Before CHRIST Before CHRIST 1 Or, there garders of the fines. Dent. & 14 31. 4. Prov. 5. 22. Abimelech overcometh the Shechemites. CHAP. X. The death of Abimelech. there come people down by the middle women, and all they of the city, and shut cir. 1926. of the land, and another company come it to them, and gat them up to the top of cit. 1206. + Heb.nare. along by the plain of || Meonenim. the tower. 38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where 52 And Abimelech came unto the is now thy mouth, wherewith thou 'saidst, tower, and fought against it, and went (ver. A,* Who is Abimelech, that we should serve hard unto the door of the tower to burn him? is not this the people that thou it with fire. of a milstone upon Abimelech's head, and 40 And Abimelech chased him, and he young man his armourbearer, and said him. And his young man thrust him every man unto his place. father, in slaying his seventy brethren: 43 And he took the people, and di 57 And all the evil of the men of Shevided them into three companies, and chem did God render upon their heads: laid wait in the field, and looked, and, and upon them came "the curse of Jo. o ver. 20. behold, the people were come forth out tham the son of Jerubbaal. of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. CHAP. X. 44 And Abimelech, and the company 1 Tola judgeth Israel in Shamir. 3 Jair, that was with him, rushed forward, and whose thirty sons had thirty cities. 6 The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel. A a and slew the people that was therein, and char; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Dentist beat down the city, and sowed it with Ephraim. 23 salt. 2 And he judged Israel twenty and cir. 1183: 46 9 And when all the men of the three years, and died, and was buried in tower of Shechem heard that, they enter- Shamir. ich. 8. 33 ed into an hold of the house ' of the god 3 | And after him arose Jair, a GileadBerith. ite, and judged Israel twenty and two i 47 And it was told Abimelech, that all years. the men of the tower of Shechem were 4 And he had thirty sons that brode kech 5.10. gathered together. on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty 48 And Abimelech gat him up to cities, which are called || Havoth-jair Deut. 3. Ps 14 mount * Zalmon, he and all the people unto this day, which are in the land of Or, the ril that were with him; and Abimelech took Gilead. gods of Syria, and the gods of 6 Zidon, ch. 2. 12. 50 $ Then went Abimelech to Thebez, the hands of the Philistines, and into the and encamped against Thebez, and took it. hands of the children of Ammon. 51 But there was a strong tower within 8 And that year they vexed and top- + Hela the city, and thither fled all the men and pressed the children of Israel eighteen cir. 1206. a ch. 2. 16. 1 Or, deliver. lages of Jair. Numb. 32 cir. 1161. & 3.7. & I. + Heb. 1 hace done crushed Before cir. 1161. cir. 1161. + Heb after 1 Sain. 12. 10. 30. 21, 24, 25, in ch. 3. 12, 13. nch. 3.31. och. 5. 19. pch. 6.3. 43 r Deut. 32. 15. Jer. 2. 13. no more. Deut. 32. Jer. 2. 28. i 1 Sam. 3. 18. 2 Sam. 15. 26. eyes. God pitieth Israel. JUDGES. Jephthah is chosen captain: on the other side Jordan in the land of thah, and went out with him. 45 And it came to pass tin process of the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jeph- 11 And the LORD said unto the child 7 And Jephthah said unto the elders m from the children of Ammon, and from why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress? malekites, and the Maonites," did oppress Jephthah, Therefore we 'turn again to s Luke 17.4 and fight against the children of Ammon, 9 And Jephthah said unto the elders 14 Go and cry unto the gods which of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to hings: 13. ye have chosen; let them deliver you in fight against the children of Ammon, and the time of your tribulation. the Lord deliver them before me, shall I thou unto us whatsoever + seemeth good Jephthah, " The LORD t be witness be h Jer. 12.5 donde bu ühine unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, tween us, if we do not so according to hearer les this day thy words. And they put away the + strange 11 Then Jephthah went with the elJer. 187,8. gods from arnong them, and served the ders of Gilead, and the people made him lehets. Lord: and his soul fwas grieved for head and captain over them: and Jeph- i ver. & XP, 106.44, the misery of Israel. thah uttered all his words " before the k ch. 16. 17. 