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Judges · read by James Jennings
52 verses, in order. Only the verses James read aloud are shown.
Judges 1
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The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
Judges 2
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Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, "I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, 'I will never break My covenant with you,Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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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 ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
Judges 6
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Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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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 ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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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 ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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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 · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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"Please, my Lord," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, 'Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian."Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?"Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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"Please, my Lord," Gideon replied, "how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's house."Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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And the angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." And Gideon did so.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he said, "Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!"Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, "Take your father's young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father's altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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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 ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal's altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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"Who did this?" they said to one another. And after they had investigated thoroughly, they were told, "Gideon son of Joash did it."Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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But Joash said to all who stood against him, "Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar."Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, "Let Baal contend with him," because he had torn down Baal's altar.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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Calling them to arms, Gideon sent messengers throughout Manasseh, as well as Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, so that they came up to meet him.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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Then Gideon said to God, "If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said."Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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And that is what happened. When Gideon arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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Then Gideon said to God, "Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew."Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
Judges 7
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Then the LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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And the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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Then the LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home."Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams' horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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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 ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. "Behold, I had a dream," he said, "and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed."Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram's horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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"Watch me and do as I do," Gideon said. "When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do exactly as I do.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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When I and all who are with me blow our horns, then you are also to blow your horns from all around the camp and shout, 'For the LORD and for Gideon!'"Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.Read from ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
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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 ESV · The Lord's Patience Towards Fearful Gideon
Judges 13
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"We are going to die," he said to his wife, "for we have seen God!"Read from ESV · Does Your Conduct Convict the Lost to Come to Christ
Judges 19
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But the man was unwilling to spend the night. He got up and departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, "Please, let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here."Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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But his master replied, "We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah."Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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"Get up," he told her. "Let us go." But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
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When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding
Judges 20
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Behold, all you Israelites, give your advice and verdict here and now."Read from ESV · Going Deeper Than Intellectual Understanding