From: "Friends" 

CHAPTER 5
Judges 5:1
1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, Judges 5:2
2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly
offered themselves.
Judges 5:3
3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the
LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. Judges 5:4
4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field
of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also
dropped water.
Judges 5:5
5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before
the LORD God of Israel.
Judges 5:6
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the
highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. Judges
5:7
7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that
I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. Judges 5:8
8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or
spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? Judges 5:9
9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves
willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD. Judges 5:10
10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
Judges 5:11
11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of
drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD,
even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel:
then shall the people of the LORD go down  to the gates. Judges 5:12
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and
lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. Judges 5:13
13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the
people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. Judges 5:14
14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee,
Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of
Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. Judges 5:15
15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also
Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben
there were great thoughts of heart. Judges 5:16
16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the
flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
Judges 5:17
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher
continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. Judges 5:18
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the
death in the high places of the field. Judges 5:19
19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by
the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. Judges 5:20
20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Judges 5:21
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river
Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. Judges 5:22
22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the
pransings of their mighty ones.
Judges 5:23
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the
inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the
help of the LORD  against the mighty. Judges 5:24
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed
shall she be above women in the tent. Judges 5:25
25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Judges 5:26
26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's
hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when
she had pierced and stricken through his temples. Judges 5:27
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he
fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judges 5:28
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the
lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his
chariots?
Judges 5:29
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, Judges 5:30
30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a
damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours
of needlework,  of divers colours  of needlework on both sides,  meet for
the necks  of them that take the spoil? Judges 5:31
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be
as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty
years. CHAPTER 6
Judges 6:1
1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the
LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. Judges 6:2
2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the
Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the
mountains, and caves, and strong holds. Judges 6:3
3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the
Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
Judges 6:4
4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth,
till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep,
nor ox, nor ass.
Judges 6:5
5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as
grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without
number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. Judges 6:6
6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the
children of Israel cried unto the LORD. Judges 6:7
7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD
because of the Midianites,
Judges 6:8
8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto
them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and
brought you forth  out of the house  of bondage; Judges 6:9
9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand
of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you
their land;
Judges 6:10
10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice. Judges
6:11
11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in
Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon
threshed wheat by the winepress,  to hide  it from  the Midianites. Judges
6:12
12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD
is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. Judges 6:13
13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then
is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers
told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up  from Egypt?  but now the
LORD hath forsaken  us, and delivered  us into the hands  of the
Midianites. Judges 6:14
14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou
shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?
Judges 6:15
15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold,
my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
Judges 6:16
16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt
smite the Midianites as one man.
Judges 6:17
17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew
me a sign that thou talkest with me. Judges 6:18
18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth
my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou
come again.
Judges 6:19
19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an
ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a
pot, and brought it out  unto him under the oak,  and presented  it. Judges
6:20
20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened
cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
Judges 6:21
21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in
his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up
fire out of the rock, and consumed  the flesh  and the unleavened cakes. 
Then the angel  of the LORD  departed  out of his sight. Judges 6:22
22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said,
Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD  face  to
face.
Judges 6:23
23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
Judges 6:24
24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it
Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Judges
6:25
25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take
thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and
throw down the altar  of Baal  that thy father  hath, and cut down  the
grove  that is by it:
Judges 6:26
26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in
the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice
with the wood  of the grove  which thou shalt cut down. Judges 6:27
27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said
unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the
men of the city,  that he could not do  it by day,  that he did  it by
night.
Judges 6:28
28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the
altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and
the second bullock was offered upon the altar  that was built. Judges 6:29
29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they
enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this
thing. Judges 6:30
30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may
die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut
down the grove that was by it.
Judges 6:31
31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal?
will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death
whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself,
because one hath cast down  his altar.
Judges 6:32
32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead
against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. Judges 6:33
33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east
were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of
Jezreel. Judges 6:34
34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and
Abiezer was gathered after him.
Judges 6:35
35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered
after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto
Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. Judges 6:36
36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou
hast said,
Judges 6:37
37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on
the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know
that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand,  as thou hast said. Judges 6:38
38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece
together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
Judges 6:39
39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I
will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the
fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground 
let there be dew.
Judges 6:40
40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and
there was dew on all the ground.