17 | Then the children of Ammon were Lord in Mizpeh. tgathered together, and encamped in 12 And Jephthah sent messengers cir. 1143 + Heb. cried Gilead. And the children of Israel as unto the king of the children of Ammon, sembled themselves together, and en- saying, What hast thou to do with me, 5 ch.!.!.!!; camped in 'Mizpeh. that thou art come against me to fight in 18 And the people and princes of Gi- my land? lead said one to another, What man is he 13 And the king of the children of that will begin to fight against the child- Ammon answered unto the messengers ren of Ammon? he shall be head over of Jephthah, 'Because Israel took away ! Namb. a1. all the inhabitants of Gilead. my land, when they came up out of 425 * Egypt, from Arnon even unto in Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore 14 And Jephthah sent messengers again ba mighty man of valour, and he Ammon 2 Kings 5.1. was the son of tan harlot: and Gilead 16 But when Israel came up from Ebegat Jephthah. gypt, and walked through the wilderness . Nam). I in like manner they sent unto the king of is, 21. 16 45 Isai63 & . + Heb.tras shortened. together. 29. 31. 49. z ch.11. 8, 11. m Gen. 32. 19 a Hebr. 11. 32, called, Jephthae. bch. 6, 19. No mifphthahn the Golcadite. Was Moab, nor the land of the children of Before CHRIST Before CHRIST cir. 1143 n See Lev. will offer it, Narab. 21. 21. Deel 2 11, 12. P Ezek. 27. not of his own rithe Son or . Deut. 2. 36. 2. Ps. 15. 4. Eccles. 5.4 5 Jephthar's rash row. CHAP. XII. He performs his vow. 18 Then they went along through the the children of Ammon, shall surely be cir. 11° wilderness, and compassed the land of the LORD's, ||°and I will offer it up for a Numb. . Edom, and the land of Moab, and "came burnt offering: Deut. 2 by the east side of the land of Moab, 32 So Jephthah passed over unto the 752, 3, &e. Numb . an. "and pitched on the other side of Arnon, children of Ammon to fight against them; 28. & 2. 18. but came not within the border of Moab: and the LORD delivered them into his wide opening 13k 22 for Arnon was the border of Moab. hands. 19 And 'Israel sent messengers unto 33 And he smote them from Aroer, See Lev. 17. Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of even till thou come to Minnith, even 2. Numea. Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, ' Let twenty cities, and unto || the plain of the 17. us pass, we pray thee, through thy land vineyards, with a very great slaughter. "Or, Abel. into my place. Thus the children of Ammon were sub20 *But Sihon trusted not Israel to dued before the children of Israel. pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered 34 1 And Jephthah came to 'Mizpeh g¢br.10.17. all his people together, and pitched in unto his house, and, behold, ' his daughter Exod. 15. Jahaz, and fought against Israel. came out to meet him with timbrels and 18. 6. Son 21 And the LORD God of Israel deli with dances: and she was his only child; 68. 25. Jer. vered Sihon and all his people into the Il + beside her he had neither son nor 109, he had Sunb. 31. hand of Israel, and they smote them: so daughter. Israel possessed all the land of the Amor 35 And it came to pass, when he saw daughter. ites, the inhabitants of that country. her, that he 'rent his clothes, and said, himsels. 22 And they possessed all the coasts Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought Cn. 37. of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto me very low, and thou art one of them Jabbok, and from the wilderness even that trouble me: for I have opened my Ereles.52. unto Jordan. mouth unto the LORD, and "I cannot , Numb. 3o. 23 So now the LORD God of Israel go back. hath dispossessed the Amorites from be 36 And she said unto him, My father, fore his people Israel, and shouldest thou if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the possess it? LORD, * do to me according to that which Numb. 30. 24 Wilt not thou possess that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forNam. Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? asmuch as 'the LORD hath taken venge- 12 Sam. 18. Jer. So whomsoever the LORD our God shall ance for thee of thine enemies, even of drive out from before us, them will we the children of Ammon. Josh... le possess. 37 And she said unto her father, Let 25 And now art thou any thing better this thing be done for me: Let me alone be than 'Balak the son of Zippor, king of two months, that I may t go up and down and more on godean. Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, upon the mountains, and bewail my vir or did he ever fight against them, ginity, I and my fellows. towns, and in all the cities that be along her companions, and bewailed her vir- two months, that she returned unto her thee, but thou doest me wrong to war his vow which he had vowed: and she 34. & 2 18. Gen, 25 against me: the LORD 'the Judge be knew no man. And it was a || custom .Or; ordi**3.3. judge this day between the children of in Israel, 4*, Israel and the children of Ammon. 