- 1 Judges 1 Α′ Israel's incomplete conquest begins after Joshua, and the nations left in the land foreshadow the book's recurring snare. PDF
- 2 Judges 2 Β′ The angel's rebuke and Israel's repeated apostasies establish the cycle of sin, oppression, crying out, and deliverance. PDF
- 3 Judges 3 Γ′ The testing nations remain, and the first judges show the pattern of deliverance through Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar. PDF
- 4 Judges 4 Δ′ Deborah and Barak lead Israel against Sisera, and Jael brings the victory to its unexpected finish. PDF
- 5 Judges 5 Ε′ Deborah's song celebrates the Lord's cosmic victory, praises willing tribes, and shames the absent. PDF
- 6 Judges 6 Ϛ′ Gideon is called from fear and obscurity to begin Israel's deliverance from Midian. PDF
- 7 Judges 7 Ζ′ The Lord reduces Gideon's army so the victory over Midian is unmistakably his own. PDF
- 8 Judges 8 Η′ Gideon's triumph darkens into vengeance, compromise, and a relapse that prepares the Abimelech disaster. PDF
- 9 Judges 9 Θ′ Abimelech seizes kingship through bloodshed, and Jotham's curse returns on him and Shechem. PDF
- 10 Judges 10 Ι′ After minor judges, Israel's deeper apostasy brings oppression until repentance opens the way for Jephthah. PDF
- 11 Judges 11 ΙΑ′ Jephthah's rise, victory, and rash vow turn deliverance into one of Judges' gravest tragedies. PDF
- 12 Judges 12 ΙΒ′ Jephthah's victory ends in civil bloodshed, and the book passes briefly through a line of minor judges. PDF
- 13 Judges 13 ΙΓ′ The angel announces Samson's birth and Nazirite calling as Israel groans under Philistine domination. PDF
- 14 Judges 14 ΙΔ′ Samson's Philistine marriage and riddle begin the conflict through which the Lord seeks judgment on Israel's oppressors. PDF
- 15 Judges 15 ΙΕ′ Samson's escalating vengeance strikes the Philistines with fire, jawbone, and the Lord's empowering Spirit. PDF
- 16 Judges 16 ΙϚ′ Samson falls through Delilah, yet in death the Lord grants his last and greatest blow against the Philistines. PDF
- 17 Judges 17 ΙΖ′ Micah's private shrine exposes the religious anarchy of Israel when everyone does what is right in his own eyes. PDF
- 18 Judges 18 ΙΗ′ Dan's migration seizes Micah's cult and plants a rival shrine in a land taken by violence and false security. PDF
- 19 Judges 19 ΙΘ′ The outrage at Gibeah exposes Israel's moral collapse and summons the tribes to reckon with a crime like Sodom's. PDF
- 20 Judges 20 Κ′ Israel's war against Benjamin wins justice at fearful cost and leaves a tribe nearly destroyed. PDF
- 21 Judges 21 ΚΑ′ Benjamin is restored by desperate expedients, and Judges closes with Israel's kingless disorder still unresolved. PDF