JUDGES. Deborah and Barak, The Song of shall the people of the Loan gc downf 26 The put her hand to the nail, and to the gates. her right hand to the workmen's ham-12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake,iner; and with the hammer she sinote awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, Sisera: she smote off his head, when and lead thy captivity captive, thou she had pierced and stricken through son of Abinoam. his temples. 13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. 14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people: out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. 15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar and also Barak he was scut on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there cere great thoughts of heart. 16 Why abodest thou among the sleep-folds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? 29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, 30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two, to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needle work, of divers colours of needle-work on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? 31 So let all thine euemies perish, O heart. Lono: but let them that love him be 17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and as the sun when he goeth forth in his why did Dan remain in ships? Asher might. And the land had rest forty continued on the sea-shore, and abode years. in his breaches. 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. 19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Tanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. 20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. CHAP. VI. AND the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lond; and the Lond delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. 3 And so it was, when Israel had 21 The river of Kishion swept them sown, that the Midianites came up, away, that ancient river, the river Ki-and the Amalekites, and the children shon. O my soul, thou hast trodden of the east, even they came up against down strength. them; 22 Then were the horse hoofs broken And they encamped against them, by the means of the prancings, the and destroyed the increaseof theearth, prancings of their mighty ones. till thou come unto Gaza; and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, 23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhab-nor ox, nor ass. itauts thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lond, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. 24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be; blessed shall she be above women in the tent. 25 He asked water, and she gave kim milk: she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. 6 And Israel was greatly impoverish led because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Loun 7 And it came to pass, when the chil. Israel oppressel CHAP. VI. by Midian. dren of Israel cried unto the LORD and brought it out unto him under the because of the Midianites, oak, and presented it. 8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto 20 And the angel of God said unto the children of Israel, which said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleaventhem, Thus saith the Lono God of Is-ed cakes, and lay them upon this rock, rael, I brought you up from Egypt, and pour out the broth. And he did and brought you forth out of the house so. of bondage: 9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppress d you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land: 10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice. 11 T And there came an angel of the LORD and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the wine-press, to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 21 Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the stall that was in bis hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of bis sight. 22 And when Gideon perceived that be was an angel of the Lond, Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face. 23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die. 24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah shalom: unto this day it is yet in Oph rah of the Abi-ezrites. 13 And Gideon said unto him, O my| 25 1 And it came to pass the same LORD, if the LORD be with us, why night, that the LORD said unto him, then is all this befallen us? and where Take thy father's young bullock, even be ali his miracles which our fathers the second bullock of seven years old, told us of, saying, Did not the Load and throw down the altar of Baal that bring us up from Egypt? but now the thy father hath, and cut down the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered grove that is by it; us into the hands of the Midianites. 14 And the Lord looked upon him and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee 15 And he said unto him, O my lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and i am the least of my father's house. 26 And build an altar unto the Lond thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. 27 Then Gideou took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him; and so it was, because he 16 And the Lono said unto him, feared his father's household and the Surely 1 will be with thee, and thoumen of the city, that he could not do shalt smite the Midianites as one man. it by day, that he did it by night. 17 And he said unto him, If now 1 28 ¶ And when the men of the city have found grace in thy sight, then arose early in the morning, behold, shew me a sign that thou talkest with the altar of Baal was cast down, and JUDGES. Call of Gideon. Gideon's army. aitar of Baal, and because he hath cut|The people that are with thee are too down the grove that was by it. many for me to give the Midianites 31 And Joash said unto all that stood into their hands, lest Israel vaunt ngainst him, Will ye plead for Baal? themselves against me, saying, Mine will ye save him? he that will plead own hand hath saved me. for him, let him be put to death whilst 3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in it is yet morning: if he be a god, let the ears of the people, saying, Whosohim plead for himself, because one bath ever is fearful and afraid, let him recast down his altar. 32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. turn, and depart early from mount 33 ¶ Then all the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jez-|be, that of whom I say unto thee, This reel. shall go with thee, the same shali go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. 34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi-ezer was gathered after him. 35 And he sent messengers through 5 So be brought down the people unto out all Manasseh; who also was gaththe water: and the LORD said unto ered after him: and he sent messeu- Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the gera unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, water with his tongue, as a dog lap and unto Naphtali; and they came up peth, bim shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. to meet them. 36 T And Gideon said unto God, If thou will save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said, 37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth besides, then shall I know that thou wilt save 1srael by my hand, as thou hast said. 38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleere, a bowl-full of water. 39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. 