CHAPTER 7
Judges 7:1
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him,
rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of
the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the
valley.
Judges 7:2
2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many
for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt
themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved  me. Judges 7:3
3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying,
Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount
Gilead. And there returned of the people  twenty  and two  thousand;  and
there remained  ten  thousand.
Judges 7:4
4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them
down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be,
that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go
with thee; and of whomsoever I say  unto thee, This shall not go  with
thee, the same shall not go.
Judges 7:5
5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto
Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog
lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down
upon his knees  to drink.
Judges 7:6
6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth,
were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon
their knees to drink water.
Judges 7:7
7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will
I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the
other people go  every man  unto his place. Judges 7:8
8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he
sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those
three hundred  men:  and the host  of Midian  was beneath him in the
valley. Judges 7:9
9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise,
get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
Judges 7:10
10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
Judges 7:11
11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be
strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his
servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host. Judges
7:12
12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east
lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels
were without number, as the sand by the sea side  for multitude. Judges
7:13
13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto
his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley
bread tumbled  into the host  of Midian,  and came  unto a tent,  and smote
it that it fell,  and overturned  it, that the tent  lay along. Judges 7:14
14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of
Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God
delivered Midian,  and all the host. Judges 7:15
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the
interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of
Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered  into your hand  the
host  of Midian.
Judges 7:16
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a
trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within  the
pitchers.
Judges 7:17
17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I
come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
Judges 7:18
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the
trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the
LORD, and of Gideon.
Judges 7:19
19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside
of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly
set the watch:  and they blew  the trumpets,  and brake  the pitchers  that
were in their hands.
Judges 7:20
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and
held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands
to blow  withal: and they cried,  The sword  of the LORD,  and of Gideon.
Judges 7:21
21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the
host ran, and cried, and fled.
Judges 7:22
22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's
sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled
to Bethshittah  in Zererath,  and to the border  of Abelmeholah,  unto
Tabbath. Judges 7:23
23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and
out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
Judges 7:24
24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come
down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah
and Jordan.  Then all the men  of Ephraim  gathered themselves together,
and took  the waters  unto Bethbarah  and Jordan. Judges 7:25
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they
slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress  of Zeeb,
 and pursued  Midian,  and brought  the heads  of Oreb  and Zeeb  to Gideon
 on the other side  Jordan.
CHAPTER 8
Judges 8:1
1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that
thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And
they did chide with him sharply.
Judges 8:2
2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not
the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Judges 8:3
3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb:
and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated
toward him, when he had said that.
Judges 8:4
4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men
that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. Judges 8:5
5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread
unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after
Zebah and Zalmunna,  kings  of Midian. Judges 8:6
6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now
in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? Judges 8:7
7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and
Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the
wilderness and with briers.
Judges 8:8
8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the
men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him. Judges
8:9
9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in
peace, I will break down this tower. Judges 8:10
10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about
fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children
of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty  thousand  men  that drew
sword.
Judges 8:11
11 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. Judges
8:12
12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the
two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
Judges 8:13
13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,
Judges 8:14
14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and
he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even
threescore and seventeen men.
Judges 8:15
15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and
Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and
Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give  bread  unto thy men  that
are weary? Judges 8:16
16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and
briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. Judges 8:17
17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city. Judges 8:18
18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom
ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one
resembled the children  of a king.
Judges 8:19
19 And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the
LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you. Judges 8:20
20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth
drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth. Judges 8:21
21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the
man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna,
and took away  the ornaments  that were on their camels'  necks. Judges
8:22
22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou,
and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the
hand of Midian.
Judges 8:23
23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my
son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you. Judges 8:24
24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye
would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden
earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
Judges 8:25
25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a
garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. Judges
8:26
26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand
and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and
purple raiment that was on the kings  of Midian,  and beside the chains 
that were about their camels'  necks.
Judges 8:27
27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in
Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became
a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Judges 8:28
28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they
lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years
in the days  of Gideon.
Judges 8:29
29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. Judges 8:30
30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had
many wives.
Judges 8:31
31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose
name he called Abimelech.
Judges 8:32
32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in
the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. Judges 8:33
33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of
Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith
their god.
Judges 8:34
34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had
delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: Judges
8:35
35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon,
according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.

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