward. 33 fBut unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave none inheritance: for the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, gas he said unto them. 14 1 The land of Canaan was divided among the nine tribes and the half. 6 Caleb requireth the heritage that was promised him. 13 Hebron was given him.

couraged the heart of the people: yet I followed still the Lord my God. 9 Wherefore Moses swore the same day, saying, Certainly the land whereon thy feet have trodden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's forever, because thou hast followed constantly the Lord my God. 10 Therefore behold now, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he promised: this is the forty and fifth year since the Lord spake this thing unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now lo, I am this day four score and five years old: 11 And yet am as strong at this time, as I was when Moses sent me: as strong as I was then, so strong am I now, either for war, or 1for government. 12 Now therefore give me this mountain whereof the Lord spake in that day (for thou heardest in that day, how the 1Anakim were there, and the cities great and walled) 2if so be the Lord will be with me that I may drive them out, as the Lord said. 13 Then Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh, Hebron for an inheritance. 14 dHebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, unto this day: because he followed constantly the Lord God of Israel. 15 And the name of eHebron was before time, Kirjath Arba: which Arba was a 1great man among the Anakim: thus the land ceased from war. 15 1 The lot of the children of Judah, and the names of the cities and villages of the same. 13 Caleb's portion. 18 The request of Achsah.

e Num. 32:39

f Josh. 18:7

g Num. 18:20

chapter 14

a Num. 34:17

b Num. 26:55

Num. 33:54

c Num. 35:2

Josh. 21:2,3

d Josh. 21:11

e Josh. 15:13

chapter 15

a Num. 34:3

b Num. 33:36

1 These also are the places which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, awhich Eleazar the Priest, and Joshua the son of Nun and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them, 2 bBy the lot of their inheritance, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, to give to the nine tribes, and the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given inheritance unto 1two tribes and an half tribe, beyond Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. 4 For the children of Joseph were 1two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of the same for their beasts and their substance. 5 cAs the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did when they divided the land. 6 ¶ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him, Thou knowest what the Lord said unto Moses the man of God, concerning 1thee and me in Kadesh Barnea. 7 Forty years old was I, when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to espy the land, and I brought him word again, as I thought in mine heart. 8 But my 1brethren that went up with me, dis-

1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families: even ato the border of Edom and the wilderness of bZin, Southward on the South coast. 2 And their South border was the salt Sea coast, from the 1point that looketh Southward. 3 And it went out on the South side toward Maaleh Akrabbim, and went along to Zin, and ascended up on the South side unto Kadesh Barnea, and went along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and set a compass to Karkaa. 4 From thence went it along to Azmon, and reached unto the river of Egypt, and the end of that coast was on the West side: this shall be your South coast.

13:31 1 Meaning, his nephews and posterity. 14:3 1 As Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, Num. 32:33. 14:4 1 So though Levi lacked, yet were there still twelve tribes by this means. 14:6 1 Which was, that they two only should enter into the land, Num. 14:24. 14:8 1 Which were the ten other spies.

14:11 1 Hebrew, to go out and come in. 14:12 1 Or, giants. 2 This he spake of modesty, and not of doubting. 14:15 1 Either for his power or person. 15:2 1 The Hebrew word signifieth tongue, whereby is meant either the arm of the Sea that cometh into the land, or a rock, or cape that goeth into the Sea.

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5 Also the East border shall be the salt Sea, unto the 1end of Jordan: and the border on the North quarter from the point of the Sea, and from the end of Jordan. 6 And this border goeth up to Beth Hoglah, and goeth along by the North side of Beth Arabah: so the border from thence goeth up to the 1stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 7 Again this border goeth up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and Northward, turning toward Gilgal, that lieth before the going unto Adummim, which is on the South side of the river: also this border goeth up to the waters of 1En Shemesh, and endeth at cEn Rogel. 8 Then this border goeth up to the valley of the son of Hinnom; on the South side of the Jebusites: the same is Jerusalem. Also this border goeth up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom Westward, which is by the end of the valley of 1giants Northward. 9 So this border compasseth from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and goeth out to the cities of mount Ephron: and this border draweth to Baalah which is 1Kirjath Jearim. 10 Then this border compasseth from Baalah Westward unto mount Seir, and goeth along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon on the North side: it cometh down to Beth Shemesh, and goeth to Timnah. 11 Also this border goeth out unto the side of Ekron Northward: and this border draweth to Shicron, and goeth along to mount Baalah, and stretcheth unto Jabneel: and the ends of this coast are unto the 1Sea. 12 And the West border is to the great sea: so this border shall be the bounds of the children of Judah round about, according to their families. 13 ¶ And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh did Joshua give a part among the children of Judah, as the Lord commanded him, even dKirjath Arba of the father of Anak which is in Hebron. 14 And Caleb 1drove thence three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the sons of Anak. 15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir beforetime was Kirjath Sepher.

16 Then Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath Sepher, and taketh it, even to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the 1brother of Caleb took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 18 And as she went in to him, she moved him, to ask of her father a field: 1and she lighted off her ass, and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou? 19 Then she answered, 1Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me the South country: 2give me also springs of water. And he gave her the springs above, and the springs beneath. 20 This shall be the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. 21 And the utmost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the coasts of Edom Southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, 22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, 23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, 24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, 25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, Hezron (which is Hazor.) 26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, 27 And Hazar, Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth Pelet, 28 And Hazar Shual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah, 29 Baalah, and Ijim, and Ezem, 30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and 1Hormah, 31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, 32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all these cities are twenty-nine with their villages. 33 ¶ In the low country were Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah. 34 And Zanoah, and En Gannim, Tappuah, and Enam, 35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah, 36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages. 37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal Gad, 38 And Dilean, and Mizpah, and Joktheel, 39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, 40 And Cabbon, and Lahmas, and Kithlish, 41 And Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages. 42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

c 1 Kings 2:9

d Josh. 14:15

15:5 1 Meaning the mouth of the river where it runneth into the salt Sea. 15:6 1 Which was a mark to part their countries. 15:7 1 Or, the fountain of the sun. 15:8 1 Hebrew, Rephaim. 15:9 1 Or, the city of wood. 15:11 1 Meaning, toward Syria.

15:14 1 This was done after the death of Joshua, Judg. 1:10, 20. 15:17 1 Or, cousins. 15:18 1 Because her husband tarried too long. 15:19 1 Or, grant me this petition. 2 Because her country was barren, she desired of her father a field that had springs, Judg. 1:14, 15. 15:30 1 Which before was called Zephath, Judg. 1:17.

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and to Gezer, and the ends 1thereof are at the Sea. 4 So the children of Joseph; Manasseh and Ephraim 1took their inheritance. 5 ¶ Also the borders of the children of Ephraim according to their families, even the borders of their inheritance on the East side were Ataroth Addar, unto Beth Horon the upper. 6 And this border goeth out to the Sea unto Michmethath on the North side, and this border returneth Eastward unto Taanath Shiloh, and passeth it on the East side unto Janohah, 7 And goeth down from Janohah unto Ataroth, and Naarah, and cometh to Jericho, 1and goeth out at Jordan. 8 And this border goeth from Tappuah Westward unto the river Kanah, and the ends thereof are at the Sea: this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. 9 And the 1separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh: all the cities with their villages. 10 And they cast not out the Canaanite that dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanite dwelt among the Ephraimites unto this day, and served under tribute. 17 1 The portion of the half tribe of Manasseh. 3 The daughters of Zelophehad. 13 The Canaanites are become tributaries. 14 Manasseh and Ephraim require a greater portion of heritage.

43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib, 44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages. 45 Ekron with her 1towns and her villages, 46 From Ekron, even unto the Sea, all that lieth about Ashdod with their villages. 47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages: Gaza with her towns and her villages unto the 1river of Egypt, and the great Sea was their coast. 48 ¶ And in the mountains were Shamir, and Jattir, and Sochoh, 49 And Dannah, and 1Kirjath Sannah (which is Debir.) 50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim, 51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages. 52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, 53 And Janum, and Beth Tappuah, and Aphekah, 54 And Humtah, and eKirjath Arba, (which is Hebron) and Zior: nine cities with their villages, 55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah, 56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, 57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages. 58 Halhul, Beth Zur, and Gedor, 59 And Maarath, and Beth Anoth, and Eltekon: six cities with their villages. 60 ¶ Kirjath Baal, which is Kirjath Jearim, and Rabbah: two cities with their villages. 61 In the wilderness were Beth Arabah, Middin, and Secacah, 62 And Nibshan, and the 1city of salt, and En Gedi: five cities with their villages. 63 Nevertheless, the Jebusites that were the inhabitants of Jerusalem, could not the children of Judah cast 1out, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day. 16 1 The lot or part of Ephraim. 10 The Canaanites dwelled among them.

e Josh. 14:15

chapter 16

a Judg. 1:26

chapter 17

a Gen. 41:51

Gen. 46:20 Gen. 50:23 Num. 32:39

b Num. 26:29

c Num. 26:33

Num. 27:1 Num. 36:2,11

1 This was also the lot of the tribe of Manasseh: for he was the afirstborn of Joseph, to wit, of Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, and the father of Gilead: now because he was a man of war, he had Gilead and Bashan. 2 And also bof the 1rest of the sons of Manasseh by their families, even of the sons of Abiezer, and of the sons of Helek, and of the sons of Asriel, and of the sons of Shechem, and of the sons of Hepher, and of the sons of Shemida: these were the males of Manasseh, the son of Joseph according to their families. 3 ¶ cBut Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah: 4 Which came before Eleazar the Priest, and

1 And the lot fell to the 1children of Joseph from Jordan by Jericho unto the water of Jericho Eastward, and to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho by the mount Bethel: 2 And goeth out from Bethel to aLuz, and runneth along unto the borders of Archi Ataroth, 3 And goeth down Westward to the coast of Japhlet, unto the coast of Beth Horon the nether:

15:45 1 Hebrew, daughters. 15:47 1 Meaning, Nilus, as Josh. 13:3. 15:49 1 Which is also called Kirjath Sepher, verse 15. 15:62 1 Of this city the salt sea hath his name. 15:63 1 That is, utterly, though they slew the most part, and burnt their city, Judg. 1:8. 16:1 1 That is, to Ephraim and his children: for Manasseh's portion

followeth. 16:3 1 Of their inheritance. 16:4 1 Severally, first Ephraim, and then Manasseh. 16:7 1 For so far the coasts reach. 16:9 1 Because Ephraim's tribe was far greater than Manasseh, there­ fore he had more cities. 17:2 1 For the other half tribe had their portion beyond Jordan.

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before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our 1brethren: therefore according to the commandment of the Lord, he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. 5 And there fell ten portions to 1Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of Jordan, 6 Because the daughters of Manasseh did inherit among his sons: and Manasseh's other sons had the land of Gilead. 7 ¶ So the borders of Manasseh were from Asher to Michmethath that lieth before Shechem, and this border goeth on the right hand, even to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. 8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but 1Tappuah beside the border of Manasseh belongeth to the sons of Ephraim. 9 Also this border goeth down unto the 1river Kanah Southward to the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh is on the North side of the river, and the ends of it are at the 2Sea, 10 The South pertaineth to Ephraim, and the North to Manasseh, and the sea is his border: and they met together in 1Asher Northward, and in Issachar Eastward. 11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher, Beth Shean, and her towns, and Ibleam, and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor with the towns thereof, and the inhabitants of En Dor with the towns thereof, and the inhabitants of Taanach with her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo with the towns of the same, even three countries. 12 Yet the children of Manasseh 1could not destroy those cities, but the Canaanites dwelled still in that land. 13 Nevertheless, when the children of Israel were strong, they put the Canaanites under tribute, but cast them not out wholly. 14 Then the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot, and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the Lord hath 1blessed me hitherto? 15 Joshua then answered them, If thou be much people, get thee up to the woods, and cut trees for

thyself there in the land of the Perizzites, and of the giants, 1if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee. 16 Then the children of Joseph said, The mountain will not be enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the low country have chariots of iron, as well they in Beth Shean, and in the towns of the same, as they in the valley of Jezreel. 17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power, and shalt not have one lot. 18 Therefore the mountain shall be thine: for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the ends of it shall be thine, 1and thou shalt cast out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong. 18 1 The Tabernacle set in Shiloh. 4 Certain are sent to divide the land to the other seven tribes. 11 The lot of the children of Benjamin.

1 And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh: for they set up the 1Tabernacle of the Congregation there, after the land was subject unto them. 2 Now there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, to whom 1they had not divided their inheritance. 3 Therefore Joshua said unto the children of Israel, how long are you so slack to enter and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you? 4 Give from among you for every tribe three men, that I may send them, and that they may rise and walk through the land, and distribute it according to 1their inheritance, and return to me. 5 And that they may divide it unto them into seven parts, (Judah shall abide in his coast at the South, and the house of Joseph shall 1stand in their coasts at the North.) 6 Ye shall describe the land therefore into seven parts, and shall bring them hither to me, and I will cast lots for you here before the 1Lord our God. 7 But the Levites shall have no part among you: for the 1Priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance: also Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have

17:4 1 Among them of our tribe. 17:5 1 In the land of Canaan: five to the males: and other five to the daughters of Zelophehad. 17:8 1 Meaning, the city itself. 17:9 1 Or, the brook of reeds. 2 That is, toward the main sea. 17:10 1 In the tribe of Asher, and tribe of Issachar. 17:12 1 For at the first they lacked courage, and after agreed with them on condition, contrary to God's commandment. 17:14 1 According to my father Jacob's prophecy, Gen. 48:19.

17:15 1 If this mount be not large enough, why dost not thou get more by destroying God's enemies, as he hath commanded? 17:18 1 So that thou shalt enlarge thy portion thereby. 18:1 1 For they had now removed it from Gilgal, and set it up in Shiloh. 18:2 1 As Eleazar, Joshua, and the heads of the tribes had done to Judah, Ephraim, and half of Manasseh. 18:4 1 That is, into seven portions, to every tribe one. 18:5 1 For these had their inheritance already appointed. 18:6 1 Before the Ark of the Lord. 18:7 1 That is, the sacrifices and offerings, Josh. 13:14.

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received their inheritance beyond Jordan Eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them. 8 ¶ Then the men arose, and went their way, and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Depart, and go through the land, and 1describe it, and return to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the Lord in Shiloh. 9 So the men departed, and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and returned to Joshua into the camp at Shiloh. 10 ¶ Then Joshua 1cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel, according to their portions. 11 ¶ And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came forth according to their families, and the cost of their lot lay 1between the children of Judah, and the children of Joseph. 12 And their coast on the North side was from Jordan, and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the North part, and went up through the mountains Westward, and the ends thereof are in the wilderness of Beth Aven: 13 And this border goeth along from thence to Luz, even to the South side of Luz (the same is 1Bethel) and this border descendeth to Ataroth Addar, near the mount that lieth on the South side of Beth Horon the nether. 14 So the border turneth, and compasseth the corner of the Sea Southward, from the mount that lieth before Beth Horon Southward: and the ends thereof are at Kirjath Baal (which is Kirjath Jearim) a city of the children of Judah: this is the West quarter. 15 And the South quarter is from the end of Kirjath Jearim, and this border goeth out 1Westward, and cometh to the fountain of waters of Nephtoah. 16 And this border descendeth at the end of the mountain, that lieth before the valley of Ben Hinnom, which is in the valley of the 1giants Northward, and descendeth into the valley of Hinnom by the side of 2Jebus Southward, and goeth down to En Rogel, 17 And compasseth from the North, and goeth forth to 1En Shemesh, and stretcheth to Geliloth, which is toward the going up unto Adummim, and goeth down to the astone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 18 So it goeth along to the side over against the

plain Northward, and goeth down into the plain. 19 After, this border goeth along to the side of Beth Hoglah Northward: and the ends thereof, that is, of the border, reach to the point of the salt Sea Northward, and to the 1end of Jordan Southward: this is the South coast. 20 Also Jordan is the border of it on the East side: this is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families. 21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their families, are Jericho, and Beth Hoglah, and the valley of Keziz, 22 And Beth Arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel, 23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, 24 And Chephar, Haammoni, and Ophni, and Gaba: twelve cities with their villages: 25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, 26 And Mizpah, and Chephirah, and Mozah, 27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, 28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebus, (which is 1Jerusalem) Gibeath, and Kirjath: fourteen cities with their villages: this is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, according to their families. 19 1 The portion of Simeon, 10 Of Zebulun, 17 Of Issachar, 24 Of Asher, 32 Of Naphtali, 40 Of Dan. 49 The possession of Joshua.

chapter 18

a Josh. 15:6

1 And the second lot came out to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon, according to their families: and their inheritance was in the 1midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah. 2 Now they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and Moladah, 3 And Hazar Shual, and Balah, and Ezem, 4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, 5 And Ziklag, and Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susah, 6 And Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteen cities with their villages. 7 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan: four cities with their villages. 8 And all the villages that were round about these cities, unto Baalath Beer, and 1Ramah, Southward: this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon, according to their families. 9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah

18:8 1 By writing the names of every country and city. 18:10 1 That everyone should be content with God's appointment. 18:11 1 Their inheritance bordered upon Judah and Joseph. 18:13 1 Which was in the tribe of Ephraim: another Bethel was in the tribe of Benjamin. 18:15 1 Or, to the sea. 18:16 1 Or, Rephaim. 2 Or, Jerusalem.

18:17 1 Which is in the tribe of Ephraim. 18:19 1 To the very strait, where the river runneth into the salt sea. 18:28 1 Which was not wholly in the tribe of Benjamin, but part of it was also in the tribe of Judah. 19:1 1 According to Jacob's prophecy, that he should be scattered among the other tribes, Gen. 49:7. 19:8 1 Or, Ramath Negeb.

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came the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too 1much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within their inheritance. 10 ¶ Also the third lot arose for the children of Zebulun, according to their families: and the coasts of their inheritance came to Sarid, 11 And their border goeth up 1Westward, even to Maralah, and reacheth to Dabbasheth, and meeteth with the river that lieth before Jokneam, 12 And turneth from Sarid Eastward toward the Sun rising unto the border of Chisloth Tabor, and goeth out to Daberath, and ascendeth to Japhia, 13 And from thence goeth along Eastward toward the Sun rising to Gath Hepher, to Eth Kazin, and goeth forth to Rimmon, and turneth to Neah. 14 And this border compasseth it on the North side to Hannathon, and the ends thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah El, 15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and 1Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages. 16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zeb­ ulun, according to their families, that is, these cities and their villages. 17 ¶ The fourth lot came out to Issachar, even for the children of Issachar, according to their families. 18 And their coast was Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, 19 And Haphraim, and Shion, and Anaharath, 20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez, 21 And Remeth, and 1En Gannim, and En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez. 22 And this coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shaha­zi­ mah, and Beth Shemesh, and the ends of their coast reach to Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages. 23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families: that is, the cities and their villages. 24 ¶ Also the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. 25 And their coast was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, 26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Mishal, and came to Carmel Westward, and to Shihor Libnath, 27 And turneth toward the Sun rising to Beth Dagon, and cometh to 1Zebulun, and to the valley

of Jiphthah El, toward the North side of Beth Emek, and Neiel, and goeth out on the left side of Cabul, 28 And to Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, unto great Sidon. 29 Then the coast turneth to Ramah and to the strong city of 1Zor, and this border turneth to Hosah, and the ends thereof are at the Sea from Hebel to Achzib, 30 Ummah also and Aphek, and Rehob: two and twenty cities with their villages. 31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher, according to their families: that is, these cities and their villages. 32 ¶ The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even to the children of Naphtali according to their families. 33 And their coast was from 1Heleph, and from Allon in Zaanannim, and Adami Nekeb, and Jabneel, even to Lakkum, and the ends thereof are at Jordan. 34 So this coast turneth Westward to Aznoth Tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the South side, and goeth to Asher on the West side, and to Judah 1by Jordan toward the sun rising. 35 And the strong cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and 1Chinnereth, 36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, 37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En Hazor, 38 And Iron, and Migdal El, Horem, and Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh: nineteen cities with their villages. 39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families: that is, the cities and their villages. 40 ¶ The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan, according to their families. 41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir Shemesh, 42 And Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Jethlah, 43 And Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron, 44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, 45 And Jehud, and Bene Berak, and Gath Rimmon, 46 And Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border that lieth before 1Japho. 47 But the coast of the children of Dan fell out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to 1fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote

19:9 1 But this large portion was given them by God's providence to declare their increase in time to come. 19:11 1 Meaning, toward the great Sea. 19:15 1 There was another Bethlehem in the tribe of Judah. 19:21 1 There was another city of this name in the tribe of Judah: for under divers tribes certain cities had all one name, and were distinct by the tribe only.

