Judges
A paragraph of introduction text relating to this route.
Estimated walking time
5 Hours
Estimated running time
2.5 Hours
Estimated cycling time
1.5 Hours
Chapter 1; Verses 1 to 36
Israel's Failure to Complete the Conquest of Canaan
Platform 1 to Ulleskelf
"Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table;... so God has paid me back."
Chapter 2; Verses 1 to 5
Israel' s Disobedience
Church Fenton
"For your part, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land: tear down their altars."
Chapter 2; Verses 6 to 10
Death of Joshua
Sherburn-in-Elmet
"Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten years."
Chapter 2; Verses 11 to 23
Israel's Unfaithfulness
Selby
"Then the Lord raised up judges, who delivered them out of the power of those who plundered them."
Chapter 3; Verses 1 to 6
Nations Remaining in the Land
Howden
"... the five lords of the philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon,..."
Chapter 3; Verses 7 to 11
Othniel
Gilberdyke
"..., the LORD raised up a deliverer for the Israelites, who delivered them, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother."
Chapter 3; Verses 12 to 30
Ehud
Brough
"... the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man."
Chapter 3; Verses 31
Shamgar
Hull
"After him came Shangar son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an ox-goad. He too delivered Israel."
Chapter 4; Verses 1 to 23
Deborah and Barak
Around Hull
"... the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman."
Chapter 5; Verses 1 to 31
The Song of Deborah
Pontefract - Baghill
"She put her hand to the tent-peg and her right hand to the workmen's mallet; she struck Sisera a blow,..."
Chapter 6; Verses 1 to 10
The Midianite Oppression
Moorthorpe
"The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian for seven years"
Chapter 6; Verses 11 to 27
The Calling of Gideon
Swinton
"... 'but sir, how can I deliver Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family'."
Chapter 6; Verses 28 to 35
Gideon Destroys the Altar of Baal
Rotherham Central
"... bring out your son, so that he may die, for he has pulled down the altar of Baal and cut down the the sacred pole besides it."
Chapter 6; Verses 36 to 40
The Sign of the Fleece
Meadowhall
"When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water."
Chapter 7; Verses 1 to 25
Gideon Surprises and Routs the Midianites
Sheffield
"I had a dream, and in it a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell;"
Chapter 8; Verses 1 to 21
Gideons Triumph and Vengeance
Sheffield?
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Chapter 8; Verses 22 to 28
Death of Gideon
Sheffield??
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Chapter 9; Verses 1 to 6
Abimelech Attempts to Establish a Monarchy
Platform 2 to Scarborough via Malton
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Chapter 9; Verses 7 to 21
The Parable of the Trees
Seamer
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Chapter 9; Verses 22 to 57
The Downfall of Abimelech
Scarborough
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Chapter 10; Verses 1 to 5
Tola and Jair
Platform 2 to Leeds via Poppleton
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Chapter 10; Verses 6 to 18
Oppression by the Ammonites
Hammerton
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Chapter 11; Verses 1 to 28
Jephthah
Cattal
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Chapter 11; Verses 29 to 33
Jephthah's Vow
Knaresborough
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Chapter 11; Verses 34 to 40
Jephthah's Daughter
Knaresborough?
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Chapter 12; Verses 1 to 7
Intertribal Dissension
Knaresborough
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Chapter 12; Verses 8 to 15
Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon
Starbeck
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Chapter 13; Verses 1 to 24
The Birth of Samson
Harrogate?
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Chapter 14; Verses 1 to 20
Samson's Marriage
Harrogate?
"Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet"
Chapter 15; Verses 1 to 20
Samson Defeats the Philistines
Harrogate?
"With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men."
Chapter 16; Verses 1 to 22
Samson and Delilah
Harrogate?
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Chapter 16; Verses 23 to 31
Samson's Death
Harrogate
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Chapter 17; Verses 1 to 13
Micah and the Levite
Hornbeam Park
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Chapter 18; Verses 1 to 26
The Migration of Dan
Pannal
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Chapter 18; Verses 27 to 31
The Danites Settle in Laish
Weeton
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Chapter 19; Verses 1 to 21
The Levite's Concubine
Horsforth
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Chapter 19; Verses 22 to 30
Gibeah's Crime
Headingly
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Chapter 20; Verses 1 to 48
The Other Tribes Attack Benjamin
Burley Park
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Chapter 21; Verses 1 to 25
The Benjaminites Saved from Extinction
Leeds Catholic Cathedral
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