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for other trees.

Ex. 4.

5.

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Gal.4, .

Gideon's children: his death.

JUDGES.

Jotham s parable. 24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a 7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and cir. 1249. request of you, that ye would give me every man the stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted

up

his ear-rings of his prey: (for they had golden ear-rings, voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto elen. 24, because they were Ishmaelites.)

me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken 2 25 And they answered, We will willingly give unto you. them. And they spread a garinent, and did cast 8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king b? Kings therein every man the ear-rings of his prey.

over them : and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign 26 And the weight of the golden ear-rings that he thou over us. requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels 9 But the olive-tree said unto them, Should I leave u Kings

9 of gold, besides ornaments, and collars, and purple my fatness, 'wherewith by me they honour God and 19 160

raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and besides { man, and † go to be promoted over the trees ? e Isa. 8, 20. the chains that were about their camels' necks.

10 And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, and down 27 And Gideon e made an ephod thereof, and and reign over is. Dext . 12

, % 5 put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went 11 But the fig-tree said unto them, * Should I for- * Deut. 19, cap. 17. 6. thither a whoring after it ; which thing became 'a sake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be 2. & 32,13

ba
snare unto Gicron, and to his house.

promoted over the trees?
28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children 12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou,

of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more : and reign over us.
Deut. 7,16. and the country was in quietuess forty years in the 13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave
k ch.5, 31. days of Gideon.

my wine, 'which cheereth God and man, and go to Ps. 104, 15 29 1 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash, went and be promoted over the trees? Neh. 5, 14, "dwelt in his own house.

14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come 30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sonst of thou, and reign over us. Hells his body begotten : for he had many wives.

15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth 31 And his concubine, that was in Shechem, sheye anoint me king over you, then come and put your also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. trust in my " shadow; and if not, let "fire come out 12

32 And Gideon, the son of Joash, died in " a good of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. n Ex. 15,9 n Gen. 18, old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his 16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sii.- Dan. & 15 Job 5, 26. father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

cerely in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if 2 Kings 33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and 2Chr. 2, 8. dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith hands; their god.

17 (For my father fought for you, and fadventured Heb creste 34 And the children of Israel P remembered not his life far,and delivered you out of the hand of Midian; from ova 106, 13, the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of 18 And ye are risen up against my father's house Esth. 1, 12

the hands of all their enemies on every side : this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten

35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, p eh 8,2 Eccl . 9,14, Jerubbaal, namely Gideon, according to all the good- the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of ness which he had shewed unto Israel.

Shechem, because he is your brother ;)
CHAPTER JX.

19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with
Abimelech, by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye
of his brethren, is made king.

in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;
A ND Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal, went to 20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech,

Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of
communed with them, and with all the family of the Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem,
house of his mother's father, saying,

and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. 2 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of 21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Shechem, Whether is better for you either that all the Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his Josh 19,8 sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten per-brother. sons, reigil over you, or that one reign over you? 22 1 When Abimelech had reigned three years remember also that I am your hone and your flesh.

over Israel, 3 And his mother's brethren spake of him in the 23 Then God sent an "evil spirit between Abi- Kingitus ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and melech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Thess. 2 their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they Shechem * dealt treacherously with Abimelech : said, He is our brother

24 That the cruelty lone to the threescore and 4 And they gave him threescore and ten pieces often sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be Hosea 10,2 4.2 Chr.11, silver out of the house of Baal-berith ; wherewith laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; Is.38, 1.

Abimelech hired 'vain and light persons, which fol- and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in Mat. 1, 2 lowed him.

the killing of his brethren. 5 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, 25 And the men of Shechem set ? liers in wait for Esther_25. and • slew his brethren, the sons of Jerubbaal, being him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all Mat. 23, S4

. threrscore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwith-that came along that way by them: and it was told 2Josh. 8,21. 13. $ 11, 21. standing, yet Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, Abimelech. * Ijah.king. was left: for he hid himself.

26 And Gaal, the son of Ebed, came with his
6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men
and all the house of 'Millo, and went and † made of Shechiem put their confidence in him.
Abimelech king, by the || plain of the pillar that was 27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered
in Shechem.

their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made 'mer- Amo: 6, id

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a city, verse 41.

rJer. 50, 48.

1 Heb. us thine hand shall Endling Lev. 2528

21.
Job 31, 3

Gaal's conspiracy.
CHAPTER X.

