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Judges
Judges is the seventh book of the Old Testament, a twenty-one-chapter historical book recounting the stories of the "judges" who led Israel from the death of Joshua until the establishment of the monarchy.
Articles 265, showing 6
- Judges of IsraelBible
The judges were leaders whom God raised up after the death of Joshua and before Saul became king to deliver Israel from foreign enemies and to govern the people. They appear chiefly in the Book of Judges.
- Judges 2Bible
Judges 2 records the Angel of the LORD rebuking Israel's disobedience at Bochim and describes the apostasy of the generation that arose after Joshua's death. It then summarizes the recurring pattern of the period of the judges: sin, oppression, crying out, and deliverance through judges.
- Judges 3Bible
Judges 3 introduces the nations the LORD left to test Israel, then recounts the stories of Othniel, the first judge; Ehud, who killed King Eglon of Moab; and Shamgar, who struck down the Philistines.
- Judges 1Bible
Judges 1 records, tribe by tribe, Israel's battles to take possession of the land of Canaan after the death of Joshua. The tribe of Judah gained a number of places, while several tribes failed to drive out the Canaanites completely.
- Judges 4Bible
Judges 4 recounts how, under the oppression of the Canaanite king Jabin and his army commander Sisera, the prophetess and judge Deborah commissions Barak to deliver Israel, and how Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, kills Sisera.
Verses in the King James Version 57, showing 6
- Exodus 21:6
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
- Exodus 21:22
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
- Exodus 22:8
If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods.
- Exodus 22:9
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
- Numbers 25:5
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal–peor.
- Deuteronomy 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
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