19:27 1 Joineth to the tribe of Zebulun, which lay more Eastward. 19:29 1 Which was Tyre, a strong city in the sea. 19:33 1 These cities were in the country of Zaanannim. 19:34 1 Or, even unto Jordan. 19:35 1 Of the which the lake of Gennesaret had his name. 19:46 1 Called Joppa. 19:47 1 According as Jacob had prophesied, Gen. 49:17.

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it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, aDan after the name of Dan their father. 48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families: that is, these cities and their villages. 49 ¶ When they had made an end of dividing the land by the coasts thereof, then the children of Israel gave an inheritance unto Joshua the son of Nun among them. 50 According to the word of the Lord they gave him the city which he asked, even bTimnath Serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city and dwelt therein. 51 cThese are the heritages which Eleazar the Priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided by lot in Shiloh before the Lord at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: so they made an end of dividing the country. 20 2 The Lord commandeth Joshua to appoint cities of refuge. 3 The use thereof, 7 and their names.

8 And on the other side Jordan toward Jericho Eastward, they appointed cBezer in the wilderness upon the plain, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, out of the 1tribe of Manasseh. 9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourned among them, that whosoever killed any person ignorantly, might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the 1Congregation. 21 3 The cities given to the Levites, 41 in number eight and forty. 44 The Lord according to his promise gave the children of Israel rest.

chapter 19

a Judg. 18:29

b Josh. 24:30

c Num. 34:17

chapter 20

a Exod. 21:13 Num. 35:6,11,14

Deut. 19:2

b Num. 35:15

c Deut. 4:43 1 Chron. 6:78

chapter 21

a Num. 35:2

1 Then came the 1principal fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the Priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, 2 And spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, aThe Lord commanded 1by the hand of Moses, to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle. 3 So the children of Israel gave unto the Levites, out of their inheritance at the commandment of the Lord these cities with their suburbs. 4 And the lot came out for the families of the 1Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the Priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot, out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin 2thirteen cities. 5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. 6 Also the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. 7 The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. 8 So the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. 9 ¶ And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of

1 The Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say, aAppoint you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses, 3 That the slayer that killeth any person 1by ignorance, and unwittingly, may flee thither, and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. 4 And he that doth flee unto one of those cities, shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall show his cause 1to the Elders of the city: and they shall receive him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell with them. 5 And if the 1avenger of blood pursue after him, they shall not deliver the slayer into his hand, because he smote his neighbor ignorantly, neither hated he him beforetime: 6 But he shall dwell in that city until he stand before the Congregation in 1judgment, bor until the death of the high Priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, even unto the city from whence he fled. 7 ¶ Then they appointed Kedesh in 1Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath Arba, (which is Hebron) in the mountain of Judah.

20:3 1 At unawares, and bearing him no grudge. 20:4 1 Hebrew, in the ears of the Elders. 20:5 1 That is, the nearest kinsman of him that is slain. 20:6 1 Till his cause were proved. 20:7 1 Or, Galilee. 20:8 1 Out of the half tribe of Manasseh beyond Jordan.

20:9 1 Before the Judges. 21:1 1 Or, the chief of the fathers. 21:2 1 By Moses, by whose ministry God showed his power. 21:4 1 He meaneth them that were Priests: for some were but Levites. 2 Every tribe gave more or fewer cities according as their inheri­ tance was great or little, Num. 35:8.

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Simeon, these cities which are here named. 10 And they were the children of 1Aaron being of the families of the Kohathites, and of the sons of Levi, (for theirs was the first lot.) 11 So they gave them Kirjath-arba of the father of Anak (which is Hebron) in the mountain of Judah, with the suburbs of the same round about it. 12 (But the land of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to bCaleb the son of Jephunneh to be his possession.) 13 ¶ Thus they gave to the 1children of Aaron the Priest, a city of refuge for the slayer, even Hebron with her suburbs, and Libnah with her suburbs, 14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa, and her suburbs, 15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs, 16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, Beth Shemesh with her suburbs: nine cities out of those two tribes. 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon with her 1suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, 18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs: four cities. 19 All the cities of the children of Aaron Priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. 20 ¶ But to the families of the children of Kohath of the Levites, 1which were the rest of the children of Kohath (for the cities of their lot were out of the tribe of Ephraim.) 21 They gave them the city of refuge for the slayer, 1Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, and Gezer with her suburbs, 22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth Horon with her suburbs: four cities. 23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs, 24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath Rimmon with her suburbs: four cities. 25 And out of the 1half tribe of Manasseh, Ta­ nach with her suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with her suburbs: two cities. 26 All the cities for the other families of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs. 27 ¶ Also unto the children of Gershon of the families of the Levites, they gave out of the half tribe

of Manasseh, the city of refuge for the slayer, 1Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Be Eshterah with her suburbs: two cities. 28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs, 29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, En Gannim with her suburbs: four cities. 30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs, 31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs: four cities. 32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, the city of refuge for the slayer, Kedesh in 1Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammoth Dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs: three cities. 33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. 34 ¶ Also unto the families of the children of Merari the 1rest of the Levites, they gave out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs, 35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs: four cities. 36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, 1Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahaz with her suburbs, 37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs: four cities. 38 And out of the tribe of Gad they gave for a city of refuge for the slayer, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs, 39 Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs: four cities in all. 40 So all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families (which were the rest of the families of the Levites) were by their lot, twelve cities. 41 And all the cities of the Levites 1within the possession of the children of Israel, were eight and forty with their suburbs. 42 These cities lay every one severally with their suburbs round about them: so were all these cities. 43 ¶ So the Lord gave unto Israel all the land, which he had sworn to give unto their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. 44 Also the Lord gave them rest round about according to all that he had sworn unto their fathers:

b Josh. 14:14 1 Chron. 6:56

21:10 1 For Aaron came of Kohath, and therefore the Priests' office remained in that family. 21:13 1 That is, the Priest of the family of the Kohathites, of whom Aaron was chief. 21:17 1 The suburbs were a thousand cubits from the wall of the cities round about, Num. 35:4. 21:20 1 That were not Priests. 21:21 1 Hebron and Shechem were the two cities of refuge under the Kohathites. 21:25 1 Which dwelt in Canaan.

21:27 1 Golan and Kadesh were the cities of refuge under the Ger­ shonites. 21:32 1 Or, Galilee. 21:34 1 They are here called the rest, because they are last num­ bered, and Merari was the younger brother, Gen. 46:11. 21:36 1 Bezer and Ramoth were the cities of refuge under the Merarites and beyond Jordan, Josh. 20:8. 21:41 1 Thus according to Jacob's prophecy they were scattered throughout the country, which God used to this end, that his people might be instructed in the true religion by them.

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and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them: for the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand. 45 cThere failed nothing of all the good things, which the Lord had said unto the house of Israel, but all came to pass. 22 1 Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh are sent again to their possessions. 10 They build an altar for a memorial. 15 The Israelites reprove them. 21 Their answer for defense of the same.

departed from the children of Israel from Shiloh (which is in the land of Canaan) to go unto the country of Gilead to the land of their possession, which they had obtained according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses. 10 ¶ And when they came unto the 1borders of Jordan (which are in the land of Canaan) then the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, built 2there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see too. 11 ¶ When the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, upon the borders of Jordan at the passage of the children of Israel: 12 When the children of Israel heard it, then the whole Congregation of the children of Israel gathered them together at Shiloh, to go up 1to war against them. 13 Then the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the Priest, 14 And with him ten princes, of every chief house a prince, according to all the tribes of Israel: for every one was chief of their father's household among the 1thousands of Israel. 15 ¶ So they went unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and spake with them, saying, 16 Thus saith 1the whole Congregation of the Lord, What transgression is this that ye have transgressed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from the Lord, in that ye have built you an altar for to rebel this day against the Lord? 17 Have we too little for the wickedness cof Peor, whereof we are not 1cleansed unto this day, though a plague came upon the Congregation of the Lord? 18 Ye also are turned away this day from the Lord: and seeing ye rebel today against the Lord, even tomorrow he will be wroth with all the Congregation of Israel. 19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be 1unclean, come ye over unto the land of the possession of the Lord, wherein the Lord's Tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but 2rebel not against

c Josh. 23:14,15

chapter 22

a Num. 32:35

Josh. 13:8

b Deut. 10:12

c Num. 25:4

1 Then 1Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord 1commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: 3 You have not forsaken your brethren this long season unto this day, but have diligently kept the commandment of the Lord your God. 4 And now the Lord hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord hath agiven you beyond Jordan. 5 But take diligent heed, to do the commandment and Law, which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: that is, bthat ye 1love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and cleave unto him, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul. 6 So Joshua 1blessed them, and sent them away, and they went unto their tents. 7 ¶ Now unto one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan: and unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan Westward: therefore when Joshua sent them away unto their tents, and blessed them, 8 Thus he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with a great multitude of cattle, with silver and with gold, with brass and with iron, and with great abundance of raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your 1brethren. 9 ¶ So the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh returned, and

22:1 1 After that the Israelites enjoyed the land of Canaan. 22:2 1 Which was to go armed before their brethren, Num. 32:29. 22:5 1 He showeth wherein consisteth the fulfilling of the Law. 22:6 1 He commanded them to God, and prayed for them. 22:8 1 Which remained at home and went not to the war, Num. 31:27; 1 Sam. 30:24. 22:10 1 Hebrew, Geliloth, which country also was called Canaan, because the Amorites dwelling there were called Canaanites. 2 That is, beyond Jordan: for sometimes the whole country on both sides of Jordan is meant by Canaan.

22:12 1 Such now was their zeal, that they would rather lose their lives, than suffer the true religion to be changed or cor­ rupted. 22:14 1 Or, multitude. 22:16 1 Not only of the princes, but also of the common people. 22:17 1 Meaning, God is not fully pacified, forasmuch as no punish­ ment can be sufficient for such wickedness and idolatry. 22:19 1 In your judgment. 2 To use any other service than God hath appointed, is to rebel against God, 1 Sam. 15:23.

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the Lord, nor rebel not against us in building you an altar, beside the altar of the Lord our God. 20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah trespass grievously in the execrable thing, and wrath fell ondall the Congregation of Israel? and this man alone 1perished not in his wickedness. 21 ¶ Then the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads over the thousands of Israel, 22 The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel himself shall know: if by rebellion, or by transgression against the Lord we have done it, save thou us not this day. 23 If we have built us an altar to return away from the Lord, either to offer thereon burnt offering, or meat offering, or to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord 1himself require it: 24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might say unto our children, What have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel? 25 For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and of Gad: therefore ye have no part in the Lord: so shall your children make our children 1cease from fearing the Lord. 26 Therefore we said, We will now go about to make us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, 27 But it shall be a ewitness between us and you, and between our generations after us, to execute the service of the Lord before him, in our burnt offerings, and in our sacrifices, and in our peace offerings, and that your children should not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord. 28 Therefore said we, If so be that they should so say to us, or to our 1generations in time to come, then will we answer, Behold the fashion of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, but it is a witness between us and you. 29 God forbid, that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn this day away from the Lord, to build an altar for burnt offering, or for meat offering, or for sacrifice, save the altar of the Lord our God that is before his Tabernacle. 30 ¶ And when Phinehas the Priest, and the princes

of the Congregation and heads over the thousands of Israel, which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, and children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spake, 1they were well content. 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the Priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive, that the Lord is 1among us, because ye have not done this trespass against the Lord: now ye have 2delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord. 32 ¶ Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the Priest with the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them answer. 33 And the saying pleased the children of Israel: and the children of Israel 1blessed God, and 2minded not to go against them in battle for to destroy the land, wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt. 34 Then the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad called the altar 1Ed: for it shall be a witness between us, that the Lord is God. 23 2 Joshua exhorteth the people, that they join not themselves to the Gentiles, 7 that they name not their idols. 14 The promise if they fear God, 15 and threatenings, if they forsake him.

d Josh. 7:1,5

e Gen. 31:48

Josh. 22:34

1 And a long season after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old, and 1stricken in age, 2 Then Joshua called all Israel, and their Elders, and their Heads, and their Judges, and their officers, and said unto them, I am old, and stricken in age. 3 Also ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations 1before you, how the Lord your God himself hath fought for you. 4 Behold, I have 1divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance according to your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have destroyed, even unto the great Sea 2Westward. 5 And the Lord your God shall expel 1them before you, and cast them out of your sight, and ye shall possess their land, as the Lord your God hath said unto you.

22:20 1 Signifying, that if many suffered for one man's fault, for the fault of many, all should suffer. 22:23 1 Let him punish us. 22:25 1 Or, to turn back from the true God. 22:28 1 They signify a wonderful care that they bare toward their posterity, that they might live in the true service of God. 22:30 1 Hebrew, it was good in their eyes. 22:31 1 By preserving and governing us. 2 Whom if ye had offended; he would have punished with you.

22:33 1 Or, praised. 2 Hebrew, said. 22:34 1 Or, witness, as verse 27. 23:1 1 Hebrew, commen into years. 23:3 1 Your eyes bearing witness. 23:4 1 Or, overthrown those nations. 2 Hebrew, at the sunset. 23:5 1 Which yet remain and are not overcome, as Josh. 13:2.

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24 2 Joshua rehearseth God's benefits, 14 and exhorteth the people to fear God. 25 The league renewed between God and the people. 29 Joshua dieth. 32 The bones of Joseph are buried. 33 Eleazar dieth.

6 Be ye therefore of a valiant courage to observe and do all that is written in the book of the Law of Moses, athat ye turn not there from to the right hand nor to the left, 7 Neither company with these nations: that is, with them that are 1left with you, neither bmake mention of the name of their gods, 2nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow unto them: 8 But stick fast unto the Lord your God, as ye have done unto this day. 9 For the Lord hath cast out before you great nations and mighty, and no man hath stood before your face hitherto. 10 cOne man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God he fighteth for you, as he hath promised you. 11 Take good heed therefore unto 1yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God. 12 Else, if ye go back, and cleave unto the rest of these nations: that is, of them that remain with you, and shall 1make marriages with them, and 2go unto them, and they to you, 13 Know ye for certain, that the Lord your God will cast out no more of these nations from before you: dbut they shall be a snare and destruction unto you, and a whip on your sides, and thorns in your 1eyes, until ye perish out of this good land, which the Lord your God hath given you. 14 And behold, this day do I 1enter into the way of all the world, and ye know in all your 2hearts and in all your souls, that enothing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God promised you, but all are come to pass unto you: nothing hath failed thereof. 15 Therefore as all 1good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you, so shall the Lord bring upon you every 2evil thing, until he have destroyed you out of this good land, which the Lord your God hath given you. 16 When ye shall 1transgress the Covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and shall go and serve other gods, and bow yourselves to them, then shall the wrath of the Lord wax hot against you, and ye shall perish quickly out of the good land which he hath given you.

chapter 23

a Deut. 5:32

Deut. 28:14

b Ps. 16:4

c Lev. 26:8 Deut. 32:30

1 And Joshua assembled again all the 1tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called the Elders of Israel, and their heads, and their Judges, and their officers, and they presented themselves before 2God. 2 Then Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, aYour fathers dwelt beyond the 1flood in old time, even Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor, and served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from beyond the flood, and brought him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and bgave him Isaac. 4 And I gave unto Isaac, cJacob and Esau: and I gave unto dEsau mount Seir, to possess it: but eJacob and his children went down into Egypt. 5 fI sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt: and when I had so done among them, I brought you out. 6 So I gbrought your fathers out of Egypt, and ye came unto the Sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto hthe red Sea. 7 Then they cried unto the Lord, and he put 1a darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the Sea upon them, and covered them: so your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: also ye dwelt in the wilderness a 2long season. 8 After, I brought you into the land of the Amo­ rites, which dwelt beyond Jordan, iand they fought with you: but I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their country, and I destroyed them out of your sight. 9 jAlso Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent to Balaam the son of Beor for to curse you, 10 But I would not hear Balaam: therefore he blessed you, and I delivered you out of his hand. 11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho, and the 1men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites,

d Exod. 23:33

Num. 33:55

Deut. 7:16

e Josh. 21:45

chapter 24

a Gen. 11:31

b Gen. 21:2

c Gen. 25:26

d Gen. 36:8

e Gen. 46:6

f Exod. 3:10

g Exod. 12:37

h Exod. 14:9

i Num. 21:29

j Num. 22:5

Deut. 23:4

23:7 1 And not yet subdued. 2 Let not the Judges admit an oath which any shall swear by their idols. 23:11 1 Hebrew, souls. 23:12 1 Or, be of their affinity. 2 Or, have conversation with them. 23:13 1 Meaning, they shall be a continual grief unto you, and so the cause of your destruction. 23:14 1 I die according to the course of nature. 2 Most certainly. 23:15 1 Or, promises.

2 Or, threatenings, as Josh. 24:20. 23:16 1 He showeth that no evil can come unto man, except he offend God by disobedience. 24:1 1 That is, the nine tribes and the half. 2 Before the Ark which was brought to Shechem, when they went to bury Joseph's bones. 24:2 1 Euphrates in Mesopotamia, Gen. 11:26. 24:7 1 Or, a cloud. 2 Even forty years. 24:11 1 Because it was the chief city, under it he containeth all the country: else they of the city fought not.

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and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand. 12 And I sent khornets before you, which cast them out before you, even the two kings of the Amorites, and not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. 13 And I have given you a land, wherein ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them, and eat of the vineyards and olive trees, which ye planted not. 14 Now therefore 1fear the Lord, and serve him in uprightness and in truth, and put away the gods, which your fathers served beyond the flood, and in Egypt, and serve ye the Lord. 15 And 1if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served (that were beyond the flood) or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: 2but I and mine house will serve the Lord. 16 Then the people answered and said, God forbid, that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods. 17 For the Lord our God, he brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and he did those great miracles in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the people through whom we came. 18 And the Lord did cast out before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord, 1for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God: he is a jealous God: he will not pardon your iniquity nor your sins. 20 If ye forsake the Lord and serve strange gods, lthen he will return and bring evil upon you, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. 21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay, but we will serve the Lord. 22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses

to serve him: and they said, We are witnesses. 23 Then put away now, said he, the strange 1gods which are among you, and bow your hearts unto the Lord God of Israel. 24 And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 25 So Joshua 1made a covenant with the people the same day, and gave them an ordinance and law in Shechem. 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the Law of God and took a great stone, and pitched it there under an 1oak that was in the Sanctuary of the Lord. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us: for it 1hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake with us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God. 28 Then Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. 29 And after these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord died, being an hundred and ten years old. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in mTimnath Serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the North side of mount Gaash. 31 And Israel 1served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the Elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord that he had done for Israel. 32 And the nbones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in a parcel of ground, which Jacob bought of othe sons of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundred pieces of silver, and the children of Joseph had them in their inheritance. 33 Also Eleazar the son of Aaron died, whom they buried in 1the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.

k Exod. 23:28

Deut. 7:20 Josh. 11:20

l Josh. 23:15

m Gen. 19:50

Judg. 2:9

n Gen. 50:15

Exod. 13:19

o Gen. 33:19

1against yourselves, that ye have chosen you the Lord,

24:14 1 This is the true use of God's benefits, to learn thereby to fear and serve him with an upright conscience. 24:15 1 Hebrew, if it be evil in your sight. 2 This teacheth us that if all the world would go from God, yet every one of us particularly is bound to cleave unto him. 24:18 1 How much more are we bound to serve God in Christ, by whom we have received the redemption of our souls? 24:22 1 If you do the contrary, your own mouths shall condemn you.

