These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Judges 3
Tanakh 31 verses
- 1 Now these are the nations which left, to prove by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of ;
- 2 only that the generations of the children of might , to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;
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namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Zidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entrance of Hamath.
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Joshua 13:3 Joshua 13:5 Judges 10:12 Judges 4:23-24 Genesis 10:15-19 1 Samuel 4:1-2 Deuteronomy 3:9 Deuteronomy 1:7 Numbers 34:8 Joshua 11:3 Numbers 13:29 1 Samuel 6:18 1 Samuel 13:19-23 Genesis 49:13 Judges 18:7 Judges 10:7 1 Samuel 29:2 Judges 14:4 1 Samuel 13:5 Judges 4:2 Joshua 19:28 Joshua 11:8-13 -
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And they were there, to prove by them, to whether they would hearken unto the commandments of , which He commanded their fathers by the hand of .
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- 5 And the children of dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
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and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their Elohims.
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- 7 And the children of did that which was evil in the sight of , and forgot their , and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.
- 8 Therefore the anger of was kindled against , and He gave them over into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim of Aram-naharaim; and the children of served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
- 9 And when the children of cried unto , raised up a saviour to the children of , who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
- 10 And the of came upon him, and he judged ; and he went out to war, and delivered Cushan-rishathaim of Aram into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Cushan-rishathaim.
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And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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- 12 And the children of again did that which was evil in the sight of ; and strengthened Eglon the of against , because they had done that which was evil in the sight of .
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And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and smote , and they possessed the city of palm-trees.
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And the children of served Eglon the of eighteen years.
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- 15 But when the children of cried unto , raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed; and the children of sent a present by him unto Eglon the of .
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And Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
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And he offered the present unto Eglon of —now Eglon was a very fat man.
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- 18 And when he had made an end of the present, he sent away the people that bore the present.
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But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by , and said: ‘I have a secret errand unto thee, O .’ And he said: ‘Keep silence.’ And all that stood by him went out from him.
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And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber. And Ehud said: ‘I have a message from unto thee.’ And he arose out of his seat.
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And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.
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- 22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, for he drew not the sword out of his belly; and it came out behind.
- 23 Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and locked them.
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Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they, said: ‘Surely he is covering his feet in the cabinet of the cool chamber.’
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- 25 And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the upper chamber; therefore they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
- 26 And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.
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And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a horn in the hill-country of , and the children of went down with him from the hill-country, and he before them.
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And he said unto them: ‘Follow after me; for hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.’ And they went down after him, and took the fords of the against the Moabites, and suffered not a man to pass over.
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And they smote of at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valour; and there escaped not a man.
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So was subdued that day under the hand of . And the land had rest fourscore years.
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- 31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad; and he also saved .