The Old Testament of the
King James Version of the Bible
10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to
defend Israel Tola the son of
Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar;
and he dwelt in Shamir in
mount Ephraim.
10:2 And he judged Israel twenty and three
years, and died, and was
buried in Shamir.
10:3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite,
and judged Israel twenty
and two years.
10:4 And he had thirty sons that rode on
thirty ass colts, and they
had thirty cities, which are called
Havothjair unto this day, which
are in the land of Gilead.
10:5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
10:6 And the children of Israel did evil
again in the sight of the
LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and
the gods of Syria, and the
gods of Zidon, 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.
10:7 And the anger of the LORD was hot
against Israel, and he sold
them into the hands of the Philistines, and
into the hands of the
children of Ammon.
10:8 And that year they vexed and oppressed
the children of Israel:
eighteen years, all the children of Israel
that were on the other side
Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is
in Gilead.
10:9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed
over Jordan to fight also
against Judah, and against Benjamin, and
against the house of Ephraim;
so that Israel was sore distressed.
10:10 And the children of Israel cried unto
the LORD, saying, We have
sinned against thee, both because we have
forsaken our God, and also
served Baalim.
10:11 And the LORD said unto the children of
Israel, Did not I deliver
you from the Egyptians, and from the
Amorites, from the children of
Ammon, and from the Philistines? 10:12 The
Zidonians also, and the
Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress
you; and ye cried to me, and
I delivered you out of their hand.
10:13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served
other gods: wherefore I will
deliver you no more.
10:14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have
chosen; let them deliver
you in the time of your tribulation.
10:15 And the children of Israel said unto
the LORD, We have sinned:
do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto
thee; deliver us only, we
pray thee, this day.
10:16 And they put away the strange gods
from among them, and served
the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the
misery of Israel.
10:17 Then the children of Ammon were
gathered together, and encamped
in Gilead. And the children of Israel
assembled themselves together,
and encamped in Mizpeh.
10:18 And the people and princes of Gilead
said one to another, What
man is he that will begin to fight against
the children of Ammon? he
shall be head over all the inhabitants of
Gilead.
11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty
man of valour, and he was
the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat
Jephthah.
11:2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and
his wife's sons grew up, and
they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him,
Thou shalt not inherit in
our father's house; for thou art the son of
a strange woman.
11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren,
and dwelt in the land of
Tob: and there were gathered vain men to
Jephthah, and went out with
him.
11:4 And it came to pass in process of time,
that the children of
Ammon made war against Israel.
11:5 And it was so, that when the children
of Ammon made war against
Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch
Jephthah out of the land of
Tob: 11:6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come,
and be our captain, that
we may fight with the children of Ammon.
11:7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of
Gilead, Did not ye hate me,
and expel me out of my father's house? and
why are ye come unto me now
when ye are in distress? 11:8 And 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.
11:9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of
Gilead, If ye bring me home
again to fight against the children of
Ammon, and the LORD deliver
them before me, shall I be your head? 11:10
And the elders of Gilead
said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness
between us, if we do not so
according to thy words.
11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of
Gilead, and the people
made him head and captain over them: and
Jephthah uttered all his
words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
11:12 And 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? 11:13 And
the king of the children of
Ammon answered unto the messengers of
Jephthah, Because Israel took
away my land, when they came up out of
Egypt, from Arnon even unto
Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore
restore those lands again
peaceably.
11:14 And Jephthah sent messengers again
unto the king of the children
of Ammon: 11:15 And said unto him, Thus
saith Jephthah, Israel took
not away the land of Moab, nor the land of
the children of Ammon:
11:16 But when Israel came up from Egypt,
and walked through the
wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to
Kadesh; 11:17 Then Israel
sent messengers unto the king of Edom,
saying, Let me, I pray thee,
pass through thy land: but the king of Edom
would not hearken thereto.
And in like manner they sent unto the king
of Moab: but he would not
consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
11:18 Then they went along through the
wilderness, and compassed the
land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came
by the east side of the
land of Moab, and pitched on the other side
of Arnon, but came not
within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the
border of Moab.
11:19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon
king of the Amorites, the
king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him,
Let us pass, we pray thee,
through thy land into my place.
11:20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass
through his coast: but
Sihon gathered all his people together, and
pitched in Jahaz, and
fought against Israel.
11:21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered
Sihon and all his people
into the hand of Israel, and they smote
them: so Israel possessed all
the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of
that country.