24:23 1 Out of your hearts and otherwise. 24:25 1 By joining God and the people together: also he repeated the promises and threatenings out of the Law. 24:26 1 Or, elm. 24:27 1 Rather than man's dissimulation should not be punished, the dumb creatures shall cry for vengeance. 24:31 1 Such are the people commonly as their rulers are. 24:33 1 Hebrew, Gibeath Phinehas.

T h e b o o k o f J u d g e s

1 After Joshua was dead, Judah was constituted captain. 6 Adoni-Bezek is taken. 14 The request of Achsah. 16 The children of Keni. 23 The Canaanites are made tributaries, but not destroyed.

11 And from thence he went to the inhabitants of Debir, and the name of Debir in old time was Kirjath Sepher. 12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath Se­ pher, and taketh it, even to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz Caleb's younger brother took it, to whom he gave Achsah his daughter to wife. 14 And when she came to him, she moved him to ask of her father a field, 1and she lighted off her ass, and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou? 15 And she answered him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a South country, give me also Springs of water: and Caleb gave her the springs above, and the springs beneath. 16 ¶ And the children of 1Keni Moses' father-inlaw went up out of the city of the palm trees with the children of Judah, into the wilderness of Judah, that lieth in the South of Arad, and went and dwelt among the people. 17 But Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it, and called the name of the city bHormah. 18 Also Judah took 1Gaza with the coasts thereof, and Ashkelon with the coasts thereof, and Ekron with the coasts thereof. 19 And the Lord was with Judah, and he possessed the mountains: for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valleys, because they had chariots of iron. 20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as cMoses had said, and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak. 21 But the children of Benjamin did not cast out the Jebusites, that 1inhabited Jerusalem: therefore the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.

chapter 1

a Judg. 15:14

b Num. 21:3

c Num. 14:24

Josh. 14:13 Josh. 15:14

1 After that Joshua was dead, the children of Israel 1asked the Lord, saying, 2Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites to fight first against them? 2 And the Lord said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have given the land into his hand. 3 And Judah said unto Simeon his 1brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites: and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot: so Simeon went with him. 4 Then Judah went up, and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. 5 And they found 1Adoni-Bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and slew the Canaanites, and the Perizzites. 6 But Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and 1cut off the thumbs of his hands and of his feet. 7 And Adoni-Bezek said, Seventy Kings having the thumbs of their hands and of their feet cut off, gathered bread under my table: as I have done, so God hath rewarded me, so they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. 8 (Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and hath taken it and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and had set the 1city on fire.) 9 ¶ Afterward also the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and toward the South, and in the low country. 10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron, which Hebron beforetime was called aKirjath Arba: and they slew 1Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

1:1 1 By the judgment of Urim, read Exod. 28:30; Num. 27:21; 1 Sam. 28:6. 2 Who shall be our captain? 1:3 1 For the tribe of Simeon had their inheritance within the tribe of Judah, Josh. 19:1. 1:5 1 Or, the lord of Bezek. 1:6 1 This was God's just judgment, as the tyrant himself confesseth, that as he had done, so did he receive, Lev. 24:19,20. 1:8 1 Which was afterward built again, and possessed by the

Jebusites, 2 Sam. 5:6. 1:10 1 These three were giants, and the children of Anak. 1:14 1 Read Josh. 15:18. 1:16 1 This was one of the names of Moses' father-in-law, read Num. 10:29. 1:18 1 These cities and others were afterward possessed of the Phi­ listines, 1 Sam. 6:17. 1:21 1 For after that the tribe of Judah had burnt it, they built it again.

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22 ¶ They also that were of the house of Joseph, went up to Bethel, and the Lord was with them, 23 And the house of Joseph caused to view Bethel (and the name of the city beforetime was dLuz.) 24 And the spies saw a man come out of the city, and they said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the way into the city, eand we will show thee mercy. 25 And when he had showed them the way into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his household depart. 26 Then the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof unto this day. 27 ¶ fNeither did Manasseh destroy Beth Shean with her towns, nor Taanach with her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor with her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam with her towns, neither the inhabitants of Megiddo with her towns: 1but the Canaanites dwelled still in that land. 28 Nevertheless when Israel was strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and expelled them not wholly. 29 ¶ gLikewise Ephraim expelled not the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. 30 ¶ Neither did 1Zebulun expel the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol, but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries. 31 ¶ Neither did Asher cast out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob, 32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them 1out. 33 ¶ Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, and of Beth Anath became tributaries unto them. 34 And the Amorites 1drove the children of Dan into the mountain: so that they suffered them not to come down to the valley. 35 And the Amorites 1dwelt still in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, and when the 2hand of Joseph's family prevailed, they became tributaries:

36 And the coast of the Amorites was from Maaleh-Akrabbim, even from 1Sela and upward. 2 1 The Angel rebuketh the people, because they had made peace with the Canaanites. 11 The Israelites fell to idolatry after Joshua's death. 14 They are delivered into the enemies' hands: 16 God delivereth them by Judges. 21 Why God suffered idolaters to remain among them.

d Gen. 28:19

e Josh. 2:14

f Josh. 17:11

g Josh. 16:10

chapter 2

a Deut. 7:2

b Deut. 22:3

c Josh. 23:13

1 And an 1Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I had sworn unto your fathers, and said, I will never break my covenant with you. 2 aYe also shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land, bbut shall break down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice. Why have ye done this? 3 Wherefore, I said also, I will not cast them out before you, but they shall be cas thorns unto your sides, and their gods shall be your 1destruction. 4 And when the Angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice, and wept. 5 Therefore they called the name of that place, 1Bochim, and offered sacrifices there unto the Lord. 6 ¶ Now when Joshua had 1sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man into his inheritance, to possess the land. 7 And the people had served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the Elders that outlived Joshua, which had seen all the great 1works of the Lord that he did for Israel. 8 But Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, when he was an hundred and ten years old: 9 And they buried him in the coasts of his inheritance, in 1Timnath Heres in mount Ephraim, on the North side of mount Gaash. 10 And so all that generation was gathered unto their fathers, and another generation arose after them, which neither knew the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. 11 ¶ Then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, and served 1Baal, 12 And forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt and followed other gods, even the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed unto them, and

1:27 1 Wherefore God permitted the Canaanites to dwell still in the land, read Judg. 3:5. 1:30 1 That is, the tribe of Zebulun as is also to be understood of the rest. 1:32 1 But made them pay tribute as the others did. 1:34 1 Or, afflicted them. 1:35 1 Or, would dwell. 2 Meaning, when he was stronger than they. 1:36 1 Which was a city in Arabia, or as some read, from the rock.

2:1 1 That is, messenger, or prophet, as some think, Phinehas. 2:3 1 Or, snare. 2:5 1 Or, weeping. 2:6 1 After that he had divided to every man his portion by lot, Josh. 24:28. 2:7 1 Meaning, the wonders and miracles. 2:9 1 Here, by turning the letters backward is Sereh, as Josh. 24:30. 2:11 1 That is, all manner of idols.

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provoked the Lord to anger. 13 So they forsook the Lord, and served dBaal, and 1Ashtoreth. 14 And the wrath of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers, that spoiled them, and he esold them into the hands of their enemies round about them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. 15 1Whithersoever they went out, the 2hand of the Lord was sore against them, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: so he punished them sore. 16 ¶ Notwithstanding, the Lord raised up 1Judges, which 2delivered them out of the hands of their oppressors. 17 But yet they would not obey their Judges for they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them, and turned quickly out of the 1way, wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the Lord: they did not so. 18 And when the Lord had raised them up Judges, the Lord was with the Judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the Judge (for the Lord 1had compassion of their groanings, 2because of them that oppressed them and tormented them.) 19 Yet fwhen the Judge was dead, they returned, and 1did worse than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and worship them: they ceased not from their own inventions, nor from their rebellious way. 20 Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, Because this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and hath not obeyed my voice, 21 Therefore will I no more cast out before them any of the 1nations, which Joshua left when he died, 22 That through them I may 1prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not. 23 So the Lord left those nations, and drove them not out immediately, neither delivered them into the hand of Joshua. 3 1 The Canaanites were left to try Israel. 9 Othniel delivereth Israel. 21 Ehud killeth King Eglon. 31 Shamgar

killeth the Philistines.

d Judg. 10:6

e Ps. 44:12

1 These now are the nations which the Lord left, that he might prove Israel by them (even as many of Israel as had not known all the 1wars of Canaan, 2 Only to make the generations of the children of Israel to know, and to teach them war, which doubtless their predecessors knew 1not.) 3 Five princes of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal Hermon until one come to Hamath. 4 And these remained to prove Israel by them, to wit, whether they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. 5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, 6 And they took 1their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. 7 ¶ So the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served Baal, and 1Asherah. 8 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of CushanRishathaim King of 1Aram-naharaim, and the children of Israel served Cushan-Rishathaim eight years. 9 ¶ And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord stirred up a Savior to the children of Israel, and he saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. 10 And the 1Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the Lord delivered Cushan-Rishathaim king of 2Aram into his hand, and his hand prevailed against CushanRishathaim. 11 So the land had rest 1forty years, and Othniel the son of Kenaz died. 12 ¶ Then the children of Israel again committed wickedness in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord

Isa. 50:1

f Judg. 3:12

1strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they had committed wickedness before the Lord. 13 And he gathered unto him the children of

2:13 1 These were Idols, which had the form of an ewe or sheep among the Sidonians. 2:15 1 In all their enterprises. 2 The vengeance. 2:16 1 Or, magistrates. 2 Hebrew, saved. 2:17 1 Meaning, from the true religion. 2:18 1 Hebrew, repented. 2 Seeing their cruelty. 2:19 1 Hebrew, corrupt themselves. 2:21 1 As the Hivites, Jebusites, Amorites, etc. 2:22 1 So that both outward enemies and false prophets are but a

trial to prove our faith, Deut. 13:3 and Judg. 3:1. 3:1 1 Which were achieved by the hand of God, and not by the power of man. 3:2 1 For they trusted in God, and he fought for them. 3:6 1 Contrary to God's commandment, Deut. 3:7. 3:7 1 Trees or woods erected for idolatry. 3:8 1 Or, Mesopotamia. 3:10 1 He was stirred up by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Or, Syria. 3:11 1 That is, 32 under Joshua, and eight under Othniel. 3:12 1 So that the enemies of God's people have no power over them, but by God's appointment.

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Ammon, and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees. 14 So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord stirred them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera the son of 1Jemini, a man 2lame of his right hand: and the children of Israel sent a present by him unto Eglon king of Moab. 16 And Ehud 1made him a dagger with two edges of a cubit length, and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh, 17 And he presented the gift unto Eglon king of Moab (and Eglon was a very fat man.) 18 And when he had now presented the present, he sent away the people that bare the present, 19 But he turned again from the 1quarries, that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O King. Who said, Keep 2silence: and all that stood about him went out from him. 20 Then Ehud came unto him, (and he sat alone in a summer parlor, which he had) and Ehud said, I have a message unto thee from God. Then he arose out of his throne. 21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly, 22 So that the haft went in after the blade, and the fat closed about the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly, but the dirt came out. 23 Then Ehud got him out into the 1porch, and shut the doors of the parlor upon him, and locked them. 24 And when he was gone out, his servants came: who seeing that the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely 1he doeth his easement in his summer chamber. 25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and seeing he opened not the doors of the parlor, they took the key, and opened them, and behold, their lord was fallen dead on the earth. 26 So Ehud escaped (while they tarried) and was past the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah, 27 And when he came home, he 1blew a trumpet in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel went

down with him from the mountain, and he went before them. 28 Then said he unto them, Follow me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies, even Moab into your hand. So they went down after him, and took the passages of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over. 29 And they slew of the Moabites the same time about ten thousand men, all 1fed men, and all were warriors, and there escaped not a man. 30 So Moab was 1subdued that day, under the hand of Israel: and the 2land had rest fourscore years. 31 ¶ And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox 1goad, and he also delivered Israel. 4 1 Israel sin and are given into the hands of Jabin. 4 Deborah judgeth Israel, and exhorteth Barak to deliver the people. 15 Sisera fleeth,. 17 and is killed by Jael.

chapter 4

a Ps. 83:9,10

1 And the children of Israel 1began again to do wickedly in the sight of the Lord when Ehud was dead. 2 And the Lord sold them into the hand of 1Jabin King of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor, whose chief captain was called Sisera, which dwelt in 2Harosheth of the Gentiles. 3 Then the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: (for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and twenty years he had vexed the children of Israel very sore.) 4 ¶ And at that time Deborah a Prophetess the wife of Lapidoth 1judged Israel. 5 And this Deborah dwelt under a palm tree, between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. 6 Then she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh of Naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel 1commanded, saying, Go, and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali, and of the children of Zebulun? 7 And I will draw unto thee to the a,1river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army with his chariots, and his multitude, and will deliver him into thine hand. 8 And Barak said unto her, 1If thou wilt go with me, I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.

3:15 1 Or, Benjamin. 2 Or, left handed. 3:16 1 Or, caused a dagger to be made. 3:19 1 Or, as some read from the places of idols. 2 Till all be departed. 3:23 1 Or, hall. 3:24 1 Hebrew, he covereth his feet. 3:27 1 Or, caused the trumpet to be blown, Num. 20:2,3. 3:29 1 Or, strong, and big bodied. 3:30 1 Hebrew, humbled. 2 Meaning, the Israelites. 3:31 1 So that it is not the number, nor the means that God regard­

eth, when he will get the victory. 4:1 1 Hebrew, added, or continued to do evil. 4:2 1 There was another Jabin, whom Joshua killed and burnt his city Hazor, Josh. 11:13. 2 That is in a wood, or strong place. 4:4 1 By the spirit of prophecy, resolving of controversies and declar­ ing the will of God. 4:6 1 And revealed unto me by the spirit of prophecy. 4:7 1 Or, valley. 4:8 1 Fearing his own weakness and his enemy's power, he desireth the prophetess to go with him to assure him of God's will from time to time.

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9 Then she answered, I will surely go with thee, but this journey that thou takest, shall not be for thine honor: for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh. 10 ¶ And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and 1he went up on his feet with ten thousand men, and Deborah went up with him. 11 (Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the 1children of bHobab the father-in-law of Moses, was departed from the 2Kenites, and pitched his tent 3until the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.) 12 Then they showed Sisera, that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. 13 And Sisera called for all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him from Harosheth of the Gentiles, unto the river Kishon. 14 Then Deborah said unto Barak, 1Up: for this is the day that 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. 15 And the Lord destroyed Sisera and all his chariots, and all his host with the edge of the sword before Barak, so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet. 16 But cBarak pursued after the chariots, and after the host unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword: there was not a man left. 17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of 1Heber the Kenite: (for peace was between Jabin the king of Hazor, and between the house of Heber the Kenite.) 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn into me: fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into her tent, she covered him with a 1mantel. 19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink: for I am thirsty. And she opened da bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. 20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and when any man doth come and inquire of thee, saying, Is 1any man there? thou shalt say, Nay.

21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a 1nail 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) and so he died. 22 And behold, as Barak pursued after Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man, whom thou seekest: and when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay 1dead, and the nail in his temples. 23 So God brought down Jabin the king of Canaan that day before the children of Israel. 24 And the hand of the children of Israel 1prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. 5 1 The song and thanksgiving of Deborah and Barak, after the victory.

b Num. 10:29

c Ps. 38:10

d Judg. 5:25

chapter 5

a Deut. 4:11

b Deut. 2:1

c Ps. 97:5

d Exod. 19:18

e Judg. 3:31

f Judg. 4:18

1 Then sang Deborah, and Barak the son of Abinoam the same day, saying, 2 Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, and for the 1people that offered themselves willingly. 3 Hear, ye kings, hearken ye princes: I, even I will sing unto the Lord: I will sing praise unto the Lord God of Israel. 4 Lord, awhen thou wentest out of Seir, when thou departedst out of the field of bEdom, the earth trembled, and the heavens rained, the clouds also dropped water. 5 cThe mountains melted before the Lord, das did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel. 6 In the days of eShamgar the son of Anath, in the days of fJael, the highways were 1unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways. 7 The towns were not inhabited: they decayed, I say, in Israel, until I Deborah came up, which rose up a 1mother in Israel. 8 They chose new gods: then was war in the gates. Was there a 1shield or spear seen among forty thousand of Israel? 9 Mine heart is set on the governors of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord. 10 Speak ye that ride on 1white asses, ye that dwell 2by Middin, and that walk by the way.

4:10 1 Or, he led after him 10,000 men. 4:11 1 Or, posterity. 2 Hebrew, from Cain. 3 Meaning, that he possessed a great part of that country. 4:14 1 She still encourageth him to this enterprise by assuring him of God's favor and aid. 4:17 1 Whose ancestors were strangers, but worshipped the true God, and therefore were joined with Israel. 4:18 1 Or, blanket. 4:20 1 To wit, Sisera.

4:21 1 That is, the pin or stake, whereby it was fastened to the ground. 4:22 1 So he saw that a woman had the honor, as Deborah proph­ esied. 4:24 1 Hebrew, went and was strong. 5:2 1 To wit, the two tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali. 5:6 1 For fear of the enemies. 5:7 1 Miraculously stirred up of God to pity them and deliver them. 5:8 1 They had no heart to resist their enemies. 5:10 1 Ye governors. 2 As in danger of your enemies.

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11 For the noise of the archers appraised among the 1drawers of water: there shall they rehearse the righteousness of the Lord, his righteousness of his towns in Israel: then did the people of the Lord go down to the gates. 12 Up Deborah, up, arise, and sing a song: arise Barak, and lead 1thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. 13 For they that remain, have dominion over the mighty of the people: the Lord hath given me dominion over the strong. 14 Of Ephraim 1their root arose against Amalek: and after thee Benjamin shall fight against thy people, O Amalek, of Machir came rulers, and of Zebulun, they that handle the pen of the 2writer. 15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah, and 1Issachar, and also Barak: he was set on his feet in the valley: for the divisions of Reuben were great 2thoughts of heart. 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? for the divisions of Reuben were great thoughts of heart. 17 1Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why doth Dan remain in ships? Asher sat on the seashore, and tarried in his 2decayed places. 18 But the people of Zebulun and Naphtali have jeopardized their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. 19 The Kings came and fought: then fought the Kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they received no gain of 1money. 20 They fought from heaven, even the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. 21 The River Kishon 1swept them away, that ancient river the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast marched valiantly. 22 Then were the horse hoofs broken with the oft beating together of their mighty men. 23 Curse ye 1Meroz: (said the Angel of the Lord) curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to help the Lord, to help the Lord against the mighty. 24 Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite shall be blessed above other women: blessed shall she be above women dwelling in tents.

25 He asked water, and she gave him milk: she brought forth 1butter in a lordly dish. 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer: with the hammer smote she Sisera: she smote off his head, after she had wounded and pierced his temples. 27 He bowed him down at her feet, he fell down, and lay still: at her feet he bowed him down, and fell: and when he had sunk down, he lay there 1dead. 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long a coming? why tarry the 1wheels of his chariots? 29 Her wise ladies answered her, Yea. 1She answered herself with her own words, 30 Have they not gotten, and they divide the spoil? every man hath a maid or two. Sisera hath a prey of diverse colored garments, a prey of sundry colors made of needle work: of diverse colors of needle work on both sides, 1for the chief of the spoil. 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but they that love him, shall be as the 1Sun when he riseth in his might, and the land had rest forty years. 6 1 Israel is oppressed of the Midianites for their wickedness. 14 Gideon is sent to be their deliverer. 37 He asketh a sign.

