Extraordinary Judges
27 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
22 sections
- During Four Hundred and Fifty Years
- Israel not Permanently or Spiritually Benefitted By
- Names of Abdon
- Names of Abimelech
- Names of Deborah
- Names of Ehud
- Names of Eli
- Names of Elon
- Names of Gideon
- Names of Ibzan
- Names of Jair
- Names of Jephthah
- Names of Othniel
- Names of Samson
- Names of Samuel
- Names of Shamgar
- Names of Tola
- Not Without Intermission
- Raised up to Deliver Israel
- Remarkable for Their Faith
- The office of, not Always for Life, or Hereditary
- Upheld and Strengthened by God
During Four Hundred and Fifty Years
- Acts 13:20 All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
Israel not Permanently or Spiritually Benefitted By
- Judges 2:17–19 Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s …
Names of Abdon
- Judges 12:13 After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel.
Names of Abimelech
- Judges 9:6 Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.
Names of Deborah
- Judges 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
Names of Ehud
- Judges 3:15 And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
Names of Eli
- 1 Samuel 4:18 As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
Names of Elon
- Judges 12:11 After Ibzan, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel ten years.
Names of Gideon
- Judges 6:11 Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
Names of Ibzan
- Judges 12:8 After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Names of Jair
- Judges 10:3 Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
Names of Jephthah
- Judges 11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
Names of Othniel
- Judges 3:9–10 But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them. …
Names of Samson
- Judges 13:24–25 So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him. …
- Judges 16:31 Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.
Names of Samuel
- 1 Samuel 7:6 When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
- 1 Samuel 7:15–17 So Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. …
Names of Shamgar
- Judges 3:31 After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.
Names of Tola
- Judges 10:1 After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
Not Without Intermission
- Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
- Judges 18:1 In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
- Judges 19:1 Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
- Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Raised up to Deliver Israel
- Judges 2:16 Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.
Remarkable for Their Faith
- Hebrews 11:32 And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
The office of, not Always for Life, or Hereditary
- Judges 8:23 But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD shall rule over you.”
- Judges 8:29 and he — Jerubbaal son of Joash — returned home and settled down.
Upheld and Strengthened by God
- Judges 2:18 Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who …
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.