Judges 3
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p Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
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It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.
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These are the nations: q the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
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They were for r the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
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So the people of Israel lived s among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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t And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
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u And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and v the Asheroth.
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Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, w and he sold them into the hand of x Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
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But when the people of Israel y cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a z deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, a Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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b The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
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c So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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d And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon e the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the f Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of g the city of palms.
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And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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Then the people of Israel h cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them h a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, i a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
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And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.
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And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
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And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
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But he himself turned back j at the idols near Gilgal and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.
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And Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his k cool roof chamber. l And Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." And he arose from his seat.
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And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.
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And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.
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Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him m and locked them.
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When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, n "Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber."
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And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.
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Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond o the idols and escaped to Seirah.
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When he arrived, p he sounded the trumpet in q the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.
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And he said to them, "Follow after me, r for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him and seized s the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.
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And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. t And the land had rest for eighty years.
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After him was u Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines v with an oxgoad, and he also w saved Israel.
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Judges 3:4
They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Judges 2:21 - 22
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.
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Joshua 13:2 - 6
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites
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Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
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Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Psalms 106:35
But they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
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Exodus 34:16
And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
Deuteronomy 7:3
You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.
Ezra 9:12
Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.
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Judges 2:11 - 13
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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Judges 6:25
That night the Lord said to him, "Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it
Exodus 34:13
You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
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Judges 2:14
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 hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
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Judges 3:15
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges 4:3
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
Judges 6:7
When the people of Israel cried out to the Lord on account of the Midianites.
Judges 10:10
And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.
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Judges 3:15
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges 2:16
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.
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Judges 1:13
And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
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Judges 6:34
But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, and ...
Judges 11:29
Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, ...
Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in...
Judges 14:6
Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, an...
Judges 14:19
And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and...
Judges 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shou...
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Judges 3:30
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
Judges 5:31
So may all your enemies perish, O Lord! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might." And the land had rest for forty years.
Judges 8:28
So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.
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Judges 2:19
But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
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1 Samuel 12:9
But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.
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Judges 6:33
Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.
Psalms 83:7
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
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Judges 1:16
And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.
Deuteronomy 34:3
The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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Judges 20:16
Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
1 Chronicles 12:2
They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsmen.
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Judges 3:26
Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond the idols and escaped to Seirah.
Joshua 4:20
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
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Amos 3:15
I will strike the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end," declares the Lord.
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2 Samuel 20:9 - 10
And Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
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2 Samuel 13:17 - 18
He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.
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1 Samuel 24:3
And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.
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Judges 3:19
But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.
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Judges 6:34
But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.
1 Samuel 13:3
Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 4:7
And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabi...
Judges 4:14
And Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the...
Judges 7:9
That same night the Lord said to him, "Arise, g...
Judges 7:15
As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the drea...
1 Samuel 17:47
And that all this assembly may know that the Lo...
2 Chronicles 16:8
Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge ...
1 Kings 22:12
And all the prophets prophesied so and said, "G...
1 Kings 22:15
And when he had come to the king, the king said...
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Judges 12:5
And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No.
Joshua 2:7
So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.
Judges 7:24
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
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Judges 3:11
So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways.
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Judges 5:8
When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
1 Samuel 13:19
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.
1 Samuel 13:22
So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
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Judges 2:16
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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