1 Afterward the children of Israel committed wickedness in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hands of Midian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel, 1and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them dens in the mountains, and caves, and strongholds. 3 When Israel had sown, then came up the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the 1East, and came upon them, 4 And camped by them, and destroyed the fruit of the earth, even till thou come unto 1Gaza, and left no food for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. 5 For they went up, and their cattle, and came with their tents as grasshoppers in multitude: so that they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

5:11 1 For now you may draw water without fear of your enemies. 5:12 1 To wit, them that kept thy people in captivity. 5:14 1 Joshua first fought against Amalek, and Saul destroyed him. 2 Even the learned did help to fight. 5:15 1 Even the whole tribe. 2 They marveled, that they came not over Jordan to help them. 5:17 1 She reproveth all them that came not to help their brethren in their necessity. 2 Either by beating of the sea, or by mining. 5:19 1 They won nothing, but lost all. 5:21 1 As a besom doeth the filth of the house.

5:23 1 It was a city near to Tabor, where they fought. 5:25 1 Some read churned milk in a great cup. 5:27 1 Hebrew, destroyed. 5:28 1 Or, feet. 5:29 1 That is, she comforted herself. 5:30 1 Because he was chief of the army. 5:31 1 Shall grow daily more and more in God's favor. 6:2 1 For fear of the Midianites, they fled into the dens of the mountains. 6:3 1 Or, of Kedem. 6:4 1 Even almost the whole country.

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6 So was Israel exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites: therefore the 1children of Israel cried unto the Lord. 7 ¶ And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites, 8 The Lord sent unto the children of Israel a Prophet, who said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I have brought you up from Egypt, and have brought you out of the house of bondage, 9 And I have delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and have cast them out before you, and given you their land. 10 And I said unto you, I am the Lord your God: afear not the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice. 11 ¶ And the Angel of the Lord came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the father of the Abiezrites, and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, 1to hide it from the Midianites. 12 Then the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou valiant man. 13 To whom Gideon answered, 1Ah my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this come upon us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, and said, Did not the Lord bring us out [of] Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of the Midianites. 14 And the 1Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy 2might, and thou shalt save Israel out of the hands of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? 15 And he answered him, Ah my Lord, whereby shall I save Israel? behold, my 1father is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. 16 Then the Lord said unto him, I will therefore be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites, as one man. 17 And he answered him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, then show me 1a sign, that thou talkest with me. 18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring mine offering, and lay it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again. 19 ¶ Then Gideon went in, and made ready a kid,

and unleavened bread of an 1Ephah of flour, and put the flesh in a basket, and put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. 20 And the Angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened bread, and lay them upon this stone, and pour out the broth: and he did so. 21 ¶ Then the Angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that he held in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened bread: and there arose up fire 1out of the stone, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened bread, so the Angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. 22 And when Gideon perceived that it was an Angel of the Lord, Gideon then said, Alas, my Lord God: bfor because I have seen an Angel of the Lord face to face, I shall die. 23 And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee: fear not, thou shalt not die. 24 Then Gideon made an altar there unto the Lord, and called it 1Jehovah Shalom: unto this day it is in Ophrah, of the father of the Abiezrites. 25 ¶ And the same night the Lord said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, and another bullock 1of seven years old, and destroy the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it, 26 And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in a plain place: and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the 1grove, which thou shalt cut down. 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord bade him: but because he feared to do it by day for his father's household and the men of the city, he did it by night. 28 ¶ And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken, and the grove cut down that was by it, and the 1second bullock offered upon the altar that was made. 29 Therefore they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? and when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing. 30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: for he hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath also cut down the grove that was by it. 31 And Joash said unto all that stood by him, Will ye plead Baal's cause? or will ye save him? 1he that

chapter 6

a 2 Kings

17:35,38 Jer. 10:2

b Ex. 33:20 Judg. 13:22

6:6 1 This is the end of God's punishments, to call his to repentance, that they may seek for help of him. 6:11 1 Or, to prepare his flight. 6:13 1 This came not of distrust, but of weakness of faith, which is in the most perfect: for no man in this life can have a perfect faith: yet the children of God have a true faith, whereby they be justified. 6:14 1 That is, Christ appearing in visible form. 2 Which I have given thee. 6:15 1 Or, family. 6:17 1 So that we see how the flesh is enemy unto God's vocation,

which cannot be persuaded without signs. 6:19 1 Of Ephah, read Exod. 16:37. 6:21 1 By the power of God only, as in the sacrifice of [Elijah], 1 Kings 18:38. 6:24 1 Or, the Lord of peace. 6:25 1 That is, as the Chaldea text writeth, fed seven years. 6:26 1 Which grew about Baal's altar. 6:28 1 Meaning, the fat bull, which was kept to be offered unto Baal. 6:31 1 Thus we ought to justify them that are zealous of God's cause, though all the multitude be against us.

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will contend for him, let him die or the morning. If he be God, let him plead for himself against him that hath cast down his altar. 32 And in that day was Gideon called Jerubbaal, that is, Let Baal plead for himself because he hath broken down his altar. 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites, and they of the East, were gathered together, and went and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. 34 But the Spirit of the Lord 1came upon Gideon cand he blew a trumpet, and 2Abiezer was joined with him. 35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, which was also joined with him, and he sent messengers unto Asher, and to Zebulun and to Naphtali, and they came up to meet them. 36 Then Gideon said unto God, 1If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, 37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the threshing place: if the dew come on the fleece only and it be dry upon all the earth, then shall I be sure, that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said. 38 And so it was: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, and filled a bowl of water. 39 Again, Gideon said unto God, Be not angry with me, that dI may speak once more: let me prove once again, I pray thee, with the fleece: let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and let dew be upon all the ground. 40 And God did so the same night: for it was 1dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground. 7 The Lord commandeth Gideon to send away a great part of his company. 22 The Midianites are discomfitted by a wondrous sort. 25 Oreb and Zeeb are slain.

3 Now therefore proclaim in the audience of the people, and say, bWho so is timorous or fearful, let him return, and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people which were at mount Gilead, two and twenty thousand: so ten thousand remained. 4 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many: bring them down unto the water, and I will 1try them for thee there: and of whom I say unto thee, This man shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee: and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This man shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. 5 So he brought down the people unto the water. And the Lord said unto Gideon, As many as lap the water with their tongues, as a dog lappeth, them put by themselves, and everyone that shall bow down his knees to drink, 1put apart. 6 And the number of them that lapped by putting their hands to their mouths, were three hundred men: but all the remnant of the people kneeled down upon their knees to drink water. 7 ¶ Then the Lord said unto Gideon, By these three hundred men that lapped, will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other 1people go every man unto his place. 8 ¶ So the people took victuals 1with them, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel, every man unto his tent, and 2retained the three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in a valley. 9 ¶ And the same night the Lord said unto him, Arise, 1get thee down unto the host: for I have delivered it into thine hand. 10 But if thou fear to go down, then go thou, and Purah thy servant down to the host, 11 And thou shalt hearken what they say, and so shall thine hands be strong to go down unto the host. Then went he down and Purah his servant unto the outside of the soldiers that were in the host. 12 ¶ And the Midianites, and the Amalekites and all cthey of the East, lay in the valley like grasshoppers in multitude, and their camels were without number, as the sand which is by the seaside for multitude. 13 And when Gideon was come, behold, a man told a dream unto his neighbor, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream and lo, a 1cake of barley bread tumbled from above into the host of Midian, and came into a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent fell down.

c Num. 10:3

Judg. 3:27

d Gen. 18:32

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a Judg. 8:35

b Deut. 20:8

c Judg. 6:33

1 Then aJerubbaal (who is Gideon) rose up early, and all the people that were with him, and pitched beside 1the well of Harod, so that the host of the Midianites was on the North side of them, in the valley by the hill of 2Moreh. 2 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 their vaunt 1against me, and say, Mine hand hath saved me.

6:34 1 Hebrew, clad Gideon. 2 The family of Abiezer, whereof he was. 6:36 1 This request proceeded not of infidelity, but that he might be confirmed in his vocation. 6:40 1 Whereby he was assured that it was a miracle of God. 7:1 1 Hebrew, En-harod. 2 Hebrew, Hammoreh. 7:2 1 God will not that any creature deprive him of his glory. 7:4 1 I will give thee a proof to know them that shall go with thee.

7:5 1 Let them depart as unmeet for this enterprise. 7:7 1 That is, the one and thirty thousand, and 700. See verses 3 and 6. 7:8 1 Hebrew, in their hands. 2 Or, encouraged. 7:9 1 Thus the Lord by divers means doth strengthen him, that he faint not in so great an enterprise. 7:13 1 Some read, a trembling noise of barley bread: meaning, that one of no reputation should make their great army to tremble.

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14 And his fellow answered, and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian and all the host. 15 ¶ When Gideon heard the dream told, and the interpretation of the same, he 1worshipped, and returned unto the host of Israel, and said, Up: for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three bands, and gave every man a trumpet in his hand with empty pitchers, and 1lamps 2within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise, when I come to the side of the host: even as I do, so do you. 18 When I blow with a trumpet and all that are with me, blow ye with trumpets also on every side of the host, and say, 1For the Lord, and for Gideon. 19 ¶ So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the host, in the beginning of the middle watch, and they raised up the watchmen, and they blew with their trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 And the three companies blew with trumpets and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The 1sword of the Lord and of Gideon. 21 And they stood, every man in his place round about the host: and all the host 1ran, and cried, and fled. 22 And the three hundred blew with trumpets, and dthe Lord set every man's sword upon his 1neighbor, and upon all the host: so the host fled to Beth Hashittah in Zererah, and to the border of Abel Meholah, unto Tabbath. 23 Then the men of Israel being gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, pursued after the Midianites. 24 And Gideon sent messengers unto all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the 1waters unto Beth Barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together and took the waters unto Beth Barah, and

Jordan. 25 And they took two eprinces of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb, and slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and slew Zeeb at 1the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued the Midianites, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond Jordan. 8 1 Ephraim murmureth against Gideon, who appeaseth them. 4 He passeth the Jordan. 16 He revengeth himself on them of Succoth and Penuel. 27 He maketh an Ephod which was the cause of idolatry. 30 Of Gideon's sons and of his death.

d Isa. 9:4

e Ps. 83:11

Isa. 10:26

1 Then the men of Ephraim said unto him, 1Why hast thou served us thus that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? and they chide with him sharply. 2 To whom he said, What have I now done, in comparison of 1you? is not the 2gleaning of grapes of Ephraim better, than the vintage of Abiezer? 3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? and when he had thus spoken, then their spirits abated toward him. 4 ¶ And Gideon came to Jordan to pass over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, weary, yet pursuing them. 5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, 1morsels of bread unto the people 2that follow me (for they be weary) that I may follow after Zebah and Zalmunna Kings of Midian. 6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the 1hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hands, that we should give bread unto thine army? 7 Gideon then said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, I will 1tear your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and with briers. 8 ¶ And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise, and the men of Penuel answered him, as the men of Succoth answered. 9 And he said also unto the men of Penuel, When I come again 1in peace, I will break down this tower. 10 ¶ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were 1in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left of all the hosts of them of the East:

7:15 1 Or, gave God thanks, as it is in the Chaldea text. 7:16 1 Or, firebrands. 2 These weak means God used to signify that the whole victory came of him. 7:18 1 That is, the victory shall be the Lord's and Gideon's his servant. 7:20 1 Shall destroy the enemies. 7:21 1 Or, broke their array. 7:22 1 The Lord caused the Midianites to kill one another. 7:24 1 Meaning, the passages or the fords, that they should not escape. 7:25 1 These places had their names of the acts that were done there.

8:1 1 They began to cavil, because he had the glory of the victory. 8:2 1 Which have slain two princes, Oreb and Zeeb. 2 This last act of the whole tribe is more famous, than the whole enterprise of one man of one family. 8:5 1 Or, some small portion. 2 Hebrew, that are at my feet. 8:6 1 Because thou hast overcome an handful, thinkest thou to have overcome the whole? 8:7 1 Hebrew, beat in pieces. 8:9 1 Having gotten the victory. 8:10 1 A city Eastward beyond Jordan.

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for there was slain an hundred and twenty thousand men, that drew swords. 11 ¶ And Gideon went through them that dwelt in

23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not reign over you, neither shall my child reign over you, but the Lord shall reign over you. 24 Again Gideon said unto them, 1I would desire a request of you, that you would give me every man the earrings of his prey (for they [had] golden earrings because they were Ishmaelites.) 25 And they answered, We will give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he required, was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, beside collars 1and jewels, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about the camels' necks. 27 And Gideon made an 1Ephod thereof, and put it in Ophrah his city: and all Israel went a whoring there after it, which was the destruction of Gideon and his house. 28 Thus was Midian brought low before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more: and the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon. 29 ¶ Then Jerubbaal the son of Joash went, and dwelt in his own house. 30 And Gideon had seventy sons 1begotten of his body: for he had many wives. 31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, bare him a son also, whose name he called Abimelech. 32 So Gideon the son of Joash died in a good age, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father in Ophrah, of the 1father of the Abiezrites. 33 But when Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned away, and went a whoring after Baal, and made 1Baal-Berith their god. 34 And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God, which had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side. 35 Neither 1showed they mercy on the house of Jerubbaal, or Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed unto Israel. 9 1 Abimelech usurpeth the kingdom, and putteth his brethren to death. 7 Jotham proposeth a parable. 23 Hatred between Abimelech and the Shechemites. 26 Gaal conspireth

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a 1 Kings 12:25

1Tabernacles on the East side of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was careless. 12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he followed after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host. 13 ¶ So Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle, 1the sun being yet high, 14 And took a servant of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he 1wrote to him the princes of Succoth and the Elders thereof, even seventy and seven men. 15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah, and Zalmunna, by whom ye upbraided me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah, and Zalmunna already in thine hands, that we should give bread unto thy weary men? 16 Then he took the Elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and 1did tear the men of Succoth with them. 17 Also he brake down the tower of aPenuel, and slew the men of the city. 18 ¶ Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they, whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, 1As thou art, so were they, every one was like the children of a king. 19 And he said, They were my brethren, even my 1mother's children: as the Lord liveth, if ye had saved their lives, I would not slay you. 20 Then he said unto Jether his firstborn son, Up, and slay them: but the boy drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet young. 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou and fall upon us: for 1as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the 2ornaments, that were on their camels' necks. 22 ¶ Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Reign thou over us, both thou, and thy son and thy 1son's son: for thou hast delivered us out of the hand of Midian.

8:11 1 He went by the wilderness where the Arabians dwelt in tents. 8:13 1 Some read, before the Sun rose up. 8:14 1 Or, described. 8:16 1 Hebrew, break in pieces, as one thresheth corn. 8:18 1 Or, they were like unto thee. 8:19 1 We came all out of one belly: therefore I will be revenged. 8:21 1 Meaning, that they would be rid out of their pain at once, or else to have a valiant man to put them to death. 2 Or, collars. 8:22 1 That is, thy posterity. 8:24 1 His intent was to show himself thankful for this victory by

restoring of religion, which because it was not according as God had commanded, turned to their destruction. 8:26 1 Or, sweet balls. 8:27 1 That is, such things as pertained to the use of the Tabernacle. See more of Ephod, Exod. 28:4,6; 1 Sam. 2:18 and 2 Sam. 6:14 and Judg. 17:5. 8:30 1 Hebrew, which came out of his thigh. 8:32 1 Which city belonged to the family of the Abiezrites. 8:33 1 That is, Baal, to whom they had bound themselves by covenant. 8:35 1 They were unmindful of God and unkind toward him, by whom they had received so great a benefit.

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14 Then said all the trees unto the 1bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. 15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If ye will indeed anoint me king over you, come, and put your trust under my shadow: and if not, the 1fire shall come out of the bramble, and consume the Cedars of Lebanon. 16 Now therefore, if ye do truly and incorruptly to make Abimelech King, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and with his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands, 17 (For my father fought for you, and 1adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hands of Midian. 18 And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his children, about seventy persons upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother.) 19 If ye then have dealt truly and purely with Jerubbaal, and with his house this day, then 1rejoice ye with Abimelech, and let him rejoice with you. 20 But if not, let a fire come out from Abimelech, and consume the men of Shechem and the house of Millo: also let a fire come forth from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and consume Abimelech. 21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there for fear of Abimelech his brother. 22 So Abimelech reigned three years over Israel. 23 But God 1sent an evil spirit between Abimelech, and the men of Shechem: and the men of Shechem brake their promise to Abimelech, 24 That the cruelty toward the seventy sons of Jerubbaal and their blood might come and be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which had slain them, and upon the men of Shechem, which had aided him to kill his brethren. 25 So the men of Shechem set men in wait for him in the tops of the mountains: who robbed all that passed that way by them: and it was told Abimelech. 26 Then Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and they went to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him. 27 Therefore they 1went out into the field, and gathered in their grapes, and trode them, and made merry, and went into the house of their gods, and

against him, and is overcome. 53 Abimelech is wounded to death by a woman.

1 Then Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his 1mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family, and house of his mother's father, saying, 2 Say, I pray you, in the audience of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are seventy persons, reign over you, either that one reign over you? Remember also, that I am your 1bone, and your flesh. 3 Then his mother's brethren spake of him in the audience of all the men of Shechem, all these words: and their hearts were moved to follow Abimelech: for said they, He is our brother. 4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-Berith, wherewith Abimelech hired 1vain and light fellows which followed him. 5 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and 1slew his brethren, the sons of Jerubbaal, about seventy persons upon one stone: yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left: for he hid himself. 6 ¶ And all the men of Shechem gathered together with all the house of 1Millo, and came and made Abimelech King in the plain, where the stone was erected in Shechem. 7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, you men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you. 8 1The trees went forth to anoint a King over them, and said unto the Olive tree, Reign thou over us. 9 But the Olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to advance me above the trees? 10 Then the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and be king over us. 11 But the fig tree answered them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to advance me above the trees? 12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and be king over us. 13 But the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, whereby I cheer God and man, and go to advance me above the trees?

9:1 1 To practice with his kinsfolk for the attaining of the kingdom. 9:2 1 Of your kindred by my mother's side. 9:4 1 Or, idle fellows and vagabonds. 9:5 1 Thus tyrants to establish their usurped power, spare not the innocent blood, 2 Kings 10:7; 2 Chron. 21:4. 9:6 1 Which was as the town house, or common hall, which he call­ eth the tower of Shechem, verse 49. 9:8 1 By this parable he declareth that those that are not ambitious, are most worthy of honor, and that the ambitious abuse their honor

both to their own destruction and others. 9:14 1 Or, thistle, or brier. 9:15 1 Abimelech shall destroy the nobles of Shechem. 9:17 1 Hebrew, he cast his life far from him. 9:19 1 That he is your king, and you his subjects. 9:23 1 Because the people consented with the king in shedding innocent blood, therefore God destroyeth both one and the other. 9:27 1 Before they were afraid of Abimelech's power, and durst not go out of the city.