Abimelech slain.
ry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat į 47 And it was told Abimelech that all the men of Before
CHRIST
Gr. 1203." and drink, and cursed Abimelech.

the tower of Shechem were gathered together. 28 And Gaal, the son of Ebed, said, "Who is 48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, che 23. Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should she and all the people that were with him; and Abim- » Ps. *, 1 ?

serve him? Is not he the son of Jerubbaal ? and Ze-elech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough
bul his officer ? Serve the men of Hamor, the father from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder,
of Shechem; for why should we serve him? and said unto the people that were with him, What ye

29 And would to God this people were under my have seen t me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
hand! "then would I remove Abimelech. And he said 49 And all the people likewise cut down every man hecte done.
to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out. his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to

30 And when Zebul, the ruler of the city, heard the the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them ; so that words of Gaal, the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about

31 And he sent messengers unto Abimelech † pri- a thousand men and women. 40. Kings vily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed, and his 50 Then went Abimelech.too Thebez, and enkom. 1, so brethren, be come to Shechem; and, behold, they camped against Thebėz, and took it.

22 Sam. 11, 1 Ileb with fortify the city against thee.

51 But there was a strong tower within the city, 32 Now, therefore, up by night, thou and the peo- and thither filed all the men and women, and all they mak, itupple that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field: of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to

33 And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the top of the tower.
the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the 52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought
city: and, behold,zohen he and the people that is with against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower
him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to to burn it with fire.
them tas thou shalt find occasion.

53 And a certain 'woman cast a piece of a “mill- 1 Cor. 1, 27. 34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that stone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to break his 2 Sam. 11,

were with him, by night, and they laid wait against scull. Sam. 137. Shechem in four † companies.

54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his 11 Saki. 31, 35 And Gaal, the son of Ebed, went out, and stood 'armour-bearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, in the entering of the gate of the cityand Abimelech and slay me, that "men say not of me, A woman , Sam. 10

and the people that were with him, from lying slew him. And his young man thrust bim through,
in wait.

and he died.
36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Ze- 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abime-
bul, Behold, there come people down from the top of lech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou 56 * Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abim- Rev. 9, 20, I Mark 8, 24. ' seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men. elech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his

37 And Gaal spake again, and said, See, there come seventy brethren.

people down by the middle of the land, and another 57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did I Or, star company come along by the plain of Ji Meonenim. God render upon their heads : and upon them came 2.

38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy the 'curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. juggleri." mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech,

CHAPTER X. k verse 23. that we should serve him? Is not this the people that

Tola judgeth Israel in Shamir.

ND after there , to with them.

39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in Bieb. , 4. and fought with Abimelech.

mount Ephraim.
40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before 2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years,
him; and many were overthrown and wounded, even and died, and was buried in Shamir.
unto the entering of the gate.

3 And after him arose Jairo a Gileadite, and judg41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah : and Zebul { cd Israel twenty and two years. I verse 28. thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should 4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass- Num.32,32

. not dwell in Shechem.

cofts, and they had thirty cities, which are called dch. 5, 10. 42 And it came to pass on the morrow that the peo- . Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Los chat ple went out into the field; and they told Abimelech. Gilead. is one of 43 And he took the people, and divided them into 5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

three companies, and laid wait in the field, and look- 6 1 And the children of Israel did evil' again in fchap.2, 11

ed, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ash- g ch. 2, 13 ne212 city, and he rose up against them, and smote them. taroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, h ch. 2, tin

44 And Abimelech, and the † company that was and the gods of 'Moab, and the gods of the children

with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and for- 11,33. W.12,5 of the gate of the city: and the two other companies sook the LORD, and served not him. Zep. 2,5 ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and 7 And the anger of the LORD was het against Isslew them.

rael, and he'sold them into the hands of the Philis- I ch. 2, 11 45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that tines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

day: and he took the city, and slew the people that 8 And || that year they vexed and oppressed the heat Indef the

was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it children of Israel " eighteen years, all the children
with salt.

of Israel that were on the other side Jordan, in the
46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead :
ja sis" heard that, they entered into a hold of the house of 9 (Moreover, the children of Ammon" passed over
the god Berith.

Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Ben

y verses 6, 24.

1 Heb. road.

2 Josh. 6,

gurers, soothsayers,

verse 20.
1 Kings 16,
SL.

thou hast despised ? go out, I pray now, and fight A spaen, Tola

the son of Puah, the son of Dodo,

h

CHRIST cir. 1183.

Before CHRIST cir. 1148.

uch. 3. 3.

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$ 1 Kings
1, 27.
2 kings 3,
19.
Jer. 2, 29.

