Judges 13:1-16:31
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And the people of Israel again u did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them v into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
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There was a certain man of w Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. x And his wife was barren and had no children.
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y And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
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Therefore be careful z and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
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for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. a No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be z a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall b begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines."
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Then the woman came and told her husband, c "A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. d I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,
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but he said to me, e 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"
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Then Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, "O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born."
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And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.
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So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, "Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me."
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And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to this woman?" And he said, "I am."
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And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, f what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?"
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And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.
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She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, g neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe."
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Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "Please let us detain you and h prepare a young goat for you."
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And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord." (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.)
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And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, i "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?"
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And the angel of the Lord said to him, j "Why do you ask my name, seeing k it is wonderful?"
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So l Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.
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And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, m and they fell on their faces to the ground.
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The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. n Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.
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And Manoah said to his wife, n "We shall surely die, for we have seen God."
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But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these."
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And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. o And the young man grew, and the Lord blessed him.
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p And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between q Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 14
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r Samson went down to s Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.
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Then he came up and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. t Now get her for me as my wife."
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But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters u of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the v uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes."
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His father and mother did not know that it was w from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. x At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
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Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.
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y 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.
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Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson's eyes.
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After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
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He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.
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His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.
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As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
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And Samson said to them, z "Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within a the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty b changes of clothes,
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but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it."
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And he said to them,
"Out of the eater came something to eat.
Out of the strong came something sweet."
And in three days they could not solve the riddle.
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On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, c "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, d lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?"
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And Samson's wife wept over him and said, e "You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"
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She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because f she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.
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And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,
"What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?"
And he said to them,
"If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have found out my riddle."
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g And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to h Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.
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And Samson's wife was given to i his companion, j who had been his best man.
Judges 15
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After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with k a young goat. And he said, "I will go in to my wife in the chamber." But her father would not allow him to go in.
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And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her, l so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead."
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And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm."
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So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails.
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And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.
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Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife m and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and n burned her and her father with fire.
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And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit."
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And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the o cleft of the rock of Etam.
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Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and p made a raid on q Lehi.
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And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us."
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Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that r the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."
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And they said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves."
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They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you." So they bound him with two s new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
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When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. t Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
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And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, u and with it he struck 1,000 men.
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And Samson said,
"With the jawbone of a donkey,
heaps upon heaps,
with the jawbone of a donkey
have I struck down a thousand men."
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As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place v was called Ramath-lehi.
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And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the Lord and said, w "You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"
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And God split open the hollow place that is v at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, x his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.
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And he judged Israel y in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Judges 16
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Samson went to z Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her.
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The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here." And they a surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him."
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But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.
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After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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And b the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, c "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to d humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver."
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So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could d subdue you."
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Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, e then I shall become weak and be like any other man."
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Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
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Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.
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Then Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound."
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And he said to her, "If they bind me with f new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man."
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So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.
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Then Delilah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man."
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So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.
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And she said to him, g "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies."
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And h when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.
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And he told her all his heart, and said to her, i "A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man."
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When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up again, for he has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought j the money in their hands.
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She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began k to torment him, and his strength left him.
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And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep and said, "I will go out as at other times and shake myself free." But he did not know that l the Lord had left him.
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And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. m And he ground at the mill in the prison.
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But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
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Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to n Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."
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And when the people saw him, o they praised their god. For they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us."
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And p when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.
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And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them."
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Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and q on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained.
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Then Samson called to the Lord and said, "O Lord God, r please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes."
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And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.
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And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.
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Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him s between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.
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Judges 2:11
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.
Judges 10:7
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites.
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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Joshua 19:41
And the territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh.
Joshua 15:33
And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah.
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1 Samuel 1:2
He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
Luke 1:7
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.
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Judges 6:12
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.
Luke 1:11
And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
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Judges 13:7
But he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'
Judges 13:14
She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.
Numbers 6:2 - 3
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
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Judges 16:17
And he told her all his heart, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.
1 Samuel 1:11
And she vowed a vow and said, "O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.
Numbers 6:5
All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.
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Judges 13:4
Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean.
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1 Samuel 7:13
So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
2 Samuel 8:1
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 18:1
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
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Judges 13:17 - 18
And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?
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Judges 13:3 - 5
And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
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Luke 1:66
And all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, "What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was with him.
