Outline of Judges


Judges chapter 1
Jg 1:1-3.	The acts of Judah and Simeon.
Jg 1:4-7.	Adonibezek justly requited.
Jg 1:8-9.	Jerusalem taken.
Jg 1:10.	Hebron taken.
Jg 1:11-15.	Othniel has Achsah to wife for taking of Debir.
Jg 1:16.	The Kenites dwell in Judah.
Jg 1:17-20.	Hormah, Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron taken.
Jg 1:21.	The acts of Benjamin.
Jg 1:22-29.	Of the house of Joseph, who take Beth-el.
Jg 1:30.	Of Zebulun.
Jg 1:31-32.	Of Asher.
Jg 1:33.	Of Naphtali.
Jg 1:34-36.	Of Dan.
Judges chapter 2
Jg 2:1-5.	An angel rebukes the people at Bochim.
Jg 2:6-13.	The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua.
Jg 2:14-19.	God's anger and pity towards them.
Jg 2:20-23.	The Canaanites left to prove Israel.
Judges chapter 3
Jg 3:1-4.	The nations which were left to prove Israel.
Jg 3:5-7.	By communion with them they commit idolatry.
Jg 3:8-11.	Othniel delivered them from Chushan-rishathaim;
Jg 3:12-30.	Ehud from Eglon;
Jg 3:31.	and Shamgar from the Philistines.
Judges chapter 4
Jg 4:1-16.	Deborah and Barak deliver them from Jabin and Sisera.
Jg 4:17-24.	Jael kills Sisera.
Judges chapter 5
Jg 5:1-31.	The Song of Deborah and Barak.
Judges chapter 6
Jg 6:1-7.	The Israelites for their sin are oppressed by Midian.
Jg 6:8-10.	A prophet rebukes them.
Jg 6:11-16.	An angel sends Gideon for their deliverance.
Jg 6:17-23.	Gideon's present is consumed with fire.
Jg 6:24-27.	Gideon destroys Baal's altar, and offers a sacrifice upon the altar Jehovah-shalom.
Jg 6:28-32.	Joash defends his son, and calls shim Jerubbaal.
Jg 6:33-35.	Gideon's army.
Jg 6:36-40.	Gideon's signs.
Judges chapter 7
Jg 7:1-8.	Gideon's army of two and thirty thousand is brought to three hundred.
Jg 7:9-15.	He is encouraged by the dream and interpretation of the burley cake.
Jg 7:16-23.	His stratagem of trumpets and lamps in pitchers.
Jg 7:24-25.	The Ephraimites take Oreb and Zeeb.
Judges chapter 8
Jg 8:1-3.	Gideon pacifies the Ephraimites.
Jg 8:4-9.	Succoth and Penuel refuse to deliver Gideon's army.
Jg 8:10-12.	Zebah and Zalmunna are taken.
Jg 8:13-16.	Succoth and Penuel are destroyed.
Jg 8:17-21.	Gideon revenges his brethren's death on Zebah and Zalmunna.
Jg 8:22-23.	He refuses government.
Jg 8:24-27.	His ephod the cause of idolatry.
Jg 8:28.	Midian subdued.
Jg 8:29-32.	Gideon's children, and death.
Jg 8:33-35.	The Israelites' idolatry and ingratitude.
Judges chapter 9
Jg 9:1-6.	Abimelech by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder of his brethren, is made king.
Jg 9:7-21.	Jotham by a parable rebukes them, and foretells their ruin.
Jg 9:22-29.	Gaal conspires with the Shechemites against him.
Jg 9:30-33.	Zebul reveals it.
Jg 9:34-45.	Abimelech overcomes them, and sows the city with salt.
Jg 9:46-49.	He burns the hold of the god Berith.
Jg 9:50-55.	At Thebez he is slain by a piece of a millstone.
Jg 9:56-57.	Jotham's curse if fulfilled.
Judges chapter 10
Jg 10:1-2.	Tola judges Israel in Shamir.
Jg 10:3-5.	Jair, whose thirty sons had thirty cities.
Jg 10:6-9.	The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel.
