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Judges · Chapter 2
And an mal'akh of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Mitsrayim, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my b'rit with you.
And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be
as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
And it came to pass, when the mal'akh of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake these words unto all the children of Yisra'el, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And when Yehoshua had let the people go, the children of Yisra'el went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
And the people served 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) all the days of Yehoshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Yehoshua, who had seen all the great works of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), that he did for Yisra'el.
And Yehoshua the son of Nun, the servant of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), died,
being
an hundred and ten years old.
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), nor yet the works which he had done for Yisra'el.
And the children of Yisra'el did evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and served Baalim:
And they forsook 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that
were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) to anger.
And they forsook 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
And the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was hot against Yisra'el, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Whithersoever they went out, the hand of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was against them for evil, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had said, and as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Nevertheless 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the mitsvot of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH);
but they did not so.
And when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) raised them up judges, then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead,
that they returned, and corrupted
themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
And the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was hot against Yisra'el; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my b'rit which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Yehoshua left when he died:
That through them I may prove Yisra'el, whether they will keep the way of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) to walk therein, as their fathers did keep
it, or not.
Therefore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Yehoshua.
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Judges · Chapter 3
Now these
are the nations which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) left, to prove Yisra'el by them,
even as many
of Yisra'el as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
Only that the generations of the children of Yisra'el might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
And they were to prove Yisra'el by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the mitsvot of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Mosheh.
And the children of Yisra'el dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
And the children of Yisra'el did evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and forgat 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) their Elohim, and served Baalim and the groves.
Therefore the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was hot against Yisra'el, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Yisra'el served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
And when the children of Yisra'el cried unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) raised up a deliverer to the children of Yisra'el, who delivered them,
even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
And the Ruach of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) came upon him, and he judged Yisra'el, and went out to war: and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
And the children of Yisra'el did evil again in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Yisra'el, because they had done evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Yisra'el, and possessed the city of palm trees.
So the children of Yisra'el served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
But when the children of Yisra'el cried unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Yisra'el sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon
was a very fat man.
And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
But he himself turned again from the quarries that
were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from Elohim unto thee. And he arose out of
his seat.
And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour
were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened
them:
and, behold, their lord
was fallen down dead on the earth.
And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Yisra'el went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Yarden toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Yisra'el. And the land had rest fourscore years.
And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Yisra'el.
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Judges · Chapter 4
And the children of Yisra'el again did evil in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), when Ehud was dead.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host
was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
And the children of Yisra'el cried unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Yisra'el.
And Devorah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Yisra'el at that time.
And she dwelt under the palm tree of Devorah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Yisra'el came up to her for judgment.
And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el commanded,
saying,
Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me,
then I will not go.
And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Devorah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Devorah went up with him.
Now Heber the Kenite,
which was of the children of Hobab the father in torah of Mosheh, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which
is by Kedesh.
And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
And Sisera gathered together all his chariots,
even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that
were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
And Devorah said unto Barak, Up; for this
is the day in which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) discomfited Sisera, and all
his chariots, and all
his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off
his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword;
and there was not a man left.
Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for
there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her
tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail
was in his temples.
So Elohim subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Yisra'el.
And the hand of the children of Yisra'el prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.