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did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. 28 Then Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abim­ elech? and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul is his officer? Serve rather the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him? 29 Now would God this people were under mine hand: then would I put away Abimelech. And he said to 1Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out. 30 ¶ And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his wrath was kindled. 31 Therefore he sent messengers unto Abimelech 1privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem, and behold, they fortify the city against thee. 32 Now therefore arise by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field. 33 And rise early in the morning as soon as the sun is up, and assault the city: and when he and the people that is with him, shall come out against thee, do to him 1what thou canst. 34 ¶ So Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him by night: and they lay in wait against Shechem in four bands. 35 Then Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the folk that were with him, from lying in wait. 36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the tops of the mountains: and Zebul said unto him, The 1shadow of the mountains seem men unto thee. 37 And Gaal spake again, and said, See, there come folk down 1by the middle of the land, and another band cometh by the way of the plain of 2Meonenim. 38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth that said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? Is not this the people that thou hast despised? Go out now, I pray thee and fight with them. 39 And Gaal 1went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. 40 But Abimelech pursued him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded even unto the entering of the gate. 41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren that they should

not dwell in Shechem. 42 ¶ And on the morrow, the people went out into the field: which was told Abimelech. 43 And he took the 1people, and divided them into three bands, and laid wait in the fields, and looked, and behold, the people were come out of the city, and he rose up against them, and smote them. 44 And Abimelech, and the bands that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other bands ran upon all the people that were in the field, and slew them. 45 And when Abimelech had fought against the city all that day, he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and destroyed the city, and sowed 1salt in it. 46 ¶ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard it, they entered into an hold of the house of the god 1Berith. 47 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. 48 And Abimelech got him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him: and Abimelech took axes with him, and cut down boughs of trees, and took them, and bare them on his shoulder, and said unto the folk that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do like me. 49 Then all the people also cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire with them so all the men of the tower of Shechem 1died also, about a thousand men and women. 50 ¶ Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and besieged Thebez, and took it. 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all the chiefs of the city, and shut it to them, and went up to the top of the tower. 52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to set it on fire. 53 But a certain woman acast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and brake his brainpan. 54 Then Abimelech called hastily his page that bore his harness, and said unto him, Draw thy sword and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his page 1thrust him through, and he died. 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his

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a 2 Sam. 12:21

9:29 1 Braggingly, as though he had been present, or to his captain Zebul. 9:31 1 Hebrew, craftily. 9:33 1 Hebrew, what thine hand can find. 9:36 1 Thou art afraid of a shadow. 9:37 1 Hebrew, by the navel. 2 Or, charmers. 9:39 1 As their captain.

9:43 1 Which were in his company. 9:45 1 That it should be unfruitful, and never serve to any use. 9:46 1 That is, of Baal-Berith, as Judg. 8:33. 9:49 1 Meaning, that all were destroyed as well they in the tower, as the other. 9:54 1 Thus God by such miserable death taketh vengeance on tyrants even in this life.

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own place. 56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abim­ elech, which he did unto his father in slaying his seventy brethren. 57 Also all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God bring upon their heads. So upon them came the 1curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. 10 2 Tola dieth. 5 Jair also dieth. 7 The Israelites are punished for their sins. 10 They cry unto God, 16 and he hath pity on them.

Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites did oppress you, and ye cried to me, and I saved you out of their hands. 13 Yet ye chave forsaken me, and served other gods: Wherefore I will deliver you no more. 14 Go, and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen: let them save you in the time of your tribulation. 15 And the children of Israel said unto the Lord, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever please thee: only we pray thee to deliver us 1this day. 16 Then they put away the strange gods from among them, and 1served the Lord: and 2his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. 17 Then the children of Ammon gathered themselves together, and pitched in Gilead: and the children of Israel assembled themselves, and pitched in Mizpah. 18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, Whosoever will begin the battle against the children of Ammon, the same shall be dhead over all the inhabitants of Gilead. 11 2 Jephthah being chased away by his brethren, was after made captain over Israel. 30 He maketh a rash vow. 32 He vanquisheth the Ammonites, 39 and sacrificeth his daughter according to his vow.

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a Judg. 2:11

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d Judg. 11:6

1 After Abimelech, there arose to defend Israel, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of 1Dodo, a man of Issachar, which dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. 2 And he 1judged Israel three and twenty years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. 3 ¶ And after him arose Jair a Gileadite, and judged Israel two and twenty years. 4 And he had thirty sons that 1rode on thirty asscolts, and they had thirty cities, which are called 2Havoth Jair unto this day, and are in the land of Gilead. 5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon. 6 ¶ aAnd the children of Israel wrought wickedness again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baal and bAshtoreth, and the gods of 1Aram, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord and served not him. 7 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he 1sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon: 8 Who from that year vexed and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years, 1even all the children of Israel that were beyond Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. 9 Moreover, the children of Ammon went over Jordan to fight against Judah and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim: so that Israel was sore tormented. 10 Then the children of Israel 1cried unto the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, even because we have forsaken our own God, and have served Baal. 11 And the Lord 1said unto the children of Israel,

1 Then Gilead begat Jephthah, and Jephthah the Gileadite was 1a valiant man, but the son of an 2harlot. 2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons, and when the woman's children were come to age, they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house: for thou art the son of a 1strange woman. 3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of 1Tob: and there gathered idle fellows to Jephthah, and 2went out with him. 4 ¶ And in process of time, the children of Ammon made war with Israel. 5 And when the children of Ammon fought with Israel, the 1Elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

9:57 1 For making a tyrant their king. 10:1 1 Or, his uncle. 10:2 1 Or, governed. 10:4 1 Signifying, they were men of authority. 2 Or, the towns of Jair, as Deut. 3:14. 10:6 1 Or, Syrian. 10:7 1 Or, delivered. 10:8 1 As the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh. 10:10 1 They prayed to the Lord, and confessed their sins. 10:11 1 By stirring them up some prophets, as Judg. 6:8.

10:15 1 That is, from this present danger. 10:16 1 This is true repentance, to put away the evil, and to serve God aright. 2 Or, he pitied. 11:1 1 Hebrew, a man of mighty force. 2 Or, victualler. 11:2 1 That is, of an harlot as verse 1. 11:3 1 Where the governor of the country was called Tob. 2 Joined with him, as some think, against his brethren. 11:5 1 Or, ambassadors, sent for that purpose.

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6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our captain, that we may fight 1with the children of Ammon. 7 Jephthah then answered the Elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and 1expel me out of my father's house? how then come you unto me now in time of your tribulation? 8 Then the Elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. 9 And Jephthah said unto the Elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, if the Lord give them before me, shall I be your head? 10 And the Elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord 1be witness between us, if we do not according to thy words. 11 Then Jephthah went with the Elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah rehearsed all his words before the Lord in Mizpah. 12 ¶ Then Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me, to fight in my land? 13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, aBecause Israel took my land, when they came up from Egypt, from Arnon unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands 1quietly. 14 Yet Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon, 15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, bIsrael took not the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon. 16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the red sea, then they came to Kadesh. 17 cAnd Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, go through thy land: but the king of Edom would not consent: and also they sent unto the king of Moab, but he would not: therefore Israel abode in Kadesh. 18 Then they went through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the Eastside of the land of Moab, and

pitched on the other side of Arnon, dand came not within the coast of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab. 19 Also Israel esent messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, by thy land unto our 1place. 20 But Sihon 1consented not to Israel, that he should go through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought with Israel. 21 And the Lord God of Israel gave Sihon, and all his folk into the hands of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country: 22 And they possessed fall the coast of the Amorites, from Arnon unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan. 23 Now therefore the Lord God of Israel hath cast out the Amorites before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? 24 Wouldest not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the 1Lord our God driveth out before us, them will we possess. 25 gAnd art thou now far better than Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab? did he not strive with Israel and fight against them, 26 When Israel dwelt in Heshbon and in her towns, and in Aroer and in her towns, and in all the cities that are by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why did ye not then recover 1them in that space? 27 Wherefore I have not offended thee: but thou doest me wrong to war against me. The Lord the Judge 1be judge this day between the children of Israel, and the children of Ammon. 28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah, which he had sent him. 29 ¶ Then the 1Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over to Gilead, and to Manasseh, and came to Mizpah in Gilead, and from Mizpah in Gilead he went unto the children of Ammon. 30 And Jephthah 1vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

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a Num. 21:13

b Deut. 2:9

c Num. 20:14,20

d Num. 21:13

Num. 22:14

e Deut. 2:26

f Deut. 2:36

g Num. 22:2

Deut. 23:4 Josh. 24:9

11:6 1 Men oft times are constrained to desire help of them, whom before they have refused. 11:7 1 Oft times those things which men reject, God chooseth to do great enterprises by. 11:10 1 Hebrew, be the bearer. 11:13 1 Hebrew, in peace. 11:19 1 Or, country. 11:20 1 He trusted them not to go through his country. 11:24 1 For we ought more to believe and obey God, than thou

thine idols. 11:26 1 Meaning, their towns. 11:27 1 To punish the offender. 11:29 1 That is, the spirit of strength and zeal. 11:30 1 As the Apostle commendeth Jephthah for his worthy enterprise in delivering the people, Heb. 11:32, so by his rash vow and wicked performance of the same, his victory was defaced: and here we see that the sins of the godly do not utterly extinguish their faith.

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31 Then that thing that cometh out of the doors of mine house to meet me, when I come home in peace from the children of Ammon, shall be the Lord's, and I will offer it for a burnt offering. 32 And so Jephthah went unto the children of Ammon to fight against them, and the Lord delivered them into his hands. 33 And he smote them from Aroer even till thou come to Minnith, twenty cities, and so forth to 1Abel of the vineyards, with an exceeding great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were humbled before the children of Israel. 34 ¶ Now when Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with 1timbrels and dances, which was his only child: he had none other son, nor daughter. 35 And when he saw her, he 1rent his clothes, and said, Alas my daughter, thou hast brought me low, and art of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and cannot go back. 36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do with me as thou hast promised, seeing that the Lord hath avenged thee of thine enemies the children of Ammon. 37 Also she said unto her father, Do thus much for me: suffer me two months, that I may go to the mountains, and 1bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. 38 And he said, Go: and he sent her away two months: so she went with her companions, and lamented her virginity upon the mountains. 39 And after the end of two months, she turned again unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed, and she had known no man. And it was a custom in Israel: 40 The daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year. 12 6 Jephthah killeth two and forty thousand Ephraimites, 8 After Jephthah succeedeth Ibzan, 11 Elon, 13 and Abdon.

were at great strife with the children of Ammon, and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands. 3 So when I saw that ye delivered me not, 1I put my life in mine hands, and went upon the children of Ammon: so the Lord delivered them into mine hands. Wherefore then are ye come upon me now to fight against me? 4 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are runagates of Ephraim 1among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. 5 Also the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites, and when the Ephraimites that were escaped, said, Let me pass, then the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay, 6 Then said they unto him, Say now 1Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not so pronounce: then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites two and forty thousand. 7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years: then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead. 8 ¶ After him 1Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel, 9 Who had thirty sons and thirty daughters, which he sent out, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons: and he judged Israel seven years. 10 Then Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem. 11 ¶ And after him judged Israel Elon, a Zebu­ lunite, and he judged Israel ten years. 12 Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun. 13 ¶ And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. 14 And he had forty sons and thirty 1nephews that rode on seventy 2asscolts: and he judged Israel eight years. 15 Then died Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite, and was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites. 13 1 Israel for their wickedness is oppressed of the Philistines. 3 The Angel appeareth to Manoah's wife, 16 The Angel commandeth him to sacrifice unto the

1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went 1Northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore wentest thou to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call 2us to go with thee? we will therefore burn thine house upon thee with fire. 2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people

11:33 1 Or, the plain. 11:34 1 According to the manner after the victory. 11:35 1 Being overcome with blind zeal, and not considering whether the vow was lawful or no. 11:37 1 For it was counted as a shame in Israel, to die without chil­ dren, and therefore they rejoiced to be married. 12:1 1 After they had passed Jordan. 2 Thus ambition envieth God's work in others as they did also against Gideon, Judg. 8:1.

12:3 1 That is, I ventured my life, and when man's help failed, I put my trust only in God. 12:4 1 Ye ran from us, and chose Gilead, and now in respect of us, ye are nothing. 12:6 1 Which signifieth the fall of waters, or an ear of corn. 12:8 1 Some think that this was Boaz the husband of Ruth. 12:14 1 Hebrew, sons' sons. 2 Or, horse colts.

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13 And the Angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, The woman must beware of all that I said unto her. 14 She may eat of nothing that cometh of the vine tree: she shall not drink wine nor strong drink, nor eat any 1unclean thing: let her observe all that I have commanded her. 15 Manoah then said unto the Angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us retain thee, until we have made ready a kid for thee. 16 And the Angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou make me abide, I will not eat of thy bread, and if thou wilt make a burnt offering, offer it unto the 1Lord: for Manoah knew not that it was an Angel of the Lord. 17 Again Manoah said unto the Angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy saying is come to pass, we may honor thee? 18 And the Angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, which is 1secret? 19 Then Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a stone unto the Lord: and the Angel did 1wondrously, while Manoah and his wife looked on. 20 For when the flame came up toward heaven from the altar, the Angel of the Lord ascended up in the flame of the altar, and Manoah and his wife beheld it, and fell on their faces unto the ground. 21 (So the Angel of the Lord did no more appear unto Manoah and his wife.) Then Manoah knew that it was an Angel of the Lord. 22 And Manoah said unto his wife, dWe shall surely die, because we have seen God. 23 But his wife said unto him, If the Lord would kill us, he would not have received a 1burnt offering, and a meat offering of our hands, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would now have told us any such. 24 ¶ And the wife bore a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. 25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to 1strengthen him in the host of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. 14 2 Samson desireth to have a wife of the Philistines. 6 He killeth a lion. 12 He propoundeth

Lord. 24 The birth of Samson.

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a Judg. 2:11

1 But the children of Israel continued to commit awickedness in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years. 2 ¶ Then there was a man in Zorah of the family of the Danites named Manoah, whose wife was 1barren, and bare not. 3 And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. 4 And now therefore beware bthat thou drink no wine, nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing. 5 For lo, thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and no razor shall ccome on his head: for the child shall be a 1Nazirite unto God from his birth: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hands of the Philistines. 6 ¶ Then the wife came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and the fashion of him was like the fashion of the Angel of God exceedingly 1fearful, but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name, 7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and now thou shalt drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from his birth to the day of his death. 8 Then Manoah 1prayed to the Lord, and said, I pray thee, my Lord, let the man of God, whom thou sentest, come again now unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child when he is born. 9 And God heard the voice of Manoah, and the Angel of God came again unto the wife, as she sat in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her. 10 ¶ And the wife made haste and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me 1today. 11 And Manoah arose and went after his wife, and came to the 1man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? and he said, Yea. 12 Then Manoah said, Now let thy saying come to pass: but how shall we order the child and do unto him?

Judg. 3:7 Judg. 4:1 Judg. 6:1 Judg. 10:6

b Num. 6:2,3

c 1 Sam. 1:11

d Exod. 33:20

Judg. 6:22

13:2 1 Signifying, that their deliverance came only of God, and not by man's power. 13:5 1 Meaning, he should be separate from the world, and dedi­ cated to God. 13:6 1 If flesh be not able to abide the sight of an Angel, how much less the presence of God? 13:8 1 He showeth himself ready to obey God's will, and therefore desireth to know farther. 13:10 1 It seemth that the Angel appeared unto her twice in one day. 13:11 1 He calleth him man, because he so seemed, but he was Christ

the eternal word, which at his time appointed became man. 13:14 1 Anything forbidden by the Law. 13:16 1 Showing, that he sought not his own honor but God's, whose messenger he was. 13:18 1 Or, marvelous. 13:19 1 God sent fire from heaven to consume their sacrifice, to con­ firm their faith in his promise. 13:23 1 These graces that we have received of God, and his accept­ ing of our obedience, are sure tokens of his love toward us, so that nothing can hurt us. 13:25 1 Or, to come upon him at divers times.

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13 But if you cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they answered him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. 14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came meat, and out of the strong came sweetness: and they could not in three days expound the riddle. 15 And when the seventh day was 1come, they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thine husband that he may declare us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire. Have ye called us 2to possess us? is it not so? 16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Surely thou hatest me, and lovest me not: for thou hast put forth a riddle unto the 1children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee? 17 Then Samson's wife wept before him 1seven days, while their feast lasted, and when the seventh day came, he told her, because she was importunate upon him: so she told the riddle to the children of her people. 18 And the men of the city said unto him the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a Lion? Then said he unto them, 1If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. 19 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down 1to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them and spoiled them, and gave change of garments unto them, which expounded the riddle: and his wrath was kindled, and he went up to his father's house. 20 Then Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend. 15 4 Samson tieth firebrands to the foxes' tails. 6 The Philistines burnt his father-in-law and his wife. 15 With the jawbone of an ass he killeth a thousand men. 19 Out of a great tooth in the jaw God gave him water.

a riddle. 19 He killeth thirty. 20 His wife forsaketh him, and taketh another.

1 Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines, 2 And he came up and told his father and his mother and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore 1give me her to wife. 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there 1never a wife among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, that thou must go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Give me her, for she pleaseth me well. 4 But his father and his mother knew not that it came of the Lord, that he should seek an occasion against the 1Philistines: for at that time the Philistines reigned over Israel. 5 ¶ Then went Samson, and his father and his mother down to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared upon him. 6 And the Spirit of the Lord 1came upon him, and he tare him, as one should have rent a kid, and had nothing in his hand, neither told he his father nor his mother what he had done. 7 And he went down, and talked with the woman which was beautiful in the eyes of Samson. 8 ¶ And within a few days, when he returned 1to receive her, he went aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees, and honey in the body of the lion. 9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went eating, and came to his father and to his mother, and gave unto them, and they did eat: but he told not them, that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion. 10 So his father went down unto the woman, and Samson made there a 1feast: for so used the young men to do. 11 And when 1they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. 12 Then Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: and if you can declare it me within seven days of the feast, and find it out, I will give you thirty sheets, and thirty 1change of garments.

1 But within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a kid, saying, I will 1go in to my wife into the chamber: but her father would not suffer him to go in. 2 And her father said, I thought that thou hadst hated her: therefore gave I her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I

14:2 1 Hebrew, take her for me to wife. 14:3 1 Though his parents did justly reprove him, yet it appeareth that this was the secret work of the Lord, verse 4. 14:4 1 To fight against them for the deliverance of Israel. 14:6 1 Whereby he had strength and boldness. 14:8 1 Or, to take her to his wife. 14:10 1 Meaning, when he was married. 14:11 1 That is, her parents or friends.

14:12 1 To wear at feasts, or solemn days. 14:15 1 Or, drew near: for it was the fourth day. 2 Or, to impoverish us. 14:16 1 Unto them which are of my nation. 14:17 1 Or, to the seventh day beginning at the fourth. 14:18 1 If ye had not used the help of my wife. 14:19 1 Which was one of the five chief cities of the Philistines. 15:1 1 That is, I will use her as my wife.

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pray thee, instead of the other. 3 Then Samson said unto them, Now am I more 1blameless than the Philistines: therefore will I do them displeasure. 4 ¶ And Samson went out, and took three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned them tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. 5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he sent them out into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the 1ricks and the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives. 6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson the son-in-law of the 1Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. Then the Philistines came up and 2burnt her and her father with fire. 7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and then I will cease. 8 So he smote them 1hip and thigh with a mighty plague: then he went and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. 9 ¶ Then the Philistines came up, and pitched in Judah, and 1were spread abroad in Lehi. 10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up unto us? And they answered, To 1bind Samson are we come up, and to do to him as he hath done to us. 11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? 1Wherefore then hast thou done thus unto us? And he answered them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them. 12 Again they said unto him, We are come to bind thee, and to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. 13 And they answered him, saying, No, but we will bind thee and 1deliver thee unto their hand, but we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock. 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms, became as flax that was burnt with fire: for the bands loosed from his hands.

15 And he found a 1new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hands, and caught it, and slew a thousand men therewith. 16 Then Samson said, With the jaw of an ass are heaps upon heaps: with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. 17 And when he had left speaking, he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place, 1Ramath Lehi. 18 And he was sore athirst, and 1called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? 19 Then God brake the cheek tooth, that was in the jaw, and water came there out: and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he was revived: wherefore the name thereof is called, 1En Hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. 16 3 Samson carrieth away the gates of Gaza. 18 He was deceived by Delilah. 30 He pulleth down the house upon the Philistines, and dieth with them.

