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Today's Bible Reading :: Judges 3 - 5 (KJV)

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Judges 3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 - Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2 - Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3 - Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:6 - And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7 - And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.

The First Judge Delivers Israel

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10 - And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:11 - And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:12 - And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:14 - So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Ehud Delivers from Moab

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:15 - But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:16 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:17 - And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:18 - And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:19 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - 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 God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21 - And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:26 - And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27 - And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30 - So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.

Shamgar Delivers from Philistines

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31 - 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 Israel.

Judges 4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:1 - And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2 - And the LORD 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4 - And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel 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?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:7 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:8 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:10 - And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:11 - Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:12 - And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:13 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And the LORD 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:20 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:21 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:23 - So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:24 - And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

Judges 5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:1 - Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:2 - Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3 - Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 - LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:5 - The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:6 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9 - My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:10 - Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:12 - Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:13 - Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:15 - And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:16 - Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 - Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:18 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:19 - The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:21 - The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:22 - Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:24 - Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:26 - She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:27 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - 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?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:29 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - 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 needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31 - So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
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