40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground. CHAP. VII. 6. And the number of them that lapped, prating their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. 7. And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the other people go every man unto his place. 8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel, every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men. And the bost of Midian was beneath him in the valley. 9 T And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thy hand. 10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down Tand all the people a with THEN Jerubbaal, (wbois Gideon,) to the host. and all the people that were with 11 And thou shalt hear what they say; him, rose up early and ritched beside and afterward shall thy hands be the well of Harod: so that the host of strengthened to go down unto the the Midianites were on the north side host. Then went he down with Phuof them by the hill of Moreh, in the rah his servant unto the outside of the valley. armed men that were in the host. 12 And the Midianites, and the Amal 2 And the LonD said unto Gideon, Gideon's victory. CHAP. VIII. Ephraimites pacified. ekites, and all the children of the east, throughout all the host: and the host tay along in the valley like grasshop-fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and pers for multitude; and their camels to the border of Abel-meholab, unto were without number, as the sand by Tabbath. the sea-side for multitude. 23 And the men of Israel gathered 13 And when Gideon was come, be- themselves together out of Naphtali nold, there was a man that told a and out of Asher, and out of all Madream unto his fellow, and said, Be-nasseh, and pursued after the Midiannold, 1 dreamed a dream, and, lo, alites. cake of barley-bread tumbled into the 24 T And Gideon sent messengers host of Midian, and came unto a tent, throughout all mount Ephraim, say. and smote it that it fell, and overturned ing, Come down against the Midianit, that the tent lay along. ites, and take before them the waters 14 And his fellow answered and said, unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then This is nothing else save the sword of all the men of Ephraim gathered Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Is-themselves together, and took the wa rael: for into his hand bath God de-ters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. livered Midian, and all the host. 15 T And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he wor shipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD bath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. 16 Aud be divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be, that as I do, so shall ye do. 18 When I blow with a trumpet, 1 and all that are with me, theu blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the Loup, and of Gideon, 19 ¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watchi; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left bands, and the trumpets in their right hands, to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in hus place round about the camp; and all the bost ran, and cried, and fled. 25 Aud they took two princes of the Midianites, Öreb and Zeeb: and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the wine-press of Zeeb, und pursued Midian, and brought the beads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan. CHAP. VIII. it, Why hast thou served us ND the men of Ephraim said unto thus, that thou calledst us not when thou wentest to fight with the Midiarites? And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer ? 3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparisou of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. 4¶ And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. 5 And he said unto the men of Suc coth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmuuna, kings of Midian. 6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmuma now in thy band, that we should give bread unto thine army? 22 And the three hundred blew the 7 And Gideon said, Therefore when trumpets, and the LORD set every the Lord hath delivered Zebah al man's sword against his fellow, even Zalmunna into my hand, then I wa tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with briers. Zalmunna tüken. youth drew not his sword; for he fear- 8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto thein likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth bad answered him. 9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower. 22 T Then the men of Israel said 10 T Now Zebab and Zalmunna were junto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both in Karkor, and their hosts with them, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son about fifteen thousand men, all that also; for thou hast delivered us from were left of all the hosts of the chil- the band of Midian. dren of the cast: for there fell a hun-| dred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. 11 ¶ And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents, on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host; for the host was secure. 23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall ny son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you, 24 And Gideon said unto them, would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the ear12 Ánd when Zebah and Zalmunna rings of his prey: (for they had golden fled, he pursued after them, and took ear-ringe, because they were Ishmael the two kings of Midian, Zebah and ites.) Zalmunna, and discomfited all the 25 And they answered, We will wil host. lingly give them. And they spread a 13 ¶ And Gideon the son of Joash re-garinent, and did cast therein every turned from battle before the sun was man the ear-rings of his prey. !ep, 14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen mev. 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested, was a thonsand and seven hundred shekels of gold; besides ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that 15 And he came unto the men of Suc-icere about their camels' necks. coth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, eaying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmumna now in thy hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that ure weary ? 27And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah; and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house. 28 T Thus was Midian subdued before 16 And he took the elders of the city, the children of Israel, so that they liftand thorns of the wilderness, and fed up their heads no more: and the briers, and with them he taught the country was in quietness forty years in men of Succoth. the days of Gideon. 17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the vity. 29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. 30 And Gideon had threescore and 18 ¶ Then said he unto Zebab and ten sons of his body begotten; for he Zalmunna, What manner of men were had many wives. they whom ye slew at Tabor? And] 31 And his concubine that was in they answered, As thou art, so were Shechem, she also bare him a son, they; each one resembled the children whose name he called Abimelech. of a king. 32 T And Gideon the son of Joash 19 And he said, They were my breth-died in a good old age, and was buried. ren, even the sons of my mother: as in the sepulchre of Joash his father, the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites. alive, I would not slay you. 20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them: but the 33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whor |