Deborah 1-3 The People of Israel kept right on doing evil inGod’s sight. With Ehud dead,Godsold them off to Jabin king of Canaan who ruled from Hazor. Sisera, who lived…

1 That day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song: 2 When they let down their hair in Israel, they let it blow wild in the wind. The…

Gideon 1-6 Yet again the People of Israel went back to doing evil inGod’s sight.Godput them under the domination of Midian for seven years. Midian overpowered Israel. Because of Midian,…

1 Jerub-Baal (Gideon) got up early the next morning, all his troops right there with him. They set up camp at Harod’s Spring. The camp of Midian was in the…

1 Then the Ephraimites said to Gideon, “Why did you leave us out of this, not calling us when you went to fight Midian?” They were indignant and let him…

1-2 Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to his uncles and all his mother’s relatives and said to them, “Ask all the leading men of Shechem, ‘What do you…

Tola 1-2 Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, was next after Abimelech. He rose to the occasion to save Israel. He was a man of Issachar. He lived…

1-3 Jephthah the Gileadite was one tough warrior. He was the son of a whore, but Gilead was his father. Meanwhile Gilead’s legal wife had given him other sons, and…

1 The men of Ephraim mustered their troops, crossed to Zaphon, and said to Jephthah, “Why did you go out to fight the Ammonites without letting us go with you?…

Samson 1 And then the People of Israel were back at it again, doing what was evil inGod’s sight.Godput them under the domination of the Philistines for forty years. 2-5…