40 That the daughters of Israel went 28 Howbeit the king of the children of tyearly || to lament the daughter of Jeph- year to your Ammon hearkened not unto the words thah the "Gileadite four days in a year. of Jephthah which he sent him. CHAP. XII. Matej na 29 | Then 'the Spirit of the LORD 1 The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephcame upon || Jephthah, and he passed thah, and discerned by Shibboleth, are slain over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed by the Gileadites. 7 Jephthah dieth. 8 Torer Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh zan, who had thirty sons and thirty daugh ters, 11 and Elon, 13 and Abdon, who had of Gilead he passed over unto the child forty sons and thirty nephews, judged ren of Ammon. Israel. 30 And Jephthah “vowed a vow unto ND * the men of Ephraim + gathered Suech. 8. 1. the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into ward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore mine hands, passedst thou over to fight against the 31 Then it shall be, that + whatsoever children of Ammon, and didst not call us cometh forth of the doors of 'my house to to go with thee? we will burn thine house 5 forth. meet me, when I return in peace from upon thee with fire. Deut. 9.4 1 or, to talk Jodge only est irrad. - G. 28. Before CHRIST Before CHRIST cir. 1161. to conmil, a ch.2. 11. & This seems a partial Ps. 119. 109. 13, 28, 3L. e ver. 1+ Numb, 6. % 3. Luke 1. 78.9. 7.13. 2 Sam. 8.1.1 Chron. 18. 1. i Sam. 227 27. 12. I ver. 17, 16 The Ephraimites slain. JUDGES. An angel appeareth to Manoah and Iris wife. 2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and ND the children of Israel +* did evil cir. 1143' my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called || and the LORD delivered them into the theb. added 2 And there was a certain man of 3 And when I saw that ye delivered Zorah, of the family of the Danites, de la dio. Sam. 19. me not, I put my life in my hands, and whose name was Manoah; and his wife 6. Job 13. 14. passed over against the children of Am- was barren, and bare not. and the LORD delivered them into 3 And the dangel of the LORD ap- 61Sam. 12 mon, my hand: wherefore then are ye come up peared unto the woman, and said unto a unto me this day, to fight against me? her, Behold now, thou art barren, and Josh.19-41 . 4 Then Jephthah gathered together bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and Luke 1, 11, all the men of Gilead, and fought with bear a son. Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote 4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gilead- and drink not wine nor strong drink, Seed Sam. ites are fugitives of Ephraim among the and eat not any unclean thing: Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. 5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and 15. 5 And the Gileadites took the pass- bear a son; and no frasor shall come on Numbe... ages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: his head: for the child shall be 8 a Naza- y Numb.6.2. and it was so, that when those Ephraim- rite unto God from the womb: and he ites which were escaped said, Let me go shall hbegin to deliver Israel out of the h Sce 1 Sam. over; that the men of Gilead said unto hand of the Philistines. him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he 6 | Then the woman came and told said, Nay; her husband, saying, 'A man of God i Deut. 13. 1. 6 Then said they unto him, Say now came unto me, and his "countenance & 9. bilasiga || Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for was like the countenance of an angel of bikingo 17. Stream or he could not frame to pronounce it right. God, very terrible: but I'asked him not Matt. 28.3. 2.15: Isai. Then they took him, and slew him at the whence he was, neither told he me his Acts & 13 passages of Jordan: and there fell at that name: shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now the day of his death. and said, O my Lord, let the man of God 10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the 10 And the woman made haste, and unto me, that came unto me the other day. 13 9 And after him || Abdon the son 11 And Manoah arose, and went after Judge also of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. his wife, and came to the man, and said 14 And he had forty sons and thirty unto him, Art thou the man that spakest tohleb. sons' † nephews, that o rode on threescore and unto the woman? And he said, I am. ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight 12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. t. How shall we Heb. Ikat 15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the order the child, and 1| + how shall we do annet og cir. 1112. Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pira- unto him? Ch.3. 