Hebrews 11:32-40

By Faith

³² And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of _f Gideon, _g Barak, _h Samson, _i Jephthah, of _j David and _k Samuel and the prophets - ³³ who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, _l stopped the mouths of lions, ³⁴ _m quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, _n became mighty in war, _n put foreign armies to flight. ³⁵ _o Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. ³⁶ Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even _p chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ _q They were stoned, they were sawn in two, _{1 r} they were killed with the sword. _s They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated - ³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy - _t wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

³⁹ And all these, _u though commended through their faith, _u did not receive what was promised, ⁴⁰ since God had provided something better for us, _v that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

1. Cross References
   Judges 6:11
   Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
   
2. Cross References
   Judges 4:6
   She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.
   
3. Cross References
   Judges 13:24
   And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the Lord blessed him.
   
4. Cross References
   Judges 11:1
   Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Samuel 16:1
   The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
   1 Samuel 16:13
   Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Samuel 1:20
   And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, "I have asked for him from the Lord.
   
7. Cross References
   Judges 14:6
   Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
   1 Samuel 17:35
   I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.
   Daniel 6:22
   My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.
   
8. Cross References
   Daniel 3:25
   He answered and said, "But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
   
9. Cross References
   Judges 7:21
   Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.
   1 Samuel 17:51
   Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
   2 Samuel 12:29
   So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.
   
10. Cross References
    Judges 7:21
    Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.
    1 Samuel 17:51
    Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
    2 Samuel 12:29
    So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.
    
11. Cross References
    1 Kings 17:22
    And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.
    2 Kings 4:35
    Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
    
12. Cross References
    Genesis 39:20
    And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
    Jeremiah 20:2
    Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord.
    Jeremiah 37:15
    And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.
    
13. Cross References
    1 Kings 21:13
    And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
    2 Chronicles 24:21
    But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.
    
14. Cross References
    1 Kings 19:10
    He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
    Jeremiah 26:23
    And they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
    
15. Cross References
    2 Kings 1:8
    They answered him, "He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite.
    
16. Cross References
    1 Samuel 22:1
    David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
    1 Kings 18:4
    And when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)
    1 Kings 19:9
    There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?
    
17. Cross References
    Hebrews 11:2
    For by it the people of old received their commendation.
    Hebrews 11:13
    These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
    1 Peter 1:12
    It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
    
18. Cross References
    Hebrews 11:2
    For by it the people of old received their commendation.
    Hebrews 11:13
    These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
    1 Peter 1:12
    It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
    
19. Cross References
    Revelation 6:11
    Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.