Ps. 68, 30. & 120, 7.

o Deut. 1, 10.

I 1 Sam. 3, 13.

Acts 24, 11,

Jephthah's covenant :

JUDGES.

His embassy to the king of Anmon. Hefore jamin, and against the house of Ephraim ;) so that { and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD Israel was sore distressed.

in Mizpeh.
10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, 12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king

{
saying, We have sinned against thee, both because of the children of Aminon, saying, What hast thou to Heb. 11,s!
we h‘ive forsaken our God, and also served Baalim. { do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in 1 Deut. 2,
11 And the LORD P said unto the children of Israel, my land ?

३ siicane, 3 Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from 13 And the king of the children of Ammon answer

the Amorites, from the children of Ainmon, and from ed unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel 25. 9 Deut. 32, the Philistines ?

took away my land when they came up out of Egypt, Prov. 13,'3 12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and from Arnon even unto - Jabbok, and unto Jordan : 1 Num. 21, 5 Jer. 18, 7, the Maonites, did oppress you ;, and ye cried to me, ş now, therefore, restore those lunds again peaceably. 13, 15. Jonah 3, t. and I delivered you out of their hand.

14 And Jephthah sent messengers " again unto the
13 Yet ye have ? forsaken me, and served other king of the children of Ammon,
gods : wherefore I will deliver you no more.

15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Is-
14 Goand cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; rael took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of Rom. 1218
let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation. the children of Ammon.

15 And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, 16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and Neb. 6, 8. Sam. 15, We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth walked through the wilderness unto the Red Sca, and 12. Acte 21, 14. good unto thee;deliver us "only, we pray thee, thisday. came to P Kadesh;

16 And they put away the strange gods from 17 Then Israel scnt messengers unto the king of Num. 13, 18. among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy grieved for the misery of Israel.

land: but the king of Edom would not hearken 29. 17. Then the children of Anmon were gathered thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king together, and encamped in Gilead : and the children of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode of Israel ' assembled themselves together, and en-in Kadesh. camped in ^ Mizpeh.

18 Then they went along through the wilderness, 18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one and compassed the land of Edom and the land of b) ch. 11, 6. to another, What man is he that will begin to fight Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, e Neut. 20, against the children of Ammon? he shall be leads and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but' came not Ps. 34, 14, over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border 13. CHAPTER XI.

of Moab.
The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites. 19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sibon king of
COW - Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty the Ainorites, the king of Heshbon ; and Israel said

man of valour, and he was the son of a harlot : unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land
anci Gilead begat Jephthah.

unto my place. 2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons: and his wife's 20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his ch. 10, 3. sons grew up, and they thrust ont Jephthah, and said coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and the Num. 21,

unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
for thou (ert the son of a strange woman.

21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sibon
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they 36.

in the land of "Tob: and there were gathered 'vainsmote them : so Israel possessed all the land of the Num. 21, Prov. 2, 16. men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. 4 And it came to pass t in process of time, that the 22 And they possessed "all the coasts of the Am- Jer

. 18

, 7. 2 Sam. 10, children of Ammon made war against Israel. orites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the

5 And it was so, that when the children of Ainmon wilderness even unto Jordan. i sam.:27, 2 made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to 23 So now the Lord God of Israel hath disposHeb. afrer fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

sessed the Amorites from before his pcople Israel, and their moderne 6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our shouldest thou possess it? captain, that we may fight with the children of 21 Wilt not thou possess that' which Chemosh thy Deut

. 23, 4 Ammon.

god giveth thee to possess ? So whosoever the Josh. 24, 7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did { LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them *Hes stronot ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house will we possess. and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in 25 And now, art thout any thing better than Ba- 24. distress?

lak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever from the 8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, št strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them, or f Luke 17,5. Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou may- 26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, some years

est go with us, and fight against the children of Am- and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that even is, is mon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of be along by the coasts of Arnon, || three hundred years? verse 16. Gilead.

why therefore did ye not recover them within that time? 9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If 27 Wherefore I have not simned against thee, but 25. ye bring me home again to fight against the childrenthou doest me wrong to war against me: the Lord Psal

. so

, &. of Ammon, and the Lord deliver them before me," the Judge * be judge this day between the children shall I be your head ?

of Israel and the children of Ammon. 10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, 28 How beit the king of the children of Ammon Me hearer The Lordt be witness between us, if we do not so hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he Deut. 1, d. according to thy words.

6

Before CHRIST

1143.

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That is, • stream, or,

1 That is,
kallowed
or, sera-
tud.

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37.