11:22 And they possessed all the coasts of
the Amorites, from Arnon
even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness
even unto Jordan.
11:23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath
dispossessed the Amorites
from before his people Israel, and shouldest
thou possess it? 11:24
Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy
god giveth thee to
possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God
shall drive out from before
us, them will we possess.
11:25 And now art thou any thing better than
Balak the son of Zippor,
king of Moab? did he ever strive against
Israel, or did he ever fight
against them, 11:26 While Israel dwelt in
Heshbon and her towns, and
in Aroer and her towns, and in all the
cities that be along by the
coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why
therefore did ye not recover
them within that time? 11:27 Wherefore I
have not sinned against
thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against
me: the LORD the Judge be
judge this day between the children of
Israel and the children of
Ammon.
11:28 Howbeit the king of the children of
Ammon hearkened not unto the
words of Jephthah which he sent him.
11:29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon
Jephthah, and he passed
over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over
Mizpeh of Gilead, and from
Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the
children of Ammon.
11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the
LORD, and said, If thou shalt
without fail deliver the children of Ammon
into mine hands, 11:31 Then
it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of
the doors of my house to
meet me, when I return in peace from the
children of Ammon, shall
surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up
for a burnt offering.
11:32 So Jephthah passed over unto the
children of Ammon to fight
against them; and the LORD delivered them
into his hands.
11:33 And he smote them from Aroer, even
till thou come to Minnith,
even twenty cities, and unto the plain of
the vineyards, with a very
great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon
were subdued before the
children of Israel.
11:34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his
house, and, behold, his
daughter came out to meet him with timbrels
and with dances: and she
was his only child; beside her he had
neither son nor daughter.
11:35 And it came to pass, when he saw her,
that he rent his clothes,
and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast
brought me very low, and thou
art one of them that trouble me: for I have
opened my mouth unto the
LORD, and I cannot go back.
11:36 And she said unto him, My father, if
thou hast opened thy mouth
unto the LORD, do to me according to that
which hath proceeded out of
thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken
vengeance for thee of
thine enemies, even of the children of
Ammon.
11:37 And she said unto her father, Let this
thing be done for me: let
me alone two months, that I may go up and
down upon the mountains, and
bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
11:38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away
for two months: and she
went with her companions, and bewailed her
virginity upon the
mountains.
11:39 And it came to pass at the end of two
months, that she returned
unto her father, who did with her according
to his vow which he had
vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a
custom in Israel, 11:40 That
the daughters of Israel went yearly to
lament the daughter of Jephthah
the Gileadite four days in a year.
12:1 And the men of Ephraim gathered
themselves together, and went
northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore
passedst thou over to
fight against the children of Ammon, and
didst not call us to go with
thee? we will burn thine house upon thee
with fire.
12:2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my
people were at great strife
with the children of Ammon; and when I
called you, ye delivered me not
out of their hands.
12:3 And when I saw that ye delivered me
not, I put my life in my
hands, and passed over against the children
of Ammon, and the LORD
delivered them into my hand: wherefore then
are ye come up unto me
this day, to fight against me? 12:4 Then
Jephthah gathered together
all the men of Gilead, and fought with
Ephraim: and the men of Gilead
smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye
Gileadites are fugitives of
Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the
Manassites.
12:5 And the Gileadites took the passages of
Jordan before the
Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those
Ephraimites which were
escaped said, Let me go over; that the men
of Gilead said unto him,
Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
12:6 Then said they unto him,
Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth:
for he could not frame to
pronounce it right. Then they took him, and
slew him at the passages
of Jordan: and there fell at that time of
the Ephraimites forty and
two thousand.
12:7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years.
Then died Jephthah the
Gileadite, and was buried in one of the
cities of Gilead.
12:8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged
Israel.
12:9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty
daughters, whom he sent
abroad, and took in thirty daughters from
abroad for his sons. And he
judged Israel seven years.
12:10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at
Bethlehem.
12:11 And after him Elon, a Zebulonite,
judged Israel; and he judged
Israel ten years.
12:12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was
buried in Aijalon in the
country of Zebulun.
12:13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel,
a Pirathonite, judged
Israel.
12:14 And he had forty sons and thirty
nephews, that rode on
threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged
Israel eight years.
12:15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the
Pirathonite died, and was buried
in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the
mount of the Amalekites.
13:1 And the children of Israel did evil
again in the sight of the
LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the
hand of the Philistines
forty years.
