--- title: Judges — the Tanakh in Hebrew, Aramaic and English, with trees and pragmatics description: The book of Judges (שֹׁפְטִים), Nevi'im — the Prophets, in Mova's open Tanakh corpus: 21 chapters and 618 verses in Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum Jonathan) and English (JPS 1917), each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / Judges # Judges שֹׁפְטִים 21 chapters, 618 verses: Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum Jonathan) and English (JPS 1917). - [Chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/1/) — AND IT came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying: 'Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?' — 36 verses - [Chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/2/) — And the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. — 23 verses - [Chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/3/) — Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; — 31 verses - [Chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/4/) — And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. — 24 verses - [Chapter 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/5/) — Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying: — 31 verses - [Chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/6/) — And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. — 40 verses - [Chapter 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/7/) — Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside En-harod; and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by Gibeath-moreh, in the valley. — 25 verses - [Chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/8/) — And the men of Ephraim said unto him: 'Why hast thou served us thus, that thou didst not call us when thou wentest to fight with Midian?' And they did chide with him sharply. — 35 verses - [Chapter 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/9/) — And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying: — 57 verses - [Chapter 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/10/) — And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim. — 18 verses - [Chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/11/) — Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead begot Jephthah. — 40 verses - [Chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/12/) — And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed to Zaphon; and they said unto Jephthah: 'Wherefore didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire.' — 15 verses - [Chapter 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/13/) — And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. — 25 verses - [Chapter 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/14/) — And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. — 20 verses - [Chapter 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/15/) — But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said: 'I will go in to my wife into the chamber.' But her father would not suffer him to go in. — 20 verses - [Chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/16/) — And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her. — 31 verses - [Chapter 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/17/) — Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. — 13 verses - [Chapter 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/18/) — In those days there was no king in Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day there had nothing been allotted unto them among the tribes of Israel for an inheritance. — 31 verses - [Chapter 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/19/) — And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem in Judah. — 30 verses - [Chapter 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/20/) — Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD at Mizpah. — 48 verses - [Chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/21/) — Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying: 'There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.' — 25 verses - ← previous: [Joshua](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS/) - next →: [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) - ↑ back to [Nevi'im — the Prophets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/)