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Eccl101

komatter to be consecrated to God. Lev. 27, 11.

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Job 1, 20.

I cb. 1, 35.
1 Chron. 6,
€9. & 8, 13.

Jephthah's rash vou.
CHAPTER XII....XIII.

The Ephraimites sluir. passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh off. 5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon. } before the Ephraimites : and it was so, that when

30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, those Ephraimites which were escaped, said, Let me and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children go over,

that the men of Gilead said unto him, Ait 5 ch. 7, 24. Gal. 4, 18. of Ammon into mine hands,

thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay ; 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth 6 Then said they unto bim, Say now || Shibboleth ; forening of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return and he said Sibboleth: for he could "not frame to Psalm 69,2 in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely I be pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew Ma. 2€, 73 the Lord's, and I will offer it up || for a burnt-offering.} him at the passages of Jordan ; and there fell at that 1 Mal 12,

32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of time of the Ephraimites' forty and two thousand. offered, Anmon, to fight against them; and the Lord de- 71 And Jephthah judged Israel six years : then loci. 18. 19. livered them into his hands.

died Jephthah the Gilea:lite, and was buried in one 33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou of the cities of Gilead. Isaiah 66, 3 come to o Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the 8 And after him Ibzan of"Beth-lehem judged Israel. k. Gen. 35, Deut. 8, plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. 9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, Josh. 19, 14

Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters Ezek. 27, the children of Israel.

from abroad for his sons: and he judged Israel seven
34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, years.
{EX. 15, 20, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with 10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth-lehem.

I timbrels and with dances; and she was his only 11 And after him Elon a Zebulonite judged Israel;
child : besides her he bad neither son nor daughter." } and he judged Israel ten years.

35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he 12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried
& rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou in Ajalon, in' the country of Zebulun.

hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them 13 And after him Abdon, the son of Hillila i i Ecel. 5, 2 that "trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto Pirathonite, judged Israel. Ps. 15, 4 the Lord, and I cannot go back.

14 And he had forty sons, and thirty nephews, that 36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast rode on threescore and ten ass-colts: and he judged & 10, 4. 1 Cor. 7, 25 opened thy mouth unto the LORD, 'do to me accogl- Israel eight years.

Is. 68, 3. ing to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; 15 And Abdon, the son of Hillel the Pirathonite, Heb. 11, 32 forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee died, and was buried in Pirathon, in the land of of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. Ephraim, in the mount of the · Amalekites.

1 Sam. 13,7 37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be

CHAPTER XIII.
Luke 1, 25 done for me: Let me alone two months, that I may 1 Israel is in the hand of the Philistines....24 Samson is born.

I
gonup and down upon the mountains, and bewail Aigle of the LORD ; and the Lord delivered

ND the children of evil again the
my virginity, I and my fellows.

38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for them into the hand of the Philistines · forty years.

two months; and she went with her companions, and 2 And there was a certain man of " Zorah, of the o verse 31. bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and 33. 39 And it came to pass, at the end of two months, his wife was barren, and bare not. that she returned unto her father, who did with her

3 And the dangel of the LORD appeared unto the < 25, 21 according to his vow which he had vowed : and she woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art bar- 1.Sam.17." Lap. 6, 11. knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, ren, and bearest not: but thou shalte conceive, and

40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly 1 to bear a son. lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four 4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and 'drink not e Ps. 127,3 days in a year.

wine nor strong drink, and eat not anys unclean thing : - Num.6,2 CHAPTER XII.

5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son ; and 3 The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephthah, and discernedno razor shall come on his head : for the child shall & Lev. 11, 1. by Shibboleth, are slain by the Gileadites.

be 'a Nazarite unto God from the womb; and he h Num.6A ND. the men of Ephraim gathered themselves shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the 1 Sam.1.18.

together, and went a northward, and said unto Philistines. 109. Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight 6 Then the woman came, and told her husband, 1 Bam. 5,

against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us saying, 'A man of Gou came unto me, and his coun- 2 San. 8, 1.

to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon tenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, c. 11, 12 thee with fire.

very terrible ; but I asked him not whence he was, 2 Kingda
2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people neither told be me his name.
were at great strife with the children of Ammon ; 7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt con- m 1 Tim. 2
and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of ceive, and bear a son ; and now drink no wine nor
their hands.

strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing : for the
3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to
my life in my hands, and passed over against the chil- & the day of his death.
dren of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my 8 Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, (

hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send Sch11, 2e day to fight against me?

come again unto us, and "teach us what we shall do * Then Jephthah gathered together all the men unto the child that shall be born. of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim : and the men of 9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah : Pena

Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, 'Ye Gil- and the angel of God came again unto the woman as Ma: 1,7 Mehrizis cadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraim- she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not ites, and anong the Manassites.

with her.