13:2 And there was a certain man of Zorah,
of the family of the
Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife
was barren, and bare not.
13:3 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.
13:4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and
drink not wine nor strong
drink, and eat not any unclean thing: 13:5
For, lo, thou shalt
conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall
come on his head: for the
child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the
womb: and he shall begin
to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines.
13:6 Then the woman came and told her
husband, saying, A man of God
came unto me, and his countenance was like
the countenance of an angel
of God, very terrible: but I asked him not
whence he was, neither told
he me his name: 13:7 But he said unto me,
Behold, thou shalt conceive,
and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor
strong drink, neither eat
any unclean thing: for the child shall be a
Nazarite to God from the
womb to the day of his death.
13:8 Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and
said, O my Lord, let the man
of God which thou didst send come again unto
us, and teach us what we
shall do unto the child that shall be born.
13:9 And God hearkened to the voice of
Manoah; and the angel of God
came again unto the woman as she sat in the
field: but Manoah her
husband was not with her.
13:10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and
shewed her husband, and
said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared
unto me, that came unto
me the other day.
13:11 And Manoah arose, and went after his
wife, and came to the man,
and said unto him, Art thou the man that
spakest unto the woman? And
he said, I am.
13:12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words
come to pass. How shall we
order the child, and how shall we do unto
him? 13:13 And the angel of
the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I
said unto the woman let her
beware.
13:14 She may not eat of any thing that
cometh of the vine, neither
let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat
any unclean thing: all
that I commanded her let her observe.
13:15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the
LORD, I pray thee, let us
detain thee, until we shall have made ready
a kid for thee.
13:16 And the angel of the LORD said unto
Manoah, Though thou detain
me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou
wilt offer a burnt
offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD.
For Manoah knew not that
he was an angel of the LORD.
13:17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the
LORD, What is thy name,
that when thy sayings come to pass we may do
thee honour? 13:18 And
the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why
askest thou thus after my
name, seeing it is secret? 13:19 So Manoah
took a kid with a meat
offering, and offered it upon a rock unto
the LORD: and the angel did
wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked
on.
13:20 For it came to pass, when the flame
went up toward heaven from
off the altar, that the angel of the LORD
ascended in the flame of the
altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it,
and fell on their faces
to the ground.
13:21 But the angel of the LORD did no more
appear to Manoah and to
his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an
angel of the LORD.
13:22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We
shall surely die, because we
have seen God.
13:23 But his wife said unto him, If the
LORD were pleased to kill us,
he would not have received a burnt offering
and a meat offering at our
hands, neither would he have shewed us all
these things, nor would as
at this time have told us such things as
these.
13:24 And the woman bare a son, and called
his name Samson: and the
child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
13:25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to
move him at times in the
camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
14:1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and
saw a woman in Timnath of
the daughters of the Philistines.
14:2 And he came up, and told his father and
his mother, and said, I
have seen a woman in Timnath of the
daughters of the Philistines: now
therefore get her for me to wife.
14:3 Then his father and his mother said
unto him, Is there never a
woman among the daughters of thy brethren,
or among all my people,
that thou goest to take a wife of the
uncircumcised Philistines? And
Samson said unto his father, Get her for me;
for she pleaseth me well.
14:4 But his father and his mother knew not
that it was of the LORD,
that he sought an occasion against the
Philistines: for at that time
the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
14:5 Then went Samson down, and his father
and his mother, to Timnath,
and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and,
behold, a young lion roared
against him.
14:6 And the Spirit of the LORD came
mightily upon him, and he rent
him as he would have rent a kid, and he had
nothing in his hand: but
he told not his father or his mother what he
had done.
14:7 And he went down, and talked with the
woman; and she pleased
Samson well.
14:8 And after a time he returned to take
her, and he turned aside to
see the carcase of the lion: and, behold,
there was a swarm of bees
and honey in the carcase of the lion.
14:9 And he took thereof in his hands, and
went on eating, and came to
his father and mother, and he gave them, and
they did eat: but he told
not them that he had taken the honey out of
the carcase of the lion.
14:10 So his father went down unto the
woman: and Samson made there a
feast; for so used the young men to do.
14:11 And it came to pass, when they saw
him, that they brought thirty
companions to be with him.
14:12 And Samson said unto them, I will now
put forth a riddle unto
you: if ye can certainly declare it me
within the seven days of the
feast, and find it out, then I will give you
thirty sheets and thirty
change of garments: 14:13 But if ye cannot
declare it me, then shall
ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change
of garments. And they said
unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may
hear it.
