1 The acts of Judah and Simeon.
4 Adonibezek justly requited.
8 Jerusalem taken.
10 Hebron taken.
11 Othniel has Achsah to wife for taking of Debir.
16 The Kenites dwell in Judah.
17 Hormah, Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron taken.
21 The acts of Benjamin.
22 Of the house of Joseph, who take Beth-el.
30 Of Zebulun.
31 Of Asher.
33 Of Naphtali.
34 Of Dan.
1 An angel rebukes the people at Bochim.
6 The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua.
14 God's anger and pity towards them.
20 The Canaanites left to prove Israel.
1 The nations which were left to prove Israel.
5 By communion with them they commit idolatry.
8 Othniel delivered them from Chushan-rishathaim;
12 Ehud from Eglon;
31 and Shamgar from the Philistines.
1 Deborah and Barak deliver them from Jabin and Sisera.
17 Jael kills Sisera.
1 The Song of Deborah and Barak.
1 The Israelites for their sin are oppressed by Midian.
8 A prophet rebukes them.
11 An angel sends Gideon for their deliverance.
17 Gideon's present is consumed with fire.
24 Gideon destroys Baal's altar, and offers a sacrifice upon the altar Jehovah-shalom.
28 Joash defends his son, and calls shim Jerubbaal.
33 Gideon's army.
36 Gideon's signs.
1 Gideon's army of two and thirty thousand is brought to three hundred.
9 He is encouraged by the dream and interpretation of the burley cake.
16 His stratagem of trumpets and lamps in pitchers.
24 The Ephraimites take Oreb and Zeeb.
1 Gideon pacifies the Ephraimites.
4 Succoth and Penuel refuse to deliver Gideon's army.
10 Zebah and Zalmunna are taken.
13 Succoth and Penuel are destroyed.
17 Gideon revenges his brethren's death on Zebah and Zalmunna.
22 He refuses government.
24 His ephod the cause of idolatry.
28 Midian subdued.
29 Gideon's children, and death.
33 The Israelites' idolatry and ingratitude.
1 Abimelech by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder of his brethren, is made king.
7 Jotham by a parable rebukes them, and foretells their ruin.
22 Gaal conspires with the Shechemites against him.
30 Zebul reveals it.
34 Abimelech overcomes them, and sows the city with salt.
46 He burns the hold of the god Berith.
50 At Thebez he is slain by a piece of a millstone.
56 Jotham's curse if fulfilled.
1 Tola judges Israel in Shamir.
3 Jair, whose thirty sons had thirty cities.
6 The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel.
10 In their misery God sends them to their false gods.
15 Upon their repentance he pities them.
1 The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites, that he should be their head.
12 The treaty of peace between him and the Ammonites is in vain.
29 Jephthah's vow.
32 His conquest of the Ammonites.
34 He performs his vow on his daughter.
1 The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephthah, and discerned by Shibboleth, are slain by the Gileadites.
7 Jephthah dies.
8 Ibzan, who had thirty sons, and thirty daughters;
11 and Elon;
13 and Abdon, who had forty sons, and thirty nephews, judge Israel.
1 Israel is delivered into the hands of Philistines.
2 An angel appears to Manoah's wife.
8 The angel appears to Manoah.
15 Manoah's sacrifices, whereby the angel is discovered.
24 Samson is born.
1 Samson desires a wife of the Philistines.
6 In his journey he kills a lion.
8 In a second journey he finds honey in the carcase.
10 Samson's marriage feast.
12 His riddle by his wife is made known.
19 He spoils thirty Philistines.
20 His wife is married to another.
1 Samson is denied his wife.
3 He burns the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands.
6 His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines.
7 Samson smites them hip and thigh.
9 He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines.
14 He kills them with a jawbone.
18 God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi.
1 Samson at Gaza escapes, and carries away the gates of the city.
4 Delilah, corrupted by the Philistines, entices Samson.
6 Thrice she is deceived.
15 At last she overcomes him.
21 The Philistines take him, and put out his eyes.
22 His strength renewing he pulls down the house upon the Philistines, and dies.
1 Of the money that Micah first stole, then restored, his mother makes images;
5 and he ornaments for them.
7 He hires a Levite to be his priest.
1 The Danites send five men to seek out an inheritance.
3 At the house of Micah they consult with Jonathan, and are encouraged on their way.
7 They search Laish, and bring back news of good hope.
11 Six hundred men are sent to surprise it.
14 In their way they rob Micah of his priest and his consecrated things.
27 They win Laish, and call it Dan.
30 They set up idolatry, wherein Jonathan inherits the priesthood.
1 A Levite goes to Beth-lehem to fetch home his concubine.
16 An old man entertains him at Gibeah.
22 The Gibeonites abuse his concubine to death.
29 He divides her into twelve pieces, and sends them to the twelve tribes.
1 The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong.
8 The decree of the assembly.
12 The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites.
18 The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand.
26 They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites, except six hundred.
1 The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin.
8 By the destruction of Jabesh-gilead they provide them four hundred wives.
16 They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh.