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1 Israel asks the Lord who should fight the Canaanites
2 Judah chosen
3 Judah asks Simeon; they go up. Lord delivers Canaanites and Perrizites
5 King of Bezek captured, thumbs and great toes cut off.
8 Judah takes Jerusalem, burns it
9 Judah goes against Canaanites in mountain, south and valley
10 Judah goes against Canaanites in Hebron
11 Caleb gives Achsah his daughter to Othniel to wife for taking Debir
14 Acsah given upper and lower springs by Caleb
16 Kenites go up to dwell with Judah
17 Judah and Simeon destroy Zepath, rename it Hormah
18 Judah takes Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron
19 Judah could not drive out inhabitants of valley
20 Caleb given Hebron; he expels Anak
21 Benjamin did not drive out Jebusite
22 Joseph goes up against Beth-el
27 Inhabitants that Manasseh did not drive out
28 Canaanites put to tribute
29 Inhabitants that Ephraim did not drive out
30 Inhabitants that Zebulun did not drive out
31 Inhabitants that Asher did not drive out
33 Inhabitants that SNaphtali did not drive out
34 Amorites force Dan into the mountain
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1 Angel of the Lord upbraids Israel for not fulfilling commandments
4 Israel weeps, name the place Bochim, sacrifice there
6 Joshua let people go
7 Israel served Lord all Joshua's days and those who knew Lord's works
8 Joshua dies. His age and burial place
10 That generation dies. Another rises that serves Baal and Ashtaroth
14 Lord delivers them into the hands of spoilers
16 Lord raised up judges who delivered them. They would not hearken
18 Lord would raise judges. When he died, they corrupted themselves
20 In his anger, the Lord would not drive out any left after Joshua died to prove Israel
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1 Nations the Lord left to prove Israel
5 Israel lived among them, intermarried, served their gods
8 Lord gives them into hands of king of Mesopotamia eight years
9 Othniel raised to deliver them forty years
12 Israel did evil, served king of Moab fourteen years
15 Ehud raised to deliver them
16 Makes a dagger, conceals it
17 Brings a present to king of Moab
18 Present bearers are sent away
20 Ehud tells king he has a secret, kings attendants sent away
21 Ehud approaches king, stabs him
23 Ehud goes out, closes and locks doors
24 Servants wait, find king dead. Ehud escapes
27 Ehud calls Ephraim
28 They follow him, subdue Moab. Rest eighty years
31 Shamgar delivers Israel
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1 Israel did evil after Ehud died
2 Lord sold them to king of Canaan
4 Deborah judged Israel
6 Lord calls Barak to lead Naphtali and Zebulun to Kishon
8 Barak requests Deborah accompany him
10 Barak called Naphtali and Zebulun to Kishon
11 Heber shows Sisera that Barak has gone to Tabor
13 Sisera gathers chariots and people to Kishon
14 Deborah tells Barak. He goes down Tabor
15 Lord discomfits Sisera before Barak, Sisera flees
16 Barak pursues, host of Sisera falls
17 Sisera fled to tent of Jael
18 Jael invites him in, gives him drink, kills him in his sleep
22 Jael meets Barak, shows him Sisera's body
23 God subdued king of Canaan before Israel
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1 Song of Deborah and Barak
31 Land rests forty years
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1 Israel did evil; Lord delivered them to Midian
2 Israel made dens, caves, and strongholds
3 Israel sows, Midianites came up and destroyed increase
7 Israel cried to the Lord
8 Lord sends a prophet upbraiding them
11 Angel sat under a tree; Gideon threshed by the winepress
12 Angel greets Gideon
13 Gideon inquiry
14 Lord sends Gideon to save Israel from the Midianites
15 Gideon's doubt
16 Lord's reassurance
17 Gideon asked for a sign
19 Gideon made ready food, presented it
20 Food consumed in fire
22 Gideon astonished. Lord reassured him
24 Gideon built an altar
25 Lord commanded Gideon to throw down altar and grove of Baal, build altar and offer on it
27 Gideon took men, fulfilled command at night
28 Men of city inquire, demand Gideon be brought to die
31 Joash challenged them
32 Gideon called Jerubbaal
33 Midianites, Amalekites gather in Jezreel
34 Gideon gathered Abi-ezer, Manasseh, Asher, and Zebulun
36 Gideon asked fleece be wet, floor be dry
39 Gideon asked fleece be dry, ground be wet
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1 Gideon and people pitched beside Harod
2 Lord said there were too many. Fearful were sent away
4 Lord said there were too many, tried them at the water
5 People who lapped water from hands separated from those who bowed on knees
