y Numb. 21. 21. Deut. 2. 26.

22 Dout 2.

1 Numb. 21. 23. Deat. 2.

19 And 'Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.

20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the amb. 21. hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

24. 25. Deut. 233,34

<Deut. 2. 36.

Namb. 21.

21 Kings 11. 7. Jur. 48.7.

Deut. 4

5.4 18.12. Josh. 3. 10

22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

25 And now art thou any thing better Numb. 22 than 'Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,

2. See Josh. 249

g Numb. 21.

2

26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon h Deut.2.35. and her towns, and in "Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?

27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war Gen. 1825 against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of 24-12, Israel and the children of Ammon.

Jephthah sems to have been dge only of North east furnel.

Gen. 28. 2. 1 Sam. 1.

• Heb. that Buch co

4. forthy

28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

the Loan, and said, If the dha row hott 30 And Jephthah "vowed unto fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever Chen cometh forth of the doors of my house to me forth. meet me, when I return in peace from

He performs his vow.

the children of Ammon, "shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

321 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

Before CHRIST cir. 1143

n See Lev.

27. 2, 3, &e. 28. & 2. 16. Or, or 1

1 Sam. 1. 11,

will offer it, &c. o Ps. 66. 13.

11, 12.

Ezek. 27.

33 And he smote them from Aroer, See Lev. 97. even till thou come to Minnith, even P twenty cities, and unto || the plain of the 7 vineyards, with a very great slaughter. 1 Or, Abel. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

11.

T 20. 1 Sam.

34 ¶ And Jephthah came to Mizpehch. 10. 17. unto his house, and, behold, 'his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor

daughter.

35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he 'rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and "I cannot go back.

Exod. 15. 18. 6. P 68. 25. Jer. Or, he had

31.4

not of his own either son or

daughter. himself. Gen. 37.

+ Heb. of

S

29, 34

Eccles. 5.2. Numb. 30.

2. Ps. 15. 4. Eccles. 5. 4

37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: Let me alone two months, that I may go up and down flebo upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly || to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. CHAP. XII.

1 The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephthah, and discerned by Shibboleth, are slain by the Gileadites. 7 Jephthah dieth. 8 zan, who had thirty sons and thirty daughters, 11 and Elon, 13 and Abdon, who had forty sons and thirty nephews, judged Israel.

4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye GileadSee 1 Sam. ites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

25. 10. Ps.

78.9.

d Josh. 22. 11. ch. 3. 28. & 7.24.

Which sig stream, or, 2, 15 sat.

nifieth a

flood. Ps. 69.

27. 12.

cir. 1137.

He seems to have been

5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

7¶ And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

8 And after him. || Ibzan of Beth

only a civil lehem judged Israel.

Judge to do justice in North east Israel.

cir. 1130.
A civil

Judge in

North east Israel.

cir. 1120.

A civil

Judge also

in North east Israel.

+Heb. sons'

sons.

e ch. 5. 10. & 10.4.

9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. 10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth-lehem.

11 ¶ And after him || Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

13 ¶ And after him || Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. 14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the cir. 1112. Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirafch. 3.13, thon in the land of Ephraim, 'in the mount of the Amalekites.

27.5. 14.

CHAP. XIII.

1 Israel is in the hand of the Philistines. 2 An angel appeareth to Manoah's wife. The angel appeareth to Manoah. 15 Manoah's sacrifice, whereby the angel is diseuvered. 24 Samson is born.

AND the children of Israel †a did evil

Before CHRIST

again in the sight of the LORD; eir. 1161. and the LORD delivered them into the +Heb. added hand of the Philistines forty years.

C

to commit,

&c.

3.7.& 4. 1.

2¶ And there was a certain man of a ch. 2.11.& Zorah, of the family of the Danites, &. 1. & 10. whose name was Manoah; and his wife 6 was barren, and bare not.

This seems a partial Captivity.

b1 Sam. 12

3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and Luke 1. 11, bear a son.

c Josh.19.41. d ch. 6. 12.

13, 28, 31.

4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, ver. 14. and eat not any unclean thing:

5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no 'rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

Numb. 6. 2, 3. Luke 1.

Numb.6.5. g Numb.6.2.

1 Sam. 1. 11.

See 1 Sam.

7.13. 2 Sam. 8.1.1 Chron. 18. 1.

1 Sam. 2. 27.

6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God Deut. 33. 1. came unto me, and his countenance && was like the countenance of an angel of Kings 17. God, very terrible: but I 1asked him not kMatt. 28.3. whence he was, neither told he me his Acts & 15 name:

7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

8¶ Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.

10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and || †how shall we do unto him?

Samson's foxes and firebrands.

Before CHRIST cir. 1141. Or, the rest of the sreen days, &c.

17 And she wept before him || the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. 19 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took 1 Or, appa their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

ch. 3. 10. 13. 25.

q ch. 15. 2.

20 But Samson's wife was given to his John 3-29. companion, whom he had used as 'his friend.

cir. 1140.

+ Heb. let her be thine.

UT it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

her

younger

2 And her father said, I verily thought a ch. 14. 20. that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not sister fairer than she? +take her, I pray thee, instead of her. 3¶ And Samson said concerning them, Or Now Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. 4 And Samson went and caught three though, hundred foxes, and took || firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

shall I be blameless from the Philistines,

J Or,torches.

5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

b

6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his b ch. 14. 15. companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. 7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down

He slayeth the Philistines, and

and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. 9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves

in Lehi.

Before CHRIST cir. 1140.

c ver. 19.

down.

11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and Heb. went said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what & ch.14+ is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

& 14.

14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the ch30 Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands +loosed from off his Heb. were hands.

melted

THEN went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

Samson's imprisonment.

Before CHRIST

bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with cir. 1120. the web.

14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

25. P. 118 10, 11, 12. Acts 924 ↑ Heb silent.

3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, Heb with and went away with them, †bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

the bar.

6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that +Heb.moist. Were never dried, then shall I be weak, + Heb.one. and be as another man.

8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes + that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be

me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was +vexed unto death;

17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, "There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.

18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.

27.

19 And she made him sleep upon her Prov. 7. 26, knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was & Numb. 14. departed from him.

21 ¶ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. 22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again || after he was shaven.

9, 42, 43Josh. 7. 12 1 Sam. 16. 14

& 18. 12. & chron

2 15

+ Heb. bored

out.

Or, as when he was

23 Then the lords of the Philistines shaven. gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

+ Heb. and

who multi

24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, h Dan 5-4Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. 25 And it came to pass, when their plied our hearts were 'merry, that they said, Call ich. 9. 27. for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made + them sport: llebb and they set him between the pillars.

slain.

fore them.