14:14 And he said unto them, Out of the
eater came forth meat, and out
of the strong came forth sweetness. And they
could not in three days
expound the riddle.
14:15 And it came to pass on the seventh
day, that they said unto
Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he
may declare unto us the
riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's
house with fire: have ye
called us to take that we have? is it not
so? 14:16 And Samson's wife
wept before him, and said, Thou dost but
hate me, and lovest me not:
thou hast put forth a riddle unto the
children 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? 14:17 And she wept
before him the seven days, while their feast
lasted: and it came to
pass on the seventh day, that he told her,
because she lay sore upon
him: and she told the riddle to the children
of her people.
14:18 And the men of the city said unto him
on the seventh day before
the sun went down, What is sweeter than
honey? And what is stronger
than a lion? and he said unto them, If ye
had not plowed with my
heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
14:19 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon
him, and he went down to
Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and
took their spoil, and gave
change of garments unto them which expounded
the riddle. And his anger
was kindled, and he went up to his father's
house.
14:20 But Samson's wife was given to his
companion, whom he had used
as his friend.
15:1 But it came to pass within a while
after, in the time of wheat
harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a
kid; and he said, I will
go in to my wife into the chamber. But her
father would not suffer him
to go in.
15:2 And her father said, I verily thought
that thou hadst utterly
hated her; therefore I gave her to thy
companion: is not her younger
sister fairer than she? take her, I pray
thee, instead of her.
15:3 And Samson said concerning them, Now
shall I be more blameless
than the Philistines, though I do them a
displeasure.
15:4 And Samson went and caught three
hundred foxes, and took
firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put
a firebrand in the midst
between two tails.
15:5 And when he had set the brands on fire,
he let them go into the
standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt
up both the shocks, and
also the standing corn, with the vineyards
and olives.
15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath
done this? And they answered,
Samson, the son in law of the Timnite,
because he had taken his wife,
and given her to his companion. And the
Philistines came up, and burnt
her and her father with fire.
15:7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye
have done this, yet will I
be avenged of you, and after that I will
cease.
15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a
great slaughter: and he
went down and dwelt in the top of the rock
Etam.
15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and
pitched in Judah, and spread
themselves in Lehi.
15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye
come up against us? And
they answered, To bind Samson are we come
up, to do to him as he hath
done to us.
15:11 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? what is this that thou hast
done unto us? And he said
unto them, As they did unto me, so have I
done unto them.
15:12 And they said unto him, We are come
down to bind thee, that we
may deliver thee into the hand of the
Philistines. And Samson said
unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not
fall upon me yourselves.
15:13 And they spake unto him, saying, No;
but we will bind thee fast,
and deliver thee into their hand: but surely
we will not kill thee.
And they bound him with two new cords, and
brought him up from the
rock.
15:14 And when he came unto Lehi, the
Philistines shouted against him:
and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily
upon him, and the cords that
were upon his arms became as flax that was
burnt with fire, and his
bands loosed from off his hands.
15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass,
and put forth his hand,
and took it, and slew a thousand men
therewith.
15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of
an ass, heaps upon heaps,
with the jaw of an ass have I slain a
thousand men.
15:17 And it came to pass, when he had made
an end of speaking, that
he cast away the jawbone out of his hand,
and called that place
Ramathlehi.
15:18 And he was sore athirst, and called 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? 15:19 But God clave an hollow
place that was in the
jaw, and there came water thereout; and when
he had drunk, his spirit
came again, and he revived: wherefore he
called the name thereof
Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of
the Philistines twenty
years.
16:1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there
an harlot, and went in
unto her.
16:2 And it was told the Gazites, saying,
Samson is come hither. And
they compassed him in, and laid wait for him
all night in the gate of
the city, and were quiet all the night,
saying, In the morning, when
it is day, we shall kill him.
16:3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose
at midnight, and took the
doors of the gate of the city, and the two
posts, and went away with
them, bar and all, and put them upon his
shoulders, and carried them
up to the top of an hill that is before
Hebron.
16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he
loved a woman in the
valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came
up unto her, and said unto
her, Entice him, and see wherein his great
strength lieth, and by what
means we may prevail against him, that we
may bind him to afflict him;
and we will give thee every one of us eleven
hundred pieces of silver.
