Judges #catechesis/bible/judges
Old Testament · The 7 Books · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Judges 1 — The expedition and victory of Judah against the Canaanites: who are tolerated in many places.
- Judges 2 — An 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.
- Judges 3 — The people falling into idolatry are oppressed by their enemies; but repenting are delivered by Othoniel, Aod, and Samgar.
- Judges 4 — Debbora and Barac deliver Israel from Jabin and Sisara, Jahal kills Sisara.
- Judges 5 — The canticle of Debbora and Barac after their victory.
- Judges 6 — The people for their sins, are oppressed by the Madianites. Gideon is called to deliver them.
- Judges 7 — Gideon, with three hundred men, by stratagem defeats the Madianites.
- Judges 8 — Gideon 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.
- Judges 9 — Abimelech kills his brethren. Joatham’s parable. Gaal conspires with the Sichemites against Abimelech, but is overcome. Abimelech destroys Sichem: but is killed at Thebes.
- Judges 10 — Thola 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.
- Judges 11 — Jephte 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.
- Judges 12 — The Ephraimites quarrel with Jephte: forty-two thousand of them are slain: Abeson, Ahialon, and Abdon, are judges.
- Judges 13 — The people fall again into idolatry and are afflicted by the Philistines. An angel foretells the birth of Samson.
- Judges 14 — Samson 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.
- Judges 15 — Samson is denied his wife. He burns the corn of the Philistines, and kills many of them.
- Judges 16 — Samson is deluded by Dalila: and falls into the hands of the Philistines. His death.
- Judges 17 — The history of the idol of Michas, and the young Levite.
- Judges 18 — The expedition of the men of Dan against Lais: in their way they rob Michas of his priest and his gods.
- Judges 19 — A 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.
- Judges 20 — The Israelites warring against Benjamin are twice defeated; but in the third battle the Benjamites are all slain, saving six hundred men.
- Judges 21 — The tribe of Benjamin is saved from being utterly extinct, by providing wives for the six hundred that remained.
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New Advent na2 — Septuagint/Greek · Douay-Rheims · Clementine Vulgate.
