Judges 1-3
The Message
1A time came after the death of Joshua when the People of Israel asked GOD, "Who will take the lead in going up against the Canaanites to fight them?"
3The men of Judah said to those of their brother Simeon, "Go up with us to our territory and we'll fight the Canaanites. Then we'll go with you to your territory." And Simeon went with them.
4So Judah went up. GOD gave them the Canaanites and the Perizzites. They defeated them at Bezek—ten military units!
5They caught up with My-Master-Bezek there and fought him. They smashed the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
7My-Master-Bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to crawl under my table, scavenging. Now God has done to me what I did to them." They brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.
8The people of Judah attacked and captured Jerusalem, subduing the city by sword and then sending it up in flames.
9After that they had gone down to fight the Canaanites who were living in the hill country, the Negev, and the foothills.
10Judah had gone on to the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba) and brought Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai to their knees.
11From there they had marched against the population of Debir (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher).
12Caleb had said, "Whoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and takes it, I'll give my daughter Acsah to him as his wife."
14When she arrived she got him to ask for farm land from her father. As she dismounted from her donkey Caleb asked her, "What would you like?"
15She said, "Give me a marriage gift. You've given me desert land; Now give me pools of water!" And he gave her the upper and the lower pools.
16The people of Hobab the Kenite, Moses' relative, went up with the people of Judah from the City of Palms to the wilderness of Judah at the descent of Arad. They settled down there with the Amalekites.
17The people of Judah went with their kin the Simeonites and struck the Canaanites who lived in Zephath. They carried out the holy curse and named the city Curse-town.
19GOD was certainly with Judah in that they took over the hill country. But they couldn't oust the people on the plain because they had iron chariots.
21But the people of Benjamin couldn't get rid of the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. Benjaminites and Jebusites live side by side in Jerusalem to this day.
24The spies saw a man leaving the city and said to him, "Show us a way into the city and we'll treat you well."
27But Manasseh never managed to drive out Beth Shan, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, and Megiddo with their territories. The Canaanites dug in their heels and wouldn't budge.
28When Israel became stronger they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they never got rid of them.
29Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. The Canaanites stuck it out and lived there with them.
30Nor did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites in Kitron or Nahalol. They kept living there, but they were put to forced labor.
33Naphtali fared no better. They couldn't drive out the people of Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath so they just moved in and lived with them. They did, though, put them to forced labor.
35The Amorites stubbornly continued to live in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph got the upper hand, they were put to forced labor.
2GOD's angel went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you out of Egypt; I led you to the land that I promised to your fathers; and I said, I'll never break my covenant with you—never!
2And you're never to make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Tear down their altars! But you haven't obeyed me! What's this that you're doing?
3"So now I'm telling you that I won't drive them out before you. They'll trip you up and their gods will become a trap."
4When GOD's angel had spoken these words to all the People of Israel, they cried out—oh! how they wept!
6After Joshua had dismissed them, the People of Israel went off to claim their allotted territories and take possession of the land.
7The people worshiped GOD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and the time of the leaders who survived him, leaders who had been in on all of GOD's great work that he had done for Israel.
9They buried him in his allotted inheritance at Timnath Heres in the hills of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
10Eventually that entire generation died and was buried. Then another generation grew up that didn't know anything of GOD or the work he had done for Israel.
12they served Baal-gods; they deserted GOD, the God of their parents who had led them out of Egypt; they took up with other gods, gods of the peoples around them. They actually worshiped them! And oh, how they angered GOD
14GOD's anger was hot against Israel： He handed them off to plunderers who stripped them; he sold them cheap to enemies on all sides. They were helpless before their enemies.
15Every time they walked out the door GOD was with them—but for evil, just as GOD had said, just as he had sworn he would do. They were in a bad way.
17But they wouldn't listen to their judges; they prostituted themselves to other gods—worshiped them! They lost no time leaving the road walked by their parents, the road of obedience to GOD's commands. They refused to have anything to do with it.
18When GOD was setting up judges for them, he would be right there with the judge： He would save them from their enemies' oppression as long as the judge was alive, for GOD was moved to compassion when he heard their groaning because of those who afflicted and beat them.
19But when the judge died, the people went right back to their old ways—but even worse than their parents!—running after other gods, serving and worshiping them. Stubborn as mules, they didn't drop a single evil practice.
20And GOD's anger blazed against Israel. He said, "Because these people have thrown out my covenant that I commanded their parents and haven't listened to me,
22I'll use them to test Israel and see whether they stay on GOD's road and walk down it as their parents did."
3These are the nations that GOD left there, using them to test the Israelites who had no experience in the Canaanite wars.
2He did it to train the descendants of Israel, the ones who had no battle experience, in the art of war.
3He left the five Philistine tyrants, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living on Mount Lebanon from Mount Baal Hermon to Hamath's Pass.
4They were there to test Israel and see whether they would obey GOD's commands that were given to their parents through Moses.
5But the People of Israel made themselves at home among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
6They married their daughters and gave their own daughters to their sons in marriage. And they worshiped their gods.
7The People of Israel did evil in GOD's sight. They forgot their GOD and worshiped the Baal gods and Asherah goddesses.
8GOD's hot anger blazed against Israel. He sold them off to Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim. The People of Israel were in servitude to Cushan-Rishathaim for eight years.
9The People of Israel cried out to GOD and GOD raised up a savior who rescued them： Caleb's nephew Othniel, son of his younger brother Kenaz.
10The Spirit of GOD came on him and he rallied Israel. He went out to war and GOD gave him Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim. Othniel made short work of him.
12But the People of Israel went back to doing evil in GOD's sight. So GOD made Eglon king of Moab a power against Israel because they did evil in GOD's sight.
13He recruited the Ammonites and Amalekites and went out and struck Israel. They took the City of Palms.
15The People of Israel cried out to GOD and GOD raised up for them a savior, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjaminite. He was left-handed. The People of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon king of Moab.
19But when he got as far as the stone images near Gilgal, he went back and said, "I have a private message for you, O king." The king told his servants, "Leave." They all left.
20Ehud approached him—the king was now quite alone in his cool rooftop room—and said, "I have a word of God for you." Eglon stood up from his throne.
21Ehud reached with his left hand and took his sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king's big belly.
23Ehud slipped out by way of the porch and shut and locked the doors of the rooftop room behind him.
24Then he was gone. When the servants came, they saw with surprise that the doors to the rooftop room were locked. They said, "He's probably relieving himself in the restroom."
25They waited. And then they worried—no one was coming out of those locked doors. Finally, they got a key and unlocked them. There was their master, fallen on the floor, dead!
26While they were standing around wondering what to do, Ehud was long gone. He got past the stone images and escaped to Seirah.
27When he got there, he sounded the trumpet on Mount Ephraim. The People of Israel came down from the hills and joined him. He took his place at their head.
28He said, "Follow me, for GOD has given your enemies—yes, Moab!—to you." They went down after him and secured the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites. They let no one cross over.
29At that time, they struck down about ten companies of Moabites, all of them well-fed and robust. Not one escaped.
31Shamgar son of Anath came after Ehud. Using a cattle prod, he killed six hundred Philistines single-handed. He too saved Israel.
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