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( Ex. 3,22 Psal. 115, 3

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JUDGES

His marriage-feast. 10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines ? And

P
Cir. her shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she

man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the pleaseth me well.
hther day.

4 But his father and his mother knew not that it is
11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, wus' of the Lord that he sought an occasion against Be.14.12.
and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the Philistines : for 5 at that time the Philistines had
the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, dominion over Israel.
I am.

5 Then went Samson down, and his father and g ch. 18, 12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of h ch. 13, 5

pass : how shall we order the child and t how shall Timnath : and, behold, † a young lion roared against judgment we do unto him? him.

young of B 13 And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, 6 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon a ticaring

i Eph.oh. Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, ing.

14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his i 1 Sam. 19

I vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor father or his mother what he had done. 5. Mat. 23, eat any unclean thing :' all that I commanded her 7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; k Zech. 4,6 let her observe.

and she pleased Samson well. 15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, 8 And after a time he returned to take her, and 1 Mat 1, 20.

! I pray thee, let us detain thee until we shall have he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion; and,

;
made ready a kids for thee.

behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the
16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, carcase of the lion.
Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread 9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on

;
Prov. 18, 2 and if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering; thou must offer eating, and came to his father and mother, and he

it“ unto the LORD: for Manoah knew not that he was gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them
an angel of the LORD.

that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the
17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, lien.
2 Kings 14

, What is thy name, that, when thy sayings come to 10 So his father went down unto the woman ; and n 1 Sam. 19 pass, we may 'do thee honour ?

Samson made there a "feast ; for so used the young 18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why men to do.

askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is || secret? 11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that Heb.pili

19 So Manoah took a kid, with a mcat-offering, they brought thirty companions to be with him. y ch.6, 26, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD : and the 12 And Samson said unto them, I will now put dle, z Josh.5,13

. angel did ? wondrously ; and Manoah and his wife forth † a riddle unto you: if you can certainly declare Ecck: 17,7. chap. 15,15. looked on.

it ine within the seven days of the feast, and find it

p Gen. 29 20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up out, then I will give you thirty || sheets, and thirty 27. toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the change of garments: Lord ascended in the flame of the altar: and Ma- 13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye garments, noah and his wife looked on it, and a fell on their give me thirty sheets, and thirty change of garments. Mark 14,51. faces to the ground.

And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we Luke 21 (But the angel of the Lord did no more appear may hear it. to Manoah and to his wife.) Then Manoah knew 14 And he said unto them, + Out of the eater came ing went that he was an angel of the LORD.

forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweet- the cater, chap. 6, 22. 22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely ness. And they could not in three days expound the license

John $.2 . Sam. 15, 6 die, because we have seen God.

riddle.

9 Job 31, 27. 23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that Prov. 16, 3 pleased to kill us," he would not have received a they said unto Samson's wife, . Entice thy husband,

burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands; nei-that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we vurn e Ps. 86, 17. ther would he have shewed us all these things, nor thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called

would, as at this time, have told us such things as us to take that we have ? is it not so ?
these.

16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said,
24 And the woman bare a son, and called his Thou dost but 'hate me, and lovest me not : thou

name Samson ; and the child grew, and the LORD hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, Mat. 4, ?. blessed him.

and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Be-
25 And the Spirit of the Lord began'to move him hold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and
at times in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and shall I tell it thee ?
Eshtaol.

17 And she wept before him the seven days, while
CHAPTER XIV.

their feast lasted : and it came to pass on the seventh Samson desireth a wife of the Philistines.

day that he told her, because she lay sore upon him ;
AND Samson went datin to the mamath and save and she told the riddle to the children of ben: people

Timnath of daughters of the 18 him on the
Philistines.

seventh day, before the sun went down, What is 2 And he came up and told his father and his sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a Micah 1,5 Isaian 55,8 mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of lion ? And he said unto them, If ye had not "plowed

} sien. 21, the daughters of the Philistines; now, therefore,' get with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. her for me to wife.

19 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and och. 1, 12 3 Thes, his father and his mother said unto him, Is he went down to' Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of 4, 8. there never a woman among the daughters of thy them, and took their spoil, and gave change of gai

} brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to ments unto them which expounded the riddle: and