7 Three hundred who lapped water chosen, rest sent home
9 Lord sent Gideon down to Midianite camp to hear
12 Gideon and servant went down and heard dream and interpretation
15 Gideon worshipped, returned, and woke men
16 Gideon divided men into companies, gave them trumpets and lamps within pitchers
17 Gideon instructed men to follow his example
19 Gideon and men came outside camp during change of watch
20 Companies blew trumpets, broke pitchers and held up lamps
22 Lord set Midianites against themselves, they fled to Tabbath
23 Israel pursued Midianites
24 Gideon sent to Ephraim, they gather and took waters
25 Ephraim took two Midianite princes, brought their heads to Gideon
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1 Gideon answers Ephraim's discontent
4 Gideon pursues kings of Midian
5 Succoth refuses assistance. Gideon's threat
8 Penuel refuses assistance. Gideon's threat
10 Gideon discomfits two kings of Midian
13 Gideon returns to Succoth, fufills threat
17 Gideon fulfills threat against Penuel
18 Gideon slays two kings of Midian
22 Israel desires Gideon to rule
24 Gideon's given earrings of prey
27 Gideon makes an ephod of it
28 Israel subdued Midian, lives quietly forty years
29 Gideon's wives and children. He dies
33 Israel goes after other gods after Gideon's death
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1 Abimelech slays his brothers, except Jotham
6 Abimelech made king of Shechem
7 Jotham's parable
16 Jotham's curse of Abimelech and Shechem
22 Abimelech's reign
23 Shechem deals treacherously
26 Gaal's boasting challenge
30 Zebul hears and warns Abimelech
34 Abimelech goes against Shechem
35 Gaal sees Abimelech'a advance
39 Gaal fights Abimelch, flees before him
41 Abimemech takes Shechem
46 Men of Shechem hide in a hold, Abimelech burns it
50 Abimelch takes Thebez, dies there
55 Israel departs
56 Jotham's curse fulfilled
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1 Tola judges Isreal tewnty years
3 Jair judges Israel twenty-two years
6 Israel serves other gods, sold to Philistines and Amorites eighteen years
9 Ammonites attack Judah
10 Israel cries to the Lord
11 His reply
15 Israels' repentance
17 Ammonites encamped at Gilead
18 Gilead searches for a leader
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1 Jepthahs' birth, he is thrust out
3 Dwells in Tob, gathers men
4 Ammonites make war against Israel
5 Elders of Gilead seek Jepthah to lead
7 His response
11 Jepthah made captain
12 He enquires the Ammonites of their cause
13 Their accusation
14 Jepthahs' answer
16 He recounts Israels' attempts to pass throught Edom and Moab
19 Israel attempted to pass through Amorites, were attacked
21 Lord delivered Amorites to Israel
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1 Ephraim gathers to fight Gilead, enquire why they were not called to fight Amorites
2 Jepthahs' reply
4 Gilead fights Ephraim, take passages of Jordan
5 Escaping Ephraimites cannot say Shibboleth, are slain
7 Jepthah judges Israel six years, dies
8 Ibzan judges Israel seven years
11 Elon judges Israel ten years
13 Abdon judges Israel eight years
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1 Israel delivered to Philistines forty years
2 Manoahs' wife barren
3 Angel appears to her, tells her she will conceive
5 Son will be Nazarite, begin to deliver Israel
6 Woman tells her husband
8 Manoah entreats the Lord for confirmation
9 Angel reappears to woman, she fetches Manoah
11 He enquires of the angel, is instructed
15 He desires to detain angel to make offering, asks his name
18 Angels' reply
19 Manoah makes offering, angel ascends in flame
22 Manoah fears death, wife reassures him
24 Samson born
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1 Samson desires a woman of Timnah to wife
3 Father and mother question decision
5 Samson rends a lion
8 Samson eats honey from the carcass of the lion
10 Samson makes a marriage feast
12 Samson puts forth a riddle
15 Samson is enticed to answer riddle
18 Riddle is answered
19 Samson spoils men of Ashkelon
20 Samson's finacee given to companion
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1 Samson visits his wife, but is refused
4 Samson burns Philistines' crops
6 Philistines burn wife and father-in-law
7 Sampson smites Philistines in retribution
9 Philistines pitch camp in Judah to capture Sampson
11 Judah delivers Sampson to the Philistines
14 Sampson smites a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass
17 Names the place Ramaath-Lehi
18 Sampsons' thirst; Lord provides; Names place Enhakkore
20 Sampson judges Israel 20 years
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1 Samson goes into a harlot in Gaza
2 Gazits lay in wait for him at the citys' gate