16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I
pray thee, wherein thy
great strength lieth, and wherewith thou
mightest be bound to afflict
thee.
16:7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind
me with seven green withs
that were never dried, then shall I be weak,
and be as another man.
16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines
brought up to her seven green
withs which had not been dried, and she
bound him with them.
16:9 Now there were men lying in wait,
abiding with her in the
chamber.
And she said unto him, The Philistines be
upon thee, Samson. And he
brake the withs, as a thread of tow is
broken when it toucheth the
fire. So his strength was not known.
16:10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold,
thou hast mocked me, and
told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee,
wherewith thou mightest be
bound.
16:11 And he said unto her, If they bind me
fast with new ropes that
never were occupied, then shall I be weak,
and be as another man.
16:12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and
bound him therewith, and
said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee,
Samson. And there were
liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he
brake them from off his
arms like a thread.
16:13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto
thou hast mocked me, and
told me lies: tell me wherewith thou
mightest be bound. And he said
unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of
my head with the web.
16:14 And she fastened it with the pin, and
said unto him, The
Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he
awaked out of his sleep, and
went away with the pin of the beam, and with
the web.
16:15 And she said unto him, How canst thou
say, I 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.
16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed
him daily with her words,
and urged him, so that his soul was vexed
unto death; 16:17 That he
told her all his heart, and said unto her,
There hath not come a razor
upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite
unto God from my mother's
womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will
go from me, and I shall
become weak, and be like any other man.
16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told
her all his heart, she
sent and called for the lords of the
Philistines, saying, Come up this
once, for he hath shewed me all his heart.
Then the lords of the
Philistines came up unto her, and brought
money in their hand.
16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees;
and she called for a man,
and she caused him to shave off the seven
locks of his head; and she
began to afflict him, and his strength went
from him.
16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon
thee, Samson. And he awoke
out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as
at other times before,
and shake myself. And he wist not that the
LORD was departed from him.
16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put
out his eyes, and brought
him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters
of brass; and he did
grind in the prison house.
16:22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to
grow again after he was
shaven.
16:23 Then the lords 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 hand.
16:24 And when the people saw him, they
praised their god: for they
said, Our god hath delivered into our hands
our enemy, and the
destroyer of our country, which slew many of
us.
16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts
were merry, that they
said, Call for Samson, that he may make us
sport. And they called for
Samson out of the prison house; and he made
them sport: and they set
him between the pillars.
16:26 And Samson said unto the lad that held
him by the hand, Suffer
me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the
house standeth, that I
may lean upon them.
16:27 Now the house was full of men and
women; and all the lords of
the Philistines were there; and there were
upon the roof about three
thousand men and women, that beheld while
Samson made sport.
16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and
said, O Lord God, remember
me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray
thee, only this once, O
God, that I may be at once avenged of the
Philistines for my two eyes.
16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle
pillars upon which the
house stood, and on which it was borne up,
of the one with his right
hand, and of the other with his left.
16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the
Philistines. And he bowed
himself with all his might; and the house
fell upon the lords, and
upon all the people that were therein. So
the dead which he slew at
his death were more than they which he slew
in his life.
16:31 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 buryingplace of Manoah his father.
And he judged Israel twenty
years.
17:1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim,
whose name was Micah.
17:2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven
hundred shekels of silver
that were taken from thee, about which thou
cursedst, and spakest of
also in mine ears, behold, the silver is
with me; I took it. And his
mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my
son.
17:3 And when he had restored the eleven
hundred shekels of silver to
his mother, his mother said, I had wholly
dedicated the silver unto
the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a
graven image and a molten
image: now therefore I will restore it unto
thee.
17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his
mother; and his mother took
two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them
to the founder, who made
thereof a graven image and a molten image:
and they were in the house
of Micah.
17:5 And the man Micah had an house of gods,
and made an ephod, and
teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons,
who became his priest.
17:6 In those days there was no king in
Israel, but every man did that
which was right in his own eyes.
17:7 And there was a young man out of
Bethlehemjudah of the family of
Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned
there.
17:8 And the man departed out of the city
from Bethlehemjudah to
sojourn where he could find a place: and he
came to mount Ephraim to
the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
17:9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest
thou? And he said unto
him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I
go to sojourn where I may
find a place.
17:10 And 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 the year,
and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So
the Levite went in.
17:11 And the Levite was content to dwell
with the man; and the young
man was unto him as one of his sons.
