Ruth Meets Boaz in the Grain Field 1 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz. 2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes […]
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Ruth 3
Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor 1 One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a homefor you, where you will be well provided for. 2 Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. […]
Ruth 4
Boaz Marries Ruth 1 Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemerhe had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down. 2 Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” […]
Judges 1
Israel Fights the Remaining Canaanites 1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked theLord, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?” 2 TheLordanswered, “Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.” 3 The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, […]
Judges 2
The Angel of the Lord at Bokim 1 The angel of theLordwent up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you, 2 and you shall not make […]
Judges 3
1 These are the nations theLordleft to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan 2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience): 3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and […]
Judges 4
Deborah 1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of theLord, now that Ehud was dead. 2 So theLordsold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim. 3 Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and […]
Judges 5
The Song of Deborah 1 On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song: 2 “When the princes in Israel take the lead, when the people willingly offer themselves— praise theLord! 3 “Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers! # I, even I, will sing totheLord; I will praise theLord, the God […]
Judges 6
Gideon 1 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of theLord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2 Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites […]
Judges 7
Gideon Defeats the Midianites 1 Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. 2 TheLordsaid to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, […]