1 Then went Samson to 1Gaza, and saw there 2an harlot, 3and went in unto her. 2 And it was told to the Gazites, Samson is come hither. And they went about, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, Abide 1till the morning early, and we shall kill him. 3 And Samson slept till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gates of the city and the two posts, and lifted them away with the bars, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron. 4 And after this he loved a woman by the 1river of Sorek, whose name was Delilah: 5 Unto whom came the princes of the Philistines, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may overcome him, that we may bind him, and punish him, and every one of us shall give thee eleven hundred 1shekels of silver.

15:3 1 For through his father-in-law's occasion, he was moved again to take vengeance of the Philistines. 15:5 1 Or, that which was reaped and gathered. 15:6 1 Or, the citizen of Timnath. 2 So the wicked punish not vice for love of justice, but for fear of danger, which else might come to them. 15:8 1 Or, horsemen and footmen. 15:9 1 Or, camped. 15:10 1 And so being our prisoner to punish him. 15:11 1 Such was their gross ignorance, that they judged God's great benefits to be a plague unto them. 15:13 1 Thus they had rather betray their brother, than use the

means that God had given for their deliverance. 15:15 1 That is, of an ass lately slain. 15:17 1 Or, the lifting up of the jaw. 15:18 1 Whereby appeareth that he did these things in faith, and so with a true zeal to glorify God, and deliver his country. 15:19 1 Or, the fountain of him that prayed. 16:1 1 One of the five chief cities of the Philistines. 2 Or, victualler. 3 That is, he lodged with her. 16:2 1 Or, to the light of the morning. 16:4 1 Or, plain. 16:5 1 Of the value of a shekel, read Gen. 23:15.

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6 ¶ And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound, to do thee hurt. 7 Samson then answered unto her, If they bind me with seven 1green cords, that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. 8 And the princes of the Philistines brought her seven green cords that were not dry, and she bound him therewith. 9 (And she had 1men lying in wait with her in the chamber) Then she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the cords, as a thread of tow is broken, when 2it feeleth fire: so his strength was not known. 10 ¶ After Delilah said unto Samson, See, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. I pray thee now, 1tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. 11 Then he answered her, If they bind me with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. 12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson: (and men lay in wait in the chamber) and he brake them from his arms, as a thread. 13 ¶ Afterward Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto thou hast beguiled me, and told me lies: tell me how thou mightest be bound. 1And he said unto her, If thou plattedst seven locks of mine head with the threads of the woof. 14 And she fastened it with a pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and went away with the 1pin of the web, and the woof. 15 Again she said unto him, How canst thou say, 1I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. 16 And because she was importunate upon him with her words continually, and vexed him, his soul was pained unto the death. 17 Therefore he told her all his 1heart, and said unto her, There never came razor upon mine head: for I am a Nazirite unto God from my mother's womb: therefore if I be shaven, my strength will go from me, and I shall be weak and be like all other men.

18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent, and called for the Princes of the Philistines, saying, Come up once again: for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the Princes of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought the money in their hands. 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees, and she called a man, and made him to shave off the seven locks of his head, and she began to vex him, and his strength was gone 1from him. 20 Then she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and thought, I will go out now as at other times, and shake myself, but he knew not that the Lord was departed from him. 21 Therefore the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters: and he did grind in the prison house. 22 And the hair of his head began to 1grow again after that it was shaven. 23 Then the Princes of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hands. 24 Also when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy and destroyer of our country, which hath slain many of us. 25 And when their hearts were merry, they said, Call Samson, that he may make us pastime: So they called Samson out of the prison house, and he 1was a laughing stock unto them, and they set him between the pillars. 26 Then Samson said unto the servant that led him by the hand, Lead me, that I may touch the pillars that the house standeth upon, and that I may lean to them. 27 (Now the house was full of men and women, and there were all the princes of the Philistines: also upon the roof were about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson 1played) 28 Then Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, I pray thee, think upon me: O God, I beseech thee, strengthen me at this time only, that I may be 1at once 2avenged of the Philistines for my

16:7 1 Or, new withes. 16:9 1 Certain Philistines in a secret chamber. 2 When fire cometh near it. 16:10 1 Though her falsehood tended to make him lose his life, yet his affection so blinded him, that he could not beware. 16:13 1 It is impossible if we give place to our wicked affections, but at length we shall be destroyed. 16:14 1 Or, beam. 16:15 1 For this Samson used to say, I love thee. 16:17 1 Thus his immoderate affections toward a wicked woman caused him to lose God's excellent gifts, and become slave unto

them whom he should have ruled. 16:19 1 Not for the loss of his hair, but for the contempt of the ordi­ nance of God, which was the cause that God departed from him. 16:22 1 Yet had he not his strength again, till he had called upon God, and reconciled himself. 16:25 1 Thus by God's just judgments they are made slaves to infi­ dels which neglect their vocation in defending the faithful. 16:27 1 Or, was mocked. 16:28 1 Hebrew, take one vengeance. 2 According to my vocation which is to execute God's judgments upon the wicked.

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two eyes. 29 And Samson laid hold on the two middle pillars whereupon the house stood, and on which it was borne up: on the one with his right hand, and on the other with his left. 30 Then said Samson, 1Let me lose my life with the Philistines: and he bowed him with all his might, and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people that were therein: so the dead which he slew at his death, were more than they which he had slain in his life. 31 Then his brethren, and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the sepulcher of Manoah his father: now he had judged Israel twenty years. 17 3 Micah's mother according to her vow, made her son two idols. 5 He made his son a Priest for his idols, 10 and after he hired a Levite.

Judah, 1of the family of Judah: who was a Levite, and sojourned there. 8 And the man departed out of the city, even out of Bethlehem Judah, to dwell where he could find a place: and as he journeyed, he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah. 9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And the Levite answered him, 1I come from Bethlehem Judah, and go to dwell where I may find a place. 10 Then Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a Priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by year, and a suit of apparel, and thy meat and drink. So the Levite went in. 11 And the Levite was 1content to dwell with the man, and the young man was unto him as one of his own sons. 12 And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man was his Priest, and was in the house of Micah. 13 Then said Micah, Now I know that the Lord will be 1good unto me, seeing I have a Levite to my Priest. 18 2 The children of Dan send men to search the land. 11 Then come the six hundred and take the gods, and the Priest of Micah away. 27 They destroy Laish, 28 They build it again. 30 And set up Idolatry.

chapter 17

a Judg. 8:27

b Gen. 31:19

Hos. 3:4

c Judg. 21:25

1 There 1was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah, 2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, for the which thou cursedst, and spakedst it, even in mine hearing, behold, the silver is with me, I took it. Then his mother said, Blessed be my son of the Lord. 3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had dedicate the silver to the Lord of mine hand for my son, to make 1a graven and molten image. Now therefore I will give it thee again. 4 And when he had restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, which made thereof a graven and molten image, and it was in the house of Micah. 5 And this man Micah had an house of gods, and made an a,1Ephod, and b,2Teraphim, and 3consecrated one of his sons, who was his Priest. 6 cIn those days there was no 1King in Israel, but every man did that which was good in his own eyes. 7 ¶ There was also a young man out of Bethlehem

1 In those days there was no 1king in Israel, and at the same time the tribe of Dan sought them an inheritance to dwell in: for unto that time all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 2 Therefore the children of Dan sent of their family, five men out of their coasts, even men expert in war, out of Zorah and Eshtaol, to view the land and search it out, and said unto them, 1Go, and search out the land. Then they came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah and lodged there. 3 When they were in the house of Micah, they knew the 1voice of the young man the Levite: and being turned in thither, they said unto him, Who brought thee hither? or what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou to do here?

16:30 1 He speaketh not this of despair, but humbling himself for neglecting his office and the offence thereby given. 17:1 1 Some think this history was in the time of Othniel, or as Jose­ phus writeth, immediately after Joshua. 17:3 1 Contrary to the commandment of God and true religion prac­ ticed under Joshua, they forsook the Lord and fell to idolatry. 17:5 1 He would serve both God and Idols. 2 By Teraphim some understand certain idols, having the likeness of a man, but others understand thereby all manner of things and instruments belonging unto those, who sought for any answer at God's hands, as Judg. 18:5,6. 3 Hebrew, filled the hand of one. 17:6 1 For where there is no Magistrate fearing God, there can be no

true religion or order. 17:7 1 Which Bethlehem was in the tribe of Judah. 17:9 1 For in those days the service of God was corrupt in all estates, and the Levites were not looked unto. 17:11 1 Not considering that he forsook the true worshipping of God for to maintain his own belly. 17:13 1 Thus the idolaters persuade themselves of God's favor, when indeed he doth detest them. 18:1 1 Meaning, no ordinary Magistrate to punish vice according to God's word. 18:2 1 For the portion which Joshua gave them, was not sufficient for all their tribe. 18:3 1 They knew him by his speech that he was a stranger there.

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4 And he answered them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his Priest. 5 Again they said unto him, Ask counsel now of God, that we may know whether the way which we go, shall be prosperous. 6 And the Priest said unto them, 1Go in peace: for the Lord guideth your way which ye go. 7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, which dwelt careless, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and sure, because no man 1made any trouble in the land, or usurped any dominion: also they were far from the Sidonians, and had no business with other men. 8 ¶ So they came again unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What have ye done? 9 And they answered, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and surely it is very good, and 1do ye sit still? be not slothful to go and enter to possess the land: 10 (If ye will go, ye shall come unto a careless people, and the country is large) for God hath given it into your hand. It is a place which doth lack nothing that is in the world. 11 ¶ Then there departed thence of the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with instruments of war. 12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath Jearim in Judah: wherefore they called that place 1Mahaneh Dan unto this day: and it is behind Kirjath Jearim. 13 And they went thence unto mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah. 14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren,

image: and the Priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war. 18 And the other went into Micah's house, and fet the graven image, the Ephod and the Teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the Priest unto them, What do ye? 19 And they answered him, Hold thy peace: lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and come with us to be our father and Priest. Whether is it better that thou shouldest be a Priest unto the house of one man, or that thou shouldest be a Priest unto a tribe and to a family in Israel? 20 And the Priest's heart was glad, and he took the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the graven image, and went among the 1people. 21 And they turned and departed, and put the children, and the cattle, and the substance 1before them. 22 ¶ When they were far off from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house, gathered together, and pursued after the children of Dan, 23 And cried unto the children of Dan: who turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee that thou makest an outcry? 24 And he said, Ye have taken away my 1gods, which I made, and the Priest, and go your ways: and what have I more? how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee? 25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest 1angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life with the lives of thine household. 26 So the children of Dan went their ways: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house. 27 And they took the 1things which Micah had made, and the Priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a quiet people, and without mistrust, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire: 28 And there was none to 1help, because 2Laish was far from Sidon, and they had no business with other men: also it was in the valley that lieth by Beth Rehob. After, they built the city, and dwelt therein, 29 aAnd called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, which was born unto

chapter 18

a Josh. 19:47

1Know ye not, that there is in these houses an Ephod, and Teraphim, and a graven and a molten image? Now therefore consider what ye have to do. 15 And they turned thitherward and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him peaceably. 16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate. 17 Then the five men that went to spy out the land, went in thither, and took the 1graven image and the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the molten

18:6 1 Thus God granteth the idolaters sometime their requests to their destruction that delight in errors. 18:7 1 Hebrew, made them ashamed. 18:9 1 Lose ye this good occasion through your slothfulness? 18:12 1 Or, the tents of Dan. 18:14 1 Because they before had had good success, they would that their brethren should be encouraged by hearing the same tidings. 18:17 1 So superstition blinded them that they thought God's power

was in these idols, and that they should have good success by them, though by violence and robbery they did take them away. 18:20 1 With the six hundred men. 18:21 1 Suspecting them that did pursue them. 18:24 1 This declareth what opinion the idolaters have of their idols. 18:25 1 Hebrew, who have their heart bitter. 18:27 1 Meaning, the idols, as verse 18. 18:28 1 Or, deliver them. 2 Which after was called Cesarea Philippi.

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Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the beginning. 30 Then the children of Dan set them up the 1graven image: and Jonathan the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, and his sons were the Priests in the tribe of the Danites, until the day of the 2captivity of the land. 31 So they set them up the graven image, which Micah had made, all the while the house of God was in Shiloh. 19 1 A Levite's wife being an harlot forsook her husband, and he took her again. 25 At Gibeah she was most villainously abused to the death. 29 The Levite cutteth her in pieces, and sendeth her to the twelve tribes.

and the young woman's father said, 1Comfort thine heart, I pray thee: and they tarried until after midday, and they both did eat. 9 Afterward when the man arose to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the young woman's father said unto him, Behold now, the day 1draweth toward even: I pray you, tarry all night: behold, the 2sun goeth to rest: lodge here, that thine heart may be merry, and tomorrow get you early upon your way, and go to the 3tent. 10 But the man would not tarry, but arose, and departed, and came over against Jebus, (which is Jerusalem) and his two asses laden, and his concubine were with him. 11 When they were near Jebus, the day 1was sore spent, and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn unto this city of the Jebusites, and lodge all night there. 12 And his master answered him, 1We will not turn into the city of strangers that are not of the children of Israel, but we will go forth to Gibeah. 13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places, that we may lodge in Gibeah or in Ramah. 14 So they went forward upon their way, and the Sun went down upon them near to Gibeah, which is in Benjamin. 15 ¶ Then they turned thither to go in and lodge in Gibeah: and when he came, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that 1took them into his house to lodging. 16 And behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, and the man was of mount Ephraim, but dwelt in Gibeah: and the men of the place were the children of 1Jemini. 17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a

chapter 19

a Judg. 17:6

Judg. 18:1

Gen. 25:6

1 Also in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, and took to wife a aconcubine out of Bethlehem Judah, 2 And his concubine played the whore 1there, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and there continued the space of four months. 3 And her husband arose and went after her, to speak 1friendly unto her, and to bring her again: he had also his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him unto her father's house, and when the young woman's father saw him, he rejoiced 2of his coming. 4 And his father-in-law, the young woman's father received him: and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there. 5 ¶ And when the fourth day came, they arose early in the morning, and 1he prepared to depart: then the young woman's father said unto his son-in-law, 2Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and then go your way. 6 So they sat down and did eat and drink, both of them together. And the 1young woman's father said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry. 7 And when the man rose up to depart, his father-in-law 1was earnest: therefore he returned, and lodged there. 8 And he arose up early the fifth day to depart,

1wayfaring man in the streets of the city: then this old man said, Whither goest thou, and whence camest thou? 18 And he answered him, We came from Bethlehem Judah, unto the side of mount Ephraim: from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehem Judah, and go now to the 1house of the Lord: and no man receiveth me to house, 19 Although we have straw and provender for

18:30 1 Thus instead of giving glory to God, they attributed the vic­ tory to their idols, and honored them therefore. 2 That is, till the Ark was taken, 1 Sam. 5:1. 19:2 1 Hebrew, besides him, to wit, with others. 19:3 1 Hebrew, to her heart. 2 Or, at his meeting. 19:5 1 Hebrew, rose up. 2 Or, strengthen. 19:6 1 That is, his concubine's father. 19:7 1 Or, compelled him. 19:8 1 Meaning, that he should refresh himself with meat, as verse 5.

19:9 1 Hebrew, is weak. 2 Or, the day lodgeth. 3 To wit, to the town or city where he dwelt. 19:11 1 Or, went down. 19:12 1 Though in these days there were most horrible corruptions, yet very necessity could not compel them, to have to do with them that professed not the true God. 19:15 1 Or gathered them. 19:16 1 That is, of the tribe of Benjamin. 19:17 1 Or, a man walking. 19:18 1 To Shiloh of Mizpah where the Ark was.

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our asses, and also bread and wine for me and thine handmaid, and for the boy that is with thy servant: we lack nothing. 20 And the old man said, 1Peace be with thee: as for all that thou lackest, shalt thou find with me: only abide not in the street all night. 21 ¶ So he brought him into his house, and gave fodder unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink. 22 And as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, 1wicked men beset the house round about, and 2smote at the door, and spake to this old man the master of the house, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house that we may know him. 23 And bthis man the master of the house went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay my brethren, do not so wickedly, I pray you, seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this villainy. 24 Behold, here is my daughter, a virgin, and his concubine: them will I bring out now, 1and humble them, and do with them what seemeth you good: but to this man do not this villainy. 25 But the men would not hearken to him: therefore the man took his concubine, and brought her out unto them: and they knew her and abused her all the night unto the morning and when the day began to spring, they let her go. 26 So the woman came in the dawning of the day, and 1fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till the light day. 27 And her 1lord arose in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way, and behold, the woman his concubine was 2dead at the door of the house, and her hands lay upon the threshold. 28 And he said unto her, up, and let us go: but she answered not. Then he took her up upon the ass, and the man rose up, and went unto his 1place. 29 And when he was come to his house, he took a knife and laid hand on his concubine, and divided her in pieces with her bones into twelve parts, and sent her through all quarters of Israel. 30 And all that saw it, said, There was no 1such thing done or seen since the time that the children of Israel came up from the land of Egypt unto this day:

consider the matter, consult and give sentence. 20 1 The Israelites assemble at Mizpah, to whom the Levite declareth his wrong. 13 They sent for them that aid the villain. 45 The Israelites are twice overcome, 46 And at length get the victory.

b Gen. 19:6

chapter 20

a Hos. 10:9

1 Then aall the children of Israel went out, and the Congregation was gathered together as 1one man, from Dan to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the 2Lord in Mizpah. 2 And the 1chief of all the people, and all the tribes of Israel assembled in the Congregation of the people of God four hundred thousand footmen that 2drew sword. 3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpah) Then, the children of Israel 1said, How is this wickedness committed? 4 And the same Levite, the woman's husband that was slain, answered and said, I came unto Gibeah that is in Benjamin with my concubine to lodge, 5 And the 1men of Gibeah arose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, thinking to have slain me, and have forced my concubine that she is dead. 6 Then I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent 1her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed abomination and villainy in Israel. 7 Behold, ye are all children of Israel, give your advice, and counsel herein. 8 Then all the people arose as one man, saying, There shall not a man of us go to his tent, neither any turn into his 1house. 9 But now this is that thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up by lot against it. 10 And we will take ten men of the hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of the thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand to bring 1victual for the people, that they may do (when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin) according to all the villainy, that it hath done in Israel. 11 ¶ So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. 12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all

19:20 1 Or, be of good comfort. 19:22 1 Hebrew, men of Belial, that is, given to all wickedness. 2 To the intent they might break it. 19:24 1 That is, abuse them, as Gen. 19:8. 19:26 1 She fell down dead, as verse 27. 19:27 1 Or, husband. 2 Or, fallen. 19:28 1 Meaning, home unto mount Ephraim. 19:30 1 For this was like the sin of Sodom for the which God rained down fire and brimstone from heaven.

20:1 1 That is, all with one consent. 2 To ask counsel. 20:2 1 Hebrew, corners. 2 Meaning, men able to handle their weapons. 20:3 1 To the Levite. 20:5 1 Or, chief, or lord. 20:6 1 That is, her pieces, to every tribe a piece, Judg. 19:29. 20:8 1 Before we have revenged this wickedness. 20:10 1 These only should have the charge to provide for vittles for the rest.