17:12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and
the young man became his
priest, and was in the house of Micah.
17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the
LORD will do me good,
seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
18:1 In those days there was no king in
Israel: and in those days the
tribe of the Danites sought them an
inheritance to dwell in; for unto
that day all their inheritance had not
fallen unto them among the
tribes of Israel.
18:2 And the children of Dan sent of their
family five men from their
coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from
Eshtaol, to spy out the
land, and to search it; and they said unto
them, Go, search the land:
who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the
house of Micah, they
lodged there.
18:3 When they were by the house of Micah,
they knew the voice of the
young man the Levite: and they turned in
thither, and said unto him,
Who brought thee hither? and what makest
thou in this place? and what
hast thou here? 18:4 And he said unto them,
Thus and thus dealeth
Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am
his priest.
18:5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we
pray thee, of God, that
we may know whether our way which we go
shall be prosperous.
18:6 And the priest said unto them, Go in
peace: before the LORD is
your way wherein ye go.
18:7 Then the five men departed, and came to
Laish, and saw the people
that were therein, how they dwelt careless,
after the manner of the
Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was
no magistrate in the land,
that might put them to shame in any thing;
and they were far from the
Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
18:8 And they came unto their brethren to
Zorah and Eshtaol: and their
brethren said unto them, What say ye? 18:9
And they said, Arise, that
we may go up against them: for we have seen
the land, and, behold, it
is very good: and are ye still? be not
slothful to go, and to enter to
possess the land.
18:10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a
people secure, and to a large
land: for God hath given it into your hands;
a place where there is no
want of any thing that is in the earth.
18:11 And there went from thence of the
family of the Danites, out of
Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men
appointed with weapons of
war.
18:12 And they went up, and pitched in
Kirjathjearim, in Judah:
wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan
unto this day: behold, it
is behind Kirjathjearim.
18:13 And they passed thence unto mount
Ephraim, and came unto the
house of Micah.
18:14 Then answered the five men that went
to spy out the country of
Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye
know that there is in these
houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven
image, and a molten image?
now therefore consider what ye have to do.
18:15 And they turned thitherward, and came
to the house of the young
man the Levite, even unto the house of
Micah, and saluted him.
18:16 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.
18:17 And the five men that went to spy out
the land went up, and came
in thither, and took the graven image, and
the ephod, and the
teraphim, and the molten image: and the
priest stood in the entering
of the gate with the six hundred men that
were appointed with weapons
of war.
18:18 And these went into Micah's house, and
fetched the carved image,
the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten
image. Then said the
priest unto them, What do ye? 18:19 And they
said unto him, Hold thy
peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go
with us, and be to us a
father and a priest: is it better for thee
to be a priest unto the
house of one man, or that thou be a priest
unto a tribe and a family
in Israel? 18:20 And the priest's heart was
glad, and he took the
ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven
image, and went in the midst
of the people.
18:21 So they turned and departed, and put
the little ones and the
cattle and the carriage before them.
18:22 And when they were a good way from the
house of Micah, the men
that were in the houses near to Micah's
house were gathered together,
and overtook the children of Dan.
18:23 And they cried unto the children of
Dan. And they turned their
faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth
thee, that thou comest with
such a company? 18:24 And he said, Ye have
taken away my gods which I
made, and the priest, and ye are gone away:
and what have I more? and
what is this that ye say unto me, What
aileth thee? 18:25 And the
children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy
voice be heard among us,
lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou
lose thy life, with the
lives of thy household.
18:26 And the children of Dan went their
way: and when Micah saw that
they were too strong for him, he turned and
went back unto his house.
18:27 And they took the things which Micah
had made, and the priest
which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a
people that were at quiet
and secure: and they smote them with the
edge of the sword, and burnt
the city with fire.
18:28 And there was no deliverer, because it
was far from Zidon, and
they had no business with any man; and it
was in the valley that lieth
by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and
dwelt therein.
18:29 And they called the name of the city
Dan, after the name of Dan
their father, who was born unto Israel:
howbeit the name of the city
was Laish at the first.
18:30 And the children of Dan set up the
graven image: and Jonathan,
the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he
and his sons were priests
to the tribe of Dan until the day of the
captivity of the land.
18:31 And they set them up Micah's graven
image, which he made, all
the time that the house of God was in
Shiloh.
19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when
there was no king in
Israel, that there was a certain Levite
sojourning on the side of
mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine
out of Bethlehemjudah.