13. , thon in the land of Ephraim, 'in the 13 And the angel of the LORD said shell ke der mount of the Amalekites. unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the shall be his woman let her beware. CHAP. XIII. 14 She may not eat of any thing that An angel appeareth to Manoah's wife, drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any let her observe. cir, 1137.' He seems to have been Judge to do justice in North east Israel. eir. 113. A civil Nurth east truel. cir. 1120. A civil 1 North cast Israel c ch. 5 10. 10. + tke o 27. & 5.11. Before a CHRIST CHRIST e Gen. 31 14. Exod. 34. 16. Deut. + Heb.be fore ther. she 12. 15. 2 Kings 6. 1 Or, cen . Matt. 17. 6. Samson is born. He killeth a lion. Gen. 18. thee, until we shall have made ready a And Samson said unto his father, Get her 5 ch.6.18 kid † for thee. for me; for + shę pleaseth me well. 16 And the angel of the LORD said un 4 But his father and his mother knew 7. 3. to Manoah, Though thou detain me, I not that it was fof the LORD, that he is righe in will not eat of thy bread: and if thou sought an occasion against the Philistines: mine nyes. wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer for at that time B the Philistines had do- 30. 1 Kings it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew minion over Israel. not that he was an angel of the LORD. 59 Then went Samson down, and his Chroma 17 And Manoah said unto the angel father and his mother, to Timnath, and $25, 20. of the LORD, What is thy name, that when came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, Beut. 1s. 'qis. thy sayings come to pass we may do thee behold, a young lion roared + against him. heidelber in honour? 6 And the Spirit of the LORD came 5 ch.3. 10. 18 And the angel of the Lord said mightily upon him, and he rent him as he i Sam. 11.6. Gea sa. unto him, °Why askest thou thus after would have rent a kid, and he had nothing my name, seeing it is || secret? in his hand: but he told not his father or the LORD: and the angel did wonderous- the woman; and she pleased Samson well. 20 For it came to pass, when the flame take her, and he turned aside to see the the flame of the altar. And Manoah case of the lion. 9 Lev.9. 24. and his wife looked on it, and 'fell on 9 And he took thereof in his hands, 16 Eteket. their faces to the ground. and went on eating, and came to his fa21 But the angel of the LORD did no ther and mother, and he gave them, and more appear to Manoah and to his wife. they did eat: but he told not them that I ch. & 92. "Then Manoah knew that he was an an he had taken the honey out of the cargel of the LORD. case of the lion. *We shall surely die, because we have the woman: and Samson made there a a Dents seen God. feast; for so used the young men to do. 23 But his wife said unto him, If the 11 And it came to pass, when they saw, LORD were pleased to kill us, he would him, that they brought thirty companions not have received a burnt offering and a to be with him. meat offering at our hands, neither would 12 | And Samson said unto them, I he have shewed us all these things, nor will now put forth a riddle unto you: if 1 Kings ice would as at this time have told us such ye can certainly declare it me within the 2. Lüko 142 things as these. seven days of the feast, and find it out, * Gen. 29. 24 And the woman bare a son, and then I will give you thirty || sheets and 27. : Hebr. 1l. called his name * Samson: and the child thirty 'change of garments: Sam. 3 grew, and the LORD blessed him. 13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then 22. a kings 25 *And the Spirit of the Lord began shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty to move him at times.in † the camp of change of garments. And they said unto Mæl 41. Dan 'between Zorah and Eshtaol. him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may CHAP. XIV. hear it. In his journey he killeth a lion. 8 In a eater came forth meat, and out of the could not in three days expound the riddle. day, that they said unto Samson's wife, AND Sampon went down to Tim "Entice thy husband, that he may declare mch. 6. 5. nath, and saw a woman in Timnath unto us the riddle, "lest we burn thee and n ch. 15. 6. of the daughters of the Philistines. thy father's house with fire: have ye call 2 And he came up, and told his father ed us f to take that we have? is it not so? Mulle.com and his mother, and said, I have seen a 16 And Samson's wife wept before or, o impo woman in Timnath of the daughters of the him, and said, °Thou dost but hate me, o ch. 16. 15 Genit. Philistines: now therefore get her for and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a me to wife. riddle unto the children of my people, 3 Then his father and his mother said and hast not told it me. And he said ununto him, Is there never a woman among to her, Behold, I have not told it my father the daughters of thy brethren, or among nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee? Gee 32. 3. Exod. 23. ach. 6. 22. 1 Or, shirts, I Gen. 45 1 Lake 1. 5. 22. Josha 15 2. ch. IL CUF. 1141 |