Judges

People recorded in this book 76

Recorded names may include people recalled from earlier stories. Each entry keeps its existing source identity.

• Ammon

  son of Lot and forebear of the Ammonites

  Explorer record: Ben-ammi

  Sample references (3 of 21)

  Judges 3:13Judges 10:9Judges 10:11
  Open person record

• Ehud

  raised up by the LORD as a deliverer for Israel who killed Eglon

  Sample references (3 of 7)

  Judges 3:15Judges 3:16Judges 3:20
  Open person record

• Gera

  a Benjamite, father of Ehud

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 3:15
  Open person record

• Anath

  father of Shamgar

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 3:31Judges 5:6
  Open person record

• Shamgar

  struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 3:31Judges 5:6
  Open person record

• Jabin

  King of Hazor, one of thirty-one kings defeated by Joshua

  Recorded names: Jabin · King of Canaan · King of Hazor

  Sample references (3 of 5)

  Judges 4:2Judges 4:7Judges 4:17
  Open person record

• Sisera

  commander of Jabin's army

  Sample references (3 of 15)

  Judges 4:2Judges 4:7Judges 4:9
  Open person record

• Deborah

  a prophetess and judge in Israel

  Sample references (3 of 9)

  Judges 4:4Judges 4:5Judges 4:9
  Open person record

• Lappidoth

  husband of Deborah

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 4:4
  Open person record

• Abinoam

  father of Barak

  Sample references (3 of 4)

  Judges 4:6Judges 4:12Judges 5:1
  Open person record

• Barak

  summoned by Deborah to defeat Jabin's army

  Sample references (3 of 12)

  Judges 4:6Judges 4:8Judges 4:9
  Open person record

• Naphtali

  sixth-born son of Jacob, son of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 4:6
  Open person record

• Zebulun

  tenth-born son of Jacob, son of Leah

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 4:6
  Open person record

• Heber

  the Kenite, husband of Jael who killed Sisera

  Sample references (3 of 4)

  Judges 4:11Judges 4:17Judges 4:21
  Open person record

• Jael

  wife of Heber the Kenite who killed Sisera

  Sample references (3 of 6)

  Judges 4:17Judges 4:18Judges 4:21
  Open person record

• Gideon

  son of Joash who torn down the altar to Baal

  Recorded names: Gideon · Jerubbaal

  Sample references (3 of 49)

  Judges 6:11Judges 6:13Judges 6:17
  Open person record

• Joash

  the angel of the Lord sat under his oak in Ophrah

  Sample references (3 of 8)

  Judges 6:11Judges 6:29Judges 6:30
  Open person record

• Purah

  servant of Gideon

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 7:10Judges 7:11
  Open person record

• Oreb

  leader of Midian

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 7:25Judges 8:3
  Open person record

• Zeeb

  leader of Midian

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 7:25Judges 8:3
  Open person record

Events referenced in this book 43

Includes earlier events recalled in this book. Passage order and historical dates describe different aspects of the record.

• End of Samson's time as judge of Israel*

  End · 1056 BC · Derived in source chronology

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 12:14
  Explore event

• Beginning of the 40-year period of Israel's oppression by the Philistines*

  Begin · 1066 BC · Derived in source chronology

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 13:1
  Explore event

• End of the 40-year period of Israel's oppression by the Philistines*

  End · 1025 BC · Derived in source chronology

  Supporting Scripture

  Judges 13:1
  Explore event

Places linked through referenced events 0

Reviewed places associated with the cited events. These associations do not form a complete list of places mentioned in the book or prove that every supporting verse names the place.

No reviewed event-place associations are recorded for this selection. Place coverage is incomplete; this does not mean the book names no places.