The Book of Judges: A New English Translation Printed in Colors Exhibiting the Composite Structure of the BookGeorge Foot Moore |
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Abimelech altar Ammonites Amorites answered Arnon Baal Barak Benjamites Beth-el Bethlehem Book of Judges camp Canaan Canaanites citizens of Shechem clan clause concubine conquest Danites Deborah deliverance delivered Deut Deuteronomistic editor Ehud Ephod Ephraimites Exod father Gaal Gibeah Gideon Gilead gloss hand Hebrew Hebron Highlands of Ephraim hundred idol inhabitants Israel Israelites Jabin Jael Jephthah Jerubbaal Jerusalem JHVH Jordan Josh Joshua Judah judged Israel Kedesh King of Moab Laish land later Levite Manoah Messenger of JHVH Micah's Micah's idol Midian Midianites Mizpah Moab Moabites Mount Naphtali narrative Notes on Chapters Notes on Judges older oppression original Othniel Palestine perhaps Philistines Plain priest probably Samson Shamgar Shechem Shiloh Sisera spirit of JHVH stood story Syria thee thou took town translation tribes verse words Zalmunna Zebah Zebah and Zalmunna Zebulun Zorah ΙΟ
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Page 37 - And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites. 17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou...
Page 24 - Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: "If you give the Ammonites into my hands, "whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD'S, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.
Page 24 - At the end of two months, she returned to her father, and he kept the vow he had made about her.
Page xii - Why should we be in bondage to them, if we may be free? Use one precisely, when we may use another no less fit as commodiously...
Page 17 - Then Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 33 When Gideon died, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the «Baals and made Baal-berith
Page 3 - Rehob: but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land : for they did not drive them out. Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath ; but he dwelt among the Canaanites...
Page 16 - And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host : for the host was secure.
Page xi - Spanish, French, Italian, or Dutch; neither did we disdain to revise that which we had done, and to bring back to the anvil that which we had hammered : but having and using as great helps as were needful, and fearing no reproach for slowness, nor coveting praise for expedition, we have at the length, through the good hand of the Lord upon us, brought the work to that pass that you see.
Page xii - Another thing we think good to admonish thee of, gentle Reader, that we have not tied ourselves to an uniformity of phrasing, or to an identity of words...
Page xi - There be many words in the Scriptures, which be never found there but once, (having neither brother nor neighbour, as the Hebrews speak,) so that we cannot be hoi pen by conference of places. Again, there be many rare names of certain birds, beasts, and precious stones, &c. concerning which the Hebrews themselves are so divided among themselves for judgment, that they may seem to have defined this or that, rather because they would say something, than because they were sure of that which they said,...