So the LORD sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.

耶和华就差遣耶路巴力、比但、耶弗他、撒母耳救你们脱离四围仇敌的手，你们才安然居住。

耶和华就差遣耶路巴力、比但、耶弗他、撒母耳救你们脱离四围仇敌的手，你们才安然居住。

耶和华就差遣耶路巴力、比但、耶弗他、撒母耳救你们脱离四围仇敌的手，你们才安然居住。

耶和华就派耶路·巴力、比但、耶弗他和撒母耳从周围的敌人手中救你们，使你们安然居住。

于是耶和华差遣耶路．巴力、比但、耶弗他、撒母耳，救你们脱离四围仇敌的手，你们才可以安然居住。

于是耶和华派遣了耶路巴力、比丹、耶弗塔、撒母耳。耶和华解救你们脱离四围仇敌的手，你们就安然居住。

耶和華就差遣耶路‧巴力、比但、耶弗他、撒母耳救你們脫離四圍仇敵的手，你們才安然居住。

耶和華就差遣耶路巴力、比但、耶弗他、撒母耳救你們脫離四圍仇敵的手，你們才安然居住。

耶和華就差遣耶路巴力、比但、耶弗他、撒母耳救你們脫離四圍仇敵的手，你們才安然居住。

耶和華就派耶路·巴力、比但、耶弗他和撒母耳從周圍的敵人手中救你們，使你們安然居住。

於是耶和華差遣耶路．巴力、比但、耶弗他、撒母耳，救你們脫離四圍仇敵的手，你們才可以安然居住。

永恆主就差遣耶路巴力、巴拉、耶弗他、撒母耳來援救你們脫離四圍仇敵的手，你們才得以安然居住。

於是耶和華派遣了耶路巴力、比丹、耶弗塔、撒母耳。耶和華解救你們脫離四圍仇敵的手，你們就安然居住。

耶和華遣耶路巴力、比但、耶弗他、及撒母耳、援爾於四周敵人之手、爾則安居、

耶和華遣耶路巴力、比但、耶弗大、及我、援爾於四方之敵、俾爾安居。

主遂遣耶路巴力、比但、耶弗他、及撒母耳、救爾脫於四圍之敵人手、使爾安然而居、

Then the Lord sent Jerub- Baal, Barak, Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.

The Lord sent Gideon, Barak, Jephthah and me. He saved you from the power of your enemies who were all around you. So you lived in safety.

And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.

Then the Lord sent Gideon, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel to save you, and you lived in safety.

So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel. He rescued you from the power of the enemies around you, and you lived securely.

Then the Lord sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and saved you from the hands of your enemies all around, so that you lived in security.

And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you dwelt in safety.

And Jehovah sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and ye dwelt in safety.

So the Lord sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel. He rescued you from the power of the enemies around you, and you lived securely.

And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.

Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.

That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, because he had said,“ Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”

She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him,“ Is it not true that the LORD God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!

They did not treat the family of Jerub-Baal( that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.

Then Jerub-Baal son of Joash went home and settled down.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father.Gilead’s wife also gave him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him,“ You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, because you are another woman’s son.”So Jephthah left his half-brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him.It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel.When the Ammonites attacked, the leaders of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back from the land of Tob.They said,“ Come, be our commander, so we can fight with the Ammonites.”Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead,“ But you hated me and made me leave my father’s house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?”The leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah,“ That may be true, but now we pledge to you our loyalty. Come with us and fight with the Ammonites. Then you will become the leader of all who live in Gilead.”Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead,“ All right! If you take me back to fight with the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, I will be your leader.”The leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah,“ The LORD will judge any grievance you have against us, if we do not do as you say.”So Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead. The people made him their leader and commander. Jephthah repeated the terms of the agreement before the LORD in Mizpah.Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king, saying,“ Why have you come against me to attack my land?”The Ammonite king said to Jephthah’s messengers,“ Because Israel stole my land when they came up from Egypt– from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan. Now return it peaceably!”Jephthah sent messengers back to the Ammonite kingand said to him,“ This is what Jephthah says,‘ Israel did not steal the land of Moab and the land of the Ammonites.When they left Egypt, Israel traveled through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying,“ Please allow us to pass through your land.” But the king of Edom rejected the request. Israel sent the same request to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling to cooperate. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.Then Israel went through the desert and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. They traveled east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River; they did not go through Moabite territory( the Arnon was Moab’s border).Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him,“ Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.”But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He assembled his whole army, camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.The LORD God of Israel handed Sihon and his whole army over to Israel and they defeated them. Israel took all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land.They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west.Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the LORD our God has driven out before us.Are you really better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he dare to quarrel with Israel? Did he dare to fight with them?Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time?I have not done you wrong, but you are doing wrong by attacking me. May the LORD, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!’”But the Ammonite king disregarded the message sent by Jephthah.The LORD’s spirit empowered Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh and went to Mizpah in Gilead. From there he approached the Ammonites.Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, saying,“ If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me,then whoever is the first to come through the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites– he will belong to the LORD and I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.”Jephthah approached the Ammonites to fight with them, and the LORD handed them over to him.He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith– twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites.

Then the LORD himself turned to him and said,“ You have the strength. Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites! Have I not sent you?”

So the Philistines were defeated; they did not invade Israel again. The hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

The Israelites again did evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.The LORD’s angelic messenger appeared to the woman and said to her,“ You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son.Now be careful! Do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean.Look, you will conceive and have a son. You must never cut his hair, for the child will be dedicated to God from birth. He will begin to deliver Israel from the power of the Philistines.”The woman went and said to her husband,“ A man sent from God came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger– he was very awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.He said to me,‘ Look, you will conceive and have a son. So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. For the child will be dedicated to God from birth till the day he dies.’”Manoah prayed to the LORD,“ Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God to visit us again, so he can teach us how we should raise the child who will be born.”God answered Manoah’s prayer. God’s angelic messenger visited the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.The woman ran at once and told her husband,“ Come quickly, the man who visited me the other day has appeared to me!”So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met the man, he said to him,“ Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” He said,“ Yes.”Manoah said,“ Now, when your announcement comes true, how should the child be raised and what should he do?”The LORD’s messenger told Manoah,“ Your wife should pay attention to everything I told her.She should not drink anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean. She should obey everything I commanded her to do.”Manoah said to the LORD’s messenger,“ Please stay here awhile, so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.”The LORD’s messenger said to Manoah,“ If I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the LORD, you should offer it.”( He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the LORD’s messenger.)