Category Archives: Judges

1 At that time, there was a Gileadite, Jephthah, a very strong man and a fighter, the son of a kept woman, and he was born of Gilead. 2 Now Gilead had a wife, from whom he received sons. And they, after growing up, cast out Jephthah, saying, “You cannot inherit in the house of […]

1 And behold, a sedition rose up in Ephraim. Then, while passing by toward the north, they said to Jephthah: “When you were going to fight against the sons of Ammon, why were you unwilling to summon us, so that we might go with you? Therefore, we will burn down your house.” 2 And he […]

1 And again, the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. And he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years. 2 Now there was a certain man from Zorah, and of the stock of Dan, whose name was Manoah, having a barren wife. 3 And an Angel […]

1 Then Samson descended to Timnah. And seeing there a woman from the daughters of the Philistines, 2 he went up, and he told his father and his mother, saying: “I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. I ask that you take her to me as wife.” 3 And his […]

1 Then, after some time, when the days of the wheat harvest were near, Samson arrived, intending to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid from the goats. And when he wanted to enter her bedroom, as usual, her father prohibited him, saying: 2 “I thought that you would hate her, and therefore […]

1 He also went into Gaza. And there he saw a harlot woman, and he entered to her. 2 And when the Philistines had heard of this, and it had become well known among them, that Samson had entered the city, they surrounded him, placing guards at the gate of the city. And there they […]

1 In that time, there was a certain man, from mount Ephraim, named Micah. 2 And he said to his mother, “The one thousand one hundred silver coins, which you had separated for yourself, and about which you had sworn in my hearing, behold, I have them, and they are with me.” And she answered […]

1 In those days, there was no king in Israel. And the tribe of Dan sought a possession for themselves, so that they might live in it. For even to that day, they had not received their lot among the other tribes. 2 Therefore, the sons of Dan sent five very strong men, of their […]

1 There was a certain man, a Levite, living beside mount Ephraim, who took a wife from Bethlehem of Judah. 2 She left him, and she returned to the house of her father in Bethlehem. And she stayed with him for four months. 3 And her husband followed her, wishing to be reconciled with her, […]

1 And so all the sons of Israel went out like one man, from Dan to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, and they gathered together, before the Lord, at Mizpah. 2 And all the chiefs of the people, and every tribe of Israel, convened as an assembly of the people of God, four hundred […]