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• Romans 2

  Romans 2 declares that those who judge others, as well as Jews who possess the law, cannot escape God's righteous judgment, and it teaches that the true Jew and true circumcision are matters of the heart.

• Joash (Father of Gideon)

  Joash was a member of the Abiezrite clan of the tribe of Manasseh who appears in the Book of Judges as the father of the judge Gideon. He kept an altar of Baal at Ophrah, yet when Gideon tore that altar down, he protected his son from the men of the town.

• Barak

  Barak was an Israelite military leader in the period of the judges who, at the summons of the prophetess Deborah, defeated Sisera, the commander of the army of the Canaanite king Jabin. He appears in Judges 4–5 and is named among the people of faith in Hebrews 11.

• Sisera

  Sisera was the commander of the army of Jabin, the Canaanite king who oppressed Israel during the period of the judges. In Judges 4–5 he is defeated by the Israelite forces led by Deborah and Barak, and while fleeing he is killed by Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite.

• Bochim

  Bochim is a place mentioned in Judges 2:1-5. Its name, meaning "weepers," arose because the people of Israel lifted up their voices and wept there after being rebuked by the angel of the LORD.

• Delilah

  Delilah is a woman in Judges 16 who agreed to take silver from the lords of the Philistines, discovered the secret of Samson's strength, and brought about his capture.

• Heber the Kenite

  Heber was a Kenite who appears in Judges 4–5. A descendant of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, he was the husband of Jael, who killed the Canaanite commander Sisera.

• Jotham's Fable

  Jotham's Fable is the story recorded in Judges 9:7-21 that Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon, told the men of Shechem from the top of Mount Gerizim. In it the trees seek to anoint a king for themselves; the useful trees decline, and only the bramble offers to become king.

• Micah's Idol

  Micah's idol refers to an episode recorded in Judges 17–18. The Ephraimite Micah made an idol for his household and established a private priesthood, both of which the tribe of Dan seized and installed at its new settlement, Dan.

• Micah (Ephraimite)

  Micah was a man from the hill country of Ephraim who appears in Judges 17–18. He kept a graven image and a shrine in his house and hired a Levite as his priest, but the migrating tribe of Dan took both the image and the priest from him.

• Adoni-bezek

  Adoni-bezek was a Canaanite king of Bezek who appears in Judges 1. Defeated by the tribes of Judah and Simeon, he had his thumbs and great toes cut off, and he confessed that God had repaid him for what he had done to other kings.

• Gaal

  Gaal, the son of Ebed, appears in Judges 9. He incited the men of Shechem to rise against Abimelech but was defeated in battle and driven out of Shechem.

• Purah

  Purah was Gideon's servant in the Old Testament Book of Judges. On the night before the battle against Midian, he went down with Gideon close to the enemy camp and overheard what the soldiers there were saying (Judges 7:10-11).

• Zebul

  Zebul is a figure in Judges 9 who served as the official (ruler) in charge of the city of Shechem during Abimelech's rule. He secretly informed Abimelech of Gaal's rebellion and drove Gaal out of the city.

• Luke 18:1

  A verse in which Luke states the purpose of the parable of the unjust judge and the widow before Jesus tells it. Because of its exhortation that "men ought always to pray, and not to faint," it is frequently cited in teaching on persistent prayer.

• Psalm 58:3

  A verse in Psalm 58 that indicts unjust rulers and judges and declares that the wicked go astray from birth. It is frequently cited in support of the doctrine of original sin, and interpreters debate whether it should be read as a statement about all people or as a poetic description of particular wicked individuals.

• Jael

  Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, appears in Judges 4–5. She killed Sisera, the Canaanite commander who was fighting against Israel, in her tent, and the Song of Deborah praises her as one who shall be "blessed above women."

• Spring of Harod

  The Spring of Harod is the spring beside which the judge Gideon encamped with his army before fighting the Midianites (Judges 7:1). There he sent home those who were afraid and selected three hundred men by the way they drank water.

• Luke 18

  Luke 18 contains two parables about prayer (the unjust judge, and the Pharisee and the tax collector), Jesus' blessing of little children, his conversation with a rich ruler, a prediction of his passion, and the healing of a blind man near Jericho.

• Lapidoth

  Lapidoth is a figure in the Old Testament book of Judges and the husband of Deborah, the prophetess and judge. He is mentioned by name only once in the Bible, in Judges 4:4.