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the 1tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is committed among you? 13 Now therefore deliver us those wicked men which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel: but the children of Benjamin 1would not obey the voice of their brethren the children of Israel. 14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to come out and fight against the children of Israel. 15 ¶ And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time, out of the cities, six and twenty thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. 16 Of all this people were seven hundred chosen men, being bleft handed: all these could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not fail. 17 ¶ Also the men of Israel beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword, even all men of war. 18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up 1to the house of God, and asked of God, saying, Which of us shall go up first to fight against the children of Benjamin? and the Lord said, Judah shall be first. 19 Then the children of Israel arose up early and camped against Gibeah. 20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them beside Gibeah. 21 And the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and slew down to the ground of the Israelites that day 1two and twenty thousand men. 22 And the people, the men of Israel plucked up their hearts, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put them in array the first day. 23 (For the children of Israel had gone up and wept before the Lord unto the evening, and had asked of the Lord, saying, Shall I go again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brethren? and the Lord said, Go up against them.) 24 ¶ Then the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. 25 Also the second day Benjamin came forth to meet them out of Gibeah, and slew down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men: 1all they could handle the sword.

26 Then all the children of Israel went up, and all the people came also unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day unto the evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. 27 And the children of Israel asked the Lord (for 1there was the Ark of the Covenant of God in those days, 28 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron 1stood before it at that time) saying, Shall I yet go anymore to battle against the children of Benjamin my brethren, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up: for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand. 29 And Israel set men to lie in wait roundabout Gibeah. 30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. 31 Then the children of Benjamin coming out against the people, were 1drawn from the city: and they began to smite of the people and kill as at other times, even by the ways in the field (whereof one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah) upon a thirty men of Israel. 32 (For the children of Benjamin said, They are fallen before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee and pluck them away from the city unto the 1highways.) 33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the men that lay in wait of the Israelites came forth of their place, even out of the meadows of Geba, 34 And they came over against Gibeah, ten thousand chosen men of all Israel, and the battle was sore: for they knew not that the 1evil was near them. 35 ¶ And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel, and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites the same day five and twenty thousand and an hundred men: all they could handle the sword. 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were stricken down: for the men of Israel 1gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted to the men that lay in wait, which they had laid beside Gibeah. 37 And they that lay in wait hasted, and brake forth toward Gibeah, and the ambushment 1drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the

b Judg. 3:15

20:12 1 That is, every family of the tribe. 20:13 1 Because they would not suffer the wicked to be punished, they declared themselves to maintain them in their evil, and there­ fore were all justly punished. 20:18 1 That is, to the Ark, which was in Shiloh some think in Mizpah, as verse 1. 20:21 1 This God permitted, because the Israelites partly in their strength, and partly God would by this means punish their sins. 20:25 1 All they drawing the sword.

20:27 1 To wit, in Shiloh. 20:28 1 Or, served in the Priest's office at those days: for the Jews write, that he lived three hundred years. 20:31 1 By the policy of the children of Israel. 20:32 1 Meaning, crossways or paths to divers places. 20:34 1 They knew not that God's judgment was at hand to destroy them. 20:36 1 Retired to draw them after. 20:37 1 Or, made a long sound with a trumpet.

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edge of the sword. 38 Also the men of Israel had appointed a certain time with the ambushments, that they should make a great flame and smoke arise up out of the city. 39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to 1smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are stricken down before us, as in the first battle. 40 But when the flame began to rise out of the city as a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked back, and behold, the flame of the city began to ascend up to heaven. 41 Then the men of Israel turned 1again, and the men of Benjamin were astonished: for they saw that evil was near unto them. 42 Therefore they fled before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them: also they which came out of the cities, slew them 1among them. 43 Thus they compassed the Benjamites about, and 1chased them at ease, and overran them, even over against Gibeah on the East side. 44 And there were slain of Benjamin eighteen thousand men, which were all men of war. 45 And they turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and the Israelites 1gleaned of them by the way five thousand men, and pursued after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them, 46 So that all that were slain that day of Benjamin, were 1five and twenty thousand men that drew sword, which were all men of war. 47 cBut six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months. 48 Then the men of Israel turned unto the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, from the men of the city unto the beasts, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the 1cities that they could come by. 21 1 The Israelites swear that they will not marry their daughters to the Benjamites. 10 They slay them of Jabeth Gilead, and give their virgins to the Benjamites. 21 The Benjamites take the daughters of Shiloh.

saying, None of us shall give his daughter unto the Benjamites to wife. 2 And the people came unto the house of God and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept with great lamentation, 3 And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that this day one tribe of Israel should want? 4 ¶ And on the morrow the people rose up and made there an 1altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 5 Then the children of Israel said, Who is he among all the tribes of Israel, that came not up with the Congregation unto the Lord? for they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, Let him die the death. 6 And the children of Israel 1were sorry for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. 7 How shall we do for wives to them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord, that we will not give them of our daughters to wives? 8 Also they said, is there any of the tribes of Israel that 1came not up to Mizpah to the Lord? and behold, there came none of Jabesh Gilead unto the host, and to the Congregation. 9 For when the people were viewed, behold, none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there. 10 Therefore the Congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the 1most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, both women and children. 11 aAnd this is it that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy all the males, and all the women that have lain by men. 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred maids, virgins that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the host to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. 13 ¶ Then the whole Congregation 1sent and spake with the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and called 2peaceably unto them: 14 And Benjamin came again at that time, and

c Judg. 21:13

chapter 21

a Num. 31:17

1 Moreover, the men of Israel 1sware in Mizpah,

20:39 1 For they were waxen hardy by the two former victories. 20:41 1 And withstood their enemies. 20:42 1 For they were compassed in on every side. 20:43 1 Or, drove them from their rest. 20:45 1 They slew them by one and one, as they were scattered abroad. 20:46 1 Besides eleven hundred that had been slain in the former battles. 20:48 1 If they belonged to the Benjamites. 21:1 1 This oath came of rashness, and not of judgment: for after they brake it, in showing secretly the means to marry with certain

of their daughters. 21:4 1 According to their custom, when they would consult with the Lord. 21:6 1 Or, repented that they had destroyed their brethren, as appeareth verse 15. 21:8 1 Condemning them to be favors of vice, which would not put their hand to punish it. 21:10 1 Hebrew, children of strength. 21:13 1 To wit, about four months after the discomfiture, Judg. 20:47. 2 Or, friendly.

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they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: but they had not 1so enough for them. 15 And the people were sorry for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. 16 Therefore the Elders of the Congregation said, How shall we do for wives to the remnant? for the women of Benjamin are destroyed. 17 And they said, There must be 1an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. 18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin. 19 Therefore they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord every year in Shiloh, in a place, which is on the 1North side of Bethel, and on the East side of the way that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the South of Lebonah. 20 Therefore they commanded the children of Ben-

jamin, saying, Go, and lie in wait in the vineyards. 21 And when ye see that the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go into the land of Benjamin. 22 And 1when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, we will say unto them, Have pity on them for our sakes, because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war, and because ye have not given unto them hitherto, ye have sinned. 23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took wives of them that danced according to their 1number: which they took, and went away, and returned to their inheritance, and repaired the cities and dwelt in them. 24 So the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe, and to his family, and went out from thence every man to his inheritance. 25 bIn those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was good in his eyes.

b Judg. 17:6

Judg. 13:1 Judg. 19:1

21:14 1 For there lacked two hundred. 21:17 1 Benjamin must be reserved to have the twelfth portion in the inheritance of Jacob. 21:19 1 He describeth the place where the maids used yearly to dance as the manner then was, and to sing Psalms and songs of God's

works among them. 21:22 1 Though they thought hereby to persuade men that they kept their oath, yet before God it was broken. 21:23 1 Meaning, two hundred.

T h e b o o k o f

R u t h

1 1 Elimelech goeth with his wife and children into the land of Moab. 3 He and his sons die. 19 Naomi and Ruth come to Bethlehem.

what cause will ye go with me? are there any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? 12 Turn again my daughters: go your way: for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, and if I had an husband this night: yea, and if I had borne sons, 13 Would ye tarry for them, till they were of age? would ye be deferred for them from taking of husbands? nay my daughters: for it grieveth me 1much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me. 14 Then they lift up their voice and wept again, and Orpah 1kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth abode still with her. 15 And Naomi said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: 1return thou after thy sister-in-law. 16 And Ruth answered, Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to depart from thee: for whither thou goest, I will go: and where thou dwellest, I will dwell: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. 17 ¶ Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if ought but death depart thee and me. 18 ¶ When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left speaking unto her. 19 So they went both until they came to Bethlehem: and when they were come to Bethlehem, it was 1noised of them through all the city, and they said, Is not this Naomi? 20 And she answered them, Call me not 1Naomi, but call me 2Mara: for the Almighty hath given me much bitterness. 21 I went out full, and the Lord hath caused me to return empty: why call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath humbled me, and the Almighty hath brought me unto adversity? 22 So Naomi returned and Ruth the Moabitess

1 In the time that the Judges 1ruled, there was a dearth in the 2land, and a man of Bethlehem 3Judah went for to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. 2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi, and the names of his two sons, Mahlon, and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah: and when they came into the land of Moab, they continued there. 3 Then Elimelech the husband of Naomi died, and she remained with her two sons, 4 Which took them wives of the 1Moabites: the one's name was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. 5 And Mahlon and Chilion dieth also both twain: so the woman was left, destitute of her two sons, and of her husband. 6 ¶ Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, and returned from the country of Moab: for she had heard say in the country of Moab, that the Lord had 1visited his people, and given them bread. 7 Wherefore she departed out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on their way to return unto the land of Judah. 8 Then Naomi said unto her two daughters-inlaw, Go, return each of you unto her own mother's house: the Lord show favor unto you, as ye have done with the dead, and with me. 9 The Lord grant you, that you may find 1rest, either of you in the house of her husband. And when she kissed them, they lift up their voice and wept. 10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. 11 But Naomi said, Turn again my daughters: for

1:1 1 Hebrew, judged. 2 In the land of Canaan. 3 In the tribe of Judah, which was also called Bethlehem Ephrathah, because there was another city so called in the tribe of Zebulun. 1:4 1 By this wonderful providence of God Ruth became one of God's household, of whom Christ came. 1:6 1 By sending them plenty again. 1:9 1 Hereby it appeareth that Naomi by dwelling among idolaters, was waxen cold in the true zeal of God, which rather hath respect to

the ease of the body, than to the comfort of the soul. 1:13 1 Or, more than you. 1:14 1 When she took leave and departed. 1:15 1 No persuasions can prevail to turn them back from God, whom he hath chosen to be his. 1:19 1 Whereby appeareth that she was of a great family of good reputation. 1:20 1 Or, beautiful. 2 Or, bitter.

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her daughter-in-law with her, when she came out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of 1barley harvest. 2 2 Ruth gathered corn in the fields of Boaz. 8 The gentleness of Boaz toward her.

the land where thou wast born, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not in time past. 12 The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose 1wings thou art come to trust. 13 Then she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord: for thou hast comforted me, and spoken comfortably unto thy maid, though I be not like to one of thy maids. 14 And Boaz said unto her, At the meal time come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers, and he reached her parched corn: and she did eat, and was sufficed, and 1left thereof. 15 ¶ And when she arose to glean, Boaz commanded his servants, saying, Let her gather among the sheaves, and do not rebuke her. 16 Also let fall some of the sheaves for her, and let it lie, that she may gather it up, and rebuke her not. 17 So she gleaned in the field until evening, and she threshed that she had gathered, and it was about an aEphah of barley. 18 ¶ And she took it up, and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gathered: Also she 1took forth, and gave to her that which she had reserved, when she was sufficed. 19 Then her mother-in-law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned today? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he, that knew thee. And she showed her mother-in-law, with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought today, is Boaz. 20 And Naomi said unto her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of the Lord: for he ceaseth not to do good to the living and to the 1dead. Again Naomi said unto her, The man is near unto us, and of our affinity. 21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said also certainly unto me, Thou shalt be with my servants, until they have ended all mine harvest. 22 And Naomi answered unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is best, my daughter, that thou go out with his maids, that they 1meet thee not in another field. 23 Then she kept her by the maids of Boaz, to gather unto the end of barley harvest, and of wheat harvest, and 1dwelt with her mother-in-law.

chapter 2

a Exod. 16:36

1 Then Naomi's husband had a kinsman, one of great 1power of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. 2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, I pray thee, let me go to the field, and 1gather ears of corn after him, in whose sight I find favor. And she said unto her, Go my daughter. 3 ¶ And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and it came to pass, that she met with the portion of the field of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. 4 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you: and they answered him, The Lord bless thee. 5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was appointed over the reapers, Whose maid is this? 6 And the servant that was appointed over the reapers, answered, and said, It is the Moabitish maid, that came with Naomi out of the country of Moab: 7 And she said unto us, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers 1among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued from that time in the morning unto now, save that she tarried a little in the house. 8 ¶ Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou, my daughter? go to none other field to gather, neither go from hence: but abide here by my maidens. 9 1Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after the maidens. Have I not charged the servants, that they touch thee not? Moreover when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the servants hath drawn. 10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, How have I found favor in thine eyes, that thou shouldest know me, seeing I am a 1stranger? 11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, All is told and showed me that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law, since the death of thine husband, and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and

1:22 1 Which was in the month Nisan, that containeth part of March and part of April. 2:1 1 Both for virtue, authority, and riches. 2:2 1 This her humility declareth her great affection toward her mother-in-law, forasmuch as she spareth no painful diligence to get both their livings. 2:7 1 Or, certain handfuls. 2:9 1 That is, take heed in what field they do reap.

2:10 1 Even of the Moabites, which are enemies to God's people. 2:12 1 Signifying, that she shall never want anything, if she put her trust in God, and live under his protection. 2:14 1 Which she brought home to her mother-in-law. 2:18 1 To wit, of her bag, as is in the Chaldea text. 2:20 1 To my husband and children, when they were alive, and now to us. 2:22 1 Or, fall upon thee. 2:23 1 Or, returned to her mother-in-law.

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and she arose before one could know another: for he said, Let no man know, that a woman came into the floor. 15 Also he said, Bring the 1sheet that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid them on her, and she went into the city. 16 And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, 1Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her, 17 And said, These six measures of barley gave he me: for he said to me, Thou shalt not come empty unto thy mother-in-law. 18 Then said she, My daughter, sit still, until thou know how the thing will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he hath finished the matter this same day. 4 1 Boaz speaketh to Ruth's next kinsman touching her marriage. 7 The ancient custom in Israel. 10 Boaz marrieth Ruth, of whom he begetteth Obed. 18 The generation of Perez.

1 Afterward Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her, My daughter, shall not I seek 1rest for thee, that thou mayest prosper? 2 Now also is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maids thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley tonight in the 1floor. 3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: let not the 1man know of thee, until he have left eating and drinking. 4 And when he shall sleep, mark the place where he layeth him down, and go, and uncover the place of his feet, and lay thee down, and he shall tell thee what thou shalt do. 5 And she answered her, All that thou biddest me, I will do. 6 ¶ So she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her. 7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunken, and 1cheered his heart, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn, and she came softly, and uncovered the place of his feet, and lay down. 8 And at midnight the man was afraid 1and caught hold: and lo, a woman lay at his feet. 9 Then he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore the wing of thy garment over thine handmaid: for thou art the kinsman. 10 Then he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: thou hast 1showed more goodness in the latter end, than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, were they poor or rich. 11 And now, my daughter, fear not: I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman. 12 And now, it is true that I am thy kinsman, howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. 13 Tarry tonight, and when morning is come, if he 1will do the duty of a kinsman unto thee, well, let him do the kinsman's duty: but if he will not do the kinsman's part, then will I do the duty of a kinsman, as the Lord liveth: sleep until the morning. 14 ¶ And she lay at his feet until the morning:

1 Then went Boaz up to the 1gate, and sat there, and behold, the kinsman, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by: and he said, 2Ho, such one, come, sit down here. And he turned, and sat down. 2 Then he took ten men of the Elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. 3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, will sell a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's. 4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the 1assistants, and before the Elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, tell me: for I know that there is none 2besides thee to redeem it, and I am after thee. Then he answered, I will redeem it. 5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must also buy it of Ruth the Moabitess the wife of the dead, to stir up the name of the dead, upon his 1inheritance. 6 And the kinsman answered, I cannot redeem it, lest I destroy mine own inheritance: redeem my right to thee, for I can not redeem it. 7 Now this was the manner beforetime in Israel, concerning redeeming and changing for to stablish

3:1 1 Meaning, that she would provide her of an husband, with whom she might live quietly. 3:2 1 Or, in the barn. 3:3 1 Boaz, nor yet any other. 3:7 1 That is, had refreshed himself among his servants. 3:8 1 Or, turned himself from one side to another. 3:10 1 Thou showest thyself from time to time more virtuous. 3:13 1 If he will take thee to be his wife by the title of affinity, accord­ ing to God's law, Deut. 25:5.

3:15 1 Or, mantle. 3:16 1 Perceiving by her coming home, that he had not taken her to his wife, she was astonied. 4:1 1 Which was the place of judgment. 2 The Hebrews here use two words which have no proper signification, but serve to note a certain person, as we say, Ho sirrah, or ho such a one. 4:4 1 Or, inhabitants. 2 For thou art the next of the kin. 4:5 1 That his inheritance might bear his name that is dead.

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all things: a man did pluck off his shoe, and gave it his neighbor: and this was a sure 1witness in Israel. 8 Therefore the kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for thee: and he drew off his shoe. 9 And Boaz said unto the Elders and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. 10 And moreover, Ruth the Moabitess the wife of Mahlon, have I bought to be my wife, to stir up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, and that the name of the dead be not put out from among his brethren, and from the gate of his 1place: ye are witnesses this day. 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the Elders said, We are witnesses: the Lord make the wife that cometh into thine house, like Rachel and like Leah, which twain did build the house of Israel: and that thou mayest do worthily in 1Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 And that thine house be like the house of Perez (awhom Tamar bare unto Judah) of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman. 13 ¶ So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife:

and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave that she conceived, and bare a son. 14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, and 1his name shall be continued in Israel. 15 And this shall bring thy life again, and cherish thine old age: for thy daughter-in-law which loveth thee, hath borne unto him, and she is better to thee than 1seven sons. 16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her lap, and became nurse unto it. 17 And the women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a child born to Naomi, and called the name thereof Obed: the same was the father of Jesse, the father of David. 18 ¶ These now are the generations of b,1Perez: Perez begat Hezron, 19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, 20 And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, 21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, 22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

chapter 4

a Gen. 38:29

b 1 Chron. 2:4

Matt. 1:3

4:7 1 That he had resigned his right, Deut. 25:9. 4:10 1 Or, of the city where he remained. 4:11 1 Ephrathah and Bethlehem are both one. 4:14 1 He shall leave continual posterity.

4:15 1 Meaning, many sons. 4:18 1 This genealogy is brought in, to prove that David by succes­ sion came of the house of Judah.

T h e F i r s t b o o k

o f S a m u e l

1 1 The genealogy of Elkanah father of Samuel. 2 His two wives. 5 Hannah was barren, and prayed to the Lord. 15 Her answer to Eli. 20 Samuel is born. 24 She doth dedicate him to the Lord.

unto the Lord, and wept sore: 11 Also she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look on the trouble of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but give unto thine handmaid a man-child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, band there shall no razor come upon his head. 12 And as she continued praying before the Lord, Eli marked her mouth. 13 For Hannah spake in her heart: her lips did move only, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. 14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? Put away thy 1drunkenness from thee. 15 Then Hannah answered and said, Nay my lord, but I am a woman 1troubled in spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have cpoured out my soul before the Lord. 16 Count not thine handmaid 1for a wicked woman: for of the abundance of my complaint and my grief have I spoken hitherto. 17 Then Eli answered, and said, Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant thy petition that thou hast asked of him. 18 She said again, Let thine handmaid find 1grace in thy sight: so the woman went her way, and did eat, and looked no more sad. 19 ¶ Then they rose up early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. Now Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord 1remembered her. 20 For in process of time Hannah conceived and bare a son, and she called his name Samuel, Because, said she, I have asked him of the Lord. 21 ¶ So the man 1Elkanah and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice and his vow: 22 But Hannah went not up: for she said unto

chapter 1

a Deut. 16:16

b Num. 6:5

Judg. 13:5

c Ps. 42:5

1 There was a man of one of the two 1Ramathaim Zophim, of mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 2 And he had two wives: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. 3 aAnd this man went up out of his city every year, to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in 1Shiloh, where were the two sons of Eli, Hophni, and Phinehas, Priests of the Lord. 4 And on a day, when Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters portions, 5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy 1portion: for he loved Hannah, and the Lord had made her barren. 6 ¶ And her adversary vexed her sore, forasmuch as she upbraided her, because the Lord had made her barren. 7 (And so did he year by year) and as oft as she went up to the house of the Lord, thus she vexed her, that she wept and did not eat. 8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thine heart troubled? am not I better to thee than ten 1sons? 9 So Hannah rose up after that they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh (and Eli the Priest sat upon a stool by one of the posts of the 1Temple of the Lord) 10 And she was troubled in her mind, and prayed

1:1 1 There were two Ramatus, so that in this city in mount Ephraim were Zophim, that is, the learned men and Prophets. 1:3 1 For the Ark was there at that time. 1:5 1 Some read, a portion with an hearty cheer. 1:8 1 Let this suffice thee, that I love thee no less, than if thou hadst many children. 1:9 1 That is of the house where the Ark was.

