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Judges

The Book of Judges

Judges in the King James Version has 21 chapters and 618 verses. It opens: Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? (Judges 1:1)

Chapters at a glance

  1. Chapter 1Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall…
  2. Chapter 2And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have…
  3. Chapter 3Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not…
  4. Chapter 4And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
  5. Chapter 5Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
  6. Chapter 6And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of…
  7. Chapter 7Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the…
  8. Chapter 8And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou…
  9. Chapter 9And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and…
  10. Chapter 10And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar…
  11. Chapter 11Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat…
  12. Chapter 12And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore…
  13. Chapter 13And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the…
  14. Chapter 14And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
  15. Chapter 15But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a…
  16. Chapter 16Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
  17. Chapter 17And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
  18. Chapter 18In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an…
  19. Chapter 19And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite…
  20. Chapter 20Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan…
  21. Chapter 21Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin…