Bible Verses About Judges of Israel

And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years:

And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life:

And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places.

And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.

Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name of the second was Abia, judges in Bersabee.

And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled came to Samuel to Ramatha.

And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.

For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.

I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints:

To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake.