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- Judge, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Judge of All, a messianic prophecy.The Messiah would serve as divine judge.
- Judge Not, a featured study.A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
Featured studies
6 results- StudyJudge NotA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyJudges: the Study GuideThe downward spiral charted: six judge-cycles run the same formula while the land-had-rest refrain thins and vanishes after Gideon.
- Study1 Samuel: the Study GuideThe hinge of Israel's history: the last judge, the king Israel demanded and the LORD rejected, and the shepherd anointed in secret.
- StudyEcclesiastes: the Study GuideEvery avenue of meaning under the sun (wisdom, pleasure, great works, wealth, toil, youth) run through the sieve of death and found to be hevel. What does not filter through: the gift received, and…
- StudyJude: the Study GuideA one-chapter emergency letter that turns from planned pleasantries into a battle-cry: contend for the faith, because the God who judged Israel, the Watchers, and Sodom will judge the wolves inside…
Subjects
1 resultVerses
450 results- VerseJohn 8:15You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
- VerseMatthew 7:1“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
- VerseLuke 12:57And why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
- VersePsalms 75:2“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.
- Verse1 Corinthians 10:15I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.
People
4 results- PersonSamuelAsked of God by Hannah and lent to the LORD at Shiloh; the last judge and first of the prophets after Moses, who anointed both Saul and David and taught that to obey is better…
- PersonDeborahProphetess and judge who held court under her palm tree, summoned Barak against Sisera's iron chariots, and sang the victory — "the stars in their courses fought against Sisera."
- PersonSamsonThe Nazirite judge of supernatural strength and unguarded appetites; betrayed by Delilah, blinded at Gaza, he slew more in his death between the pillars than in his life.
- PersonOmriArmy commander made king of Israel who founded Samaria as the northern capital; politically formidable, spiritually judged — "worse than all that were before him."
Places
7 results- PlaceRamahSamuel's home town, the seat of his circuit as judge, the place David fled to, and the prophet's burial place.
- PlaceShilohWhere the tabernacle rested through the judges' era; Hannah prayed here, Samuel heard his name in the night, and its later ruin became Jeremiah's warning to the temple city.
- PlacePhilistiaThe coastal plain of the five Philistine cities, Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath, judged in Zephaniah 2 and Amos 1.
- PlaceGazaChief Philistine city of the coastal road, judged in Amos 1:6-8 and Zephaniah 2:4; scene of Samson's end (Judg 16).
- PlaceGibeahSaul's hometown and capital in Benjamin, the same Gibeah whose outrage in Judges 19 nearly erased the tribe.
Words (Strong's)
- WordG2923 κριτής · kritḗs (Greek)a judge (genitive case or specially). The Greek word stands 19 times in the original text.
- WordH8199 שָׁפַט · shâphaṭ (Hebrew)to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against). The Hebrew word stands 202 times in the original text.
- WordH1778 דִּין · dîyn (Hebrew)to judge. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH1781 דַּיָּן · dayân (Hebrew)a judge or advocate. The Hebrew word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordH1782 דַּיָּן · dayân (Hebrew){a judge or advocate}. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
Themes
3 results- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeJudgmentJudgment in Scripture is not a stray topic but a load-bearing theme, running from Eden to the lake of fire. It begins with a question, not a threat: Abraham asks whether the…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
Topics
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3 resultsVoices
23 results- VoiceAbba PoemenPoemen is the Greek word for shepherd, and the name stuck to him. He was born in Egypt late in the fourth century, one of seven brothers who all left the world together for the…
- VoicePaschasius of DumiumPaschasius was a monk and deacon of the monastery at Dumium, near Braga in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, in the sixth century. He was born about 515 and died around 580. He…
- VoiceVigilius of ThapsusVigilius was bishop of Thapsus, a coastal town in the African province of Byzacena, in the second half of the fifth century. He was alive and active in 484, and the date of his…
- VoiceAmmonas of EgyptAmmonas was a disciple of Anthony the Great and, after Anthony withdrew to the Inner Mountain by the Red Sea, his successor at Pispir on the Nile. He had already spent fourteen…
- VoiceNicholas of LyraNicholas was born about 1270 at Lyre, a village in Normandy. He joined the Franciscans at Verneuil around 1300, studied at Paris, and became a master of theology there in 1309…
Apocrypha (study resources)
139 results- Study resourceSirach 31:15Judge not thy neighbour by thyself: and be discreet in every point.
- Study resourceSirach 8:14Go not to law with a judge; for they will judge for him according to his honour.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 2:55Jesus for fulfilling the word was made a judge in Israel.
- Study resourceSirach 11:28Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.
- Study resource2 Esdras 11:41For the earth hast thou not judged with truth.
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