Judges
Old Testament · 21 chapters · 619 verses
Every chapter of Judges is given below in Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX) — 619 verses in 21 chapters — each with the Greek text of the Septuagint in parallel and the translator's notes to the printed edition.
2 Church Fathers comment on Judges in this edition: Julius Africanus and Saint Methodius of Olympus. Their commentary appears on the chapter it explains.
Chapters
Chapter by Chapter
- Judges 1 And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the…
- Judges 2 And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the * place of weeping, and to Baethel, and to the house of Israel, and said to them, Thus says the…
- Judges 3 And these are the nations which the Lord left to prove Israel with them, all that had not known the wars of Chanaan.
- Judges 4 And the children of Israel continued to do evil against the Lord; and Aod was dead.
- Judges 5 And Debbora and Barac son of Abineem sang in that day, saying,
- Judges 6 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Madiam seven years.
- Judges 7 And Jerobaal rose early, the same is Gedeon, and all the people with him, and encamped at the fountain of Arad; and the camp of Madiam was to the…
- Judges 8 And the men of Ephraim said to Gedeon, What is this that you have done to us, in that you did not call us when you went to fight with Madiam? and…
- Judges 9 And Abimelech son of Jerobaal went to Sychem to his mother's brethren; and he spoke to them and to all the kindred of the house of his mother's…
- Judges 10 And after Abimelech Thola the son of Phua rose up to save Israel, being the son of * his father's brother, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Samir…
- Judges 11 And Jephthae the Galaadite was * a mighty man; and he was the son of a harlot, who bore Jephthae to Galaad.
- Judges 12 And the men of Ephraim * assembled themselves, and passed on to the north, and said to Jephthae, Therefore did you go over to fight with the children…
- Judges 13 And the children of Israel yet again committed iniquity before the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Phylistines forty years.
- Judges 14 And Sampson went down to Thamnatha, and saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the * Philistines.
- Judges 15 And it came to pass after a time, in the days of wheat harvest, that Sampson visited his wife with a kid, and said, I will go in to my wife even into…
- Judges 16 And Sampson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.
- Judges 17 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, and his name was Michaias.
- Judges 18 In those days there was no king in Israel; and in those days the tribe of Dan sought for itself an inheritance to inhabit, because no inheritance had…
- Judges 19 And there was * a Levite sojourning in the † sides of mount Ephraim, and he took to himself a ‡ concubine from Bethleem Juda.
- Judges 20 And all the children of Israel went out, and all the congregation was gathered as one man, from Dan even to Bersabee, and in the land of Galaad, to…
- Judges 21 Now the children of Israel swore in Massephath, saying, No man of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.