1:14 1 Hebrew, thy wine. 1:15 1 Hebrew, of an hard spirit. 1:16 1 Hebrew, for a daughter of Belial. 1:18 1 That is, pray unto the Lord for me. 1:19 1 According to her petition. 1:21 1 This Elkanah was a Levite, 1 Chron. 6:27, and as some write once a year they accustomed to appear before the Lord with their families.

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her husband, I will tarry until the child be weaned, then I will bring him that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide forever. 23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee best: tarry until thou hast weaned him: only the Lord accomplish his 1word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him. 24 ¶ And when she had weaned him, she took him with her with three bullocks and an Ephah of flour and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh, and the child was 1young. 25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli. 26 And she said, Oh my Lord, as thy 1soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood with thee here praying unto the Lord. 27 I prayed for this child, and the Lord hath given me my desire which I asked of him. 28 Therefore also I have 1given him unto the Lord: as long as he liveth he shall be given unto the Lord: and he 2worshipped the Lord there. 2 1 The song of Hannah. 12 The sons of Eli, wicked. 13 The new custom of the Priests. 18 Samuel ministereth before the Lord. 20 Eli blesseth Elkanah and his wife. 23 Eli reproveth his sons. 27 God sendeth a Prophet to Eli. 31 Eli is menaced for not chastising his children.

and the hungry are no more hired, so that the barren hath borne 2seven: and she that had many children is feeble. 6 aThe Lord killeth and maketh alive: bringeth down to the grave and raiseth up. 7 The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich: bringeth low, and exalteth. 8 bHe raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among 1princes, and to make them inherit the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the 2Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them. 9 He will keep the feet of his Saints, and the wicked shall keep silence in darkness: for in his own might shall no man be strong. 10 The Lord's adversaries shall be destroyed, and out of heaven shall he cthunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the world, and shall give power unto his 1King, and exalt the horn of his Anointed. 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house, and the child did minister unto the 1Lord before Eli the Priest. 12 ¶ Now the sons of Eli were wicked men, and 1knew not the Lord. 13 For the Priest's custom toward the people was this: when any man offered sacrifice, the Priest's 1boy came, while the flesh was seething, and a fleshhook with three teeth in his hand, 14 And thrust it into the kettle, or into the caldron, or into the pan, or into the pot: 1all that the fleshhook brought up, the Priest took for himself: thus they did unto all the Israelites, that came thither to Shiloh. 15 Yea, before they burnt the 1fat, the Priest's boy came and said unto the man that offered, Give me flesh to roast for the Priest: for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. 16 And if any man said unto him, Let them burn the fat according to the 1custom, then take as much as thine heart 2desireth: then he would answer, No, but thou shalt give it now: and if thou wilt not, I will take it by force. 17 Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men 1abhorred the offering

chapter 2

a Deut. 32:39

b Ps. 113:7

c 1 Sam. 7:10

1 And Hannah 1prayed, and said, Mine heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine 2horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is 3enlarged over mine enemies, because I rejoice in thy salvation. 2 There is none holy as the Lord: yea, there is none besides thee, and there is no god like our God. 3 Speak 1no more presumptuously: let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him enterprises are established. 4 The bow and the mighty men are broken, and the weak have girded themselves with strength. 5 They that were full, are hired forth for 1bread,

1:23 1 Because her prayer took effect, therefore it was called the Lord's promise. 1:24 1 Hebrew, a child. 1:26 1 That is, most certainly. 1:28 1 Hebrew, lent. 2 Meaning, Eli gave thanks to God for her. 2:1 1 After that she had obtained a son by prayer, she gave thanks. 2 I have recovered strength and glory by the benefit of the Lord. 3 I can answer them that reprove my barrenness. 2:3 1 In that ye condemn my barrenness, ye show your pride against God. 2:5 1 They sell their labors for necessary food. 2 Or, many.

2:8 1 He prefereth to honor, and putteth down according to his own will, though man's judgment be contrary. 2 Therefore he may dispose all things according to his will. 2:10 1 She grounded her prayer on Jesus Christ which was to come. 2:11 1 In all that Eli commanded him. 2:12 1 That is, they neglected his ordinance. 2:13 1 Or, son. 2:14 1 Transgressing the order appointed in the Law, Lev. 7:31, for their belly's sake. 2:15 1 Which was commanded first to have been offered to God. 2:16 1 Or, Law. 2 Not passing for their own profit, so that God might be served aright. 2:17 1 Seeing the horrible abuse thereof.

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of the Lord. 18 ¶ Now Samuel being a young child ministered before the Lord, girded with a linen dEphod. 19 And his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband, to offer the yearly sacrifice. 20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord give thee seed of this woman, for 1the petition that she asked of the Lord: and they departed unto their place. 21 And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons, and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord. 22 ¶ So Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how they lay with the women that 1assembled at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for of all this people I hear evil reports of you. 24 Do no more, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, which is, that ye make the Lord's people to 1trespass. 25 If one man sin against another, the Judge shall judge it: but if a man sin against the Lord, who will plead for him? Notwithstanding they obeyed not the voice of their father, because the Lord 1would slay them. 26 ¶ (Now the child Samuel profited, and grew, and was in favor both with the Lord and also with men.) 27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Did not I plainly appear unto the house of thy 1father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house? 28 And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my Priest, to offer upon my altar, and to burn incense, and to wear an Ephod before me, and eI gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel. 29 Wherefore have you 1kicked against my sacrifice and mine offering, which I commanded in my Tabernacle, and honorest thy children above me, to make yourselves fat of the firstfruits of all the offerings of Israel my people?

30 Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said, that thine house, and the house of thy father should walk before me forever: but now the Lord saith, 1It shall not be so: for them that honor me, I will honor, and they that despise me, shall be despised. 31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine 1arm, and the arm of thy fathers house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house. 32 And thou 1shalt see thine enemy in the habitation of the Lord in all things wherewith God shall bless Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thine house forever. 33 Nevertheless, I will not destroy every one of thine from mine altar, to make thine eyes to fail, and to make thine heart sorrowful: and all the multitude of thine house shall 1die when they be men 34 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both. 35 And I will stir me up a 1faithful Priest, that shall do according to mine heart, and according to my mind: and I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before mine Anointed forever. 36 And all that are left in thine house, shall come and 1bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Appoint me, I pray thee, to one of the Priest's offices, that I may eat a morsel [of] bread. 3 1 There was no manifest vision in the time of Eli. 4 The Lord calleth Samuel three times, 11 And showeth what shall come upon Eli and his house. 18 The same declareth Samuel to Eli.

d Exod. 28:4

e Lev. 10:14

1 Now the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord 1before Eli: and the word of the Lord was 2precious in those days: for there was no manifest vision. 2 And at that time, as Eli lay in his 1place, his eyes began to wax dim that he could not see. 3 And yer the 1light of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the Lord, where the Ark of God was. 4 Then the Lord 1called Samuel: and he said, Here I am. 5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I, for

2:20 1 Or, for the thing that she hath lent to the Lord: to wit, Samuel. 2:22 1 Which was (as the Hebrews write) after their travail, when they came to be purified, read Exod. 38:8; Lev. 12:6. 2:24 1 Because they contemn their duty to God, verse 17. 2:25 1 So that to obey good admonitions is God's mercy, and to dis­ obey them is his just judgment for sin. 2:27 1 To wit, Aaron. 2:29 1 Why have you contemned my sacrifices, and as it were trod them under foot? 2:30 1 God's promises are only effectual to such as he giveth con­ stancy unto, to fear and obey him. 2:31 1 Thy power and authority.

2:32 1 Thy posterity shall see the glory of the chief Priest translated to another, whom they shall envy, 1 Kings 2:27. 2:33 1 Or, when they come to man's age. 2:35 1 Meaning Zadok, who succeeded Abiathar, and was the figure of Christ. 2:36 1 That is, shall be inferior unto him. 3:1 1 The Chaldea text readeth, while Eli lived. 2 Because there were very few Prophets to declare it. 3:2 1 In the Court next to the Tabernacle. 3:3 1 That is, the lamps which burnt in the night. 3:4 1 Josephus writeth that Samuel was 12 years old, when the Lord appeared to him.

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thou calledst me. But he said, I called thee not: go again and sleep. And he went and slept. 6 And the Lord called once again, Samuel. And Samuel arose, and went to Eli, and said, I am here: for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called thee not my son: go again and sleep. 7 Thus did Samuel, before he knew 1the Lord, and before the word of the Lord was revealed unto him. 8 And the Lord called Samuel again the third time: and he arose, and went to Eli, and said, I am here: for thou hast called me. Then Eli 1perceived that the Lord had called the child. 9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go and sleep: and if he call thee, then say, Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went, and slept in his place. 10 ¶ And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak, for thy servant heareth. 11 ¶ Then the Lord said unto Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, whereof whosoever shall hear, his two aears shall 1tingle. 12 In that day I will raise up against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. 13 And I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knoweth, because his sons ran into a slander, and he stayed them not. 14 Now therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the wickedness of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering 1forever. 15 Afterward Samuel slept until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and Samuel feared to show Eli the vision. 16 ¶ Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel my son. And he answered, Here I am. 17 Then he said, What is it, that the Lord said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me. God 1do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide anything from me, of all that he said unto thee. 18 So Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. Then he said, It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good. 19 ¶ And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and let none of his words 1fall to the ground.

20 And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew 1that faithful Samuel was the Lord's Prophet. 21 And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh: for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by 1his word. 4 1 Israel is overcome by the Philistines. 4 They do set the Ark, wherefore the Philistines do fear. 10 The Ark of the Lord is taken. 11 Eli and his children die. 19 The death of the wife of Phinehas the son of Eli.

chapter 3

a 2 Kings 21:12

1 And Samuel spake unto all Israel: 1and Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside 2Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek. 2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined the battle, Israel was smitten down before the Philistines: who slew of the army in the field about four thousand men. 3 So when the people were come into the camp, the Elders of Israel said, 1Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us this day before the Philistines? let us bring the Ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies. 4 Then the people sent to Shiloh, and brought from thence the Ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who 1dwelleth between the Cherubims: and there were the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, with the Ark of the covenant of God. 5 And when the Ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the host, all Israel shouted a mighty shout, so that the earth rang again. 6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the sound of this mighty shout in the host of the Hebrews? and they understood, that the Ark of the Lord was come into the host. 7 And the Philistines were afraid, and said, God is come in the host: therefore said they, 1Woe unto us: for it hath not been so heretofore. 8 Woe unto us, who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the 1wilderness.

3:7 1 By vision. 3:8 1 Such was the corruption of those times that the chief Priest was become dull and negligent to understand the Lord's appearing. 3:11 1 God declareth what sudden fear shall come upon men, when they shall hear that the Ark is taken, and also see Eli's house destroyed. 3:14 1 Meaning that his posterity should never enjoy the chief Priest's office. 3:17 1 God punish thee after this and that sort, except thou tell me truth, Ruth 1:17. 3:19 1 The Lord accomplished whatsoever he had said. 3:20 1 Or, that Samuel was the faithful Prophet of the Lord.

3:21 1 Hebrew, by the word of the Lord. 4:1 1 From the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt, unto the time of Samuel, are about 397 years. 2 Or, stone of help, 1 Sam. 7:12. 4:3 1 For it may seem that this war was undertaken by Samuel's com­ mandment. 4:4 1 For he used to appear to the Israelites between the cherubim over the Ark of the covenant, Exod. 25:17. 4:7 1 Before we fought against men, and now God is come to fight against us. 4:8 1 For in the red sea in the wilderness the Egyptians were destroyed, which was the last of all his plagues.

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and her husband. 22 She said again, 1The glory is departed from Israel: for the Ark of God is taken. 5 2 The Philistines bring the Ark into the house of Dagon, which idol fell down before it. 6 The men of Ashdod are plagued. 8 The Ark is carried into Gath, and after to Ekron.

9 Be strong and play the men, O Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, aas they have served you: be valiant therefore, and fight. 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten down, and fled every man into his tent: and there was an exceeding great slaughter, for there fell of Israel 1thirty thousand footmen. 11 And the Ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas died. 12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes 1rent, and earth upon his head. 13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside, waiting: for his heart 1feared for the Ark of God: and when the man came into the city to tell it, all the city cried out. 14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth this noise of the tumult? and the man came in hastily, and told Eli. 15 (Now Eli was fourscore and eighteen years old, and bhis eyes were dim that he could not see.) 16 And the man said unto Eli, I came from the army, and I fled this day out of the host: and he said, What thing is done, my son? 17 Then the messenger answered, and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people: and moreover thy two sons, Hophni and Phinehas 1are dead, and the Ark of God is taken. 18 ¶ And when he had made mention of the Ark of God, Eli fell from his seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died: for he was an old man and heavy: and he had 1judged Israel forty years. 19 And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near 1her travail: and when she heard the report that the Ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she 2bowed herself, and travailed: for her pains came upon her. 20 And about the time of her death, the women that stood about her, said unto her, Fear not: for thou hast borne a son: but she answered not, nor regarded it. 21 And she named the child 1Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel, because the Ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law

chapter 4

a Judg. 13:1

b 1 Sam. 3:2

chapter 5

a Ps. 78:66

1 Then the Philistines took the Ark of God and carried it from Ebenezer unto 1Ashdod, 2 Even the Philistines took the Ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by 1Dagon. 3 And when they of Ashdod rose the next day in the morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face on the ground before the Ark of the Lord, and they took up Dagon, and set him in his place again. 4 Also they rose up early in the morning the next day, and behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face on the ground before the Ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and the two palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold: only the stump of Dagon was left to him. 5 Therefore the Priests of Dagon, and all that come into Dagon's house, 1tread not on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, unto this day. 6 But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and destroyed them, and smote them with the aemerods, both Ashdod, and the coasts thereof. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw this, they said, Let not the Ark of the God of Israel abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us and upon Dagon our god. 8 They sent therefore, and gathered all the princes of the Philistines unto them, and said, 1What shall we do with the Ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the Ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath: and they carried the Ark of the God of Israel about. 9 And when they had carried it about, the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction, and he smote the men of the city both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. 10 ¶ Therefore they sent the Ark of God to Ekron: and as soon as the Ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought the Ark

4:10 1 David alluding to this place, Ps. 78:63, saith they were con­ sumed with fire: meaning they were suddenly destroyed. 4:12 1 In token of sorrow and mourning. 4:13 1 Lest it should be taken of the enemies. 4:17 1 According as God had afore said. 4:18 1 Or, governed. 4:19 1 Or, to cry out. 2 And settled her body toward her travail. 4:21 1 Or, No glory, or where is the glory?

4:22 1 She uttered her great sorrow by repeating her words. 5:1 1 Which was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines. 5:2 1 Which was their chief idol, and as some write, from the navel downward was like a fish, and upward like a man. 5:5 1 Thus instead of acknowledging the true God by this miracle, they fall to a further superstition. 5:8 1 Though they had felt God's power, and were afraid thereof, yet they would further try him, which thing God turned to their destruc­ tion and his glory.

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of the God of Israel to us to slay us and our people. 11 Therefore they sent, and gathered together all the princes of the Philistines, and said, Send 1away the Ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to his own place, that it slay us not and our people: for there was a destruction and death throughout all the city, and the hand of God was very sore there. 12 And the men that died not, were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven. 6 1 The time that the Ark was with the Philistines, which they sent again with a gift. 12 It cometh to Beth She­ mesh. 17 The Philistines offer golden emerods. 19 The men of Beth Shemesh are stricken for looking into the Ark.

for a sin offering in a coffer by the side thereof, and send it away, that it may go. 9 And take heed, if it go up by the way of his own coast to Beth Shemesh, it is 1he that did us this great evil: but if not, we shall know then, that it is not his hand that smote us, but it was a 2chance that happened us. 10 And the men did so: for they took two kine that gave milk, and tied them to the cart, and shut the calves at home. 11 So they set the Ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold, and with the similitudes of their emerods. 12 And the kine went the straight way to Beth Shemesh, and kept one path, and lowed as they went, and turned neither to the right hand nor to the left: also the princes of the Philistines went after 1them unto the borders of Beth Shemesh. 13 Now they of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, and they lift up their eyes, and spied the Ark, and rejoiced when they saw it. 14 ¶ And the cart came into the field of Joshua a Beth Shemite, and stood still there. There was also a great stone, and 1they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine for a burnt offering unto the Lord. 15 And the Levites took down the Ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone, and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offering, and sacrificed sacrifices that same day unto the Lord. 16 And when the five princes of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day. 17 ¶ So these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines gave for a sin offering to the Lord: for 1Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, and for Ekron one, 18 And golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, belonging to the five princes, both of walled towns, and of towns unwalled unto the great stone of 1Abel, whereon they set the Ark of the Lord: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua the Beth Shemite. 19 And he smote of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they 1had looked in the Ark of the Lord: he slew even among the people fifty thousand men and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had slain the people with so great

chapter 6

a Exod. 12:31

1 So the Ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines 1seven months. 2 And the Philistines called the Priests and the Soothsayers, saying, What shall we do with the Ark of the Lord? tell us wherewith we shall send it home again. 3 And they said, If you send away the Ark of the God of Israel, send it not away empty, but give unto it 1a sin offering: then shall ye be healed, and it shall be known to you, why his hand departeth not from you. 4 Then said they, What shall be the sin offering, which we shall give unto it? And they answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the princes of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your princes. 5 Wherefore ye shall make the similitudes of your emerods, and the similitudes of your mice that destroy the land: so ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel, that he may take his hand from you, and from your 1gods, and from your land. 6 Wherefore then should ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts, when he wrought wonderfully among them, adid they not let them go, and they departed? 7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on whom there hath come no yoke: and tie the kine to the cart, and bring the calves home from them. 8 Then take the Ark of the Lord, and set it upon the cart, and put the 1jewels of gold which ye give it

5:11 1 The wicked when they feel the hand of God, grudge and reject him, where the godly humble themselves, and cry for mercy. 6:1 1 They thought by continuance of time the plague would have ceased, and so would have kept the Ark still. 6:3 1 The idolaters confess there is a true God, who justifieth sin justly. 6:5 1 This is God's judgment upon the idolaters, that knowing the true God, they worship him not aright. 6:8 1 Meaning, the golden emerods and the golden mice. 6:9 1 The God of Israel.

2 The wicked attribute almost all things to fortune and chance, whereas indeed there is nothing done without God's providence and decree. 6:12 1 For the trial of the matter. 6:14 1 To wit, the men of Beth Shemesh, which was Israelites. 6:17 1 These were the five principal cities of the Philistines, which were not all conquered unto the time of David. 6:18 1 Or, the plaint, or lamentation. 6:19 1 For it was not lawful to any either to touch or to see it, save only to Aaron and his sons, Num. 4:15, 20.

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