16Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the power of those who plundered them.


In Context

13 They forsook the LORD, and served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth.

14 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them; and he sold them into the power of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.

15 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them; and they were in sore straits.

16 Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the power of those who plundered them.

17 And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.

18 Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.

Judges 2:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hands of these raiders.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:16And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:16And Jehovah raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that despoiled them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:16And the LORD raised up judges, which saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, who delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16And Jehovah raiseth up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.