Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

Judges

21 chapters

Chapters

Judges 1

After the death of Josue the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?

And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever:

Judges 3

These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

Judges 4

And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord after the death of Aod,

Judges 5

In that day Debbora and Barac son of Abinoem sung, and said:

Judges 6

And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years.

Judges 7

Then Jerobaal, who is the same as Gedeon, rising up early and all the people with him, came to the fountain that is called Harad. Now the camp of Madian was in the valley on the north side of the high hill.

Judges 8

And the men of Ephraim said to him: What is this that thou meanest to do, that thou wouldst not call us when thou wentest to fight against Madian? and they chid him sharply and almost offered violence.

Judges 9

And Abimelech the son of Jerobaal went to Sichem to his mother’s brethren and spoke to them, and to all the kindred of his mother’s father, saying:

Judges 10

After Abimelech there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola son of Phua the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim:

Judges 11

There was at that time Jephte the Galaadite, a most valiant man and a warrior, the son of a woman that was a harlot, and his father was Galaad.

Judges 12

But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards the north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the children of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we will burn thy house.

Judges 13

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.

Judges 14

Then Samson went down to Thamnatlia, and seeing there a woman of the daughters of the Philistines,

Judges 15

And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at hand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid of the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber as usual, her father would not suffer him, saying:

Judges 16

He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman a harlot, and went in unto her.

Judges 17

There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim whose name was Michas,

Judges 18

In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of Dan sought them an inheritance to dwell in: for unto that day they had not received their lot among the other tribes.

Judges 19

There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:

Judges 20

Then all the children of Israel went out and gathered together as one man from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha:

Judges 21

Now the children of Israel had also sworn in Maspha, saying: None of us shall give of his daughters to the children of Benjamin to wife.