Israel fights the remaining Canaanites 1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, ‘Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?’ 2…

The angel of the Lord at Bokim 1 The angel of the Lordwent up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, ‘I brought you up out of Egypt and led you…

1 These are the nations the Lordleft to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan 2 (he did this only to teach warfare…

Deborah 1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead. 2 So the Lordsold them into the hands of Jabin king of…

The song of Deborah 1 On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song: 2 ‘When the princes in Israel take the lead, when the people willingly…

Gideon 1 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2 Because the power of…

Gideon defeats the Midianites 1 Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of…

Zebah and Zalmunna 1 Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, ‘Why have you treated us like this? Why didn’t you call us when you went to fight Midian?’ And they challenged…

Abimelek 1 Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother’s brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother’s clan, 2 ‘Ask all the citizens of Shechem,…

Tola 1 After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the…