3 Samson carries away the city's gate
4 Samson loves Delilah
5 Philistine lords pay Delilah to discover Samsons' strength
6 Delilah entices Samson; He says to bind with seven green withs
8 Delilah binds him, tells him Philistines are upon him; He break free
10 Delilah chides Samson; He says to bind him with new ropes
12 Delilah binds him, tells him Philistines are upon him; He break free
13 Delilah pouts, he says to weave his hair with a web
14 Delilah pins hair, tells him Philistine are upon him; Goes away with pin and web
15 Delilah urges, he tells her his vow
18 Delilah calls Philistine lords
19 Samson sleeps upon her knees; his hair shaven; strength goes from him
20 Delilah tell Sampson Philistines are upon him; he is captured, eyes put out
22 Sampsons hair began to gow back
23 Philistines gather to sacrifice to Dagon
25 Sampson made sport of before Philistines; set between pillars
28 Sampson prays to the Lord to strengthen him
29 Sampson brings down house on Philistines
31 Sampson buried in Manoah; judged Israel twenty years
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1 Micah confesses having shekels taken from his mother
3 He restores the shekels; his mother tells her intent for the money
4 His mother has a graven image made
5 Micah makes a house of gods, ephod and teraphim; consecrates son as priest
6 No king in Israel
7 Levite of Beth-lehem-Judah departs to find a place to sojurn
9 Micah hires Levite as priest
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1 Tribe of Dan seeks inheritance
2 Children of Dan send five men to spy out the land; lodge in house of Micah
3 Men inquire of Levite: He answers
5 Men request Levite ask counsel of the Lord; Priest blesses them
7 Five men spy out Laish; conditions of people of Laish
8 Men return to Zorah and Eshtaol
9 Men report to Danites; six hundred men armed
12 Armed men come to house of Micah
14 Five men go in and take images, ephod and teraphim
19 Priest goes with Danites
22 Men with Micah overtake Danites
23 Micah inquires of Danites; their response
27 Children of Dan smite and burn Laish; build city of Dan
30 Children of Dan set up graven image while house of God was in Shiloh
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1 Levite takes concubine of Beth-lehem-judah
2 Concubine play whore, goes to her fathers
3 Husband goes to bring her back
4 Father-in-law entertains him three days
5 Fourth day father-in-law urges them to stay
8 Fifth day, despite urging, they leave in the evening
10 Company passes by Jebus to lodge in Gibeah
15 Enter Gibea and are taken in by old man
22 Men of Belial demand man be brought out to know him
23 Master of house offers daughter and man's concubine
25 Men abuse concubine all night; she falls at doorstep
27 Levite arises to go and finds her; takes her home
29 Levite divides her body into twelve pieces; sends peices to coasts of Israel
30 Nothing like it ever done; people consider it
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1 Israel gathers as one in Mizpeh; inquire of Levite
4 Levite relates the account; asks for counsel
8 Israel's resolution; tenth goes up by lot against Gibeah
12 Israel demands Benjamin deliver chidren of Belial
14 Benjamin gathers to battle against Israel; their numbers
17 Men of Israel's numbers
18 Israel asks the Lord's counsel; Judah to go first
19 Benjamin comes out to war first day; Israel loses 22,000
23 Israel ask counsel of the Lord; He says go up
24 Israel goes to battle second day; loses 18,000
26 Israel wept, fasted and inquired of the Lord; Benjamin to be delivered next day
30 Israel goes up third day
31 Israel divides, draws out Benjamin; 25,100 of Benjamin slain
36 Liers in wait smite Gibeah; signal with pillar of smoke
41 Benjamin surrounded and fled; 25,000 men slain
47 Six hundred of Benjamin fled to rock Rimmon; abide four months
48 Israel smites Benajmin; set fire to cities
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1 Israel had sworn not to give daughters unto Benjamin
2 Israel weeps, makes offerings
5 Oath to slay those who did not come to Mizpeh
6 Israel repented for Benjamin; question how to give wives to remaining of Benjamin
8 None of Jabesh-gilead came to assembly
10 Men, and women who had lain by man, in Jabesh-gilead slain
12 Four hundred virgins of Jabesh-gilead saved
13 Envoy sent to rock Rimmon; Benjamin given wives of women of Jabesh-gilead
15 Elders question how to give wives to those remaining of Benjamin
19 Remaining of Benjamin take wives of the daughters of Shiloh
24 Children of Israel return to inheritances
25 No king in Israel; men do right in their own eyes
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