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Chapter 1The expedition and victory of Judah against the Canaanites: who are tolerated in many places.
Chapter 2An angel reproves Israel. They weep for their sins. After the death of Joshua, they often fall, and repenting are delivered from their afflictions, but still fall worse and worse.
Chapter 3The people falling into idolatry are oppressed by their enemies; but repenting are delivered by Othoniel, Aod, and Samgar.
Chapter 4Debbora and Barac deliver Israel from Jabin and Sisara, Jahal kills Sisara.
Chapter 5The canticle of Debbora and Barac after their victory.
Chapter 6The people for their sins, are oppressed by the Madianites. Gideon is called to deliver them.
Chapter 7Gideon, with three hundred men, by stratagem defeats the Madianites.
Chapter 8Gideon appeases the Ephraimites. Takes Zebee and Salmana. Destroys Soccoth and Phanuel. Refuses to be king. Makes an ephod of the gold of the prey, and dies in a good old age. The people return to idolatry.
Chapter 9Abimelech kills his brethren. Joatham's parable. Gaal conspires with the Sichemites against Abimelech, but is overcome. Abimelech destroys Sichem: but is killed at Thebes.
Chapter 10Thola rules Israel twenty-three years; and Jair twenty-two. The people fall again into idolatry, and are afflicted again by the Philistines and Ammonites. They cry to God for help, who upon their repentance has compassion on them.
Chapter 11Jephte is made ruler of the people of Gilead: he first pleads their cause against the Ammonites; then making a vow obtains a signal victory; he performs his vow.
Chapter 12The Ephraimites quarrel with Jephte: forty-two thousand of them are slain: Abeson, Ahialon, and Abdon, are judges.
Chapter 13The people fall again into idolatry and are afflicted by the Philistines. An angel foretells the birth of Samson.
Chapter 14Samson desires a wife of the Philistines. He kills a lion: in whose mouth he afterwards finds honey. His marriage feast, and riddle, which is discovered by his wife. He kills, and strips thirty Philistines. His wife takes another man.
Chapter 15Samson is denied his wife. He burns the corn of the Philistines, and kills many of them.
Chapter 16Samson is deluded by Dalila: and falls into the hands of the Philistines. His death.
Chapter 17The history of the idol of Michas, and the young Levite.
Chapter 18The expedition of the men of Dan against Lais: in their way they rob Michas of his priest and his gods.
Chapter 19A Levite bringing home his wife, is lodged by an old man at Gabaa in the tribe of Benjamin. His wife is there abused by wicked men, and in the morning found dead. Her husband cuts her body in pieces, and sends to every tribe of Israel, requiring them to revenge the wicked fact.
Chapter 20The Israelites warring against Benjamin are twice defeated; but in the third battle the Benjamites are all slain, saving six hundred men.
Chapter 21The tribe of Benjamin is saved from being utterly extinct, by providing wives for the six hundred that remained.

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