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Judges 13:4
Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean.
Judges 13:7
But he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
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Judges 6:19
So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.
Genesis 18:5 - 8
While I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on - since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said.
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Judges 13:6
Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name.
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Genesis 32:29
Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.
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Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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Judges 6:19 - 21
So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.
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Leviticus 9:24
And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
1 Chronicles 21:16
And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
Ezekiel 1:28
Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
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Judges 6:22
Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.
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Judges 13:21
The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.
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1 Samuel 2:21
Indeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the young man Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.
1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
Luke 1:80
And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
Luke 2:52
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
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Judges 3:10
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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Judges 18:11
So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.
Joshua 15:33
And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah.
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Hebrews 11:32
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -
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Genesis 38:12 - 13
In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
Joshua 15:10
And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh and passes along by Timnah.
Joshua 19:43
Elon, Timnah, Ekron.
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Genesis 34:4
So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this girl for my wife.
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Genesis 24:3 - 4
That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
Genesis 28:1 - 2
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
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Judges 15:18
And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the...
1 Samuel 14:6
Jonathan said to the young man who carried his ...
1 Samuel 17:26
And David said to the men who stood by him, "Wh...
1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant has struck down both lions and bea...
1 Samuel 31:4
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your ...
2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the stre...
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Joshua 11:20
For it was the Lord 's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
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Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
Judges 15:11
Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them.
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Judges 14:19
And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.
Judges 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
1 Samuel 11:6
And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
Judges 3:10
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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Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel.
1 Kings 10:1
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old.
Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
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Genesis 29:27
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.
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Genesis 45:22
To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes.
2 Kings 5:5
And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
2 Kings 5:22 - 23
And he said, "All is well. My master has sent me to say, 'There have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.'
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Judges 16:5
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.
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Judges 15:6
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
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Judges 16:15
And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.
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Judges 16:16
And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.
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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.
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Judges 1:18
Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.
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Judges 15:2
And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.
Judges 15:6
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
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John 3:29
The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.
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Genesis 38:17
He answered, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." And she said, "If you give me a pledge, until you send it -
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Judges 15:6
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
Judges 14:20
And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
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Judges 15:2
And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.
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Judges 14:15
On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?
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Judges 15:11
Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them.
Isaiah 2:21
To enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
Isaiah 57:5
You who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
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2 Samuel 5:18
Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 5:22
And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
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Judges 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
Judges 15:17
As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.
Judges 15:19
And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.
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Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
Judges 14:4
His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
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Judges 16:11 - 12
And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.
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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.
Judges 14:19
And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.
1 Samuel 11:6
And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
Judges 3:10
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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Joshua 23:10
One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.
Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.
Leviticus 26:8
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
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Judges 15:9
Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi.
Judges 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
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Psalms 3:7
Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.
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Judges 15:17
As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.
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Genesis 45:27
But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
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Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
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Joshua 15:47
Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coastline.
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1 Samuel 23:26
Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.
Psalms 118:10 - 12
All nations surrounded me; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
Acts 9:24
But their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him.
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Joshua 13:3
(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim.
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Judges 14:15
On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?
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Judges 16:19
She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.
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Judges 16:5
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.
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Judges 16:11
And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.
Judges 16:17
And he told her all his heart, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.
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Judges 15:13 - 14
They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
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Judges 14:16
And Samson's wife wept over him and said, "You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
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Judges 14:17
She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.
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Judges 13:5
For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.
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Judges 16:5
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.
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Judges 16:5 - 6
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.
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1 Samuel 28:15 - 16
Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.
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Exodus 11:5
And every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
Matthew 24:41
Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left.
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1 Chronicles 10:10
And they put his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
1 Samuel 5:2 - 7
Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.
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Daniel 5:4
They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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Judges 19:6
So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.
2 Samuel 13:28
Then Absalom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.
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Deuteronomy 22:8
When you build a new house, you shall make a pa...
2 Samuel 11:2
It happened, late one afternoon, when David aro...
Nehemiah 8:16
So the people went out and brought them and mad...
Matthew 24:17
Let the one who is on the housetop not go down ...
Mark 13:15
Let the one who is on the housetop not go down,...
Luke 17:31
On that day, let the one who is on the housetop...
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Jeremiah 15:15
O Lord, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.
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Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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