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Literal Standard Version

Judges 2:16

And YHWH raises up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Baal;   Israel;   Judge;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Kingdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Deliverers;   Leaders;   Men of God;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judges, Extraordinary;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Angel of the Lord;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Israel;   Judges, book of;   King;   Ruler;   Salvation;   Type, typology;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Leadership;   Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judges;   Judges, the Book of;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Occupations and Professions in the Bible;   Persecution in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Judges (1);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Judges, Book of:;   Raise;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord raised up judges, who saved them from the power of their marauders,
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.
King James Version
Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh raised up leaders, and they delivered them from the hand of their plunderers.
English Standard Version
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
New Century Version
Then the Lord chose leaders called judges, who saved the Israelites from the robbers.
New English Translation
The Lord raised up leaders who delivered them from these robbers.
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD raised up judges who rescued them from the hands of those who robbed them.
New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD raised up judges who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Notwithstanding, the Lorde raysed vp Iudges, which deliuered them out of the hands of their oppressours.
Legacy Standard Bible
These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of their own benefit.
Contemporary English Version
From time to time, the Lord would choose special leaders known as judges. These judges would lead the Israelites into battle and defeat the enemies that made raids on them.
Complete Jewish Bible
But then Adonai raised up judges, who rescued them from the power of those who were plundering them.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah raised up judges, and they saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord chose leaders called judges. These leaders saved the Israelites from the enemies who took their possessions.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the LORD raised up judges among the Israelites, and they delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Good News Translation
Then the Lord gave the Israelites leaders who saved them from the raiders.
Literal Translation
And Jehovah raised up judges, and they saved them from the hand of their plunderers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now whan the LORDE raysed them vp iudges, which helped them out of the hande of soch as spoyled the,
American Standard Version
And Jehovah raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that despoiled them.
Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse the Lorde raysed vp iudges, which deliuered them out of the handes of their oppressers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
King James Version (1611)
Neuerthelesse, the Lord raysed vp Iudges, which deliuered them out of the hand of those that spoyled them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord raised up judges, and the Lord save them out of the hands of them that spoiled them: and yet they hearkened not to the judges,
English Revised Version
And the LORD raised up judges, which saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD raised up judges, who delivered them from the hands of these raiders.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord reiside iugis, that `delyueriden hem fro the hondis of destrieris, but thei nolden here hem,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah raiseth up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers;
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that despoiled them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, who delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
World English Bible
Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.
New King James Version
Nevertheless, the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
New Living Translation
Then the Lord raised up judges to rescue the Israelites from their attackers.
New Life Bible
Then the Lord gave them special men to judge between what was right or wrong. These men saved them from those who robbed them.
New Revised Standard
Then the Lord raised up judges, who delivered them out of the power of those who plundered them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, though Yahweh raised up judges, - who saved them out of the hand of them that plundered them,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them,
Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the power of those who plundered them.
THE MESSAGE
But then God raised up judges who saved them from their plunderers. But they wouldn't listen to their judges; they prostituted themselves to other gods—worshiped them! They lost no time leaving the road walked by their parents, the road of obedience to God 's commands. They refused to have anything to do with it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD raised up judges who delivered them from the hands of those who plundered them.

Contextual Overview

6And Joshua sends the people away, and the sons of Israel go, each to his inheritance, to possess the land; 7and the people serve YHWH all [the] days of Joshua, and all [the] days of [the] elderly who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of YHWH which He did to Israel. 8And Joshua son of Nun, servant of YHWH, dies, a son of one hundred and ten years, 9and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash; 10and all that generation have also been gathered to their fathers, and another generation rises after them who have not known YHWH, and even the work which He has done to Israel. 11And the sons of Israel do evil in the eyes of YHWH, and serve the Ba‘alim, 12and forsake YHWH, God of their fathers, who brings them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other gods (of the gods of the peoples who [are] around them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke YHWH, 13indeed, they forsake YHWH, and do service to Ba‘al and to Ashtaroth. 14And the anger of YHWH burns against Israel, and He gives them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He sells them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, and they have not been able to stand before their enemies anymore; 15in every [place] where they have gone out, the hand of YHWH has been against them for calamity, as YHWH has spoken, and as YHWH has sworn to them, and they are greatly distressed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 2591-2909, bc 1413-1095

the Lord: Judges 3:9, Judges 3:10, Judges 3:15, Judges 4:5, Judges 6:14, 1 Samuel 12:11, Acts 13:20

judges: The shophetim were not judges in the usual sense of the term; but were heads or chiefs of the Israelites, raised up on extraordinary occasions, who directed and ruled the nation with sovereign power, administered justice, made peace or war, and led the armies over whom they presided. Officers with the same power, and nearly the same name, were established in New Tyre, after the termination of the regal state; and the Carthaginian Suffetes, the Athenian Archons, and the Roman Dictators, appear to have been nearly the same.

delivered: Heb. saved, Nehemiah 9:27, Psalms 106:43-45

Reciprocal: Judges 3:31 - also Judges 10:1 - arose Ruth 1:1 - the judges 1 Samuel 7:15 - judged 1 Chronicles 17:6 - the judges Hosea 13:10 - thy judges Obadiah 1:21 - saviours

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;
Genesis 2:2
and God completes by the seventh day His work which He has made, and ceases by the seventh day from all His work which He has made.
Genesis 2:9
and YHWH God causes to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel says, "Has YHWH had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as [in] listening to the voice of YHWH? Behold, listening is better than sacrifice; to give attention than fat of rams;
1 Timothy 4:4
because every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment—

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nevertheless, the Lord raised up judges,.... Who are particularly mentioned by name, and their exploits recorded, in some following chapters, and from whom the book in general has its name: these were men that God raised up in an extraordinary manner, and spirited and qualified for the work he had to do by them; which was to deliver the people of Israel out of the hands of their oppressors, and restore them to their privileges and liberties, and protect them in them, and administer justice to them; which was a wonderful instance of the goodness of God to them, notwithstanding their many provoking sins and transgressions:

which delivered them out of the hands of those that spoiled them; who took away their goods and cattle from them, and carried their persons captive: these were the instruments of recovering both again, just as Abraham brought again Lot and all his goods.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nevertheless - (rather “and”) the Lord raised up judges This is the first introduction of the term judge, which gives its name to the book. (See the introduction to the Book of Judges.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 2:16. The Lord raised up judges — That is, leaders, generals, and governors, raised up by an especial appointment of the Lord, to deliver them from, and avenge them on, their adversaries. See the preface.


 
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