Devine Scripture

Judges 2:16

Judges chapter 2 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And Jehovah raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that despoiled them.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And Jehovah raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that despoiled them.

Context

v.15Whithersoever they went out, the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had spoken, and as Jehovah had sworn unto them: and they were sore distressed.

v.16This passage

v.17And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; but they did not so.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 13:20

    and after these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

  • Judges 4:5

    And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

  • Judges 6:14

    And Jehovah looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent thee?

  • Judges 3:15

    But when the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, Jehovah raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. And the children of Israel sent tribute by him unto Eglon the king of Moab.

  • Nehemiah 9:27

    Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

  • Psalms 106:43

    Many times did he deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.