19:2 And his concubine played the whore
against him, and went away
from him unto her father's house to
Bethlehemjudah, and was there four
whole months.
19:3 And her husband arose, and went after
her, to speak friendly unto
her, and to bring her again, having his
servant with him, and a couple
of asses: and she brought him into her
father's house: and when the
father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to
meet him.
19:4 And his father in law, the damsel's
father, retained him; and he
abode with him three days: so they did eat
and drink, and lodged
there.
19:5 And it came to pass on the fourth day,
when they arose early in
the morning, that he rose up to depart: and
the damsel's father said
unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart
with a morsel of bread, and
afterward go your way.
19:6 And they sat down, and did eat and
drink both of them together:
for the damsel's father had said unto the
man, Be content, I pray
thee, and tarry all night, and let thine
heart be merry.
19:7 And when the man rose up to depart, his
father in law urged him:
therefore he lodged there again.
19:8 And he arose early in the morning on
the fifth day to depart; and
the damsel's father said, Comfort thine
heart, I pray thee. And they
tarried until afternoon, and they did eat
both of them.
19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he,
and his concubine, and
his servant, his father in law, the damsel's
father, said unto him,
Behold, now the day draweth toward evening,
I pray you tarry all
night: behold, the day groweth to an end,
lodge here, that thine heart
may be merry; and to morrow get you early on
your way, that thou
mayest go home.
19:10 But the man would not tarry that
night, but he rose up and
departed, and came over against Jebus, which
is Jerusalem; and there
were with him two asses saddled, his
concubine also was with him.
19:11 And when they were by Jebus, the day
was far spent; and the
servant said unto his master, Come, I pray
thee, and let us turn in
into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge
in it.
19:12 And his master said unto him, We will
not turn aside hither into
the city of a stranger, that is not of the
children of Israel; we will
pass over to Gibeah.
19:13 And he said unto his servant, Come,
and let us draw near to one
of these places to lodge all night, in
Gibeah, or in Ramah.
19:14 And they passed on and went their way;
and the sun went down
upon them when they were by Gibeah, which
belongeth to Benjamin.
19:15 And they turned aside thither, to go
in and to lodge in Gibeah:
and when he went in, he sat him down in a
street of the city: for
there was no man that took them into his
house to lodging.
19:16 And, behold, there came an old man
from his work out of the
field at even, which was also of mount
Ephraim; and he sojourned in
Gibeah: but the men of the place were
Benjamites.
19:17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he
saw a wayfaring man in
the street of the city: and the old man
said, Whither goest thou? and
whence comest thou? 19:18 And he said unto
him, We are passing from
Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount
Ephraim; from thence am I: and
I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going
to the house of the LORD;
and there is no man that receiveth me to
house.
19:19 Yet there is both straw and provender
for our asses; and there
is bread and wine also for me, and for thy
handmaid, and for the young
man which is with thy servants: there is no
want of any thing.
19:20 And the old man said, Peace be with
thee; howsoever let all thy
wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the
street.
19:21 So he brought him into his house, and
gave provender unto the
asses: and they washed their feet, and did
eat and drink.
19:22 Now as they were making their hearts
merry, behold, the men of
the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the
house round about, and
beat at the door, and spake to the master of
the house, the old man,
saying, Bring forth the man that came into
thine house, that we may
know him.
19:23 And the man, the master of the house,
went out unto them, and
said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I
pray you, do not so wickedly;
seeing that this man is come into mine
house, do not this folly.
19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden,
and his concubine; them I
will bring out now, and humble ye them, and
do with them what seemeth
good unto you: but unto this man do not so
vile a thing.
19:25 But the men would not hearken to him:
so the man took his
concubine, and brought her forth unto them;
and they knew her, and
abused her all the night until the morning:
and when the day began to
spring, they let her go.
19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of
the day, and fell down at
the door of the man's house where her lord
was, till it was light.
19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning,
and opened the doors of the
house, and went out to go his way: and,
behold, the woman his
concubine was fallen down at the door of the
house, and her hands were
upon the threshold.
19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us
be going. But none
answered.
Then the man took her up upon an ass, and
the man rose up, and gat him
unto his place.
19:29 And when he was come into his house,
he took a knife, and laid
hold on his concubine, and divided her,
together with her bones, into
twelve pieces, and sent her into all the
coasts of Israel.
19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it
said, There was no such deed
done nor seen from the day that the children
of Israel came up out of
the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of
it, take advice, and
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