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


In Context

13 They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

14 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

15 Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed.

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

17 Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; but they didn't do so.

18 When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the power of those who plundered 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 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.