Jg 10:10-14.	In their misery God sends them to their false gods.
Jg 10:15-18.	Upon their repentance he pities them.
Judges chapter 11
Jg 11:1-11.	The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites, that he should be their head.
Jg 11:12-28.	The treaty of peace between him and the Ammonites is in vain.
Jg 11:29-31.	Jephthah's vow.
Jg 11:32-33.	His conquest of the Ammonites.
Jg 11:34-40.	He performs his vow on his daughter.
Judges chapter 12
Jg 12:1-6.	The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephthah, and discerned by Shibboleth, are slain by the Gileadites.
Jg 12:7.	Jephthah dies.
Jg 12:8-10.	Ibzan, who had thirty sons, and thirty daughters;
Jg 12:11-12.	and Elon;
Jg 12:13-15.	and Abdon, who had forty sons, and thirty nephews, judge Israel.
Judges chapter 13
Jg 13:1.	Israel is delivered into the hands of Philistines.
Jg 13:2-7.	An angel appears to Manoah's wife.
Jg 13:8-14.	The angel appears to Manoah.
Jg 13:15-23.	Manoah's sacrifices, whereby the angel is discovered.
Jg 13:24-25.	Samson is born.
Judges chapter 14
Jg 14:1-5.	Samson desires a wife of the Philistines.
Jg 14:6-7.	In his journey he kills a lion.
Jg 14:8-9.	In a second journey he finds honey in the carcase.
Jg 14:10-11.	Samson's marriage feast.
Jg 14:12-18.	His riddle by his wife is made known.
Jg 14:19.	He spoils thirty Philistines.
Jg 14:20.	His wife is married to another.
Judges chapter 15
Jg 15:1-2.	Samson is denied his wife.
Jg 15:3-5.	He burns the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands.
Jg 15:6.	His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines.
Jg 15:7-8.	Samson smites them hip and thigh.
Jg 15:9-13.	He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines.
Jg 15:14-17.	He kills them with a jawbone.
Jg 15:18-20.	God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi.
Judges chapter 16
Jg 16:1-3.	Samson at Gaza escapes, and carries away the gates of the city.
Jg 16:4-5.	Delilah, corrupted by the Philistines, entices Samson.
Jg 16:6-14.	Thrice she is deceived.
Jg 16:15-20.	At last she overcomes him.
Jg 16:21.	The Philistines take him, and put out his eyes.
Jg 16:22-31.	His strength renewing he pulls down the house upon the Philistines, and dies.
Judges chapter 17
Jg 17:1-4.	Of the money that Micah first stole, then restored, his mother makes images;
Jg 17:5-6.	and he ornaments for them.
Jg 17:7-13.	He hires a Levite to be his priest.
Judges chapter 18
Jg 18:1-2.	The Danites send five men to seek out an inheritance.
Jg 18:3-6.	At the house of Micah they consult with Jonathan, and are encouraged on their way.
Jg 18:7-10.	They search Laish, and bring back news of good hope.
Jg 18:11-13.	Six hundred men are sent to surprise it.
Jg 18:14-26.	In their way they rob Micah of his priest and his consecrated things.
Jg 18:27-29.	They win Laish, and call it Dan.
Jg 18:30-31.	They set up idolatry, wherein Jonathan inherits the priesthood.
Judges chapter 19
Jg 19:1-15.	A Levite goes to Beth-lehem to fetch home his concubine.
Jg 19:16-21.	An old man entertains him at Gibeah.
Jg 19:22-28.	The Gibeonites abuse his concubine to death.
Jg 19:29-30.	He divides her into twelve pieces, and sends them to the twelve tribes.
Judges chapter 20
Jg 20:1-7.	The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong.
Jg 20:8-11.	The decree of the assembly.
Jg 20:12-17.	The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites.
Jg 20:18-25.	The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand.
Jg 20:26-48.	They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites, except six hundred.
Judges chapter 21
Jg 21:1-7.	The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin.
Jg 21:8-15.	By the destruction of Jabesh-gilead they provide them four hundred wives.
Jg 21:16-25.	They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh.