Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by T. H. GALLAUDET, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

Right of publishing transferred to the American Tract Society.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. 1.-The Judges in Israel. Nature of their of-

fice. Adoni-Bezek, Message of the angel at

Bochim.

CHAP. 2.-Micah and his images. His priest, the

young Levite.

CHAP. 3.-Emigration of some Danites. They carry

Micah's images and priest with them to Laish.

First introduction of idolatry among the Israel-

ites.

CHAP. 4.-Treatment of the Levite's concubine at Gi-

beah. Determination of the Israelites to redress

his wrongs.

CHAP. 5.-The Benjamites destroyed. The Israelites

mourn the desolation of that tribe. Wives pro-

cured for the survivors.

CHAP. 6. The king of Mesopotamia subdues the Is-

raelites. Othniel delivers them. Eglon enslaves

Israel.

CHAP. 7.-Ehud kills Eglon. He delivers the Israel-

ites. Shamgar.

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CHAP. 8.-Israel under the bondage of Jabin. Debo-

rah and Barak deliver Israel.

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CHAP. 9.-Jael kills Sisera. Israel oppressed by the

Midianites. Gideon raised up for their deliver-

ance.

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CHAP. 10.-Gideon's faith confirmed by miracles. He

throws down the altar of Baal.

CHAP. 11.-Gideon's army reduced to three hundred.

He is encouraged by the dream of the Midianite.

CHAP. 12.-Gideon defeats the Midianites. The Eph-

raimites offended. The offenders at Succoth and

Penuel punished.

CHAP. 13-Zebah and Zalmunna slain. Gideon re-
fuses to be king. His death. Intrigues of Abi-

melech.

CHAP. 14.-Abimelech made king. Jotham's parable.

Disaffection towards Abimelech.

CHAP. 15.-Abimelech takes and destroys the city of

Shechem. His death. Tola. Jair.

CHAP. 16.-Jephthah is raised up to deliver the Israel-

ites. His remonstrances with their enemies.

CHAP. 17-Jephthah's vow. He destroys the Ammon-

ites. Returning, meets his daughter. His death.

CHAP. 18.-Ibzan. Elon. Abdon. Manoah and his

wife visited by an angel. A son promised them.

CHAP. 19.-Samson born. He kills a lion. His mar-

riage. His riddle.

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CHAP. 20. Samson's wife betrays the meaning of the

riddle. He kills thirty Philistines. He burns

their fields of grain. He is taken prisoner by the

Philistines.

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CHAP. 21.-Samson kills a thousand men with the jaw-

bone of an ass. He escapes from Gaza. Delilah. 143

CHAP. 22.-Delilah betrays Samson into the hands of

the Philistines. They carry him to Gaza.

CHAP. 23.-Samson in prison. He is brought to the

temple of Dagon. His death. Concluding reflec-

tions.

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