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Judges · read by Carter Conlon
73 verses, in order. Only the verses Carter read aloud are shown.
Judges 2
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Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,Read from KJV · The Miracle of Weakness
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Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.Read from KJV · The Miracle of Weakness
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Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.Read from KJV · The Miracle of Weakness
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Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.Read from KJV · The Miracle of Weakness
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Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD's commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.Read from KJV · The Miracle of Weakness
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Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.Read from KJV · The Miracle of Weakness
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But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.Read from KJV · The Miracle of Weakness
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So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, "Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,Read from KJV · The Miracle of Weakness
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In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did."Read from KJV · The Miracle of Weakness
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That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
Judges 3
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These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
Judges 4
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After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.Read from ESV · The Devil in Your Tent
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And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabin's army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.'"Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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Then Deborah said to Barak, "Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?" So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.Read from ESV · The Devil in Your Tent
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Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, "Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid." So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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Sisera said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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"Stand at the entrance to the tent," he said, "and if anyone comes and asks you, 'Is there a man here?' say, 'No.'"Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber's wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking." So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
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And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
Judges 5
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"When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD.Read from KJV · The Willingness That Precedes the Glory
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Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.Read from NKJV · The Devil in Your Tent
Judges 6
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Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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He sent them a prophet, who told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, "The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor."Read from ESV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
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But the LORD said to him, "Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die."Read from NKJV · The Parting of the Third Veil
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Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering."Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
Judges 7
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Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.Read from KJV · A Biscuit at a Banquet
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His friend replied: "This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand."Read from KJV · A Biscuit at a Banquet
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The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!"Read from KJV · Resurrecting the Voices of Victory
Judges 8
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And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
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The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
Judges 9
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And when his mother's brothers spoke all these words about him in the presence of all the leaders of Shechem, their hearts were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our brother."Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
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So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
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for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
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but you have risen up against my father's house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
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But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech."Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
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Then Jotham ran away, escaping to Beer, and he lived there for fear of his brother Abimelech.Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
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In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
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And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.Read from KJV · Placing Your Enemies in the Hands of God
Judges 15
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He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.Read from NKJV · A Dry Bone In The Hand Of God
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Then Samson said: "With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men."Read from NKJV · A Dry Bone In The Hand Of God
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And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, "You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"Read from NKJV · A Dry Bone In The Hand Of God
Judges 16
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So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."Read from KJV · Is Darkness Celebrating Above Your Head?
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When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: "Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.Read from KJV · Grinding in the Prison House
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And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.Read from KJV · Grinding in the Prison House
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Then she called out, "Samson, the Philistines are here!" When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, "I will escape as I did before and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.Read from KJV · Grinding in the Prison House
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Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.Read from KJV · Grinding in the Prison House
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Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands."Read from KJV · Is Darkness Celebrating Above Your Head?
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And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: "Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead."Read from KJV · It's Time to Call Off the Party
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And while their hearts were merry, they said, "Call for Samson to entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.Read from KJV · Is Darkness Celebrating Above Your Head?
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Samson said to the servant who held his hand, "Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them."Read from KJV · It's Time to Call Off the Party
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Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.Read from KJV · It's Time to Call Off the Party
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Then Samson called out to the LORD: "O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes."Read from KJV · It's Time to Call Off the Party
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And Samson reached out for the two central pillars supporting the temple. Bracing himself against them with his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other,Read from KJV · It's Time to Call Off the Party
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Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.Read from KJV · It's Time to Call Off the Party
Judges 21
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In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.Read from KJV · May the Lord Give You a Full Reward